and wants to get rid of it. our question of the morning coming your way. goats on a roof. need i say more? news room begins right now. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. this morning we begin with a question both chilling and deadly serious. is someone putting politics ahead of your safety? the fbi is investigating the leaks of classified information and whether the white house is behind them. even leaders of the president s own party are voicing grave concerns about the amount of secret information now being made public. avalanche och leaks and it is very, very disturbing. it has dismayed our allies. it puts american lives in jeopardy and puts our nation s security in jeopardy. if you look at terrorism intelligence is fundamental to knowing what is going to happen and prevent it from happening in the first place. some of the information is coming from recent articles in the new york times which details the drones and cyber attacks. paper is defending itself th
congressional stalemate that could mean a bigger government bite out of your paycheck. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . captions by vitac www.vitac.com the lines have been redrawn in the battle for the republican presidential nomination and after months of focusing his fight on president obama, mitt romney is now going after the newest front-runner, the former house speaker, newt gingrich. romney s latest assault is the classic campaign tactic of using the candidate s own words against him. joe johns is joining us now. take us inside romney s latest attack on gingrich. now we know that mitt romney apparently is not going to sit around and wait for newt gingrich to make a mistake as some have been suggesting. romney s on the offensive right now, but as far as we can tell, the former speaker hasn t exactly launched any kind of counterattack. down in the polls with weeks left until iowa caucuses, mitt romney makes his move. direct assau
sexual abuse, but allowed it to go on, has surfaced. deborah has more from syracuse. reporter: hey, you know, kyra, once officials here at syracuse university heard that tape, there really was no other choice. they had to fiere bernie fine, which they did late last night. the accuser, bobby davis, lived in the fine household for a period of time. he made the recording shortly after the alleged decade-long affair came to an end. and the tape suggests that not only did the coach s wife know about what was going on, but in fact she had a role in it. and we want to warn you that the tape is both graphic and also disturbing. i didn t know what to think. i know everything that went on with him. bernie has issues. maybe that he s not aware of, but he has issues. you trusted somebody you shouldn t have trusted. yeah. bernie is also in denial. i think that he did the things that he did, but somehow through his own mental telepathy has erased it out of his mind. go to somewhere
how would a president romney or gingrich or cain handle a situation like this? that is the kind of topic the republican candidates will debate tonight. its focus will be foreign policy and national security. cnn, the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute will bring it to you from washington tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we re talking to our deputy political director paul steinhauser, pentagon correspondent chris lawrence and joe johns at constitution hall where the debate will take place. joe, let s start with you. is the 11th big gop presidential debate this year, what are the expectations? who might benefit from a foreign policy question tonight and who might, you know, possibly be in trouble? well, when you look at the range of all these republican candidates who are going to be here at dar constitutional hall, the first thing you can say is that there are at least three candidates who are expected to know this stuff cold. that would be the former spe
his energy plans, his jobs plan, the first stage he has been attacked and criticized for not having a plan and he s bringing it out today. he was on american morning an hour and a half ago and one of the highlights i thought was the comment about his wife. in south carolina making some interesting comments. take a listen to what she said and what he said this morning. it has been a rough month. we have been brutalized, by the press and brutalized by our opponents and our party. down on this as anita seemed? you know, family members always take these campaigns than the candidate. i have been doing this for a long time and that s a diversion, frankly. this is the big leagues. everybody understands it s about the presidency of the united states and we re committed to this campaign. you know, some pundits criticizing perry, is he really into this? perry says, yes, i am. kyra? we re also hearing more from perry with regard to the mormon issue this morning. he briefly t