is filling out, some members arriving as early as possible to get seats at the aisle to get on camera with the president. tonight, expect to hear both his governoring agenda and many of the themes he s going to be hitting on the stump in months ahead, largely focusing on taxes and the economy. ron paul took today off, the other three were campaigning in florida, about tonight s speech and taking issue on the man giving it. appears to be from a different planet. and flowery rhetoric. high unemployment. record home foreclosures. debt too high, opportunities too few. this is the real estate of our union. you won t hear stories like those at president obama s address tonight. three years ago, we measured candidate obama by his hopeful promises and his slogans. today, president obama has amassed an actual record of debt, decline and disappointmen disappointment. you can decide for yourself what to think of the speech tonight. we have a team of people from the political spectru
monster. we killed a lot of trees today, and did it reveal anything? and the re-election campaign of president obama starts tonight. we are counting down to the state of the union. the death toll continues the climb off of the cruise ship crash off of the coast of italy. we have video of the search and rescue of the divers. let s go there tonight, outfront. well, good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett and out front crunching the numbers in mitt romney s tax returns. here they are. we have flags in here, because i will admit that as we said, i m not sure that anybody has read all 500 pages here, but this is two years worth of mitt romney s tax returns released todayment the romney camp yeeling to the pressure on the campaign trail. here is the breakdown. the presidential candidate earned 42.7 million in the last two years. he paid 6.2 million in taxes. and an effective rate of just under 14%. now the reasons that romney made his money, pretty much all of it from inv
shot wound to the hid. she s made remarkable recovery, but she s stepping down to focus on it. there was a call to action in the house and senate who have gotten precious little done lately. we ll talk with a senior advideser for the house. first, though, here are key moments from tonight s speech. we are not going to settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do well while a growing number of people barely get by, a weak can restore an economy where every gets their fair shot, their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules. i will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place. let s agree right here, right now, no side issues, no drama. pass the pay roll tax cut without delay. let s get it done. send me these tax reforms and i will sign them right away. send me a law that gives them the chance to earn their citizenship. i will sign it right away. send me a bill that creates these j
routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blameless in these tactics. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i asked the senate to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days. [ applause ] the executive branch also needs to change. too often it s inefficient, outdated, and remote. that s why i ve asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american people. finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction, that politics is about clinging to rigid ideaologisologies instead building consensus around common sense ideas. i m a democrat, but i believe what republican abraham lincoln believed the governmen
welcome to our special election edition of ac 360. south carolina voters put their stamp on the race for the white house. newt gingrich seizes the lead as the campaign heads for florida. newt gingrich is south carolina s choice. it s a major blow to mitt romney s campaign. this is a hard fight because there s so much worth fighting for. four republicans went into this southern brawl. who will be left standing as the contest moves to florida? the votes are in. south carolina has spoken. and the biggest battleground yet is still ahead. rick santorum at 17%. ron paul at 13%. all the candidates say they are moving forward to florida. we have reporters stationed throughout south carolina as we have for the last several weeks. let s start off with gingrich headquarters. there are still a lot of folks there, romney headquarters looks like a ghostown. does the candidate move to florida tomorrow? reporter: you know, we re still waiting to hear about his travel plans. it s