discussions going on between people who are at a senior level in these negotiations. looking at ways they can probably bridge thing divide. some of the things we have been talking about is put the income tax rates somewhere in the neighborhood of 400,000. deal with some of the other concerns about estate taxes. deal with unemployment been pits. there is a whole sort of menu list of issues that have varying degrees of importance to both parties and trying to pare down something passable. what i think is helpful is the parties are now in terms of the senate meeting now for sort of each party having a discussion going into these meetings today and there are some that say that could help to tee things up. if there is something that goes political open tinges at the 3:00 meeting at that time white house they may be able to move forward with something on paper. lots of encouraging signs if conversation were deal making we would be golden. but at this point nothing official has exchanged ha
search for drugs and guns. hello? who is this? you don t know who it is? this is the police. yeah, we re in your house right now doing a search warrant. they don t want to talk to me. authorities recover 20 grams of cocaine sitting in plain sight. and they put the squeeze on the target s son to find out where his father is. the teenager, who is known to bran dish a gun around the neighborhood, clams up. you ve been to county before? how old are you? you know what happens to 17 year olds not affiliated? you don t know? you don t watch tv? bad stuff. you say you re not gang banging? two tinges that happen. you get plugged or you get
you do it as far in advance, at least a year, give the party a chance to find the right person to go in your place. this was something that had to ruin john boehner s day. well there s been a lot of tinges ruining his day lately, probably the guy at the top of the ticket in the fall. but, yeah, it does suggest that perhaps latourette isn t probably interested in the good of the party. compromise in and of itself isn t something that people inherently shirk from. but it s when you get involved in an extreme polarized environment, compromise is just giving something to the other side. i mean, real compromise is about two people coming to an agreement that they can both feel good about, right, or two sides coming to an agreement. but if you look at things as democrat or republican, black or white, red or blue, you re not going to see anything as moving forward. you re going to see it as making sacrifices for the other side. that s something that obviously
the obama campaign has done a very good job of changing the subject here. republicans, including mitt romney, want to be talking about the economy. you heard romney keep trying to turn the page in those interviews yesterday, and he couldn t do it because there is a feeding frenzy right now on this bain issue. romney complains a lot about the fact that obama doesn t want to talk about the economy, but he hasn t been very successful in preventing the democrats and obama from changing the subject to things like this and other things that romney may consider a distraction but people want to know about. i m going to change tinges i alittle bit. the latest quinnipiac poll in virginia shows president obama winning by 6 points. do you see either campaign having an edge in the state of virginia? it s the big swing state, virginia, ohio, florida, they re the swing states they re spending a lot of money, pretty much tied in the polls. obama leads in virginia more than other states to be clear
women this memorial day. the president laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns and he speaks later this hour at the vietnam veterans memorial. romney taking part in a tribute at the veterans museum and memorial center in san diego. senator john mccain is also appearing with him. i want to bring in dana bash who has more on this live. we expect to hear from mitt romney at this event that s getting under way. what do we think the message is going to be today? reporter: well, according to romney aides, suzanne, he s going to focus as much as he can on the whole concept of the fallen soldiers and people who are still living but veterans of wars that have happened in recent years and long, long ago. and the message, according to a romney aide, is to make sure that going forward we continue to protect the liberties and freedoms that they fought for. so it s not an overt political statement, but certainly there are tinges of politics in there making very clear that he believes t