it s got to be stopped and i know better than most. and that s it, the south carolina republican forum hosted by senator jim demint. we want to welcome our viewers. i wolf blitzer in the situation room. donna brazill is with us. let s get immediate reaction to what we heard from the five republican candidates over the past two hours. donna, let me start with you. you re a good democrat. you heard from the five republicans. they re pretty much on most of the issues on the same page. a page being very different than the page that the president of the united states is on. south carolina will hold the first primary in the deep south next february. it s a very important state for the republicans. what you saw today is michelle bachmann, mitt romney, newt gingrich, ron paul, of course, and her main cain present the ideas to jim demint. he s a heavyweight, he s a tea party favorite, and what they were running today for was not president of theite, but president of the tea part
though, who want his job. plus, the tea party movement dealing with new divisions while stirring up red hot anger among liberals in congress. why some democrats see the tea party as their worst enemies. and a state of alert as the nation prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. we re digging for information on the fbi s latest concerns and whether americans should be worried. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we now know that president obama wants to deliver his big speech on jobs next wednesday night before a joint session of the house and senate. with millions of americans out of work, this address will be a make-or-break moment for the president and for his campaign to keep his job for another four years. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. jessica, this speech, though, may not happen wednesday night as the white house wants. what s going on? reporter: that s right, wolf. even before the speech, there s already
to see how they re doing. a lot of damage. interestingly, jim, one thing to we do e-mailed me this which came from the national emergency management agency hout there where you are. they basically tell us it is the islands where the problems are. a lot of power lines down, a bridge out here and there, a report from cat island that all power lines were down and no telecommunications. so it sounds like the large islands have done pretty well. the smaller islands, either we don t know or they have had some problems. that s right. it s probably going to be another at least into tomorrow where they re able to get a sense. people can only get to those islands it s hard to communicate there. you know the first thing to happen is power is out. they don t even know that they re really facing yet. trying to send out the trucks. really, until tomorrow they can get out there, maybe get some planes out there. it s going to be tough for them to know the real impact on the bahamas.
the big story today, wanted dead or alive. they have, and amnesty for good afternoon. i m matt miller in. these new pictures are from inside the compound. earlier today gadhafi claimed to have gone out of triply undetected and vowed to fight under. and breaking out in the capital city, between loyalists and rebels. joining us now from london,
weapons, he argued, would lead to a stalemate. a direct quote the obama administration clearly thinks it s a nice compromise. we re in, but we re not in. there s tough rhetoric, but no men on the ground. we re helping the rebels, but not giving them weapons. it s a formula for stalemate and more rebel debts, unworthy of our country. well, that was flat wrong. whatever you think of the rebels and this nator air campaign, it didn t end in a stalemate. gadhafi is out. what did abrams make of that news? he just wrote a new piece. the grouchy headline was not obama s win, and it goes downheld from there. abrams actually contradicts himself further. now he says there was no question whether the operation would bring down gadhafi, it was only a matter of climb. that claim is the opposite of the stalemate if you look at the pundits who backed the iraq war