head matchup with mibarack obam. kim jong-un s first speech in public. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. it can be a politician s worst enemy as politicians from ronald reagan to barack obama have learned the hard way. now a would be president is having his own open mike moment, mitt romney speaking candidly at a public fund-raiser about eliminating tax deductions and other loopholes. jim, tell our viewers what s going on. this is sort of an open mike moment, even though there were no microphones, mitt romney has been reluctant to offer many details to voters. yet at a private fundrai-raiser over the weekend, romney was willing to get specific. reporter: for mitt romney, it was supposed to be a private fund-raiser. but two reporters overheard specifics from romney s deficit reduction plan that he has yet to share with the public. among other things, romney was considering eliminating the department of housing and human development, he talked about consol
they ve repelled the deadly attacks in kabul and three other provinces. the explosions and gun fire have stopped at least for now. the latest on the prostitution scandal. nearly a dozen secret service agents pulled off the job. and the president, not surprisingly, not pleased. i expect that investigation to be thorough and rigorous. ahead, how a complaint from one prostitute in colombia set the scandal in motion. and, yes, that is secretary of state hillary clinton. she was caught on camera, take a look, folks, you don t normally see her had like this. she s knocking down a beer and dancing up a storm at a cuban nightclub in colombia. up first, the alarm after the storm. people in the midwest and plains still reeling from violent and deadly weather. take a look, more than 130 tornadoes touching down over the weekend, many of them in kansas. the governor says 97 twisters were reported there. some of the worst damage, though, was in oklahoma. that state s governor dec
democrat. then never too late to talk vp stakes in election 2012. with dana dash and jeff zeleny the new york times. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. a new cnn/orc poll shows president obama s job approval rating is over 50% for the first time since last june, but americans are worried about rising gas prices, and in an election year, when americans worry, politicians act. the president wants congress to end tax breaks for big oil. it s time they got by without more help from taxpayers, who are already having a tough enough time paying the bills and filling up their gas tank. it will never get by congressional republicans. joining me now from louisville, kentucky, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. thank you for joining us. senator, i want to talk to you about gas prices. i know that you have suggested that this seems like a weird political move for the president to be making, that you don t think it will be popular. and i want to show our
here in new york city. great to have you visiting us. pleasure to be here. and john is a political comedian, will cain and fdorian nice to have each and every when of you. good morning. interesting to think it s been a month since trayvon martin killed. and two weeks since white people heard about it. the story was not that well-known in the media. on social media it was making the rounds and finally everyone else picked it up about two weeks ago. of course it s our starting point, thousands are expected to make their way to san sford, florida. honoring trayvon martin, and the rally will begin at 4:00 p.m. outside the first united methodist church and the crowds are going to make their way to the civic center which is roughly a half mile away and that s where the city s going to hold a town hall. there are reports that trayvon s parents are expected to speak there, that march comes right after a candlelight vigil held yesterday for martin. there were songs and
many claims to bank. i ll talk to him about the global economy and more. later a. look at the silicon valley facebook, pay pal, zynga. reed hoffman has been at the ground floor of all of them. and why is one of america s friends, india, friends with one of its sworn enemies? i ll explain. but, first, here s my take. we re going to hear a lot of polarized rhetoric over the next few months. the republicans and democrats will seem to disagree about everything. but there is one huge and important area where there is a possibility, a possibility of bipartisan action. that s tax reform. most americans, republicans and democrats, dislike the tax code. their right to do so. america has what is arguably the world s most complex tax code. the federal code plus irs rulings is now 70,000 pages long. the code itself is 16,000 pages. the state of france has only 1,909, only 10% of ours. and then there are others that have innovated and moved to a flat tax with considerable success. y