policy center says that mitt romney s tax plan would raise taxes on 95% of americans. now, mitt has promised a 20% tax cut to everyone. so whose math adds up mitt s or the tax policy center s? it s sort of like an olympic boxing match. today, the romney camp threw a punch fast and early, pointing out that one of the authors was a former aide to president obama. as the romney campaign wrote to us, that is, quote, hardly objective. true, one round to mitt. but for the romney campaign, we checked the other two names on the report, and one author was a former aide to george h.w. bush, the final one worked for both bush and obama. round two to barack. let s lay out the substantive charge. the report says if mit romney s plan becomes reality, tax revenue, because he s going to be cutting marginal tax rates, will drop by $360 billion in the first year alone. that means if it s revenue-neutral, someone must pay $360 billion more. again, that s if it s revenue-neutral, which is some
fi five. we have to get on the ground pretty quick. everybody stand by. we have a couple of opposite direction arrivals. it is going to be a little delay on your departures. according to the washington post the federal official who reviewed the incident blamed a basic communication breakdown, blamed sloppy procedures and said it was a big screw up for a big airport. let s get right to athena jones live in washington, d.c. this morning. walk me through exactly what happened. you can hear the chaos in the radio transmission. what was at the root cause of it? good morning, soledad. you saw from that graphic, that s what it looked like. this happened just about after 2 p.m. tuesday. it was during a heavy rain storm, driving rain that cause the the air traffic controllers to want to change how planes were coming in and taking off. planes had been landing and departing on runway 1 going from south to north. they wanted to switch that in the rain. they wanted to switch i
we are still we re still a young nation, and we ve got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity that comes from every corner of the globe. nobody knows that better than florida. so no matter what the naysayers tell us, no matter how dark the other side tries to paint the situation, there is not another country on earth that would not gladly trade places with the united states of america. president obama firing up the crowd there, winter park, florida. you heard them chanting, four more years, touting some of the items he has gotten done in the last 3 1/2 years. keep in mind, not too many states away, we had mitt romney speaking in golden, colorado. folks, three more months until those november elections. you can keep watching the president, go to cnn.com/live. and now, roll the open. as we continue hour two, i m brooke baldwin. al qaeda may be plotting new terror, plots from the skies. police in southern spain have arrested these three suspected members of al qaed
now, mitt has promised a 20% tax cut to everyone. so whose math adds up mitt s or the tax policy center s? it s sort of like an olympic boxing match. today, the romney camp threw a punch fast and early, pointing out that one of the authors was a former aide to president obama. as the romney campaign wrote to us, that is, quote, hardly objective. true, one round to mitt. but for the romney campaign, we checked the other two names on the report, and one author was a former aide to george h.w. bush, the final one worked for both bush and obama. round two to barack. let s lay out the substantive charge. the report says if mit romney s plan becomes reality, tax revenue, because he s going to be cutting marginal tax rates, will drop by $360 billion in the first year alone. that means if it s revenue-neutral, someone must pay $360 billion more. again, that s if it s revenue-neutral, which is something mitt romney specifically promised in february. romney s economic honcho, glenn h
nathan adrian beating the aussie missile in the 100 meter freestyle finish. you ve just got to see it. when is gold actually green? olympians being taxed for their gold, silver, and bronze. does first place really mean a $9,000 tax bill? skipping, pirouettes, the extended trot. a 15-year-old mayor enters the olympic sport of dressage today. why is this news, you ask? rafalka is ann romney s horse. cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining us. just in this morning, a collision narrowly averted at reagan national airport near washington, d.c. it involved three jets carrying a total of 192 passengers. two planes took off tuesday afternoon heading toward a third plane, which was already cleared to land. the planes were seconds away from crashing. when an air traffic controller realized a mistake had been made. 3329, stands by. hold on. we re trying to figure this out too. stand by. we have a temporary stop on a