judgment after hundreds of guns turned up at crime scenes, including where special agent terry was murdered. the attorney general was also held in contempt after congress accused him of withholding information. the attorney general released a statement just moments ago saying the report is consistent with what he said for many months now. also developing news we re watching. just hours away from mitt romney s first official campaign stump since the release of the video that happened behind the scenes in may. romney is in florida today for what s called a meet the candidate s event with univision and facebook. tonight, stopping by a rally with members of the latino community in miami. this is all, of course, surrounding new poll numbers showinging president obama rebounding with the economy and as well as the direction of the country. and joining me to talk about all of this, democratic congressman chris van hollen of maryland. thank you for your time. great to be with you. let me
direct questions. reporter: that s right, tamron. he will be speaking later this afternoon in miami but if the events happened moments ago here at the fund-raiser in atlanta are any indication he will not be backing off those comments one inch. the campaign made the gamble to co-op some of the comments of the fund raising video and turn it in to an argument about the role of government in society. at this fund-raiser he said this is about president s view of redistributing american wealth, his view is to allow for a more free society. that we don t want people dependn t on government and trying to change the tone ever so slightly of those remarks and make they will fall in line more with the traditional campaign stump speech. so, he s sticking to the message and trying to massage the language, obviously, that would mean taking out words like victims and that he doesn t want to do anything about those people or basically giving the impression of not trying to lure the people to his
on. if it takes 54 minutes to deliver the campaign stump speech that sounds like to state of the union you have given in three years you have problems. somebody on being charitable said they admire the obama campaign because they re on message consistently. they use the same message. discipline. but the problem is if the message isn t working you need to shift. i don t know why they decided to do this. he is coming to new york for a fundraiser. romney gave a speech in ohio. they go to ohio to match it. it reminded me when they used to chase dick cheney around in 2009 to talk about the closing of gitmo and lose every time. maybe today is a draw but they gave more attention to romney s speech. bob: one of the producer s 18-month-old kid in the greenroom here who made more sense talking to me than romney made in the entire speech. romney is saying we ll create jobs and he doesn t come up with one single plan how to do it. not one.
on. if it takes 54 minutes to deliver the campaign stump speech that sounds like to state of the union you have given in three years you have problems. somebody on being charitable said they admire the obama campaign because they re on message consistently. they use the same message. discipline. but the problem is if the message isn t working you need to shift. i don t know why they decided to do this. he is coming to new york for a fundraiser. romney gave a speech in ohio. they go to ohio to match it. it reminded me when they used to chase dick cheney around in 2009 to talk about the closing of gitmo and lose every time. maybe today is a draw but they gave more attention to romney s speech. bob: one of the producer s 18-month-old kid in the greenroom here who made more sense talking to me than romney made in the entire speech. romney is saying we ll create jobs and he doesn t come up with one single plan how to do it. not one.
bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to be a body bomb. this was more in line with the sort of underwear bomber type of thing. look, they really feel strongly this is a success. they worked with their international partners, make no mistake about it, the best internal service against this target is the saudi service. we know that the saudi service is tipped off the americans when it came to the cargo plane threat and worked with them, and the head of the saudi service, muhammed benaif was the target of the one of the al bombs so they