welcome back. this just in by lynn cheney, tweeting a picture of her home after just ten days after having a successful heart transplant. the obama re-election campaign is defending their candida candidate s record and pushing back against attack ads on the air waves. here s the latest response to the ads panning the president s energy policy. under president obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high. so why is big oil attacking him? because he s fighting to end their tax breaks. mitt romney stood with big oil for their tax breaks, attacking higher mileage standards and renewables. when you see this ad, remember who paid for it and what they want. joining me this morning is ben la bolt, the press secretary for the obama re-election campaign. nice to see you. we know the attack ads from republicans are going to be coming fast and furious, but the fact is gas prices are high.
television, radio, the internet, all the way up to tampa. and the question will be asked is who can best beat barack obama? and at that point, i think most republicans agree that i would probably do a better job debating obama than any other candida candidate, and i think it becomes a very viable, very lively campaign. he says he ll march on. in less than a week, voters head to the polls in maryland and washington, d.c., and also wisconsin, which is the state people are really going to be looking at. mitt romney holds now a pretty big lead there, according to a marquette law school poll. romney has 39% support in wisconsin, up 21 points from last month. rick santorum follows eight points behind romney. that s a three-point drop for santorum since february. we re getting some new detail about the night 17-year-old trayvon martin was killed in florida. several reports indicate the lead investigator in the case recommended the gunman, george zimmerman, be charged with manslaughter. th
completely non-sensecy call from a policy standpoint. i can guarantee this would be de de te deleterious to the health of women. he is also a democratic candida candidate. thank you. pleasure to be with you. thank you. house number 2800 is making its way through the state legislature do in arizona what republicans have done in texas, de-funding planned parenthood and a lot of other women s health services besides. how does this both strike you as a physician and potentially as a lawmaker? do you understand the motivation behind this and do you think it will achieve its aims? i don t understand the motivations. as i look at this through the eyes of surgeon general, it doesn t make any sense. the consequences of anything like this to reduce or create
mitt romney who s going to have the key issues of the party taken off the table, that goes with obamacare, cap and trade, the wall street bailouts, he can t debate those issues with barack obama and rick santorum can. we need people to rally behind rick santorum. final question, i want to get back to the money. with 96% of the vote in, your candidate lost by 100,000 votes tonight. you say he was outspent 21-1 in chicago. is money the difference? if rick santorum had anywhere near equal money to mitt romney, would rick santorum be running away with this? well, no doubt, but the fact is, what we re seeing and the fact that we are so outspent and we re still doing so well is that people are recognizing it s about the message and about the man. money has been a tremendous boost for mitt romney, we re still doing well in many states and people are going to recognize they need to stand behind the conservative candida
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