it s no laughing matter but will anyone take her seriously? plus, how can anyone walk away from this? two survivors tell their incredible life and death story. within three or four seconds, you re on the ground. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. president obama and governor romney proving to all of us tonight unfortunately how low they will go. new attack ads from both sides, ads that twist the truth that are, frankly, shocking and unacceptable. including the latest that holds bain capital or mitt romney responsible for causing a woman s death. a new romney ad blames obama for a war on religion. when religious freedom is threatened. we say this, for those of you who say these super pacs are to blame and not the candidates, i say to president obama and governor romney, step up and disavow any connection or live with the fact both of you are part of the problem and not the solution. with me now is former pennsylvania governor and former dnc chairman ed ren
we begin this hour with a very important change in the presidential race. according to our brand new cnn/orc poll, a majority of the nation s voters now say they want to re-elect president obama. take a look at this. the president has 52%. he s seven points ahead of mitt romney who s at 45%. just a month ago the president in our poll was ahead 49% to 46%. significantly the president now according to our latest poll is above 50%. our polls also show what voters think of mitt romney s potential vice presidential picks. let s bring in our national political correspondent jim acosta. he s taking a closer look at all of these numbers. that s right. at least on the surface, should bring a smile to the obama campaign. and perhaps a warning to mitt romney and his campaign to go big in the vice presidential search with mitt romney heading out on a potential rollout of his running mate. the results on the veepstakes are even more fascinating. the two men that seem to be the safe
extraordinary video inside a cockpit as a plane falls from the sky. an unbelievable story of what happened to everyone onboard. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. with both sides spending billions of dollars, this election campaign isn t the most expensive in history it s also turning out to be the ugliest. tonight, we re seeing proof how far president obama and mitt romney will go to win in november. the latest attack ad from an obama super pac. obama is doubling down on its shots on bain capital. it s saying romney may have played a role in a woman s death. my guest frank rich, you re getting very angry about this as the days have worn on. i heard the distaning from the super pac and all this. the bottom line, this ad, and we ll see it in a moment, it basically says to the daz you ll viewer, mitt romney kills this guy s wife. that s what it says. they can flower it up any way they like. that s what they re saying. well, yes. and i guess the question it raises
carolina which, of course, has a long tradition of producing heroes. drew griffin has been investigating how and when wade page was at ft. bragg, what his service entailed. he joins us now. what have you found about his time in the military? well, it was not stellar, we ll tell you that in a little bit. but we wanted to focus on ft. bragg. ft. bragg produced a lot of heroes. thousands and thousands of heroes. but back in 1995, it had a mark on that fort because there was a murder of a black couple outside the base, anderson. three soldiers identified as neo nazi skin heads were caught and convicted of that crime. they basically just picked their victims for one reason. they wanted to kill blacks. the army came under fire because it was very obvious that these soldiers were neo nazis. one of them even had what was described as a nazi shrine where he was living. that lead to a crack down by the army trying to weed out racists in the ranks. about two doz b soldiers were kicked
it s romney hood. tonight, the campaigns square off. and a day at the beach turns terrifying. my prime-time exclusive of the survivor of the cape cod shark attack. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, inside the mind of a shooter. jared lee loughner, the alleged gunman of the tucson shooting that killed six people and nearly killed gabby giffords entered a not guilty plea in a court today. a judge ruled him competent to stand trial. this comes after news the psychiatrist who treated the alleged aurora shooter james holmes was so concerned about his behavior. an abc news reporter yesterday even contacted university police. in oak creek wconsin, police saying tonight there are links between a white supremacist movement and this man. he was mentioned in a small number of files going back seven years. all three shooters bought their guns legally. my response to that is why were they allowed to? surely, there must be new controls put in to stop pe