snubbed here and will have a very prominent speaking role thursday night before president obama formally accepts the nomination for a second term, shep. shepard: ed, we learned this afternoon that the democratic party is pushing for marriage equality as part of the campaign plank, right? that s right. the platform drafting committee has officially approved. this has to go through a couple more steps. bottom line is likely support of same sex marriage will be officially in the democratic platform in charlotte at the democratic national convention the first time that a major national party has done that the news really here is that it is not major news. if this had been done and drafted a year ago when president obama was against same sex marriage, obviously this would be a huge party fight. now that the president has flipped on the issue and says he supports same sex marriage, t is not going to be some huge fight on the floor in charlotte. and so it is really something it s intere
head matchup with mibarack obam. kim jong-un s first speech in public. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. it can be a politician s worst enemy as politicians from ronald reagan to barack obama have learned the hard way. now a would be president is having his own open mike moment, mitt romney speaking candidly at a public fund-raiser about eliminating tax deductions and other loopholes. jim, tell our viewers what s going on. this is sort of an open mike moment, even though there were no microphones, mitt romney has been reluctant to offer many details to voters. yet at a private fundrai-raiser over the weekend, romney was willing to get specific. reporter: for mitt romney, it was supposed to be a private fund-raiser. but two reporters overheard specifics from romney s deficit reduction plan that he has yet to share with the public. among other things, romney was considering eliminating the department of housing and human development, he talked about consol
learn, too. the reality is, he s stuck between a rock and a hard place. i do think he has some leverage with the chinese. we trade a lot with them. and trump made a big campaign plank that he was going to change the trade relationship. so that is on the table and can be negotiated. so i think there s some significant leverage with the chinese. i think it s ironic that for him to influence the north koreans, he has to turn to the chinese and the russians, with all the concerns about russian collusion with the trump administration, you would think he could just pick up the phone and ask vladamir putin to do what he wants. you d think. before the president made that address in seoul to the national assembly, officials in pyongyang said we will ever more strongly reforge the played blade of our treasured sword of rig shouse and open up a new era of prosperity with that treasured sword. which means they re not giving up their nuclear weapons. so michael, in the past, the