that. i think we will exceed that goal. it s important to your goal wasn t to win one of these states? i don t think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him. i think that s i think that s true. look, this is a delegate contest and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping him honest on that claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in fact at least one person did expect, mitt romney in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney. of course listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you this a second. what will become a challenge is we ll now have three or four days of the news media and they ll a say why doesn t gingrich quit. these are the same people that said last june that i was dead. they recycle this every
afghan president meeting overnight in kabul. they were trying to diffuse tensions over the mass killings of those afghan civilian, allegedly by an american army soldier who has now been moved out of afghanistan. a deadly school bus crash in southern pennsylvania. the bus driver was killed when the packed bus collided with a semitruck on the highway. 28 students were injured. 6 had to be air lifted to a hospital. two inmates pardoned got driver s licenses and cars while they were still behind bars. all of this courtesy of the governor, his wife and his staff. ed lavendera with a cnn exclusive coming up. up first, with tensions rising in afghanistan meeting in kabul overnight. the u.s. soldier accused in a mass killing of afghan civilians has been moved out of the country to a military base in kuwait. that s angered lawmakers who want the american to be tried on afghan soil. and, this morning, there s word of new protests, as well. there are so many new developments overn
possible spin on romney s failure to win in alabama or mississippi. our goal was to take out one third of the delegates and possibly do slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. it s important to your goal wasn t to win one of the states? i don t think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him, and i think that s true. look, this is a delegate contest. and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in fact, one person did expect, mitt romney, in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney, of course, listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you a second what will become a challenge is we ll have three or four days of news media and they
commonwealth doesn t stand so much for republican as it does reform. is this a serial problem for him, pandering? yeah, the issue is not mitt romney s likability, the issue is that people know he is not being aught thingt and true to himself what is he? a northeastern country club moderate republican ex-governor. much in the in line with, say, george h. w. bush. now you that type of person cannot win the republican primaries given how the republican electorate has moved so far to the right, particularly drive than way to a large ex-stent by obama hatred. he has to be something he is not. some politicians are better than other politicians. he is no the that good at it. the longer santorum and gingrich stay in the race and make it competitive, the harm he is doing to that little left of
super bowl ads has everything talking today. was the clint eastwood car commercial a political message in disguise? i m wolf blitzer at the cnn election center. you re in the situation room. mitt romney may have notched another big win in nevada this weekend but the frontrunner is not resting easily right now. right now there are contests tomorrow in minnesota, colorado and missouri and topping the list of romney s new worries, a strong new challenge from back in the republican pack pac. our national political correspondent, jim acosta is taking a look, jim? reporter: mitt romney is finding out the big afterglow can fade quickly from a caucus or primary win. they are starting to focus on a candidate that s not newt gingrich. think sweater vest. rick santorum is out to show mitt romney what happened in vegas will stay there. hit penguin gop frontrunner once again on his health care plan in massachusetts. specifically, governor romney is absolutely incapable of making