across the sky? i m trying to hum that song. that s a pathetic effort. anyway, some people very concerned about the ufo possibilities here. we have the answer to what that fireball in the sky was. what are you trying to do? i was thinking about that 80s show, that 90s show. whatever. a woman wins gas money after she sues honda. she spoke to us when she first filed this lawsuit. she said the car s manual promised her 50 miles per gallon. it didn t deliver. can others cash in on her lawsuit? and mitt romney talks to cnn. our soledad o brien saying something along i m not concerned about the very poor. okay, hold on. was that all he said? or has he been eviscerated unfairly? we re going to get to the bottom of context and why it matters. up first, a war of words over ending a war. reaction is pouring in after leon panetta announced that combat in afghanistan will end next year. this was on a plane to a nato conference in brussels. he told reporters, quote, our goal is
of afghanistan and how much he agrees with his former boss s agrees with his former boss s gop critics. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with today s verbal fireworks on capitol hill in washington on the face of pointed attacks by republicans, the attorney general eric holder today rejected calls for his resignation and refused to take the blame for a program that sent u.s. guns to mexico s drug gangs in an effort to trace gun smuggling. attorney general holder says he shut down the program dubbed operation fast and furious shortly after it came to his attention. he says that was after one of those smuggled guns was found at the murder scene of a u.s. border patrol agent. some republicans accuse general holder of covering up what he knew. others today listen to this called him incompetent. i believe that the american people deserve to have an attorney general that they can trust. and for that reason i have asked for your resignation. and i believe that because
exclusive interview with the arab league secretary general. you re in the situation room. newt gingrich may give it as the gift that keeps on giving. we re talking about the remark romney made right here on cnn that s gone viral that he s not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net. rather, he s concerned about the middle class. newt gingrich is making the most of it as he and rochl any cmney in nevada. joe, what s the latest on this latest round between newt gingrich and mitt romney? wolf, clearly the gingrich campaign right now is trying to sort of capitalize, if you will, and use the recent remarks by mitt romney. but one of the things they ve been concerned about is getting out of the habit of engaging in a mud slinging match with mitt romney. gingrich clearly being advised how to focus also on his own ideas, his vision for the put to try to say positively what he is for. and they viewed these recent comments by mitt romney about the poor as a p
dark about who is bank rolling the candidates, we have answers. you know the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and they re major players, but get ready for this, infederal election commission tells us out front that this might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump, thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are more than 300 of them already. so today we pored through hundreds of pages of super pac tument, and that was only for a few super pacs and the pro romney super pac called restore our future raised nearly $30 million last year. there were a group of donors who gave $1 million each, and one is jewel whereulian robertson. he s been a fan since the last election and he told me that mitt is quote the smartest guy and extremely decent. marc andreessen was also on the donor list. he told me today, quote, i think he gets it with respect to the economy in a way that the others don t. the super pac for newt gingrich, winning our future, rake
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