Address. Im Carl Quintanilla along with john harwood. Youre looking live at the House Chamber where in a few moments the president will give his annual address to a joint session of congress. Tens of millions of americans watching on television and online. The president s speech will have a strong focus on creating jobs, bringing jobs back from overseas. Hell talk about reviving the nations middle class and is expected to discuss investment in infrastructure and clean energy, all ostensibly without increasing the nations deficit. Beginning the republican response tonight as well from marco rubio. John, a lot of discussion tonight about the tone. The dow is at a fresh fiveyear high but a couple of wild cards in the form of north korea, foreign policy, a standoff in california tonight, the gun debate. The gun debate is one thats thrust itself into the nations attention span, and the president s agenda, and this is going to only encourage that, but really the tone everybody is looking for
0 september opened. when it didn t go away, democrats panicked. just about everything that s said about romney s flailing campaign was said by democrats at this very point in 2004. look what happened in 04, kerry suddenly closed the gap. why? that s when the first debate was held. reviews of kerry s performance, you ll remember this if you watched it, is pretty strong. bush s, not so much. we remember kerry lost in 2004 but we tend to forget how close he came and the fact he owned the month of october. in that month the race was tight and kerry came close to pulling out a win in ohio that would have given him the presidency. not predicts mitt romney is going to buns back the same way now. i m just pointing out how matter how bleak things look for him, he might. that does it for the cycle today. martin bashir, it s all yours. good afternoon, it s wednesday, september 19th. and mitt romney is ready to hit the reset button again. with just two weeks until the yes, well, the problem
with just two weeks until the first debate. you all but called them moochers. did you? no, i m talking about a perspective of individuals who i m not likely to get to support me. obama supporters are nothing but lazy parasites. get a job! if you want to be president, have you to work for all of those. two-thirds do pay payroll taxes. meaning they re working. they just don t work hard enough. this is a guy that doesn t obviously need to do this for a job. i mean, he honestly believes he can help many americans. you know, like a family of five making $50,000 a year. kak, the amount aka, the amount of money it take to see mitt romney [ bleep ] on them in person. i stand by whatever i said, whatever it was. we begin with mitt romney fully embracing his view of an america divided into makers and takers. a man who would be president writing off half the nation as pa parasitic free-loaders. despite widespread panic by fellow conservatives, despite outrage from
good morning. thanks for joining us. i m michelle miller. president obama is headed home after making a surprise visit to afghanistan. the president signed a strategic agreement with afghan leaders and outlined the end of the war, saying we can see the light of a new day. but this morning the taliban is claiming responsibility for a series of explosions in kabul that killed at least seven people. tara mergener is in washington with more. good morning, tara. reporter: good morning to you. that violence a year to the day after the death of osama bin laden and just after president obama vowed to end america s longest running foreign war. a series of explosions hit kabul just hours after president obama left the afghan capital. a taliban spokesman tells cbs news, the terrorist group deployed bombers once they learned of the president s visit. they say the attack was meant to show that the taliban is still strong and still a threat. the president made a surprise visit to shell
rise and fall of michele bachmann, but this time, it might be different for mitt romney. newt gingrich is now posing a threat to romney s persistent high polling, opening up a new battle line in the republican race for the white house. joe johns the working the story for us. what s the latest between romney and gingrich? well, mitt romney has spent most of this campaign in a fairly comfortable position, but his organization is feeling the heat and the question now is how they re planning to row respond. newt gingrich at the head of the pack a month out from the iowa caucuses. a thing nobody planned for except newt gingrich. a new poll in the early primary state of florida showing 50% of likely republican voters saying gingrich is their pick for president. only 19% picked romney, who spent much of the campaign behaving like he s already the nominee. focusing on the democratic president instead of the other republican contenders. mr. inevitable suddenly feeling a bit of south