you re in the situation room. their voters no candidate can afford to ignore any longer. and both mitt romney and president obama are reaching out to latinos this week with speeches to a national conference being held near orlando. the president addresses the group tomorrow. mitt romney spoke today. but the presumptive republican nominee has the greater challenge. a gallop poll shows mr. obama with a strong lead among hispanic registered voters. 66% to romney s 24%. but the president s advantage all but disappears in the battleground state of florida where the conference is being held. romney s trailing there by only four points according to a university poll. cnn national political correspondent, jim acosta s on the scene for us right outside orr lan toe. jim, romney spoke about immigration today. how did it go? reporter: wolf, a senior romney advisor told me that today s speech was more about laying out broad principles than specific policy proposals. that left some i
sarah palin s one nation bus tour of the nation s historic sites is in new york city tonight for a stop at trump tower. the trump adviser tells cnn palin and her husband todd are having dinner with donald trump and his wife tonight. cnn national political correspondent jessica yellin joins us with cnn s peter hanby who is following the palin bus. you are watching the pictures there of the donald. to you first, this is the star of sarah palin s alaska meeting the star of celebrity apprentice. should we just leave it at that, this is reality tv? or is there some deep plirt cer political meaning here? i think that from a political point of view this is a low point for the media the way this is getting covered. this is a woman not running for president as far as anyone knows. she has made no indication she
of important developments in the middle east and north africa. most of them troubling. the brutal regime in syria declared general amnesty today but human rights groups and the obama administration are quick to label it a sham. designed they say to distract attention from a bloody crackdown. in yemen, civil strife spread after a cease fire agreement between the government and opposition forces in the capital city collapsed. the regime of moammar gadhafi in libya defiantly today again vowed to hold power, rejecting the latest effort to broker a diplomatic solution to the civil war there. the united states top human rights officer in bahrain was recalled to washington after coming under attacks in media accounts that u.s. officials believe were orchestrated by hard line government officials. bahrain, remember, is supposed to be a top u.s. ally in the region. a lot of ground to cover. let s focus first on syria. the amnesty offer was for all crimes committed against the governm
43 minutes past the hour now on cnn saturday morning. the budget battle in washington is a key issue. as we move closer to a government shutdown, how much do you really know about what s in the budget? cnn national political correspondent jessica yellin fills in some of the hills. reporter: on capitol hill, they are on the verge of a government shutdown because congress wants to slash federal spending, but republicans and democrats can t agree on how much to cut. the biggest fights are over a handful of programs, including foreign aid. npr. food stamps. reporter: they must make up a huge part of the federal budget, right? that s what most americans think. what percent of the budget do
is no one named daly on the ballot. but that doesn t mean that there is a bunch of unknowns vying for the job. cnn national political correspondent jessica yellin joins me on the phone from chicago. jessica, you just spoke with rahm emanuel. what s he saying today? reporter: hi, marty. he is saying that he is not going to predict the outcome today, but he has clear plans for what to do to rein in the city s budget deficit. like so many localities across the country, like wisconsin and minnesota, he says there is a huge budget hole and he would solve things very differently than the way we re seeing republican governors approaching the debt. he would bring unionized city workers to the table to bargain down and negotiate down so they can help to balance the deficit hole here in the city. a very different approach from rahm emanuel. well, it s certainly a hot topic these days whaxt happens if there is a hundrrunoff?