crashing an outdoor graduation. caught rhett handed and rhett faced. a robber sprased and spanked. you re going to see it. good morning, everybody. who love this is one. i love that one, too. bang, bang, don t come back. it s nice to have you here. i m ashleigh banfield. and zoraida. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east so let s get started for you. up first bill clinton getting back on script and back in step with the white house at least for now. in an exclusive interview with wolf blitzer, the former president doing a lot of apologizing after praising mitt romney s sterling business record and suggesting he would be open to extending the bush tax cuts with the wealthy, a position directly at odds with president obama. here s clinton yesterday on the situation room. i m very sorry about what happened ned. i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year. he should just stick with his
blitzer. yeah, i m very sorry about what happened yesterday. it was what i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year. so i think he should just stick with his position. president clinton claims he didn t know it expires after the electi election. rick santorum is resurfacing. the former pennsylvania senator will lay out his plans for the future today. sources say he wants his voice heard as leader of the conservative wing of the gop. he s expected to announce he s ez forming a political committee to give him that vehicle. new developments in the etan patz murder investigation. look at this photo obtained exclusively by cnn. it shows pedro hernandez, the suspect in the 1978 death of the 6-year-old little new york boy, in a suit and tie wearing glasses. investigators have removed a computer hard drive, two satchels and other items from his new jersey home. hernandez who has con
you re on the democratic side. it appears that the laundry list continues to grow of these surrogates who are speaking out against president obama s policies. what s going on? well, i don t think that president clinton is necessarily speaking out against his policies. he s saying there should be a temporary extension of the bush tax cuts and as you know, president obama said no. he wants to negotiate a long-term deal with republicans even going back to the grand bargain but i think president clinton is saying, you know what? if we just had a temporary extension, then we can get a budget deal. president obama has been trying to hardball negotiations with republicans by saying no deal. and so, you know, on one level i ll say this it comes across to me on this is not the first time, gretchen, for clinton. he also said that romney had a sterling business record. no, this has become daily. right. so i think my theory is he wants to be the big dog in the democratic ranks and he d
a new breakthrough can reveal the entire genetic blueprint of a baby still in its mother s womb, detecting thousands of diseases, but at what cost? i m wolf blitzer in chicago. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com bill clinton can certainly work wondzers out there on the campaign trail, but he can also work himself into trouble from time to time. first, he praised what he called the so-called sterling that s a quote, sterling business record of mitt romney right here on cnn. then he contradicted president obama seemingly by suggesting that the bush tax cuts should be extended even for the wealthiest americans. i just sat down with the former president here in chicago at the clinton global initiative, and i asked him about that. what i was saying yesterday, which is apparently not accurate, is that if this fiscal cliff comes to the president and the congress and the country before the election, he can t afford to give up his position and he
the remarks last week about mitt romney having a sterling business record and taking bain capital off the table, i happen to disagree with him. but i think we would both agree that the president clinton is a net gain for president obama. for one thing because dishonest republicans, brazen republicans were are trying to act like they love bill clinton in the 90s. he was good democrat. when in fact the the time they savaged him, impeached him. i think it is important at this point that president clinton is out there saying, you can t use me that way. and you know, he is a star. there is a down side, we will talk about the down side. but i think the republicans are being disingenuous at every turn. you know, joe cline, he is not clarence acting like scalia. i heard him last night, boy was