nothing stands between romney and the nomination. check your calendars, by the way. the general election starts today. on that last point, president obama knows that times are bad this fall. he won t get reelected arguing, i ve done a great job. so he s making a different case right now, that if you re struggling, it s not because he s failed, it s because the system failed. the republicans have stacked the deck in favor of the rich against the rest of us. obama clearly thinks it has a winning strategy here. plus the trayvon martin case, lawyers for george zimmerman said they are no longer his lawyers. they said an odd behavior on zimmerman s part. we ll get the latest from sanfo sanford, florida. and we ll learn how dangerous it is for anyone in this country to defeat obama. we begin with rick santorum tonight exiting the race. his campaign communications director and also the great howard feinman. rick santorum is out. here s what he said, your candidate, in leaving the c
because i ve lost contact with him. as of sunday we lost contact with george. er with professionals. craig sonner, craig sonner pa, hal uhrig the defense group, we do this for a living. we try to do a good job of it. but we are not putting ourselves out to the public for continuing representatives of a client unless he makes it clear us to he wants us to be his representatives. i can t keep coming and talking with the media sane, yeah, i represent george zimmerman when he has given me indications that i m not representing him. this is a huge development, folks. so a huge development in this story. his former lawyers lost contact with him. so where is he? i m not going to say anything about where george zimmerman is. his location. it s been kept a secret from a lot of people. i m not going to reveal that now. based on what i know of him to this point, he s not going to flee the country. what about the [ inaudible ] the possibility of doing harm to himself? i don
santorum this far. against all odds, we won 11 states. reporter: in early debates with his support in single digits he complained about being ignored. as i told you when i traveled around iowa, you would see me in your hometown but you probably wouldn t see much of me on television. it s holding true tonight. reporter: but he stunned the republican establishment with a victory in iowa. game on. reporter: famous for speaking his mind, he ignited a series of political fire storms with statements of his deeply conservative beliefs. many from the christian faith have said that s okay. contraception is okay. it s not okay. it s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to what. how things are supposed to be. reporter: such comments further endear him to many conservatives but may have bruised the party s image among moderate and independent voters especially women. santorum did not mention mitt romney s name today but advisors say they did speak an
right now, that if you re struggling, it s not because he s failed, it s because the system failed. the republicans have stacked the deck in favor of the rich against the rest of us. obama clearly thinks it has a winning strategy here. plus the trayvon martin case, lawyers for george zimmerman said they are no longer his lawyers. they said an odd behavior on zimmerman s part. we ll get the latest from sanfo sanford, florida. and we ll learn how dangerous it is for anyone in this country to defeat obama. we begin with rick santorum tonight exiting the race. his campaign communications director and also the great howard feinman. rick santorum is out. here s what he said, your candidate, in leaving the campaign, announcing it this afternoon. let s watch. ladies and gentlemen, we made the decision getting into this race that our kitchen table, that while this presidential race for us is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign, we are not done fighting. we are going to c
romney built a major lead among republicans and the gop infighting has been nasty and brutal. is he ready to take on president barack obama? and already focussing in on a november matchup and his campaign is depicting mitt romney as an out of touch millionaire. will that strategy pay off. i m wolf blitzer? i m wolf blitzer? you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we re also learning that george zimmerman, the shooter of trayvon martin, will be speaking publicly within the hour, maybe within the half hour, we are told, he s going to be speaking. we ll have live coverage of that and his first public comments on television. george zimmerman will be making a statement. we ll see what he has to say. that s coming up this hour as well, but let s get to the other breaking news we re following. rick santorum bows to reality and says the presidential race, as far as he s concern side over. with with the suspension of his campaign he leaves mitt romney the