been put on life support after suffering a stroke yesterday. a lawyer for mubarak tells nbc news the ousted dictator is still alive after reports spread of his death on tuesday. the 84-year-old has been moved to a military hospital in cairo where he s said to be in very critical condition. meanwhile, protests have erupted in tahrir square as to who will succeed him. mubarak s former prime minister and the muslim brotherhood candidate both claimed victory in last week s elections, yet it s uncertain if the ruling military council will fully recognize either. the official vote tally is expected tomorrow. as the g-20 summit meeting wrapped up in mexico, european leaders could not agree on specifics to fix financial problems in greece and spain. nevertheless, president obama is optimistic europe will find a solution to its economic crisis. nbc s steve handelsman has more from washington. reporter: two days at the g-20 summit in mexico left president obama convinced european l
we re reporting. a lawyer tells nbc news the ousted dictator is still alive after reports spread of his death on tuesday. the 84-year-old has been moved to a military hospital in cairo where he s said to be in very critical condition, and as mubarak fights for his life protests have erupted in tahir s square as to who will succeed him. both claimed victory in last week s elections yet it s uncertain if the ruling military council will recognize either. the official vote tally is expected tomorrow. as the g-20 summit meeting wrapping up in mexico, european leaders could not afree on specifics to fix greece and spain. nevertheless president obama is optimistic. nbc s steve handelsman has more from washington. reporter: two days at the g-20 summit in mexico left president obama convinced european leaders can solve their economic crisis. they understand the stakes, they understand why it s important for them to take bold and desoogsive action. reporter: that could speed r
a lawyer tells nbc news the ousted dictator is still alive after reports spread of his death on tuesday. the 84-year-old has been moved to a military hospital in cairo where he s said to be in very critical condition, and as mubarak fights for his life protests have erupted in tahir s square as to who will succeed him. both claimed victory in last week s elections yet it s uncertain if the ruling military council will recognize either. the official vote tally is expected tomorrow. as the g-20 summit meeting wrapping up in mexico, european leaders could not afree on specifics to fix greece and spain. nevertheless president obama is optimistic. nbc s steve handelsman has more from washington. reporter: two days at the g-20 summit in mexico left president obama convinced european leaders can solve their economic crisis. they understand the stakes, they understand why it s important for them to take bold and desoogsive action. reporter: that could speed recovery, put more
the recovery, put more americans to work and help his re-election. but that s the not my biggest concern right now. the same concern is that i ve had over 3 1/2 years, folks that are out of work or underemployed or unable to pay the bills. reporter: mitt romney saying the obama fix is the european fix. more spending to put people to work. a romney adviser called that ignorant. i would point out that we have one president at a time and one administration at a time. reporter: domestic politics, he said, ought to stop at the water s edge when a u.s. president is overseas. i m steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. presumptive republican candidate mitt romney says florida senator marco rubio is being vetted as a possible vice presidential running mate. tuesday, reports the cube ban-american senator from florida was not being checked out and out of the running are false according to romney. he says he can t imagine who are the unnamed advisers quoted in those stories.
doesn t have a hand in this somewhere? he was in the race against golfer governor ehrlich. he pointed the state prosecutor. i m sure the first question he asked him how do you feel about robo calls. reporter: the state prosecutor said he never spoke with governor o malley about the case. he won criminal convictions against ehrlich s campaign manager. but there was no evidence former governor bob ehrlich knew about the robo calls. do you think ehrlich knew about this? i don t know. i m sure the state didn t want to find out whether or not he knew. why? they weren t interested now. they were saying hey, let s depo talk to the african- american people let s do them in. and that s what they did. do you think race plays a factor here. i absolutely do, slur i sure i do. how so. nobody got a search for his house came into his community and raided his house. why was that? so if that s not, you know, some part of razor something, what would you direct it as. report