pattern with donald trump. and if you go to politifact.com, it s the number one item on their site ever. i think that does turn a lot of americans off. and isn t that the problem, jimmy? it s not just the joke and the gaffe, we ve got seven speakers who are birthers at the republican convention. we ve had ted nugent make the most appalling remarks about the president. we ve had donald trump, sheriff joe arpaio, really? these are the leaders of the republican party today. it s extremism. let me be clear. i m a democrat. democrats have extremists, as well. you have extremists on the left and extremists on the right, i call them foamers, they foam at the mouth they believe it so much. much of the country is slap dab in the middle and they move this way or that way, but the foamers on each side. here s the problem, the foamers on the right are so much more
but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don t keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they don t. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he s kept 37% of those promises. he s working on 23% of them. he s broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn t kept. some of those broken promises can be blamed on congress. they are stalled because your lawmakers won t do a thing about them. i have spent the last few months blaming congress for things, but it s not congress who is going to stand in the way of romney s ridiculous promise. it s the state of the u.s. economy. 12 million jobs over four years, that s what romney is promising. that s 3 million jobs a year or an average of 250,000 jobs per month every month for an entire presidency. i
days, but this is all simply a precautionary measure, they say. an arrest in a gruesome international murder mystery. german police have captured luca rocco magnotta, a self-described porn star accused of killing and dismembering a student in canada. body parts were mailed to canadian police and to politicians. canadian authorities confirmed the arrest a short time ago. george zimmerman s lawyer says he will file for a new bond hearing. the man accused of murdering trayvon martin had his bail revoked by the judge in the case and was sent back to jail over the weekend. the judge said zimmerman lied about his finances in order to get a lower bond. so right now let s bring in christiane amanpour, host of cnn s international. she has scored a rare interview. that visit by maria castro outraged people. was she trying to make inroads and does she speak at all for her father s regime? reporter: well, two interesting questions. i don t think she was trying to make inroads exc
special guest at graduation. president obama will give the commencement speech. the nato conference in chicago ground zero for diplomacy and protests. a fierce confrontation yesterday between protesters and police left dozens of people injured on both sides. today more demonstrations are planned. our ted rowlands has been basically in the thick of all of that. protesters, ted, vowing to shut down, i understand, boeing s chicago headquarters today. what is happening now? is it fairly peaceful here? have they managed to shut down anything? they re just finishing a march, suzanne, arriving at boeing headquarters, and there s a couple hundred people there, so at this point it s been very peaceful. they have just been marching through the streets of chicago, but we ll see what happens in the next hour or two as they entrench themselves at boeing. we ve been hearing some reports that they are possibly shutting down some streets. if they do that, police may be forced to go in an
in taxes, that s the headline from mitt romney s tax returns. it was released today. going to have a breakdown ahead. right now romney is on the campaign trail, he s in tampa focusing his attention on president obama. we re actually waiting to hear from him and what he s calling a prebuttal to the president s state of the union address. and rick santorum campaigning in stuart, florida, this hour. florida primary just seven days away. republican candidates are facing off for more one more debate rather ahead of tuesday s florida primary. the latest matchup in tampa last night, mitt romney hammered, hammered away at newt gingrich, and his record of leadership. gingrich shot back, accusing romney of lying. here s a taste. in the 15 years after he left the speakership, the speaker has been working as an influence peddler in washington and during those 15 years, i helped turn around the olympics, helped begin a very successful turn around in the state of massachusetts. he