hostage? what is your response to that? well, they have part of this right, and they have part of it totally wrong. what they re right about is they see the handwriting on the wall and the fact that they re going to have to join with democrats to extend the middle class tax cuts, because if they don t, the whole country will see that they were willing to tank the entire economy and give everybody a tax increase in order to get this bonus break for folks at the top. so i think you re seeing more republicans recognize that fact. where they re just dead-wrong, ed, is thinking that they re going to gain leverage over this debt ceiling, because the american people are not going to stand for republicans turning right around and threatening to destroy the american economy by having the united states default on its debts, by refusing the united states government to be good, make good on its full faith and credit. because that s what they would be doing. this will boomerang on them, just like
we begin this hour with tensions ratcheting up between israel and iran. a bomb went off just as israeli tourists boarded a bus in the bulgarian resort city. six people are confirmed dead. some 30 others are wounded. president obama s strongly condemning the attack calling it in his word barbaric. cnn s elise labott is joining us live with the very latest. bulgarians are of course investigating. i m sure the israelis are as well. first of all, what are the bulgarians saying? reporter: well, wolf, forensic investigators on the scene. it s all very preliminary at this point, but they re saying that this was caused by a bus bomb already placed inside the bus. that s really all they know, but they re not ruling anything out. they say it s possibly a terrorist attack. obviously the israelis saying they re sure of it. but bulgarians not ruling anything in, not ruling anything out at this point, wolf. didn t take very long for the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu to d
rick santorum has a brand-new surge coming after stunning victories in the deep county. newt gingrich is refusing to add up the numbers. mitt romney s cavern says this race is still a forgone conclusion. let s begin with joe johns, he s in illinois. joe? reporter: wolf, this is rosemo rosemont, illinois, outside of chicago, where newt gingrich is expected to appear shortly. there were new calls today from conservatives for gingrich to get out of the race and give rick santorum a clean shot at the republican nomination. as indecision limped closer to the halfway mark, the candidates fanned out. rick san tore, tuesday night s winner, took hi victory lap, stumping for votes in louisiana, ending up in puerto rico, but not before a parting shot at romney. people say you re being outspent and everybody is talking about the math, all the things that this race is inevitable. well, for someone who thinks this race is inevitable, he s spending a whole lot of money against me for be
corporal punishment and discipline to abuse. an ongoing debate sparked by the video of a judge caught on tape repeatedly hitting his daughter with a belt. also this morning a kid suspended from school. what did the kid do? he gave a hug to a friend. is that okay? 6:00 a.m. here in atlanta, georgia, 5:00 a.m. in fayetteville, arkansas. wherever you may be, we re glad you re here on t.j. holmes. where is your money this weekend? is it on the move? a lot of americans money on the move this weekend. one group wants to you move your money out of the big banks and put them into community banks, credit unions. they are calling this move your money day. so far it seems a lot of people are paying attention to this message. according to your folks at money.com, at least 650,000 people have fled the big banks in just the past month. here is how one of the organizers describes how this grassroots movement grew so fast. i started the idea myself. it began as a facebook event that i sent
and surveillance of certain areas. but they didn t even use all of their capabilities. some of the capabilities we know they have are to jam some of the communications on some of these sites, these surface-to-air sites. officials say they didn t have to use that capability in this case, that simply firing the tomahawks was enough as a first step. and finally, a quick a very important question. is the hope over at the pentagon based on what you re hearing that a very tougher military posture will convince gadhafi s senior military officers to see the handwriting on the wall, to split from him and end this whole civil war, if you will? reporter: i think that option is always on the table, wolf. i think pentagon officials taking their lead from the obama administration have always sort of given colonel gadhafi this way out, so to speak. if he were to pull back from benghazi, if he were to stand down some of his troops, there could be a way to work to work out some sort of a