the tourist attractions here in the nation s capitol. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you certainly could say the general election campaign began this week when republican candidate rick santorum declared the race is over for me. now that mitt romney s toughest challenger is out of the picture, romney and president obama are taking direct jabs at one another. let s bring in our senior correspondent, joe johns. romney, it s his race, he s the challenger. he moved to the right during this campaign, the primary season, but now presumably he s got to move a little closer to the center. it does sound that way certainly, wolf. it s been a very good week for mitt romney. now it s up to him and his staff to keep it going. we ve essentially entered the general election phase of the 2012 campaign with lightning speed thanks to social nemedia d controversial remarks by romney s wife anne by
is too young to understand what s happening but knows enough to say the name and been told who is inton. about shar al assad. after overseeing a year-long campaign of repression followed by outright chaarnage, he promid to stop. he toured the streets of homes. two videos side by side, the dictator, the other the bombardment before he arrives in homs and almost every day since then. 57 people died. today in homs and across syria tanks rolled, shells exploded, snipers fired, and at least 145 people died. in other words, the slaughter goes on. more than 700 have been killed since assad announced a cease-fire on april 2nd. nearly 1,100 since he agreed to that u.n. proposal just two weeks ago. this is video claiming to show victims of a mass execution in homs. according to the opposition one neighborhood there has seen eight straight days of heavy bombardment. parts of the city still after all this time being blown to pieces, burned to the ground. in some neighborhoods, troops hav
exhibited during the conference. our agency continues to be appalled by this indefensible behavior. of course, two years ago, gsa had a different take on the young man s tape. commissioner for a day. reporter: he won an award. in addition to the resignation of the gsa administrator, four regional commissioners have been put on leave, including the one who had organized the conference and wanted it to be over the top at a time that unemployment was almost over 10%. jake tapper, abc news, at the white house. at least that guy can start his musical career now. employees of a health care think tank started by newt gingrich will soon be out of their jobs. the center for health transformation has now filed for bankruptcy. gingrich started to promote private sector solutions to the
for medicare part b. there are three congress people out there that say, yes, he did call me and said he wanted that to pass while he was working and peud by paid by a pharmaceutical company. why should people not have a problem with that? newt nor a longtime worked on large-scale change. he started the health transformation to come meet with universal payer which is now what we have under obamacare, which is based on romney care. he said we should move more toward free market healthcare and not socialized medicine. they casted obamacare, based on romney care and we need town do that. so the stake holders that came together under the center for health transformation were companies that voluntarily joined who were saying we don t want socialized medicine we would like to work toward an alternate model where the free market works.
hour and covers 2006 and worth $300,000 and the relationship went on longer than that, it apparently was for more lucrative for the gingrich group. although he said emphatically he s not lobbying at any time. on the contract, puts it smack in the middle of pay street, it is to lobbying what wall street in new york is to high finance and might say they re kind of and always in politics, each side frames the issues and the news of the day, to suit his or her own interest and electability and the president has been doing that as well. give us an idea about his strategy now. yeah, looking for the fall election, the president has been borrowing from an unlikely source, george w. bush, his predecessor, and he s encouraging voters to see the fall contrast not as a straight referendum, but a choice of two options and