government. where do they get that third of funding from? where he will, i think the point here is that planned parenthood does abortions. and i think that mitt romney and governor perry and myself do not believe that government should in any way be funding abortions. because so many people don t believe that that s the right thing to do and their taxpayer dollars should not be spent on doing abortions. but you disagreed with rick perry on the issue. what i disagreed is that they are not allowing the side of planned parenthood to give the services to women, the contraceptive services, the mammograms, the kind of health care that these women are not getting anywhere else. so given that health care sorry for interrupting, is mitt romney wrong for wanting to defund planned parenthood? i think he s talking about the abortions that planned parenthood does, not the health care services. we don t i mean, myself, mitt romney, no one believes that we should defund the he
revealed. the mastermind, an american. we want to welcome our viewers around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. mitt romney s primary sweep this week sounded the death nell for newt gingrich s campaign and the romney versus obama battle for the rouwhite house has shif up a gear. our national political reporter is following this. jim, what are you seeing now? with the republican race now over, there are only two men left standing, president obama and mitt romney and they re already throwing hard punches, even though it s only april. president obama s visit with college students in iowa may have been about financial aid but it was one more sign that school is in session in the race for the white house. some suggest that students like you have to pay more so we can help bring down the deficit. th think about that. the president has been doing his reelection homework basically ever since he got in office. from february 2009 on he s made 126 visit
it is deadly. the u.s. agriculture department announced that a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed confirmed in a dairy cow out in central california. let s bring in lisa sylvester. she s working this story for us. lisa, what is the department of agriculture saying. what s going on? reporter: wolf, the usda just released information within the last hour and what we know is that it is a dairy cow from central california that has tested positive for bse or commonly known or referred to as mad cow disease, and wolf, this is only the fourth case ever detected in the united states. normally an animal contracts bse from consuming contaminated feed and this cow tested positive from atypical bse, it s a rare form of the disease and not generally associated with an animal-consuming infected feed and it states, quote, the cow was never presented for slaughter for human consumption so at no time presented a risk to the food supply and milk does not transmit bse. so you can se
romney did his job making santorum seem like a washington insider and he decided and also tried to do some of his own biography but was also helped by a crowd that was clearly on his side. we were talking about this issue before of religious conscience and protections but this is the whole reason this issue is alive is because of the bill that you drafted in massachusetts, romney care, which was the model for obama care and the government takeover of health care. wait a second. but if romney struggled to sell himself and his own vision and his worst moments of the night were when he talked about his own record if you don t balance your budget in business, you go out of business. so i ve lived balancing budgets. i also serve in the olympics, balance the budget there, and served in the states and in all four years i was governor we balanced the budget. yes, governor, you balanced budget for four years. have you a constitutional
serious. what do you think? it s very overdramatic. and ainsley, thank you. joining me now to discuss the impact of these campaign ads, and what impact they are having on the voting public is the author of wins one and only pollster, frank luntz. good to see you, sir. thank you. how are you? let s run an ad for each. we will start with romney and tell us your methodology. i m going to do something to government. i am going to make it simpler and smaller and smarter, getting rid of programs, turning programs back to states, and finally making government itself more efficient. i m going to get rid of obamacare. it is a moral imperative for americans to stop spending more money than we take in. it s killing jobs and keeping kits from having the bright prospects they deserve. the experience of balancing budgets is desperately needed in washington and i will take it there. i m mitt romney, and i