called now the arab spring, the time has come also for the palestinian spring. the time for independence. up first tonight, testing time for republican presidential front-runner rick perry. this from earlier today. a textbook example of playing it safe. our president, the great promiser of hope and change, he has delivered neither. this, on the other hand? call this throwing fuel on the fire. my friend governor perry said if you don t agree with his position giving in-state tuition to illegals, that you don t have a heart. i think if you re opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn t mean that you don t have a heart. it means that you have a heart and a brain. those competing speeches to a conservative political gathering continued. the immigration dividing line that was on display in last night s latest feisty republican presidential debate. governor perry s immigration views, opposition to a border fence, support for in-state tuition breaks for the children of ille
all this playing out on the streets as well. young palestinians who want statehood threw rocks and bottles at israeli border guards. that happened today. the israelis responded with rubber bullets and stun grenades. president abbas has called for protesters to keep things peaceful. israel has put additional forces along the border in case things get out of hand. and pakistan absolutely furious over accusations by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen. for the first time publicly he is accusing pakistan s spy agency, the isi, of supporting the insurgents who attacked the u.s. he embassy in kabul. it was carried out by a group closely tied to the taliban. they act as a veritable arm of pakistan s internal services intelligence agency. with isi support, the operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack as well as the assault on our embassy. well, these aren t the first allegations that pakistan was helping terrorists, but mullen is the highe
party activist donald trump. a man who is always famous for dating gets lobbied by rick perry within hours after going to an evangelical school. anyway, the two in new york hobnobbed with madles at a fashion show. it s fashion week in new york. then dinner at a swanky restaurant. across the country, mitt romney took a few more attacks at him. governor perry in texas has said he s not in favor of building a fence. in addition, he granted in-state tuition breaks to illegals in his state. i think arizona has got it right. i think governor perry has got that one wrong. social security is not a ponzi scheme. we re not going to change it by sending it back to the states. governor perry in his book said, look, it s unconstitutional at the federal level. give it back to the states. but romney also played defense at that town hall in
dan simon, living the collective dream in san francisco. cnn newsroom continues right now. hello, everyone, president obama is just about to land in columbus, ohio, to campaign for the jobs bill that republican leaders of congress are openly rejecting. barely 24 hours ago the president showed off his american jobs act and demanded congress pass it with, and i quote, no games, no politics, no delays. but then came the details of how the $447 billion package would be paid for. two words. tax hikes. and you could hear the opposition digging in. the biggest hike by far would be a cap on itemized deductions for high earners. the white house estimates that would raise $400 billion over four years. the bill would also close loopholes enjoyed by oil and gas companies, raising an estimated $40 billion. it would raise taxes on investment fund managers and scale back depreciation rules for corporate jets and suddenly republicans who had been promising to hear the president out had h
or a approved system to know who s coming into the country, number one. number two, we have to have enough agents to secure the fence, but the third thing, and i learned this when i was with border patrol agents in san diego. look, they can always get a ladder to go over the fence, the reason they come in such great numbers is because we ve left the magnet on. what do you mean, the magnet? when employers are willing to hire people illegally, that s a magnet. sanctuary cities giving tuition breaks to illegal aliens, employers knowingly hire people who are here illegally. employers knowingly hire people who are here illegally. those things have to be stopped. we have to make sure we have a fence technologically showing where people are, and turn off that magnet. we can t talk about amnesty, we can t give amnesty to those who come here illegally.