intelligence committee indicated the leaks probably came from the most senior levels of the obama administration. clearly there are indicators that it is at the senior levels of access. somebody very senior had access to both the material and the situation room, that is a very small number of people, so it tells you that they are more senior in the white house. reporter: it s still not at all clear where the leaks came from, whether they came from the intelligence community or elsewhere. and it s still not known whether they were politically motivated, jenna. jenna: interesting, catherine herridge on that story live from d.c. thank you. reporter: you re welcome. gregg: well an odd example of media manipulation. we were actually going to look at this last week that got preempted by developments in the fast and furious scandal. emery mitchell on msnbc taking some remarks by governor mitt romney out of context, arguably
i m talking about kruklo dollar. he preaches in his massive church just outside atlanta. no, he says he did not punch her. no, he says, he did not choke her. those are the accusations that got dollar thrown in jail on thursday. earlier today, these words from the pastor to his congregation. the truth is, she was not choked, she was not punched. there were not any scratches on her neck. but the only thing on her neck was a prior skin abrasion from eczema. anything else is an exaggeration and sensationalism. our nick fuentas is watching this whole thing, saw him in church today. what s going on here? police are saying one thing and crefla dollar is saying another thing. he choked his daughter over an argument about going to a party. he s saying, no, you can t go because you had bad grades. what police are saying happened is he choked and beat her. he s saying it was a family incident that escalated, got out of hand, he never meant to harm anyone. before we go on and tal
regime and the frustration of the world s failed diplomacy. we begin with the obama campaign s effort to change the subject and refocus the presidential campaign on mitt romney s business record. team obama buying tv time during the evening news in five battle ground states. wednesday night voter in colorado, ohio, pennsylvania and virginia will see this tv ad attacking the private record at the equity firm bain capital. we view mitt romney as a job destroyer. to get up on national tv and brag about making jobs when he has destroyed thousands of people s careers, lifetimes, just destroying people. he is running for president and if he is going to run the country the way he ran our business, i wouldn t want him there. he would be so out of touch with the average person in this country. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellowen is traveling with the president and the goal is obvious, defining him as greedy, cold and heartless. why is that such an urgent oba
we talked to one of the convicted killers pardoned by mississippi s governor. we re going to hear his reaction to the outrage over his release. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. mitt romney, the clear front-runner in a cnn/orcp poll out just now. romney with a double-digit lead, asking republican voters their choice for the nominee. look at the battle for second place. newt gingrich, ron paul, rick santorum are all in a statistic cal tie, each getting between 15 and 18%. let s get more from gloria borger, taking a closer look at all of this. he s rising nationally, at least it looks like that. yeah, it is, and rising at newt gingrich s expense. we compared the numbers you just showed with the numbers from december. what a difference a month makes. romney in december, 28%, now 34, up six. newt gingrich down ten points, and again paul has been pretty consistent. santorum almost quadrupled his support. i think the big news here, wolf, to me is that mitt romne
in? i think he s in good shape. people have an attachment to him because he was out here. i think people have a fondness for him. i don t think people blame him for anything that is wrong in this country. i think far right of the republican party does. i don t think the moderates do and certainly the democrats don t. sean: has he read any independent polls lately? let s repeat that line from the former president of in bc news. i don t think people blame him for anything wrong in this country in this country except for the far right republicans. mr. gardner, memo, the polls show 71% of americans are blaming him for the economy this is what you are saying. wolf blitzer bringing out the puppies and the kids this is media manipulation. they have the defibrillators out because they have to jumpstart the campaign. sean: our last tape for the night. the outgoing cnn executive, on with howie kurtz sees too much