in a row of a pretty substantial number of air strikes, seven is normally far above a normal night you might expect to hear over raqqah, anderson. all right. nick paton walsh, appreciate it. let s bring in bob bear, former cia officer and national security analyst and retired air force analyst rick francona. these air strikes, are they enough, do you believe? anderson, i think they prove to be useless. we have been bombing groups for 14 years and the move thes are expanding. yes, we have them on the run in northern iraq and the rest of it but at the end of the day, these move thments don t care and you can t behead with bomb strikes and drone strikes. this is a ban dade on a gaping wound and at the end of the day, it s not going to get us anything. i don t see why it would work
new york times opinion piece calling his former employer togsic atogs toxic and destructive. wolf blitzer is off. i m candy crowley. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world with. you re in the situation room. puerto rico isn t often a hotbed of american politics but certainly is right now sunday s republican presidential primary looming. 20 delegates are up for grabs and as mitt romney and rick santorum will be the first to tell you, every one of those delegateses koubt es counts. jim acosta is watching it unfold for us in san juan. you had the opportunity to see both of these candidates, jim. reporter: that s right, candy, and it s going to be interesting to see how this plays out, because naturally mitt romney has been given sort of the advantage here in puerto rico. s got the endorsement of this territory s governor, luis fortunio but the governor welcomed senator santorum to the island when he arrived earlier this beak. i have to tell you what every
rick santorum has a brand-new surge coming after stunning victories in the deep county. newt gingrich is refusing to add up the numbers. mitt romney s cavern says this race is still a forgone conclusion. let s begin with joe johns, he s in illinois. joe? reporter: wolf, this is rosemo rosemont, illinois, outside of chicago, where newt gingrich is expected to appear shortly. there were new calls today from conservatives for gingrich to get out of the race and give rick santorum a clean shot at the republican nomination. as indecision limped closer to the halfway mark, the candidates fanned out. rick san tore, tuesday night s winner, took hi victory lap, stumping for votes in louisiana, ending up in puerto rico, but not before a parting shot at romney. people say you re being outspent and everybody is talking about the math, all the things that this race is inevitable. well, for someone who thinks this race is inevitable, he s spending a whole lot of money against me for be
saw, into becoming an asset for the west. next thing we know, in pakistan helping with bomb strikes. his initial reports are accurate? he s talking, as you say, about damage done by the drones. then he sends a piece of video that shows him in the company of a top al qaeda. somebody we ve been looking for for a long time, and then the mother load of information. he claims he s now rendered medical services to ayman al zawahiri. correct? how clever he was, weaving in between two worlds, the cia and al qaeda and convincing everyone he s on their side. but ultimately, as we discover later, he s actually on al qaeda s side in this elaborate plot, an incredible lure was set up by al qaeda using their own video equipment and knowledge it was set up by al qaeda, using their own video equipment and their own knowledge of how the cia works to create something so attractive that the cia could not possibly say no to it. the reason that the cia found him credible, although through
refugee clinic two years ago. he had this dangerous hobby on the side. a blogger for jihadists, take up arms against the west and do dangerous things. in a very short period ended up being discovered, arrested, interrogated and flipped, we saw, into becoming an asset for the west. next thing we know, in pakistan helping with bomb strikes. his initial reports are accurate? he s talking, as you say, about damage done by the drones. then he sends a piece of video that shows him in the company of a top al qaeda. somebody we ve been looking for for a long time, and then the mother load of information. he claims he s now rendered medical services to ayman al zawahiri. correct? how clever he was, weaving in between two worlds, the cia and al qaeda and convincing everyone he s on their side. but ultimately, as we discover later, he s actually on al