kelly ayotte the new freshman senator from the state of new hampshire will be appearing with mitt romney in portsmith in a few minutes from now. this is part of the veep stakes. she s one of the potential running mates that the romney campaign will be taking a good long hard look at. that vet progress sees, that selection process is just getting under way. there s a throat be said for kelly ayotte and why she s being considered. she has a lot of tea party support up in new hampshire. she was endorsed by sarah palin. she has a tough on crime background. she was the attorney general in her state. she is also anti-abortion rights so she has that pro life boxing checked that a lot of republicans will be looking at as they go about selecting a running mate and there s a lot of upsides here. actually had a chance to see her speak in front of one of those rubber chicken dinners here in washington, d.c. she s pretty engaging in front of a podium, in front of a crowd. i think you re g
her bedroom nine days ago. the focus this morning a new surveillance video capturing three people outside of her home. heights of freedom on the eve of osama bin laden death. one world trade center marking a milestone today becoming the tallest building in new york city. blasting the bible. dan savage from it gets better campaign goes on the attack saying, quote, he should learn to ignore the b.s. in the bible and when it says about gay people. this morning, he is not backing down. newsroom begins right now! . a daring escape and diplomatic quandary. house arrest slipped away and apparently hiding inside the u.s. embassy in beijing and sets the stage for a tug of war between the two countries. you may remember the plight of chen in december. we were the only crew to accompany actor christian bale as he tried to meet with the activist instead bale was roughed up by chins chinese security guards. carol, this is an extraordinary story of escape. a blind man who under
board i boarding a flight after refusing a pat-down. and news on beginning itch s work for freddie mac. we have the contract just released. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett and tonight, breaking news. the truth behind newt gingrich s ties to freddie mac. literally, within the past eight minutes, the former speaker released records explaining his connection to the taxpayer subsidized mortgage giant. i ve been reading through it, it s a 15-page contract and this is a contract for just one year, 2006. now, the speaker worked for freddie mac for several years, so 2006 is the only year that i have in my hands and here s what i can tell you it says. it says that the gingrich group had a $25,000 monthly retainer fee from freddie mac. he said that adds up to $300,000 a year, which is the maximum for the year 2006. i want to emphasize this is one out of the six that he worked for freddie mac. now, he was a consultant and he released this to make that point, to try t
good evening. i m erin burnett and tonight, breaking news. mitt what s the gross revenue of bain when you were dealing with it? to what s the gross revenue? fairly substantial, but i think it s irrelevant than the fact that you were working for freddie mac? did they ever do work with the government like medicare? we didn t work with the government. i didn t have an office on k street. i didn t work in washington. he likes to surf off that audience approval. without that tonight, he did seem relatively subdued so it had an impact. a lot of really interesting moments. like romney said what do i do with the taliban? beat them. and then of course there s silence. you don t have that applause. these guys are learning to use the audience as a weapon on their behalf. i think he is right. i personally think, get rid of it entirely. it is totally downer productive and it is i would say i totally agree with that. then you have that dead moment of silence and you re w
apple even. steve, we learned last night that and walter has said that steve jobs knew that there was going to be some real negative information about him, certainly some things that people would interpret extremely negatively and in his choice of walter isaacson, he chose a serious journalist who does not leave stones unturned. it seems as though it was his desire to get the kind of book you would want to read, the kind of book that had the real flesh on the bones of this story. it tells something about his own credibility. the truth that was within. you know, the sincerity in steve jobs. i listened to him and his reasons for pursuing things. he didn t want to be one of those high up become very strange because you got rich type people. i want to live a lot of the normal life too. i meant so much for that. i go further in that extent. steve, i wanted to ask you a