police suspect her husband, a prominent scientist and he says he was out of town at the time and she doesn t remember. we re digging deeper. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com mitt romney s latest campaign ads are full of pledges about what he d do on day one of his presidency, but our reality check shows he d have to wake up extra, extra early on january 20th to start on that to-do list. it s a long list. our national political correspondent jim acosta is joining us. here s the question, jim. can mitt romney really do all he says he would do on day one? reporter: that certainly is the question, wolf. according to his new ads, mitt romney will be a busy man in his first full day in the white house and he will need all 24 hours to get through all of his day one promises. what would a romney presidency be like? reporter: in his latest tv ad mitt romney lays out an ambitious agenda, he demands they play by the rules. r
her husband the prominent scientist and he says he was out of town at the time. she doesn t remember. we re digging deeper. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s faced a barrage of attacks on his business record with democrats portraying him as a job-cutting corporate raider, but mitt romney is opening up about his time at bain capital and vowing to cut the jobless rate. let s go to our national political correspondent jim acosta and he has the latest. the way the day started it seemed that mitt romney was going to stay away from the subject of bain capital, but as it turned out he is taking the issue head-on. reporter: it was a day when mitt romney s campaign event, this one being a speech to a latino business group took a backseat to responding to campaign attacks on the democrats favorite subject bain capital. the american people are interested in not so much the history of where i was at bain capital or that
why some cuban-americans are furious. we re going in-depth. first the secret service and now dea agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in colombia. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the high-powered campaign surrogate is on the hot seat for going off message after newark s democratic mayor cory booker spoke about the attacks on mitt romney s old firm bane capital. he had to struggle to do damage control and the dust still hasn t settled. let s discuss what s going on with the key adviser of the romney campaign, ed gillespie, former republican of the national committee. thanks very much for coming in. thank you for having me, wolf. good to be with you. let s talk about what the president specifically said about mitt romney, his experience at bane capital yesterday and then we ll get your reaction. my opponent, governor romney, his main calling card for why he thinks he sho
the united states. we talk about his personal relationship with president obama and even his personal relationship with mitt romney. stand by for that as well. and the man sometimes nicknamed america s supermayor, has made a super gaffe. i m wolf blitzer in chicago. you re in the situation room. but first, through my exclusive far reaching interview, i just completed only a few minutes ago with the afghan president hamid karzai, it s his only interview while here in the united states. we sat down only moments ago, and he spoke of president obama just minutes before the interview. the three leaders are here for a meeting in chicago. listen to this. no, we didn t have a three-way meeting, we had a three-way photograph taking. just a photo opportunity? why not a meeting? why not have a three-way meeting and discuss the most important issues facing afghanistan, pakistan and the united states. it wasn t for us to decide on the three-way meeting. the united states was
led up to this ipo, this public offering for facebook, many people may step out and say, wait a minute, look where the stock is ending today. the stock ending only up about a fraction of a percent just above that initial ipo offer price of $38. look, many would say it was a messy debut plagued by technical difficulties and not as much demand as everybody thought. we then saw other social media stocks tumble as well in sympathy for facebook. which everybody thought would really pop at the open. and it did. we did see facebook shares pop as much as 18% but clearly they are ending pretty flat on the day. wolf? alison, the whole point is that that $38 number came in at the high end yesterday. that was a number earlier estimates could have come in at $25, $35, $38 was considered pretty big. that was based on investor interest. remember, facebook went on this road show engaging investor interest and there was a lot of investor interest and facebook thought that it could get t