do you have the tape? yep. let s listen. guess what, joining us now on the phone, edith and carolyn. let s give them a big round of applause. yeah! by then it was almost 3:00 in the morning and all of us were giddy to begin with. we were having a little fun covering this election. wolf, this is the back story, he never left the computer, never goes to the restroom. anderson was sitting on the floor. erin took her shoes off. what was john king doing? he was looking at the map, looking at the percentage of this and that. everybody was working but we were having some fun, too. erin burnett had lovely shoes but she took them off. she was standing. gloria borr glor gloria borrow borrowi gloria borger was sitting but erin was standing. i felt bad for her. the situation room, 4:00. hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. i m don lemon. the president makes his own choice for 2012. the battlefield shifts to primaries in new hampshire and south carolina and count mich
child molestation. what you ll hear him explain in his own words, his, quote, attraction to young boys. also new this morning a boarding school refuses to admit a teenage boy because he has hiv. you will hear the school defend its decision. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s get you started with the headlines today. herman cain says he will make an announcement on the future of his presidential campaign. this will come in a matter of hours. we are standing by in atlanta to hear it. he is in atlanta today for the planned opening of his georgia campaign headquarters, but instead a lot of people are speculating that he could drop out of the race. as you know this week a georgia woman had said she d had a 13-year affair with cain. he denied it. much more on this coming your way. also country music sin ner mccready and her son were finally found in a closet in arkansas. mccready took off with her 5-year-old boy. her mother and stepfather actually have custody of the y
mandate a balanced budget mandate like many states. so these are important steps before it gets out of the senate. what harry reid is trying to do is to get ahead of this and some of the momentum that john boehner and the team is getting and saying it is dead. we got it from the white house as well. as kristen mentioned, there are many variations of procedurally what can be done and i won t go through that, but what needs to happen with that deadline looming is what options are left. we are hearing possibilities of additional conversations between the leaders here, but at the moment, it is going to make sense for those to let it play out first in the house, and see where it is and what the senate does, because pressure will be brought the bear on the senate democrats as well and see what can be done in the limited time left. this is a time when you need your handbook next to you watching all of this to see what the hurdles are, but a big one today for john boehner and his
mandate like many states. so these are important steps before it gets out of the senate. what harry reid is trying to do is to get ahead of this and some of the momentum that john boehner and the team is getting and saying it is dead. we got it from the white house as well. as kristen mentioned, there are many variations of procedurally what can be done and i won t go through that, but what needs to happen with that deadline looming is what options are left. we are hearing possibilities of additional conversations between the leaders here, but at the moment, it is going to make sense for those to let it play out first in the house, and see where it is and what the senate does, because pressure will be brought the bear on the senate democrats as well and see what can be done in the limited time left. this is a time when you need your handbook next to you watching all of this to see what the hurdles are, but a big one today for john boehner and his lead
there s not even a need to comment. they re just like, leave it alone. in his defense, romney has an investment firm, a consulting firm. he managed the 2002 winter olympics out in salt lake and ran massachusetts for two years when he was governor. romney, he s announced an exploratory committee. he says he ll maybe make the final announcement later this year. as for trump, we keep know, he says he ll have a decision by june if he wants to run for the white house. i m holding my breath. let s talk about these tea party rallies going on all over the country today. let s talk about them. a big one today is in south carolina, michele bachmann, the congresswoman from minnesota, a darling of the tea party movement, she ll be a big head liner at this one. today s the tax deadline day for americans. and ever since friday, the traditional tax deadline day, you ve seen tea party rallies across the country. if you re running for the presidency on the republican side, where else would you