house issues a veto threat. also bill clinton making the case for president obama by invoking the ghost of osama bin laden. plus, space shuttle enterprise arrives with a bang in its new hometown, new york city. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a sharp battle is unfolding here in washington over a bill to extend lower interest rates on student loans. millions of students are involved in this. it s a bipartisan goal, but there s partisan bickering over how to pay for it and now the white house is upping the ante with a veto threat. our congressional correspondent kate bolduan is watching this unfold. what are you seeing on capitol hill, kate? this fight against student loans is about much more than student loans but it s drawn familiar battle lines. house republicans versus president obama and congressional democrats. reporter: defying a veto threat from president obama house republicans push ahead friday to pass a bill
john fugelson and john cain. a lot to talk about this morning. that was in unison, i like it. we ll ask the congresswoman about it. this morning mitt romney turning his full attention to the general election after sweeping yesterday s gop primaries in connecticut, delaware, new york, pennsylvania and rhode island. a better america begins tonight. tonight is the start of a new campaign to unite every american who knows in their heart that we can do better. the last few years have been the best that barack obama can do. but it s not the best america can do. tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the obama year. but romney hasn t quite clinched the number of nominations just yet. right now he has 764 of the 1,144 needed. newt gingrich 141 and ron paul 75. romney supporter congresswoman mary bono mach. nice to see you this morning. you, too. rick santorum was holding on for a long time and the cultural conservative kind of vote for so long now and h
may officially get behind him or will they? we have details meetings, planned ahead. and birds cause another scare in the sky. this is the second one this week. a flight with 54 people on board turns around after geese smack into the windshield. ew! and president obama slow jamming on student loans with jimmy fallon. now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people. oh, yeah. the president going late night to grab some young voters. we ll have the highlights for you. he looks too serious in the background. mitt romney so close to the republican nomination now he can taste it. the former massachusetts goer sweeping to victory in the biggest day of the gop primary voting since super tuesday winning new york, connecticut, pennsylvania, rhode island and delaware. it seems inevitable he will clinch the nomination next month. last night he tore into president obama, promising a better america under his watch. because he has failed, he will run
blossomed. and first there was bountygate, now there s spygate. the general manager of the new orleans saints is being accused of bugging the superdome to listen in on visiting coaches. there s talk of criminal charges, but mickey loomis is saying the report is 1,0000 plu false. a police dog sent in to end a high speed chase. apparently he worked it out. that s some nice maneuvers. up first this morning a dramatic turnaround in the trayvon martin case. the sanford, florida city commission voted to reject the police commissioner s resignation. last month he was blasted for not arresting trayvon martin immediately after the shooting, but now they question the fairness of removing him. chief lee is paying for the sins of past police officers. the police chiefs. he s been here he has been in office ten months. how do you steer a boat that big, mr. mayor? how do you steer a boat in ten months to a complete turnaround? you don t. heated discussion, in the meantime the
falling since last year have jumped about 6% in the last three weeks. march sales of existing homes fell 2.6% and factory output slipped in march after rising in february. then there was this iffy forecast for europe from the managing director of the international monetary fund. we are seeing light recovery blowing in a spring wind, but we re seeing some dark clouds on the horizon. if, as the economy goes so goes the election, then it was a worrisome week for the president s re-election team. joining me now president obama s senior re-election strategist david axelrod. good to see you. good to be here again. let me show you and our viewers the nbc news/ wall street journal survey this week on who has good ideas to help the economy. and it said president obama 34%, romney, 40%. how do you account for that? i account for it by the fact that people don t know mitt romney very well yet. they see businessman. they hope he has new ideas. but, candy, i think here is the p