spending cuts. the president s secretary of transportation. it is a billion dollars faa has biggest number of plies at dot. trips to the overall federal budget has very, very small cuts. they have warned of things like massive airport checkpoint delays worse case scenario doesn t material lies some friday or shortly there after it will bolster republican claims. to not cut 2 and a half percent out of the total budget over a year when it was twice the size it was 10 years ago, give me a break. meantime the president insistence on raising tacks to avert the sequestor er is a nonstarter for the gop. they are coming up with a better system of cuts where you would allow agencies to come up with
his life today. and the first secret service agents being forced out over a prostitution scandal in colombia. now one of the escorts is talking about a fight over her cash money. that s what she called it. the reason this whole story left the hotel. and rocker ted nugent has a date with the secret service to explain inflammatory comments he made about the president. and airport naked guy is now speaking. why he says that he doesn t regret taking off all his clothes at a security checkpoint. more on that one to come. new details on what happened in the secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. three of the 11 implicated agents are now out. one of them, a supervisor is being allowed to retire. another is being forced to leave the agency. and cnn has learned he plans to fight his dismissal. a third agent has resigned now. eight others remain on administrative leave with their security clearance revoked. they are accused of bringing prostitutes to their hotel in co
picture this, you re walking through the airport checkpoint with your shoes on and your belt on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorum s stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. he s grabbed some delegates and more importantly he s grabbing the momentum. that s enabling him to raise lots of cash and it s raising a big question for the republicans. now what? let s begin our coverage with our national political correspondent jim acosta. wolf, mitt romney says he s focused on the contest ahead. that s probably a good thing, because the rest of them may count like never before. moments after the secret service housed a man who tried to throw glitter on mitt romney, it looked like a scene from csi. the real post mortem of the night was on romney s caucus collapse. the romney bandw
for state hood. this hour, the president is expected to meet with palestinian authority president abbas. he held a separate meeting just a little while ago with benjamin netanyahu. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. she s covering this from new york. the president also delivered a major address before the u.n. general assembly. that s rig, wolf. the palestinians continue pressing their case here at the united nations and it was the most dramatic issue the president addressed in his speech today with repeated the theme, peace is hard. the president trumpeted progress at the end of this year, america s military operation in iraq will be over. osama bin laden is gone. and warned of challenges ahead. where we stand with the syrian people or their oppressors. what so many were listening for was this. we seek a future where palestinians live in a sovereign sate of their own. how would we explain his opposition to the palestinian push
of grabbing the left breast of the unidentified tsa agent at an airport checkpoint. officials saying the suspect refused to go through passenger screening and became argumentative. she was released on friday. one person is dead and another seriously hurt after their speed boat flipped and crashed in boston harbor. the speed boat was racing when it hit a wave sending it into an air. crashed into the water breaking apart. both men were thrown from the boat. in washington, d.c., a new museum opened this weekend to honor african-americans who served in the civil war. visitors from around the country came to visit the museum to learn about some of the stories left out of history books. 200,000 african-americans fought in the civil war. 150,000 of them have been slaves before the war began.