as someone in step with the house republicans and especially the tea party element in house republicans is to find the brand at the moment and probably the most clear-cut way of people who connected the vice presidential pick the attacks on medicare and the whole business about abortion that takes you down a path that lots of americans the tea party are uncomfortable with. that s why mitt romney to pick up on advice he has to define himself and take who he is right now. is he the man that republicans have too much of a littling moderate from massachusetts or in fact is he now someone who says i am willing to break with my party on certain things and in other cases here s who i am. i am a conviction politician and i want you to know exactly what i stand for, america. mitt romney won t take that stage on thursday in a vacuum even if this convention gets
romney even yet. as someone in step with the house republicans and especially the tea party element in house republicans is to find the brand at the moment and probably the most clear-cut way of people who connected the vice presidential pick the attacks on medicare and the whole business about abortion that takes you down a path that lots of americans the tea party are uncomfortable with. that s why mitt romney to pick up on advice he has to define himself and take who he is right now. is he the man that republicans have too much of a littling moderate from massachusetts or in fact is he now someone who says i am willing to break with my party on certain things and in other cases here s who i am. i am a conviction politician and i want you to know exactly what i stand for, america. mitt romney won t take that stage on thursday in a vacuum
as someone in step with the house republicans and especially the tea party element in house republicans is to find the brand at the moment and probably the most clear-cut way of people who connected the vice presidential pick the attacks on medicare and the whole business about abortion that takes you down a path that lots of americans the tea party are uncomfortable with. that s why mitt romney to pick up on advice he has to define himself and take who he is right now. is he the man that republicans have too much of a littling moderate from massachusetts or in fact is he now someone who says i am willing to break with my party on certain things and in other cases here s who i am. i am a conviction politician and i want you to know exactly what i stand for, america. mitt romney won t take that stage on thursday in a vacuum even if this convention gets
should be able to get married. truly historic and potentially watershed moment as president obama comes out, formally, publicly, enthusiastically in support of gay marriage and with the election less than six months away the political implications are enormous. we ll look at all of the potential fallout. reactions from both sides of this issue pouring in right now into the situation room. we will hear what influential groups and individuals are saying about the president s new position on gay marriage. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we re following the breaking news this hour. president obama announcing his support for same-sex marriage, a move with potentially huge political and social implications. listen to what he told abc news in a white house interview just a little while ago. over the course of several years, as i talk to friends and family and neighbors, when i think about members of my own staff who are i
killing seven people over the past ten days are facing off. the suspect has confessed to the killings of three french paratroopers, a jewish rabbi and three jewish children over the past ten days. dan rivers is at the scene in the city of toulouse with the latest. reporter: well, erin, it s been a pretty dramatic day of developments here in toulouse, france. first of all, the news that mohammed merah who has been surrounded, a siege has ensued after an initial shoot-out with police who then tried to engage him in negotiation. that negotiation we re told broke down at several points. they described him as being stubborn, difficult to deal with. then later on this evening in the early hours of the morning, here three loud explosions lit up the sky behind me. we re told by the interior ministry it was designed to put pressure on him to try to get him to re-engage with those negotiators. a lot of police activity on the road that we re broadcasting on here. a lot of police cars