wasserman schultz joins me to take up the challenge. amateur night at the apollo. president obama thrills the audience by copying al green. and he s no longer in the race, but the comedian stephen colbert is trying to drum up votes anyway, sort of. you ve got to see this. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. it s the final push in the south carolina. the candidates have tried to squeeze in every minute of campaigning into this, the last day before the primary. as mitt romney tries to hold onto a lead, newt gingrich is using what could have been a very damaging spotlight on his personal life. he s trying to turn it around to his advantage. let s go live to joe johns, he s in south carolina. he has the very latest. joe? reporter: wolf, newt gingrich just wrapping up an appearance in orangeburg, south carolina. a hue high-energy crowd essentially ending what had been a very tumultuous race for south carolina. the picture of the day was gingrich s wife calista well p
write an article about it in news week. when a republican says something colorful and what the media says, which is nothing, which is everything. and what happens when a democrat says something. i will tell you, if the president of the united states is going to deliver a speech in michigan saying civility is important and this is, bla, bla, bla. i know it s 80 after the hour, but we are going to say it. the president has the responsibility to treat both sides the same. listen to jay carney yesterday saying what? jay took it seriously. yes. this was the official nothing to say. i understand that there is a ritual in washington that you know, somebody says something and you link the associations and everyone with an association with him or her has to avow.
obama administration is thinking of leaving 3,000 troops in iraq. it scaled from original pentagon requests that would have deployed 10,000. jay carnie dismissed the reports. while no decision has been made on specific levels, it is headed in that direction. the officials went on to say the remaining 3,000 troops would be part of a training mission of iraqi military and the number represents the reality in the climax of iraq and the united states. there you go. it really is war inc. what is the president going to say tonight? that s tomorrow night. tonight is the republican debate. what are the republicans going to say tonight? we ll talk about the jobs. that s more important. all though, i can t wait to hear what the republican candidates
a leading congressman says we decades if not centuries of should pay for it but only with protocol in what republicans spending cuts in unrelated call an effort to run up the programs elsewhere. even though during another big gop. disaster, he wanted relief money in case you were wondering what all the gamesmanship and game for his own district with no strings attached. playing and petty politics is we re keeping them honest tonight. about, jobs, not politics, jobs. also in a moment, we ll take you new numbers tonight showing the live to a town that s still private sector created fewer under water and you ll hear from than 100,000 jobs this month. a man who has been stranded by hurricane irene and he says forgotten by fema. rising waters leaving him surrounded. president obama requested a time roads are gone. to speak to congress wednesday nearby houses gone as well. power is out. supplies are still limited. night to lay out his new jobs he says he hasn t seen a government o
vote for a plan with zero tax increases, there s no way on earth they re going to go along with the gang of six deal. senator tom harkin nailed the republicans on this one. the sad reality is that america no longer has a two party system. one of our two parties has morphed into kind of a cult driven by a singular fixation and obsession, preserving and expanding tax breaks for the wealthy at all costs. harkin is exactly right. the republican devotion to protecting the rich is a religion in this country. there s no way boehner will be able to deprogram enough of his party to take a deal by august 2nd. president obama might be trying to buy more time with the tan man. jay carnie today left the door open a little bit for the possibility of a short term extension in order to get a bigger deal. the president has been clear that he will not support a short term extension of the debt ceiling. there s no reason why we cannot come together now and get