earth. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. mitt romney is using ads, web videos, speeches to hammer away at president obama on welfare. romney is taking a lot of heat though over his claims about the administration s policies, but with support from an unlikely ally he s raising the stakes today. here s our national political correspondent jim acosta. reporter: wolf, mitt romney is not backing away from his accusation that president obama is trying to make it easier for the poor to receive welfare checks and to help make his case he s getting some help from an old rival. they just send you your welfare check. reporter: even though his ad accusing the president of weakening work requirements for welfare recipients got a pants on fire from politifact and four pinocchios from the washington post, mitt romney is doubling down on the claim. this is to help people go to work so they can stop drawing a welfare check and start drawing a paycheck. reporter:
trying to carry a baby out of a hospital? frightening story there. can you imagine? all these sort of measures taken so children can t be stolen from nurseries. for someone to try to do it dressed in scrubs as a medical personnel person, unbelievable. luckily plot foiled in that one. and then we ll turn to london where gymnast gabby douglas faces a big olympic challenge today. why the american women s soccer team has a big reason to celebrate this morning. that was an incredible game. it was wonderful. later, when style comes first. the pains women go through to wear fancy high-heel shoes. for some, that pain includes surgery. go ahead. show us. get it over with early in the show. show it, sunny, without showing too much. they re fabulous. i can run in them. get a good shot. how tall is that heel? 4, 5 inches. maybe, not tall enough. fascinated with the heel? i can break dance in these.
policies, distort romney s record and divide the american people, rich against poor. this strategy is only useful when an incumbent doesn t have a record to stand on, to be hopeful on and to herald. and romney s letting him keep on the defensive when romney should be on offense. it s like a sporting match. you have to have two teams, you can t rely on one strategy, and they better start talking about the issues, and more importantly, megyn, show us who s behind the curtain. who does romney rely on? who are the experts he will bring to government on the economy, on immigration, on health care? these are the folks who have yet to take the stage. megyn: dick, it is like a sporting match, isn t it? i mean, as chairman of the democratic party in south carolina, you can speak to this. it is like a sporting match now. and are we getting the truth? are we getting to the issues? i mean, mitt romney, you know, he brad doesn t like what president obama s arguing about bain capital, but mitt rom
the president will take questions from the audience and he s going to take another swipe at mitt romney s finances. here s abc s david kerley. reporter: other than the time he spent in church part of new hampshire lakehouse weekend, mitt romney must have heard the growing and loud calls to release his taxes. from team obama. show us. show the american people. he can clear this up, just make it public. we don t know all the loopholes he might have taken advantage of. reporter: now even republicans. he should release the tax returns tomorrow, it s crazy. reporter: the republican governor of alabama only added fuel to the fire. the best thing to do is just get everything out in the open and just say, hey, i have nothing to hide. reporter: romney, who is worth $250 million, did release his return for 2010, showing that some of his money is in offshore accounts. he says he ll release last
governor paul la page. and records smashed from the midwest to the east coast. and now a new record. this past year has been the warmest ever for america. so turn up the ac, grab a cold drunk. cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. right now, president obama is just about to head to the heartland. he is visiting the battle ground state of iowa and reaching out to middle class voters. that s who would most benefit from his plan to extend the bush era tax cuts. here s what s going to change. basically if we don t do anything, everybody s taxes go up at the end of this year. now, understand what i m proposing is 98% of america, 98% of american families, won t see their taxes go up according to my plaque. plan. the only folks who would see their taxes go up would be the top 2%, folks like me who don t need those tax breaks, are doing just fine without them. republicans will seize the spotlight first in