brooke, because they feel that history is on their side and that any time the discussions about tax cuts or more specifically tax hikes, any time they can paint democrats as wanting to raise taxes it s bad for democrats. and i just want to show you a quote from one of the top republicans to give you an illustration of how they re framing it on the republican side. this is from the number two republican jon kyl who said president obama s push to raise taxes on those earning more than $250,000 including 940,000 business owners, could not come at a worse time. friday s disappointing job numbers and the continuing crawl of economic recovery indicate job creators are still struggling yet the president would have these business owners pay more in taxes to pay more for government spending. they re trying to put meat on the bones and give specifics on who they re talking about, almost a million business owners, not just some hypothetical discussion but real people they say will be
sarah jessica parker and anna wintour take on roles as obama s fundraisers tonight. the price, $40,000 a plate. is hgtv s house hunters a fraud? a blogger on the show claims reality show was anything but. fake houses, made-up storylines. today, the network tells its side of the story. perfect game. a shining moment for matt cain. the pitcher throwing a rare perfect game, retiring all 27 hitters he faced. this morning, the giant is a gem. cnn newsroom begins right now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. at one time, lance armstrong towered over the cycling world the way babe ruth was adored by baseball fans. but today, armstrong may be better compared to barry bonds. controversial, polarizing, and tainted anew by doping allegations. the new charges filed by the u.s. anti-doping agency could strip armstrong of one of his seven tour de france victories. and already they are forcing him to the sidelines at his new love, competing in ironman triathal triathalon
find out what went down inside the courtroom just a short time ago. former vermont governor and presidential candidate howard dean takes a hit during a radio interview in montreal. and when we say hit, we mean hit literally. listen. discussing geographic boundaries and talking about drawing lines there was a car, sorry. i m going to have to go. what happened? we just got hit by a car. are you okay? yeah, everybody is fine. talk about breaking news. howard dean did call back an t 20 minutes later and actually finished up the interview. talk about commitment. four major wildfires still burning out of control in arizona. and officials are bleeding with residents, get out of your homes, get out of them now, don t stop to pick things up, move it. the fires scorched 17,000 acres. and firefighters say one of the fires could still hit crown king, an historic mining town. the larchest fire has tripled in size. a family in mississippi calling for the public s help to find
year america began to gain jobs, a painfully slow but steady job recovery has taken hold for the last 18 months. here is the key if you want to bring it back to politics. if the economy adds just over 100,000 jobs per month between now and the election, america will have gained back every single job lost during the obama presidency. mort zuckerman head of u.s. news and world report. he s also an extremely wealthy and successful democratic businessman and he wrote this week president obama s economic programs have failed. mort, the economy is on pace, as you saw, to get back every job lost under president obama about a recession he didn t start. why? why are you saying it s failed? let me put it this way. in the first place those numbers are slightly misleading, we need 125 to 150,000 jobs to take into account. i m not finished. not debating, just facts. compare this to any previous recession, 1970s, 1980s at this point the economy was growing between 6 and 8%. the largest
she has been named olivia. this olivia is now getting a second shot at life. captions by vitac www.vitac.com cnn saturday morning. itr itit s saturday itl it s saturday, april 21st. i m randi kaye. a cold case is reopened after 33 year. are we any closer to knowing what happened to missing new york boy etan patz. and more fallout. more resignations in the wake of the secret service prostitution scandal. we re waiting to see if george zimmerman will get out of jail. it could happen as early as today, a florida judge granting his release on a $150,000 bond as he awaits trial for the 17-year-old trayvon martin killing. martin savage is in sanford, florida. martin, do we have any idea if and when his bond will be met? reporter: no, we don t. we brought you to a dinch location, randi. this is the way in george zimmerman took ten days ago. it s anticipated it s going to be the way he comes out. although there s no guarantee of that because of security concerns and we do