politics. the white house s charm offensive is set to continue this week. will head to capitol hill in an attempt to solve the budget standoff. i want to bring the brain trust in, dana millbank, washington post columnist and perry bacon jr. we should note here, political editor at the grio and amy homes is back an anchor at the blaze and also a speech writer for senate majority leader bill frist. good to see you. dana milbank the only not smiling at the beginning. dana, we begin with you. last week the president had dinner with a dozen or so senators and is heading to congress this week. how will this attempt to how will it work for the president? well, it s already worked for the president in the sense that we re all talking about how charming he s being and how he s reaching out to the hill, even though i don t think anything substantive has really changed
republican party, and building the voice for freedom in this land. thank you. as a first generation american, whose parents and grandparents love freedom and came here because they didn t want the government telling them what to believe and how to believe it, that we had a first amendment that actually stood for freedom of conscience. we have a president of the united states who would roll over that and impose his secular values. on the people of this country. ladies and gentlemen, freedom is at stake in this election. we need to be the voice for freedom. in that founding document, the declaration of independence, at the end of that document, those founders signed their name. but the last clause of that document says we pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. ladies and gentlemen, every generation of americans doesn t create freedom but they have in many respects, a hard he job. they have to maintain freedom. you re charged tonight, you re charged tonight here in
can you characterize for us, i believe you have 99% of the we have 98% of the precincts reporting tonight. rick santorum has won colorado s republican poll with about 40% of the vote. we re getting the final numbers in just now. rick santorum has exceeded expectations and wins colorado s caucus called vote tonight. any major population centers out? it s about 98% of the results in. there s a handful to be reported around arapahoe and half a dozen or so up in larimer county. these won t change the outcome of tonight s results. we ll have a press conference here in a couple of moments with the actual numbers. mitt romney had about 37% of the vote. rick santorum over 40% and ron paul reporting 11% and newt gingrich around 14%. we ll have the number finals in a few moments. we appreciate everybody s attention. we appreciate everybody who has been a part of this important process. and can you tell me what this meant in terms of turnout and how this might have been a fa
just breached just within the last few hours. how much people threatened amy homes? reporter: we have just confirmed that within the last ten minutes. we don t know at this point. seeing police in this neighborhood in particular. very popular neighborhood, a lot of homes here. a lot of people doing cleanup. somebody came in yelling that one of the dams breached and people scrambled, got the vehicles out of the way. as for how many homes or people it affects, we don t know the answer right now. we will have the mayor on with us next hour, sarah. we ll follow up with him trying to get specific information. appreciate your time. let s turn to assistant fire chief of the charleston county volunteer rescue squad. there have been working rescue operations around charleston going on for the past several days. we have seen the pictures. trey wright, tell me what you have been involved in.