continuing to pivot of the current tax code will not lose this economy. 9% corporate business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax and an 9% national sales tax, and it will pass because the american people wanted to pass. one thing i would say is when you take the 9-9-9 plan and you turn upside down, i think the devil is in the details. unlike his plan which does not pass because how many people here are for a sales tax in new hampshire, brazier hands. that is how many boats you ll get in new hampshire. rick perry s starkist shaking. he needed a strong showing tonight and that romney is the front runner which made him a punching bag tonight is will. hours before this debate, mitt romney won the endorsement of chris christi. he says it makes him the right candidate to lead the republican ticket. gloria you get crossers denied the pending 9-9-9, how did he did? okay. you know, he didn t get specific other than saying he really wanted to get rid of the tax code that it was clear
gun battle in the fight for libyan liberation. plus, war is hell. and there s been ten years of it. now a war widow needs your help. a man of god and an icon makes news on same-sex marriage. you are either for equal rights or not. the reverend joseph lowery turning 90 and taking a stand. it s all here on cnn. hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. i m don lemon. you are in the cnn newsroom. we re going to start tonight with two subjects consuming the nation for the last few days. politics and religion. more specifically, what is keeping republican voters from fully embracing mitt romney? if you believe the headlines out of the value voters summit, the annual conference for conservatives it could be his mormon religion. as candy crowley reports, many in romney s own party of doing what they can to sidestep the issue. thomas jefferson talked about the wall of separation between church and state. nobody said anything about separating church and politics, but every
the tabloids. now in a dramatic turn of events, amanda knox is free after being convicted of murder abroad. amanda knox is now back home here in seattle after spending nearly four years in an italian prison. she was released after appealing her murder conviction. but she remains haunted by the nightmare that began to unfold when she was just a young student. amanda knox was going into her junior year of college. her mother etta recalls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on adventure. she was going to study abroad, going into college somewhere. she didn t know where yet. amanda would decide on perugia, italy. her sister deanna remembers when she moved into this house which she shared with three other girls, two italians and one britting student named meredith kercher. why was she so set on that apartment? i think it s because of the people really. it was close to the college and her roommates are the sweetest people in the world. but after only six weeks i
dramatic day in the trial of dr. conrad murray, who s accused of causing the death of michael jackson. to ted rollins in los angeles. reporter: piers, it was a riveting day in court today, we got to listen to conrad murray, basically, this will be it for jurors, unless he takes the stand, he gets to tell his side of the story through a police interview. a two-hour audiotape that jurors heard about an hour and 40 minutes of. in it he talks about giving michael jackson propofol every single night during the two months he was taking care of the pop star, except, he said, for the few days leading up to his death. he said he was trying to help jackson break away from the addiction to propofol, he said jackson was his friend, he said he was doing everything he could to jackson and jackson was demanding he give him that, what he would call, milk. i got to sleep, dr. conrad. i have this rehearsals to perform, i must be ready for the show in england. tomorrow i will have to cancel
government. it does not belong in our government. now, herman cain back in march responding to a question about whether he d appoint a muslim to his cabinet or to the federal bench, the answer he said was, no. he subsequently walked that back saying he s open to appointing anyone as long as they pledged their loyalty to america. as far as his claims about sharia law, in a presidential debate in june, he says sharia law has influenced court decisions in oklahoma and new jersey. in new jersey, there was one incident in 2009. one single incident, domestic violence case. a judge refused to grant a muslim woman a restraining order because of her husband s muslim beliefs. that decision was overturned on appeal. that s it. voters in oklahoma did ban judges from relying on sharia law when deciding cases. but that was a preemptive move. it wasn t based on a judge actually doing that or muslims in oklahoma attempting to institute sharia law. on top of that, the constitution bars any