many claims to bank. i ll talk to him about the global economy and more. later a. look at the silicon valley facebook, pay pal, zynga. reed hoffman has been at the ground floor of all of them. and why is one of america s friends, india, friends with one of its sworn enemies? i ll explain. but, first, here s my take. we re going to hear a lot of polarized rhetoric over the next few months. the republicans and democrats will seem to disagree about everything. but there is one huge and important area where there is a possibility, a possibility of bipartisan action. that s tax reform. most americans, republicans and democrats, dislike the tax code. their right to do so. america has what is arguably the world s most complex tax code. the federal code plus irs rulings is now 70,000 pages long. the code itself is 16,000 pages. the state of france has only 1,909, only 10% of ours. and then there are others that have innovated and moved to a flat tax with considerable success. y
victims. this is truly amazing. science doesn t lie. all that and more right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. i d like to welcome our viewers from around the world tonight. breaking political news, the republican race for the white house, cnn projects that rick santorum has won the louisiana presidential primary giving the former pennsylvania senator another victory in the south. our tom foreman is in washington. joe johns is in new orleans. crystal wright is a d.c. delegate for newt gingrich also in d.c. and we re monitoring rick santorum in green bay, wisconsin to see if he speaks live in just a moment. let s get to our tom foreman. he s been tracking the exit poll data all evening for us. tom, what can you tell us about rick santorum s win? you have been monitoring all the metrics here. we have seen you standing at the magic walls. so we want to get to our tom foreman and to tell you again, we are monitoring again gree
crunching the numbers. so, tom, what with are the numbers showing you? oh, man. they show us what s behind that map are some real trends they have to pay attention to. number one is the economy. look at this. that was the big issue that everyone was voting on. 51% of the people that we surveyed said that was the big issue for them there. look at what happened there. we break it down by how much money they make. various categories. the biggest group is here. look n all of these groups, rick santorum won every one except for the people who make more than $200,000 a year. and he won big. if you look at this group, 30 to 50,000, he won 49% to romney s 21%. newt gingrich did better than mitt romney in this category. go to the lowest end group here and look at this, 65% to 13%. sure, mitt romney won a little bit, but down here his win not so impressive. 46% to santorum s 31%. when you are talking about one of the state s in the country with some of the lowest per capita income, w
it s one of many new developments. late word that authorities in a nearby county arrested a man who they say e-mailed a death threat to sanford police chief bill lee. chief lee, you ll recall, stepped aside temporarily yesterday. to date man who fire him but hasn t, city manager nort an bonapart spoke about the force that chief lee runs. any trust that may have existed in the police department is gone and that for african-americans in sanford, florida, it was always shaky to begin w. let s be very clear. chief lee has been the chief of the sanford police department for ten months. the issues brought to my attention regarding the black community and the sanford police department go back many, many, many years. we ve been looking into the reasons why that is including the brutal beating of an african-american homeless man in which police initially let the assailant, the son of a sanford police lieutenant, go free. that beating led to the early departure of the last police c
demonstrators rallied against the health care overhaul today. near the u.s. capitol building. on monday, the u.s. supreme court will hear arguments about whether the health care reform act is constitutional. demonstrators including former presidentialened r candidate herman cain insistent the act is illegal and say it infringes on their freedom. freedom to choose our own doctors. freedom to choose our own health providers. freedom to choose our own treatment. freedom to choose our own health insurance plan. this isn t just about repeal of obama care, which it is. but this is about getting our freedom back to just be free to make our own decisions with our lives. so monday the u.s. supreme court will begin hearing arguments on the health care overhaul. kate bolduan has a look how the case may unfold. . . reporter: march 23, 2010, president obama signs into law the signature achievement of his presidency. the affordable care act. the landmark and controversial health care