good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, tax war. two respected experts wrote an op-ed that the obama campaign immediately seized on temperature pfs enough to prompt them to send this e-mail to their troops, subject line romney s role in tax shelter raises questions. the reason? the op-ed written by two experts who recently wrote another article critical of romney s personal tax strategies says since romney refuses to release his tax returns, his views on taxes are revealed by what did he while on the audit committee of marriott corporation. i ll explain what happened, but first let s just layout the key accusation. the authors say, quote, a key troubling public manifestation of romney s apparent incense different to tax obligations is his role in marriott international s abusive tax shelter activity. so does thei incense different, translation, lack of ethics, add up? romney was chief for a while from 1993 to 1998. in that role, would he would han respons
earth. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. mitt romney is using ads, web videos, speeches to hammer away at president obama on welfare. romney is taking a lot of heat though over his claims about the administration s policies, but with support from an unlikely ally he s raising the stakes today. here s our national political correspondent jim acosta. reporter: wolf, mitt romney is not backing away from his accusation that president obama is trying to make it easier for the poor to receive welfare checks and to help make his case he s getting some help from an old rival. they just send you your welfare check. reporter: even though his ad accusing the president of weakening work requirements for welfare recipients got a pants on fire from politifact and four pinocchios from the washington post, mitt romney is doubling down on the claim. this is to help people go to work so they can stop drawing a welfare check and start drawing a paycheck. reporter:
and what could have led to this shooting. take a listen to a portion of the interview we did with this atf agent just a few minutes ago talking about the suspect. he is a 40-year-old male in a nearby town, about 14 miles way from the temple and at this point, talking it witnesses. they have the suspects identity. they have not been able to have any connection, set any connection between this suspect and this temple at all. witnesses say he was a bald white mail with a 9/11 tattoo on his arm. we got some more information about the witnesses. we haven t been able to talk. we haven t okay, let s first listen to the atf agents and what he said about the suspect and about the ongoing investigation. we have that now. white male, approximately 40 years of age. and that s all we have as far as, his motive, and we are along away fwr that right now. this is still very fluid with this with the warrants being served right now at his residence and the scene being processed. there a
the details about why this gunman did this. in many times in these situations we never find out the exact motivation. it could be just a disturbed individual. and obviously to do this one would have to be disturbed in some way. waiting on a press conference. the last briefing from the hospital from froedtert hospital. three people in the hospital. gunshot wounds range from multiple gunshot wounds to the face, multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen. some to the extremities, as well. as we wait for all of this to play out we will cover it for you and bring you both of the press conferences live. what has transpired we went from a hostage situation or not so much hostage or an area where people were trapped in this guawara. police went in there and did a tactical sweep of the area which took quite a bit of time at the point where they were sure that there wasn t a second gunman there. they allowed the people to leave and seek medical treatment in some cases. that search went t