sanders. you see a lot of people potential supporting him as the hillary clinton alternative candidate, but we ll have to wait and see. he should make up his mind very soon. remember, to stay with cnn for the second republican presidential debate, it will air right here on cnn, september 16th, a week from wednesday, live from the reagan library in california. cnn will also host the first democratic presidential debate on october 13th in nevada. coming up, is russia getting ready to fight isis in syria? or to prop up the dao mass cuss regime? the u.s. warns moscow against the military buildup that could escalate the syria conflict. an inside look at the north korean regime from a defector who was tied to the country s elite. we ll learn why kim jong-un s inner circle is now terrified of their leader. stay with us. you re in the situation room.
after a single vote on tuesday and two more this morning, the cardinal electors have failed to reach a two-thirds majority as they try to choose the next pope. msnbc s chris jansing is live for us from the vatican with more. so, our man down there with you, giving you the play-by-play. george weigel seems to say that the longer this goes without a pope, the less likely the front-runner, cardinal scola, is to getting the job. reporter: that is the conventional wisdom, chuck. and i think that means that we still have to wait probably through several more votes, at least this afternoon and tomorrow morning. and if no one is elected pope, then people will start to think, well, maybe there are some divisions and they need to go to the alternative candidate. that alternative candidate could be good news if you re rooting for an american pope. and i can tell you, just being around rome, that certainly the tourism industry here is rooting for an american pope, because they think it will be m
pumped over $4 million in ads. santorum and the pro-santorum super pac, $1.4 million. including this new spot comparing romney to president obama. even worse, romney care is the blueprint for obamacare. romney may have an edge in absentee ballots. a key supporter claims romney banked over half of the 150,000 plus absentees turned in so far. many cast before santorum s michigan surge. rick santorum wasn t on really on the radar at that point. so, i might have changed my mind if when voting today. clearly the political landscape changed in michigan. with it, some of the expectations of the romney folks. look, if romney loses, it will be a hit for him. it s not devastating. it s not going to end the campaign. romney knows conservative alternative candidate like santorum can win here. in 2008, romney himself won running as the conservative alternative to the eventual nominee john mccain.
pumped over $4 million in ads. santorum and the pro-santorum super pac, $1.4 million. including this new spot comparing romney to president obama. even worse, romney care is the blueprint for obamacare. romney may have an edge in absentee ballots. a key supporter claims romney banked over half of the 150,000 plus absentees turned in so far. many cast before santorum s michigan surge. rick santorum wasn t on really on the radar at that point. so, i might have changed my mind if when voting today. clearly the political landscape changed in michigan. with it, some of the expectations of the romney folks. look, if romney loses, it will be a hit for him. it s not devastating. it s not going to end the campaign. romney knows conservative alternative candidate like santorum can win here. in 2008, romney himself won running as the conservative alternative to the eventual nominee john mccain.
maintain hegemony in the al maliki regime or whoever succeeds him. i was going to mention while we re fighting that explosive front, july 20th, the nuclear agreement, do you think her concern that giving iran the right to enrich uranium is extremely troublesome and that could lead to a nuclear bomb? well, it was a concession made by the five permanent members of the security council in germany in the interim agreement that, in effect, iran has the right to continue uranium enrichment for a purely peaceful program. i don t think you can trust thi allowing them to continue the capability to enrich uranium means it s only a question of when iran actually develops a nuclear weapon. that s a regime i wouldn t trust with a spare electron let alone a uranium enrichment program. what do you think will happen on july 20th? i think right now maliki s in trouble. but it s the old saying here, you can t beat somebody with nobody. no alternative candidate has