states where it is not legal or not. we begin this hour with a free speech decision from the highest court in the land. unanimous decision that could make prime time television even less family friendly than it is now. our justice correspondent joe johns joining me now with a pretty i guess you could say eye opening details. let s talk about what is at issue here. and how this is a coup for broadcasters. that s true. but i caution that we probably shouldn t go too far in calling this a sweeping ruling. this is an ball what goes on broadcast tv and how much power the federal communication commission has to regulate it after the fact that dhoept have a rule in place to handle the situation. we are talking about three incidents here, two concerned, isolated utterances of obscene words during two live broadcast aired by fox television stations, the third occurrence occurred during an episode of a television program broadcast by the abc television network. this goes tall way
than we have seen all the way along the race until now. mitt romney and rick santorum are really duking it out for this one. in ohio, they are neck and neck in the polls. so rush limbaugh apologizing again for calling law student sandra fluke a slut. we have a 15 and counting. the stations are also starting to yank his show. i ve got to tell you, we found a guy, an editor and publisher who has been following limbaugh for quite a bit of time who said that apology was sincere and he s going to tell us why he thinks so. because the sponsors are bailing. that s not what he said. another story. this is one of those ones that gets you to shake your head because nfl players are admitting they put together big buckets of cash to pay each other to really take out other team members. they re so-called bounties. and it happened to some of the league s biggest names too. and the investigation is going from locker room to locker room. we ll fill you in. i can t wait to see what
middle class tax cut that has been given to us for by name, to reduce the amount that we re paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what it s going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we aren t doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. that s where the jobs are going to come from. that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is in atlanta this morning breaking down the details on this. i think, soledad, in an election year this is a no brainer for republicans and democrats. you ve got 160 million people who are getting a tax benefit e6 ry paycheck they get. it s $1,000 over the course of a year. $40 per paycheck, that s if you make $50,000 a year or so. so this was something in an election year you just, you know, the feeling in washington you just can t be raising taxes on people, on working people in an election
has he done enough to convince voters on the fence? get the ballots i need, votes i need to become our nominee. mitt romney hoping to win the first prize while his targets threaten. and a sea of loyal reporters. it s to protect liberty: strap in, get ready. the candidates make their final pitches. all right. here s what we re watching for you out of iowa. negative vibes rising on the campaign trail. also, what happens to tonight s losers? newt gingrich changes his expectations today. time to play. dana bash, i know you spent your time at a local event. who got the warmest welcome? it was interesting, brooke, the young people, 800 students in this one auditorium, they were undecided. they walked to several of them. in fact, most of them are going to go and caucus for the very first time tonight and they were all willing to listen to rick santorum, michele bachmann, and mitt romney s kids about why they thought that their candidacies were the best. very interesting.
to shut down the stock exchange. they also plan to take over the subways, the brooklyn bridge, and even the doorstep of city hall. there s a heavy police presence right there out in the streets, as a you can see. more than 50 people have already been arrested. it s a very fluid situation. tensions running high. meanwhile, on the west coast, as you see, more protests and potential problems. you re looking at live pictures there out of l.a. that is where protesters plan to bring traffic to a halt downtown by occupying a major intersection. we got new information today on the child molestation case against jerry sandusky, coach paterno s right-hand man at penn state. the new york times details a series of incidents over a 12-year period that taken together suggest that university officials knew about sandusky s behavior but kept quiet. also, campus and city police are telling cnn they have no record that mike mcqueary filed a report on sandusky back in 2002. you may recall h