i m candidate crowley, and you re in the situation room. just coming in, a new snapshot capturing the big picture, a cnn lorcp poll shows support for president obama up slightly from last month 67 this new poll shows a five-point lead over romney, though still within a sampling error. the same poll shows a seven-point lead for the president over rick santorum. that is up only slightly from january. we want to bring in cnn s chief analyst gloria borger. so i look at this and think maybe a problem for mitt romney? absolutely a problem for mitt romney. as you pointed out, in january neck and neck. now president obama is up. what s mitt romney s calling card as he campaigns he electability? what do republican voters say they want in all those dpit polls we ve been taking and all those primaries? somebody who can beat president obama. he kind of loses that argument. it s early, this is good news for president obama. we should say it s february, these numbers can change. an
congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama and without delay and without needs to pass this without drama and delay and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. we ve been through this before, remember? we ve seen this movie. we don t need to see it again. the time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over. let s go straight to cnn congressional correspondent kate bouldan. kate, this is a surprising turn-around. what are you hearing there? what made them decide to make this move? jessica a surpriseding turn-around and sharp and surprising reversal by house republicans on the issue of the payroll tax cut. as you know, one of the demands house republicans have been making all along during this month s long battle over extending the payroll tax cut is their incidentses that the payroll tax cut and other measures be included in the deal be paid for. be covered and paid for by offsets tha
controversy dogging president obama. did top aides, including the vice president joe biden warn him about it beforehand? new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our national political correspondent jim acosta is following it for us. reporter: it sounded like he was referring to mitt romney as mr. burns, the villain from the simpsons who once said release the hounds. that s because in the race for the alpha dog, the fangs are out. rick santorum doesn t need anybody to tell him who let the dogs out. i think it s interesting you re asking that question about governor romney and his attack dogs.connect 1200 he has an opportunity tomorrow at this convention ironically he spoke to them four years ago this week, wolf, when he was pulling out of the presidential race. let s listen to what he says. i stand for conservative prim pes, i ll fight alongside you for all the things we believe it in, and one of the things we believe is we ca
picture this, you re walking through the airport checkpoint with your shoes on and your belt on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorum s stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. he s grabbed some delegates and more importantly he s grabbing the momentum. that s enabling him to raise lots of cash and it s raising a big question for the republicans. now what? let s begin our coverage with our national political correspondent jim acosta. wolf, mitt romney says he s focused on the contest ahead. that s probably a good thing, because the rest of them may count like never before. moments after the secret service housed a man who tried to throw glitter on mitt romney, it looked like a scene from csi. the real post mortem of the night was on romney s caucus collapse. the romney bandw
in just a few hours results will start coming in from today s republican triple-header caucuses in colorado, minnesota and a primary in missouri up for grabs. dozens of delegates, but perhaps more importantly momentum. the front-runner mitt romney s campaign is anticipating a potential setback as his rivals look for an opportunity. our jim acosta is in denver. reporter: we re going to turn around and look at this screen back here, because mitt romney will talk to us from his bus. reporter: with a snowstorm slowing him down, he ran about an hour later, so he skyped to the crowd, a sign that not everything was going his way on this caucus day. colorado has something to say about who our nominees will be, and i think i will be that nominee. a strategy memo was released. saying the campaign is anticipating possibly a loss. we expect our opponents to notch a few wins, too. the memo red cued newt gingrich s plans to boasting romney would triumph in the west, suggesting