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good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of torturing children and using them as human shields. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you don t often see a cabinet member subjected to such a harsh grilling. the attorney general eric holder on the hot seat facing republicans furious over a litany of complaints. he held his ground against calls for his resignation. dana watched it all unfold. a botched gun-running designation known as fast and furious to a republican call for an independent investigation into leaks classified leaks, i should say, eric holder knew this wasn t just going to be a regular oversight hearing. he knows he s in congress cross hairs. but what happened was a political food fight. most republicans were tough on the attorney general, but nothing compared to this. there ....
let s take a break to the magic wall to show why we re predicting why walker will keep his job as governor of wisconsin. number one, it s obvious. red is republican. you see a lot of red. dane county here, this is the key county for democrat, 8% of the population. democrats say their turnout operation worked well there. but tom barrett the democrat getting 60% and scott walker getting 40% right there. barrett needs to be up around 70% in this key county right there. let s come back to the map here a little bit. this is waukesha county. the key county for republicans in this state. 75%, scott walker got just over 70% last time. he s overperforming. as we go from county to county, come up here, brown county, where green bay is, walker getting 60% with 75% of the vote in. that s an improvement from two years ago. you can pick your key county across the state. everything we see so far. the republican incumbent, scott walker overperforming and barrett is underperforming. we ....
number one, it s obvious. red is republican. you see a lot of red. dane county here, this is the key county for democrat, 8% of the population. democrats say their turnout operation worked well there. but tom barrett the democrat getting 60% and scott walker getting 40% right there. barrett needs to be up around 70% in this key county right there. let s come back to the map here a little bit. this is waukesha county. the key county for republicans in this state. 75%, scott walker got just over 70% last time. he s overperforming. as we go from county to county, come up here, brown county, where green bay is, walker getting 60% with 75% of the vote in. that s an improvement from two years ago. you can pick your key county across the state. everything we see so far. the republican incumbent, scott walker overperforming and barrett is underperforming. we ll break it down what it means for the state, for the governor in november. dana bash is joining us and also the former w ....
as the gop nominee to be hoping to win back a state that went for president obama in 2008. and he s hoping hispanics will help him out. our colleague on that story in-depth for us in denver. i mentioned 2008. two thirds of the hispanic vote nationwide went to the democratic ticket but the vote in colorado was closer. does romney see an opening and could that spell a difference, do you think? oh, he definitely seeing an opening. both kand date candidates do. 12% to 14% of the overall voterless here in colorado and both sides are going at them. romney, the second trip since basically becoming the nominee, at least, unofficially to colorado. he is in the far west shoring up the business interests today and the latino voters, the swing voters and late deciders they hope to bring over to their side. a pollster here in colorado breaks it down why both candidates are after hispanics here in colorado, new mexico and in nevada. these candidates are looking at different pathw ....
hate. the tsa and ticket fees. add them together. what is it that s prompting them to ask for more? reporter: the agency backed by democrats in the senate wants to increase the security fee everyone pays for the ticket. from $2.50 a flight to $5 per one-way ticket. $10 round trip. 10 s pushing it to a limit. i guess it s only $5 more but i wonder, you know, how that fits in. they already have a budget. reporter: tsa s budget is set to be cut. the agency says boosting this fee would help cover the increasing price of security like the costly scanners. the fee hasn t been hiked in ten years. but a powerful lobby is pushing against it. airlines. they don t want the cost shifted onto their customers. air security is a national security function and something all of us need to be behind as americans, and the government should be picking up the cost. reporter: many travelers we talked to didn t mind. it s like using a toll road. you use a toll road you pay the t ....