greenberg are here in the studio to tell us what every politician should be saying right now. and the whole world s buzzing about a north korea mystery woman. she s always by the side of the new leader there. nobody seems to be saying who she is. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. president obama s been hammering mitt romney for sending u.s. jobs overseas during the years he rain bane capital. this afternoon in colorado romney turned the tables labeling the president as the outsourcer in chief. our white house correspondent, brianna keilar, is following all this back and forth. is the obama team worried about this new romney line of attack? reporter: wolf, i think they would much rather be talking about tax cuts for the middle class. that s why president obama went to iowa today. and certainly this new republican attack line is stealing some of that spotlight. president obama took the fight over the bush era tax cuts from the white house to the mclaughlin
saying bring it on. senator rand paul refusing a pat-down at an airport security checkpoint after setting off an alarm on a body scanner. he s joining us live this hour. he ll tell us what happened. also, a key u.s. supreme court ruling on electronic surveillance. the justices agree that police need a warrant to plant a gps device on a suspect s car but they don t agree on why. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. what a day in politics. mitt romney is going all out as he goes after newt gingrich with a series of very bitter attacks. the new national poll out today may show why. the two rivals are in a statistical tie. the gallup daily tracking poll shows romney at 29% nationwide, down nine points in just over a week. gingrich is at 28%, double his strength in the last poll a week ago. it s a dead heat, just a week and change before the florida primary. let s bring in cnn jim acosta. he s in tampa and watching the battle for florida. it shouldn t be.
work. thank you so much. facebook.com/carolcnn if you d like to continue the conversation. let s continue the cnn newsroom with randi kaye. hello, it s 1:00. two short days before the make or break south carolina primary. one gop hopeful is out. governor rick perry who dominated the field so briefly last summer called it a race. good morning, i have come to the conclusion that there is no more viable path for me in this campaign. therefore, today i m suspending my campaign and endorsing newt gingrich for president of the united states. our latest polls shows gingrich gaining on romney and perry stuck in fifth with single digits. santorum is running third but today he s officially the winner of the iowa caucuses. 16 days ago, you ll recall romney was on top with eight votes but the final results show santorum actually won by a total of 34 votes. it s basically a toss-up because eight votes are still missing. four republican candidates will meet tonight and wolf blitz
they were desperate to tell the monitors about the government cra crackdown there. opposition activists say regime forces have surrounded the city for three days and that power and water have been cut. this was said to be the scene in the city. they cannot verify the images, but they are said to be of an opposition rally in support of military defectors known as the free syrian army. a message was delivered to bashar al assad during a visit to lebanon. today i say again to the president of syria, stop the violence. stop killing your own people. the path of repression is a dead end. meanwhile, syrian media report al assad said he s granting amnesty for the crimes. it s the top of the hour. the cnn newsroom starts all over again right now. we re following two major developments in the cruise ship disaster on the italian coast. two americans are among the missing. that s according to to the state department. 120 were reportedly on the ship. only 118 are accounted for. da
we re talking about the occupy wall street movement, now in its sixth week in cities across the country. large crowds have taken to the streets in philadelphia and boston and elsewhere. they re protesting income inequality and the lack of jobs. last week, herman cain said those fired up over america s economic troubles had no one to blame but themselves. here s what he told the wall street journal . don t blame wall street. don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, blame yourself! then this past weekend, cain fired another shot at the protesters on cbs face the nation. watch. my parents never said that we hope that the rich people lose something so we can get something. no! my dad s idea was, i want to work hard enough so i can buy a cadillac, not take somebody else s. but, listen. now cain is tweaking his message and saying the protesters should be blaming someone. the wohite house. here s what he said last night during the bloomberg