boost the economy and win re-election? do business owners, the people who support the bill, supposed to help, do they think it s a good idea. jessica is at the white house. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. let s start with you, jess. er eric cantor expected to attend the jobs signing here. is this one thing congress and the white house can agree on m. yes, and this is being presented as a real bipartisan victory, an accomplishment that will spur job growth and help grow business by reducing the barriers to investment so more businesses can grow and i think crease hiring which means more jobs. so both parties say they like it. you can see why that is a political win for both sides, both on the politics and on the substance if that were the entire bill. but critics are pointing out that there are elements of this bill that in their view will reduce investor protections that will they actually described it as a ticking time bomb. they say it will decrease tran
growing is actually importing less oil from overseas because we re using it smarter and more efficiently. republicans want the president to approve the entire keystone pipeline which would stretch from canada to the gulf coast. so it s a gaffe, it s not going away, at least not yet. mitt romney s campaign doing some damage control over a remark by a top campaign adviser. this happened in a cnn interview. he compared the general election to an etch-a-sketch. i think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. everything changes. it s almost like an etch-a-sketch. you can kind of shake it up and we start all over again. romney says they were talking about starting over from an organizational standpoint. that his message would remain the same. didn t take long however for his rivals and democrats to jump all over this. you win by giving people a choice. you win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who is just going t
yeah. you know, i didn t have time to get that together. i was busy. it s going to be all kanye for me today. we had to use the clean version obviously because this is a family show. welcome, everybody. our panelist this morning. mark lamont hill is back, professor at columbia university. and livingston is back as well. conservative commentator and the daughter of governor oh, my gosh, the long island just came out here. the daughter of governor huntsman. you are on long high eye laisla. and will cain is here. starting point this morning is details about this u.s. army soldier who is accused of killing 16 afghan civilians as afghan president karzai has been meeting with the family members of those victims. senior u.s. official said he just snapped. a k06r7 nation of stress, alcohol, and marital problems. now, that s according to a u.s. military official. the shooter now has a lawyer and he is contesting some of those things. the lawyer, by the way, is this renowned seat
went bankrupt. opposition activists said 62,000 people were killed in the country. this video posted on youtube appears to show members of the free syrian army in the back of a pickup truck engaged in a heavy gun fight with government forces in homs. cnn cannot independently confirm the authenticity of this video. special ensloi, kofi annan, called for an immediate end to the violence. he warned against external military intervention. iran s ambassador said his country is ready to re-engage with the nuclear watchdog agency. his comment comes as western powers say they are ready to resume talks on iran s nuclear program without preconditions, but the ambassador says iran will never give up its nuclear program. those are the headlines from cnn. i m juanita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning. from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories
and a good swath of people in an unwarranted and unprecedented intrusion into the integrity of the churches. and as far as the government trying to gain for us what the scope of our ministry should be. his prominence, popularity has put him front and center in the latest controversy. the next few months will be his greatest test. harris, back to you. lauren, thank you. how is your acting? that s okay, you can still get an oscar because some of them are apparently for sale. the academy is not happy about it. 15 oscars from films going on the auction block next tuesday. they are expected to fetch more than $1 million. they say an oscar should be earned, not bought. they did slap a ban on the sale but they can t stop the latest auction because the statueets up