budget committee. democrat iic congressman chris n holl hollen. and then re-opening the search with david axelrod and ed gillespie on why his candidate gambled on a wonk who is wanting to overhaul medicare. and then risk/reward with jessica yellen. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. no surprise, president obama s campaign and other democrats are wasting no time attacking the new romney/ryan presidential ticket. descriptions we ve heard thrown around so far, wrong, harsh and extreme. joining me now, former new hampshire governor and romney campaign adviser john sununu. welcome, governor, and good morning to you. nice to be on, candy. happy sunday. so let me ask you, this is certainly comes as a surprise to the romney campaign. they certainly knew ahead of time how this would taken. how do they move against what clearly is going to be an attempt to say, this is a man who wants to fundamentally change medicare and social security and going back to his rec
to go through. and just to give a little bit of context, the field marshal was probably the most powerful man in egypt, now mohamed morsi is the most powerful man in egypt. also comes as president mohamed morsi sacked his head of intelligence. he sacked the head of the republican guard, which oversees security. there was a lot of turnover right now within the security service, within the military. this is all coming as we have this conflict going on in sinai. a lot of people are wondering why he would fire his top military commander while an ongoing operation against militants is happening in the sinai, and why didn t he do this when he had a cabinet reshuffle just a couple weeks ago. so there is a lot of questions people are asking. right now it s safe to say that egypt is in a state of shock as this news comes out. so ian, lots of estions, lots of confusion. and while some reports he s fired them, in others he s asking them to retire, and at the same time morsi may be off
it s what we do every night keeping them honest. as always, we re not taking political sides here. we re trying to figure out what is true and what is not. we begin tonight with a romney ad. in 1996, president clinton and a bipartisan congress helped end welfare as we know it, by requiring work for welfare. on july 12th, president obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. under obama s plan, you wouldn t have to work and wouldn t have to train for a job. they just send you your welfare check. welfare to work goes back to being plain old welfare. you ll hear from newt gingrich who joins us to defend that ad but also makes a stunning admission whether that ad he s defending is also speaking the facts. also mitt romney on the claims made in that ad. he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government depend denicy. we must restore and i will restore
in cutting early voting and saying it s because of financial reasons. that s right, and cuyahoga county was one of the counties willing to pick up the tab. so ari hit the nail on the head. state senator nina turner and ari berman, thanks for joining us, appreciate it. a fantasy commercial is putting the campaign in a tough spot, plus sister simone campbell wants romney to join her bus tour. she thinks mitt needs a lesson about america s poor and joins us tonight. mitt romney thinks corporations are people but not when it can hurt mitt romney. the panel weighs in on more hypocrisy from the middle class millionaire. now count the number of buttons on your tablet. isn t it time the automobile advanced?
role at the republican national convention? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with mitt romney s preparations for what may be the most crucial week of his presidential campaign. with several new polls out including our own showing him losing ground to president obama, romney begins a bus tour on saturday through four swing states he absolutely needs to win. but he s still traveling without a running mate. dana bash is here in the situation room taking a closer look. these are going to be huge days the next week. look, the day is young traveling without a running mate as we speak. you never know what s going to happen. regardless, mitt romney is going to have several vp-buzz generating news with him. but the campaign knows it first has to do some refining about the man on the top of the ticket, romney himself. oh beautiful, for spacious skies. reporter: if you turned on your television last month, there s a good chance you saw this brutal att