makes the half million taxpayer investment. earlier in week, jay carney asked about the difference between bain, the attacks on bain capital and the investment in solyndra. here is his answer. there is the difference in that the overall view of what your responsibilities are as president and what your view of the economic future is. the president believes as he made clear if the president s responsibility is not just to those who win, but those who for an example in the company where there have been layoffs or company gone bankrupt that we have to make sure that those folks have the means to find other employment. okay, charles. i can t decide if it s incoherent or a non-sequitur, probably both or a combination. look, he had no answer to that. the answer is that if you are the president and in solyndra you can hand out unlimbed
who might have helped pay for the ads, people who work for the company the obama camp is hammering. that would be bain capital. and a terrifying discovery. radiation from the meltdown of a nuclear power plant actually built into the foundation of an apartment building. wolf blitzer s off today, i m gloria borger, and you re in the situation room. and it could happen any minute now. a suspect finally charged in the disappearance of etan patz. exactly 33 years ago today, the 6-year-old vanished launching a national campaign to find and protect missing children. the suspect pedro hernandez allegedly has confessed to killing etan, but there are many nagging questions still out there. such as what was the motive? did police miss clues for decades? and could they have gotten it wrong now? our national correspondent susan canada yac candiotti is outside the district attorney s office in new york. susan, hernandez is going to be arraigned from his hospital bed? reporter: well
mayor, corey booker speaking out about the bain private equity debate. hear what he had to say about his critics and the president. and a major slide in facebook s stock. a big deal, and a big drop. details, straight ahead. good morning, everyone and welcome to early start. i m ashley banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin. up first, boldly going where no private spacecraft has gone before. zero and launch of the spacex falcon 9 rocket as nasa turns to the private secretary tore resupply the international space station. what a sight, huh? it happened not too long ago, a rocket built by the commercial space flight company, spacex blasted off an hour ago from cape canaveral, launched the unmanned dragon capsule to the international space station. the world s first commercial space station supply flight. nasa hanging its hopes on the mission now that the retired space shuttles are museum exhibits. john zerella is live in miami. i was watching you as it went into space. no
targets. how concerning has this been? how is it if at all disrupted your activities? i m not going to comment on these specific charges, but i think that the chicago police department has been very an sid duious, the secret service and all the authorities involved. we re grateful for that. this has come off very well. there are some minor skirmishes back and forth but in terms of the security, i think it s been well handled. wanted to ask you about cory booker. he goes on meet the press and unloads on the attacks on bain capital. and here s a little bit about what he had to say. i m not about to sit here and indict private equity. to me we re getting to a ridiculous point in america. if you look at totality of bain capital s record, they ve done a lot to support byes, to grow businesses and this to me, i m
in is plenty of ground to attack romney from the right but some of the attacks on bain capital come from the left from the president s play of the day book and i suspect from all of the positives that gingrich has, he will be start of some ads one for house democrats attacking paul ryan s plan using the comments over the last summer on meet the press, and another attacking mitt romney on bain capital. neil: you know newt gingrich has toned down some of the attacks, for example, on bain capital he has not toned down the governor s financial acumen. this is from early today. you agree with the president it makes no sense that a millionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a secretary? so, it is a priority for us to act on some kind of romney, i mean, buffett rule this year. neil: my bad, that was chuck