options he will not reveal, analysts say the administration does not seem prepared with a plan b in case the leader there, nicolas maduro, and holds on to power and fightsfights. the united states is poised to recognize mr. guido as the interim president. do you want this administration to use military power if necessary to back up mr. guaido? let me answer that in three parts. number one, i m not th ouster in chief or anything like it the credit belongs to the venezuelan people. they have taken to the streets this is their movement this is about them they are courageous and facing the threat of imprisonment number two, the decider here is the president who has never needed convincing on venezuela do i offer ideas sure he has a team around him he has never needed convincing he has raised it with me, the issue of venezuela, more than i raised it with him i haven t had to raise it with him. he cares about this. as far as the analysts saying
well, fred, there s two ways to look at it. one, are lawmakers in a position they can t pay their bills, at risk of losing health care, and the answer is no. that probably makes them less empathetic from an instinctive perspective. i think also, both sides see something bigger than this right now for them, in the risk reward category. neither side is ready to give a little bit. we are as of today in a situation where this is the longest federal government shutdown in history, where the president is vacillating about whether or not to declare a national emergency to get out of it, and where the administration is preparing for another six weeks worth of the shutdown continuing, in terms of contingency options. so where things stand at this point seems to be that the white house, president trump is hoping if this goes on longer, the american public stops blaming
help from outside parties to include the iranians, but the north koreans have had more than a decade to work on this. they detonated their first nuclear bomb in 2006, and they have conducted several nuclear tests since then. they do have home grown expertise. and that is something that i think we need to take into account whenever we think of a military option. you can destroy nuclear sites, you can destroy nuclear weapons. but yyou can t destroy expertis. and so i think as military planners are looking at contingency options, we ll have to think not only in terms of weeks or months, but often years town the road a down the road. general, what would a military strike against north korea look like? well, you ve identified a number of facilities that are suspicion. we don t know for sure whether theft missiles and warheads in
get there. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. mitt romney certainly had big wins on super tuesday. the gop frond runter won six states and padded his lead in delegates, but ohio was very, very close. rick santorum captured three states, while newt gingrich also had a win. romney has not put his rivals out of business, as republicans grow concerned about a drawnout race, the candidates are calling on one another to quit. here s jim acosta. reporter: wolf, with team santorum telling newt gingrich to drop out and team romney telling everybody to drop out, it s starting to feel lie deja vu all over again. falling short of expectations on super tuesday and facing what could now be a mad scramble for delegates to win the nomination, mitt romney is urging the gop to stay calm. you know, when we have a nominee, we will come together, because because barack obama has organized a conservative community. let s put it that way. holding a command been lead, they r
he arrived with a swagger fresh off his impressive south carolina victory but what a difference nine days have made for newt gingrich in florida. on this, the eve of the state s closely-watched primary, gingrich is facing an all-out assault from mitt romney formidable operation in florida. joe johns is seeing it first hand and he had a one-on-one interview with newt gingrich earlier in the day and we ll see that at the bottom of the hour. mean time, joe, 15 hours until the polls open. what s the latest? well, wolf, it has been a very hectic 24 hours for the gingrich campaign and a very different picture of the races starting to emerge since gingrich took the palmetto state by storm. this was a far cry from his big chilling in south carolina where former georgia congressman, newt gingrich, got the favorite son of the south treatment. in florida his campaign came under attack from every direction imaginable. starting with a massive television advertising campaign that gingr