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
years ago. tell you about global project management the scandal is now in the cross hairs of a congressal hearing today. video spoofs even bragged about the lavish spending and poked fun at president obama. the scandal already has claimed gsa administrator martha johnson who stepped down two weeks ago. republican chair of the house oversight committee darrell issa says one goal of the hearing is to, quote, make sure this doesn t happen again. the death toll from this weekend s massive tornadoes is rising. at least six people have died. all of the known fatalities right now in woodward, oklahoma. the woodward storm was just part of a massive system that spun off dozens of tornadoes across ten states in the midwest and plains. the national weather service received more than 130 reports of tornadoes. a major insurgent attack on kabul and three other areas in eastern afghanistan is over. but gunfire and rpg explosions rocked the capital until early this morning. afghan
to the three stooges? i was thinking ron paul is sort of a shemp. this is piers morgan tonight. ricky gervais is here. he has offended pretty much every big star in hollywood at the golden globes last year. by coincidence, he s back again after offending just about every major star at the golden globes. welcome back. they took you back? the first time they said, why did he say all these awful things? the second time they were oh, we get it, they re jokes. did you want them to take it badly? no. and i don t think i said anything that bad the first time. they are jokes. i would entertain than people gasp. i cherish the gasps. they re just as good. not everybody seemed to enjoy your jokes as much as others. sir elton didn t seem enthusiastic. he had a grumpy look on his face, i don t know. at least he can still show expressions. most have too much botox and you can t tell whether they re smiling or not. but i made the decision, you don t pander to people in the
conversation with pastor emanuel cleaver. if you believe the president is a christian, why would that be you still come to the belief he s trying to destroy religion? republican strategist ralph reed. is it similarly wrong them for democrats to say that the republican party is engaged in a war on women? and david brody of the christian broadcasting network. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. all of that in a few minutes. first to the breaking news we are following this morning. legendary cbs anchorman mike wallace is dead at the age of 93. i m joined on the phone by larry king. i know you were very good friends with mike wallace. give us your thoughts this morning. i am so sad, candy. i know it was a ripe old age, but there s no one like him. i had the pleasure of spending three, four hours with him last year at his apartment and he wound up, i know, sent to a home. he was really suffering from dementia and it was sad to see. there was no other
with koran burnings the united states alone in the industrialized world is demo graphically dynamic. it adds 3 million peoples to the numbers every year and at some point, kids don t want to live with their parents and that will produce demand for housing and at that point, the recovery will gain full steam. the new potentially game-changing trend for the united states is the rise of shale gas, thanks to the new process of fracing, american now has 75 years of natural gas and most important, it is the world s low-cost producer of natural gas. the rise in gasoline prices and petroleum prices has obscured this much more important fact. energy costs are plummeting in america. that s why manufacturers like dow chemical are actually opening new factories in the united states. you see, asia has an advantage, lower labor costs, but now the u.s. has an advantage, lower energy costs than asia. and this is a process that has just begun. add all this together and you have the prospect