0 this is underexploited. there is a hunger for this. this is not just a big deal for the country. america thinks this is a big deal. to every politician who has been ignoring this issue, well, i m here to tell you have to deal with that populist reality. as much as you have to deal with how to look at yourself in the mirror every morning. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again monday night. weekends with alex witt starts right now. mitt romney s full 2011 tax release, it s out. why now and what s in it? plus, does this move raise more questions than it answers? badger state strategy. the president heading to wisconsin for a campaign stop today. do the latest polls make it more attractive for the obama campaign? and on the upswing, new data showing american are on the move again. and what that means for the economy and our three big money headlines. speaking of on the move, members of congress going home and not coming back to conduct the people s business until
what does that mean for the fiscal cliff? hi, great to have you with me. welcome to weekends with alex witt, i m thomas roberts. alex has the day off. here s what s happening as we start out 45 days and counting. today new questions about mitt romney s taxes after going public with his full 2011 return. he released those returns late friday. a document dump if you will. and also provided a certified summary of his tax returns over a two-decade period prior to 2010. for 2011, the romneys paid an effective tax rate of 14. % on income of about $13.7 million. mitt and ann romney also donated about $4 million to charity. the romney camp also says the former governor paid an average annual tax rate of about 20.2% between 1990 and 2009. that s in that summary document. meanwhile, at a rally in virginia, president obama defended his remarks about changing washington from the outside and attacked his opponent. now for some reason, my opponent got really excited. [ laughter ] w
i m joined now by jake jack jobs. good morning. good morning. talk about the newly elected vice president and how fearless that may or may not be and the ramifications of something like that. well, as soon as you have a situation like that in egypt, which is not settled, that seems to be getting worse and then it gets better and so on, nobody knows what s going to happen next. you ll have all kinds of reports of all kinds of things, including an assassination. not only that, you will have people who are going to try it on. it s unlikely that it will, but there is a great deal of turmoil and information coming out about the army. what the army is doing is still not clear. and we keep going back to the army. is it, in your estimation, the army that will ultimately decide the future fate of the presidency there or how power weaves itself? i think you have it. the army is the linchpin there.
a new winkel in egypt. an explosion at a gas pipeline supplying israel in jordan could be an act of terror. also, demonstrations for the 12th day in a row while the egyptian president refuses to step down. what happens next? well, we ll have reports for you live across the middle east. ice fall, mother nature gives football fans the cold shoulder in dallas. we have a live report on the excitement surrounding the super bowl. and smart phone frenzy, verizon puts the brakes on the iphone orders a after a blockbuster first day. good morning, everyone. as we report big new developments this morning in egypt, while protesters gather for a 12th straight day demanding that president hosni mubarak step down immediately. new this hour, the head of egypt s national gas company says a fire at a gas pipeline near israel today was caused by a gas leak. earlier, egyptian state television blamed a, quote, terrorist operation for the explosion which caused the raging fire. the new york tim