captions by vitac www.vitac.com major new backing and a brewing new controversy for the republican presidential candidate mitt romney. he s picked up one of the most sought-after endorsements of the campaign, but a remark by one of his top aides is now threatening to overshadow it. our national political correspondent jim acosta is with romney who is holding a town hall meeting outside baltimore. jim, what happened? reporter: wolf, as you just mentioned mitt romney is about to hold a town hall meeting just outside of baltimore. the maryland primary is coming up in about a week and a half, but mitt romney can take comfort in the fact that rick santorum s path to the nomination looks sketchy today, but as the romney campaign knows, this race for the gop nomination is not etched in stone. thank you. reporter: it was as if one of the biggest names in republican party politics was listening to mitt romney s call for unity after the illinois primary. join us. join us.
would like to expand this cut but you are looking down and see trouble for social security down the road? guest: if you take more money out of social security trust fund which is underfunds, it is a deficit right now . imus: it used to be biggest concern? guest: al gore, the lockdown, that was then and now is now. president obama knows the gas prizes are a big problem and studies show the rise of gas prices correlate highly with increase of presidential diagnosis approve and president obama s approval has gone up the last week, with a rally the last month, and what has been in the headlines? what do people notice? rising gas prices. neil: that is true. guest: if you are a politician, the big picture of things, house prices, corporate tax rates but for politicians gas prices is real. neil: and that is a billboard we see each day. guest: you fill up every
habits and i did it too. it is a lot you think about going to the gas pumps. i m concerned about the weather. you look at the tornado activity, we know hurricane season is upon us. if it is a bad one, can that cause prices to rise? that is certainly the wild card. if we get a major hurricane hitting the refineries along the gulf coast, that is going to definitely impact what we pay at the pump. okay. with regard to this year versus last year, and the overall impact of what we paid at the pu pump, can you put that in some sort of quantitative measure there as to are we feeling the difference? we re definitely feeling the difference, not only because gas prices are rising, but as gas prizes rise, oil prices rise, other commodities rise, food prices rise, we re seeing higher prices for everything we re paying for. you re seeing starbucks raising their prices, hershey s raising their prices, mcdonald s raising their prices. people are starting to feel this. it is definitely having
calling home since this erupted. and they were told you ain t leaving the country. and now the latest most, libya, freezing $30 billion if libyan assets and moving warships closer to the country in case we need to take action. gas prizes surging again at 20 cents in the past week, and fox is on top of how much you will be forking up. but, first, the latest from libya. reporter: this is benghazi, the second largest city in libya that continues to savor the new found freedom but it could be short-lived and the regime could launch a counter offensive. a few hours ago there was a rally held and a celebration in downtown benghazi and we took pictures and you can see