good evening. i m tom foreman filling in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, fiddling in washington while bankruptcy burns across the nation. san bernardino, california, is the latest american town unable to pay its bills. the math is $46 million in debt. they ve made drastic cuts in employees and services. and the city has only $150,000 in the bank. that s it. residents are coming unhinged saying, why wasn t this calamity headed off at the pass? what about two years ago when they took $10 million from the employees? what were they doing then? now the city is forced basically to file bankruptcy because they have this tremendous amount of debt over their head. in the last 14 days, two other towns near los angeles have gone into bankruptcy. other places across the country have done the same or tried to in idaho, alabama, pennsylvania, rhode island, dozens of other local and state governments have made dramatic cuts just to try to stay solvent while they wait for the econo
hey is there. here s what s happening. james ammons resigns earlier. the university was added to a wrongful death suit brought by parents of a student who died during a hazing ritual. hillary clinton vowed to rid the country of bombs the u.s. dropped. and the syrian ambassador to iraq has defected. now back to hardball. welcome back hardball. it was a day of political theater on capitol hill as house republicans pushed a vote to repeal the affordable care act. not surprisingly, it passed 244 to 185. what does that mean?
coined by the critics. that was a loaded statement. and the crowd erupted in displeasure. they booed. people booed here. they absolutely booed. reporter: the romney campaign said the reaction came as no surprise. consider the latest gallup survey shows the gop contender trailing president obama by an 87% to 5% margins. romney brought his own numbers. the african-american unemployment rate at 14%, it s well above the national rate. but when he made the case that he s the right candidate to fix that, he was booed again. if you want a president who will make things better in the african-american community, you are looking at him. you take a look. reporter: romney did hear cheers when he hinted at his opposition to gay marriage. i will defend traditional marriage. [ applause ] reporter: the outburst did not sit well with everyone in the audience. some naacp members defended their booing. he literally came into our house and attacked the issues that are important
easy task. say this for romney, he didn t pander. he proved that by telling an unsympathetic audience he would repeal health care reform. check out the reaction. i m going to work to reform and save [ booing ] why did he do it? we ll get into that at the top of the program. among the issues of the great importance to the naacp audience are the new state laws restricting access to voting. and we now know what effect new laws in florida and iowa are having in making it harder for likely democrats to vote. also, speaking of health care for the 33rd time. the house voted to repeal president obama s health care law. are republicans willing to admit that would mean taking away all of the popular provisions, too? and what s the story with jesse jackson jr.? he took a hiatus citing physical and emotional ailments. rumors are spreading even democrats are saying it is time to come clean. finally, let me finish tonight with why president obama is a big tax cutter. but you
we begin with the republican s furious assault on president obama s health care reform law and equally determined backlash. mitt romney faced it today going off script after some prolonged boog interrupted his speech before the naacp convention in houston. jim acosta is standing by in the hall right now. jim, show our viewers, tell our viewers, what happened in houston. reporter: wolf, naacp leaders told cnn they praised mitt romney for showing what they called courage in coming to this convention today. but safe to say mitt romney did not hide his positions on issues that are dear to the civil rights group. and members of the naacp did not hide their feelings about mitt romney. honorable mitt romney this morning is our speaker. [ applause ] reporter: at first the applause for mitt romney at the naacp was polite. but that did not last long. when the gop contender pledged to get the national debt under control in part by repealing the president s health care law, the cro