romney this is about the waitress at a diner in, you know, some place in nevada who has two kids whose day care funding is being cut off because of the romney/ryan budget. now, the romney campaign fired on all cylinders, they called receipt marks a kill ann strategy. ann romney wrote her first tweet, i made a choice to stay home and raise my five boys. she also went on choice. my career choice was to be a mother. i think all of us need to know we need to respect choices women make. other make other choices to have a career and raise family which i think hilary rosen has done herself. i respect that. the thing is the last 24 hours didn t produce a debate. instead, it was hilary rosen versus former first lady barbara bush. five boys is a handful, trust me. raising george walker was not easy. i m not criticizing hilary
trayvon martin shooting. we ll learn what lies ahead. and north coia says its rocket is now ready to go. that launch could come literally any minute now. with neighboring countries on alert, we re monooring the launchpad in real time. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com out of nowhere, seemingly, a huge political controversy erupts over women, work and wealth. it began with the democratic activist s sarcastic comment here on cnn about mitt romney s wife and republicans now vote it will help romney cut into barack obama s big lead among female voters. democratic strategist and cnn contributor hilary rosen is here to explain her comment and she s standing by live. let s get background from our senior correspondent joe johns. joe, tell us how this political storm erupted. well, wolf, it is certainly a great debate overworking moms versus stay-at-home moms. no matter what side you come down on, the speed with which this cont
adviser, hillary rosen, goes on cnn to debut their new kill ann strategy and in the process insults hard working moms. the romney campaign sent their best public speaker to fox news to defend motherhood. she should have come to my house when those five boys were causing so much trouble. it was not so easy. my career choice was to be a mother and i think that all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. i ll tell you that mitt said to me more times than you would imagine, ann, your job is more important than mine. last night as soon as the words were out of hillary rosen s mouth the obama re-election campaign rushed to twitter to assure swing voters that they support motherhood as much as ann romney does. senior strategist david axelrod said that her comments were