there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it s interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we re three and a half years later and he has not yet created a single net new job in america where three and a half years later there were job losses and 93% of the people that lost jobs had been women. on the measure that he himself put in place, creating jobs where people could pay mortgages, he fails, and there was another measure that he laid out. he said in a setting where you were having progress, you could measure i
his life today. and the first secret service agents being forced out over a prostitution scandal in colombia. now one of the escorts is talking about a fight over her cash money. that s what she called it. the reason this whole story left the hotel. and rocker ted nugent has a date with the secret service to explain inflammatory comments he made about the president. and airport naked guy is now speaking. why he says that he doesn t regret taking off all his clothes at a security checkpoint. more on that one to come. new details on what happened in the secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. three of the 11 implicated agents are now out. one of them, a supervisor is being allowed to retire. another is being forced to leave the agency. and cnn has learned he plans to fight his dismissal. a third agent has resigned now. eight others remain on administrative leave with their security clearance revoked. they are accused of bringing prostitutes to their hotel in co
head matchup with mibarack obam. kim jong-un s first speech in public. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. it can be a politician s worst enemy as politicians from ronald reagan to barack obama have learned the hard way. now a would be president is having his own open mike moment, mitt romney speaking candidly at a public fund-raiser about eliminating tax deductions and other loopholes. jim, tell our viewers what s going on. this is sort of an open mike moment, even though there were no microphones, mitt romney has been reluctant to offer many details to voters. yet at a private fundrai-raiser over the weekend, romney was willing to get specific. reporter: for mitt romney, it was supposed to be a private fund-raiser. but two reporters overheard specifics from romney s deficit reduction plan that he has yet to share with the public. among other things, romney was considering eliminating the department of housing and human development, he talked about consol
they ve repelled the deadly attacks in kabul and three other provinces. the explosions and gun fire have stopped at least for now. the latest on the prostitution scandal. nearly a dozen secret service agents pulled off the job. and the president, not surprisingly, not pleased. i expect that investigation to be thorough and rigorous. ahead, how a complaint from one prostitute in colombia set the scandal in motion. and, yes, that is secretary of state hillary clinton. she was caught on camera, take a look, folks, you don t normally see her had like this. she s knocking down a beer and dancing up a storm at a cuban nightclub in colombia. up first, the alarm after the storm. people in the midwest and plains still reeling from violent and deadly weather. take a look, more than 130 tornadoes touching down over the weekend, many of them in kansas. the governor says 97 twisters were reported there. some of the worst damage, though, was in oklahoma. that state s governor dec
democrat. then never too late to talk vp stakes in election 2012. with dana dash and jeff zeleny the new york times. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. a new cnn/orc poll shows president obama s job approval rating is over 50% for the first time since last june, but americans are worried about rising gas prices, and in an election year, when americans worry, politicians act. the president wants congress to end tax breaks for big oil. it s time they got by without more help from taxpayers, who are already having a tough enough time paying the bills and filling up their gas tank. it will never get by congressional republicans. joining me now from louisville, kentucky, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. thank you for joining us. senator, i want to talk to you about gas prices. i know that you have suggested that this seems like a weird political move for the president to be making, that you don t think it will be popular. and i want to show our