create with a black? no, next question. that question is not as crazy as it sounds, especially when you consider the teachings of brigham young who happens to be the only mormon leader mitt romney has ever publicly praised while running for president. brigham young was president of the mormon church for 30 years and mormon belief holds that the president of the church talks directly to god. when the president of the mormon church tells you what god is thinking, mormons listen very carefully. on march 8th, 1863, brigham young said in a sermon, shall i tell you the law of god in regard to the african race? if the white man, who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of cain the penalty under the law of god is death on the spot.
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for
attracting the attention of homeland security. wolf blitzer is off today, i m candy crowley, and you re in the situation room. right now they re pretearing to vote on a resolution. it strongly condemns the killing, gee mooning the assad regime call off sits forces and cease all violence. we ll bring the vote to you live when it happens. we have cnn journalists in syria right now documenting some of the awful violence. you ll see that as well, ahead. bus first to the battle for michigan, which holes its primary in just 12 days. it is home turn for mitt romney who grew up there and whose father was governor. the latest poll shows tide if not ahead of romney in michigan. that means we re likely in for a bitter fight. cnn s senior correspondent joe johns is in detroit for us. joe, what is the feeling there? what are you seeing? it s interesting. mitt romney rolled in today. he was met by a very warm and receptive crowd. he is really playing up, candy, the notion he is a n
of congress packed up and went on vacation. so now 4,000 faa workers are not being paid. tens of thousands of others involved in airport construction and maintenance are also off t job. and some $25 million are being lost every day in taxes because there is no one there to collect. that is more revenue lost in one hour than you will probably pay in your lifetime because congress members cannot reach an agreement agreement. weill tear into this developing dispute in just a moment, but here are some other stories we re watching tonight. the last pharaoh. for 30 years hosni mubarak was the lord of the nile. today he was wheeled into a cairo courtroom in a hospital bed and kept in a cage. egypt gets its show trial, but is the middle east a safer place? and the book of mormon. it s not just a broadway musical. for millions it s a road map to salvation. mitt romney follows it religiously. one ex-latter day saint says that should disqualify him from being president. then, we fin