the announcement came about 90 minutes ago, defeating ahmed shafiq. christian amanpour is the global affairs anchor, also with her is correspondent ben wedeman. let s go back to the moment this was announced by effectively the elections commission in cairo. tell me, ben, wareaction imdiate and joyous? reporter: it was incredible. we really heard a rouge roar coming uprom the crowd. the only time i ve heard a louder roar was 6:00 p.m. last year when hosni mubarak s resignation was announced. what we saw it s a very hot, bright day in cairo. i d say tahrir square was about a third full. within about 20 minutes, it just filled up and people continue to fill up in the square coming from all the parts of cairo. as the temperatures become to become a little more mild, i think we re going to hear more fireworks, more car sirens and see more and more people coming out here because this is truly a historic day for egypt where egyptians finally see those who were on the other side
lead evaporating in florida and gone nationwide. it shows a virtual romney-gingrich dead heat, a sharp change this last week before the south carolina blowout victory. those numbers could and certainly will change. for now, the trend is so worrying to romney forces, they re doing what they rarely do, taking the challenger, not through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. that new ad was straight from the romney campaign, this earlier today was straight from the stump. i m calling on speaker gingrich to do two things, release all the work product associated with his work at freddie mac and return the funds he made from freddie mac. i wouldn t have normally suggested that other than he was the one that said if you made money on this failed model you ought to return that money. within hours of that, the
board i boarding a flight after refusing a pat-down. and news on beginning itch s work for freddie mac. we have the contract just released. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett and tonight, breaking news. the truth behind newt gingrich s ties to freddie mac. literally, within the past eight minutes, the former speaker released records explaining his connection to the taxpayer subsidized mortgage giant. i ve been reading through it, it s a 15-page contract and this is a contract for just one year, 2006. now, the speaker worked for freddie mac for several years, so 2006 is the only year that i have in my hands and here s what i can tell you it says. it says that the gingrich group had a $25,000 monthly retainer fee from freddie mac. he said that adds up to $300,000 a year, which is the maximum for the year 2006. i want to emphasize this is one out of the six that he worked for freddie mac. now, he was a consultant and he released this to make that point, to try t
just what is it gingrich was paid an estimated $1.7 million to do. that s not only the breaking news tonight. reports tonight out of las vegas 245 a gingrich friend is writing another $5 million check to the supersuper pac. all this showing that mitt romney s lead is evaporating in florida and basically gone nationwide. take a look at the latest tracking poll. shows a virtual-romney gingrich dead heat. that s a sharp change from just last week before this weekend s south carolina gingrich blowout victory. those numbers could and almost certainly will change, but for now, the trend is so worrying to the romney forces they re attacking the challenger, not through surrogates like they have in the past or through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. that new ad was straight from the romney campaign, this ear
good evening. i m erin burnett and tonight, breaking news. mitt what s the gross revenue of bain when you were dealing with it? to what s the gross revenue? fairly substantial, but i think it s irrelevant than the fact that you were working for freddie mac? did they ever do work with the government like medicare? we didn t work with the government. i didn t have an office on k street. i didn t work in washington. he likes to surf off that audience approval. without that tonight, he did seem relatively subdued so it had an impact. a lot of really interesting moments. like romney said what do i do with the taliban? beat them. and then of course there s silence. you don t have that applause. these guys are learning to use the audience as a weapon on their behalf. i think he is right. i personally think, get rid of it entirely. it is totally downer productive and it is i would say i totally agree with that. then you have that dead moment of silence and you re w