honor for him to be the man who stood up and constantly kicked sand in the eyes of uncle sam and he sort of had this axis of friendship, if you like, with as i say, the castros in cuba but also with ahmadinejad in iran and so there was this sense of standing up against the u.s. and that s where he derived a lot of his power and his popularity. christopher, we think a lot about this relationship of chavez and the united states. it s complicated, though. it s not just this political relationship that christiane is talking about. we get a lot of oil in the united states from venezuela. what is likely to change under his vice president who takes over and then has to face an election? well, first of all, venezuela s the fourth largest supplier of oil to the united states. that s about a million barrels of oil a day that we receive from venezuela. so oddly enough, over the last 14 years that chavez has been in power, we have actually underwritten the chavez revolution that has been kicki
also with ahmadinejad in iran and so there was this sense of standing up against the u.s. and that s where he derived a lot of his power and his popularity. christopher, we think a lot about this relationship of chavez and the united states. it s complicated, though. it s not just this political relationship that christiane is talking about. we get a lot of oil in the united states from venezuela. what is likely to change under his vice president who takes over and then has to face an election? well, first of all, venezuela s the fourth largest supplier of oil to the united states. that s about a million barrels of oil a day that we receive from venezuela. so oddly enough, over the last 14 years that chavez has been in power, we have actually underwritten the chavez revolution that has been kicking sand in the eye of the united states, as christiane said. but on the other hand, what we ve done is diversified our supply of oil. we actually could survive a disruption of venezuelan oi
revolution that has been kicking sand in the eye of the united states, as christiane said. but on the other hand, what we ve done is diversified our supply of oil. we actually could survive a disruption of venezuelan oil without much damage right now to the u.s. economy. but having said that, what we re going to see, we started to see this already with the accusations against the united states, is the u.s. embassy is trying to reach out to this next government, aware that perhaps things will calm down a little bit. i think the press conference today that we saw is an indication that they re not going to. they re going to still reach into their bag of tricks and try to stoke this anti-americanism and in some cases use it to their own political benefit. clearly as a way to sort of as a smokescreen before the announcement of chavez s death and also a way to sort of make an excuse for the last three months, where we thought he would come back and lo and behold he isn t. he now has a vice
going to talk about in the next hour. the president s holding a town hall meeting in cincinnati. he s going to tell the crowd that mitt romney s corporate tax policies would create jobs in other countries. this is the president s eighth trip to ohio this year. recent polling there shows him leading romney, 47% to 38%. ohio, of course, a crucial state in november election. want to bring in dan lothian. more on what we can expect from the president as well as jim acosta, he s got latest reaction from the romney camp. dan, first to you. we know the president, he s going to talk about corporate taxes, specifically focusing on romney support for eliminating taxes on the foreign income of american companies. what s the message here? reporter: well, the message from the obama campaign will be two-fold. first of all to say while mitt romney may be talking about helping the middle class, that he s looking out for wealthy companies and this is one example, the president will be highl
democrats we re talking about nebraska s ben nelson, sherrod brown of ohio and the always quotable claire mccaskill, missouri. they don t get it. we ve got a lot of chicken little around this building over of the last few months. these people are idiots! beg your pardon? you don t trust me? we have a bunch of idiots on wall street that are kicking sand in the face of the american taxpayer. okay, okay, so we couldn t resist a little claire mccaskill and chicken little. part of why people like her. moving on, can we assume that these endangered senate democrats will see their fortunes improve, should we see the economy improve? yes but. so yes it s still the economy, stupid, right? that old saying. but they re all running in red or true swing states these guys where it s always a fight for