thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer at the united nations. crossfire starts right now. tonight on the cafferty file tonight on crossfire i believe nothing is hurting the american people more than obama care. as the battle brings the government closer to shutting down, should the president s health care reform bill on the left, van jones. on the right, s.e. kipp. cornel west, and william crystal, who would repeal all of it. obama care, does it go far enough? has it already gone too far? tonight on crossfire. . welcome. we are one week away from a
her way to a degree. that s why anybody who feels sorry for pat will find themselves on the receiving end of the receiving glare where she might punch you. she s still getting up every day and doing what she does best which is teaching. the players, she says, are my best medicine. our final honoree is not here. shimon peres, the president of israel, who has done more for the cause of peace in the middle east than just about anybody alive. i ll be hosting president peres for a dinner here at the white house next month and we ll be presenting him with his medal and honoring his incredible contributions to the state of israel and the world at that time. i m looking forward to welcoming him and i ll save my best lines for him for that occasion. so these are the recipients of the 2012 medals of freedom, and just on a personal note, i had a chance to see everybody in the back. what s wonderful about these events for me is so many of these people are my heroes individually. you know
police suspect her husband, a prominent scientist and he says he was out of town at the time and she doesn t remember. we re digging deeper. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com mitt romney s latest campaign ads are full of pledges about what he d do on day one of his presidency, but our reality check shows he d have to wake up extra, extra early on january 20th to start on that to-do list. it s a long list. our national political correspondent jim acosta is joining us. here s the question, jim. can mitt romney really do all he says he would do on day one? reporter: that certainly is the question, wolf. according to his new ads, mitt romney will be a busy man in his first full day in the white house and he will need all 24 hours to get through all of his day one promises. what would a romney presidency be like? reporter: in his latest tv ad mitt romney lays out an ambitious agenda, he demands they play by the rules. r
her husband the prominent scientist and he says he was out of town at the time. she doesn t remember. we re digging deeper. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s faced a barrage of attacks on his business record with democrats portraying him as a job-cutting corporate raider, but mitt romney is opening up about his time at bain capital and vowing to cut the jobless rate. let s go to our national political correspondent jim acosta and he has the latest. the way the day started it seemed that mitt romney was going to stay away from the subject of bain capital, but as it turned out he is taking the issue head-on. reporter: it was a day when mitt romney s campaign event, this one being a speech to a latino business group took a backseat to responding to campaign attacks on the democrats favorite subject bain capital. the american people are interested in not so much the history of where i was at bain capital or that
more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in china tells cnn a very different account of what happened. cnn s stan grant is in beijing and has been following this story from the beginning. dramatic developments, huge interest at stake, stan. you had a chance to speak with the u.s. ambassador gary locke about all of this. what is the very latest? reporter: yes. he is gary locke, the man with the answers about what went wrong at the embassy. chen guangcheng said he was encouraged to leave and without knowing the full range of his threat that