done to rein in north korea. there are sharp, growing fears that the nation s new, young leader, kim jong-un may be with tax day upon us, the planning a dangerous show of president made a show of releasing his returns today. power to repair his country s image after its humiliating mr. obama reported $789,674 of income. failure to launch a long-range rocket into space. not enough to subject him to his the primary concern, the debt own proposed buffett rule, that facing of a nuclear weapon, a taxes millionaires more, test blast, which intelligence although he is a millionaire. analysts believe north korea is he paid $162,074 in taxes, an even now preparing. president obama weighed in just moments ago, calling the effective ray of 20.5%. situation an area of deep concern. vice president biden paid a higher rate on less income, the failed rocket launch was a $78,900 in federal taxes, or a slap in the face to the international community, which 23.2% rate. repeatedly warned the
outfront tonight, the new cold war. this evening, the united nations security council has wrapped up an emergency meeting on what, if anything, can be done to rein in north korea. there are sharp, growing fears that the nation s new, young leader, kim jong-un may be planning a dangerous show of power to repair his country s image after its humiliating failure to launch a long-range rocket into space. the primary concern, the detonation of a nuclear weapon with, a test blast, which intelligence analysts believe north korea is even now preparing. president obama weighed in just moments ago, calling the situation an area of deep concern. the failed rocket launch was a slap in the face to the international community, which repeatedly warned the rogue state to back away from its plans. now, add in iran, which security experts also believe is hiding nuclear secrets, and the big picture gets much more critical. look at this. look at how the nuclear map is changing. during the col
women want this november and what it means for the candidates. later this hour, a as a leb tee breakup of massive proportions? no, not them. but wait until you see. weekend early start begins now. a problem with president obama s secret service detail is overshadowing his trip to columbia, there for the summit of the americas. before the president stepped off the plane, a dozen of his secret service agents were sent packing. and replaced by a different set of agents. according to the washington post, the problems stems from one agent involvement with prostitut prostitutes. there have been allegations of misconduct made against secret service personnel in cartagena, could bum leah prior to the trip. because of this, those personnel are being returned to their place of duty and replaced by our personnel. the president s security was never compromised. we got a quick reminder how important security is for a trip like this. four explosions in columbia yesterday, two in
it s the top of the hour. i m gary tuchman in for suzanne malveaux. let s get you up to speed. george zimmerman has a status hearing just a few minutes from now. he s not expected to appear in court for it. he also has a bond hearing set for next week. zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of trayvon martin. zimmerman says it was self-defense. the affidavit says he quote profiled the teenager and disregarded a police dispatcher s order not to pursue him. thousands of syrians shouting against the government are testing the cease-fire that went into effect yesterday. so far day two is relatively calm. we are hearing though about small clashes and some civilian casualties. syrian forces and rebel fighters are for the most part keeping their promise to stop shooting at each other. north korea s long-range rocket launch was a big failure, but world leaders are worried about what could come next. the u.n. secretary-general believes north korea m
could be smuggled in undetected. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it s one of the more mundane documents americans have to deal with, but for president obama, the tax return is politically charged in this, an election year. the white house released his 2011 files today along with that of the vice president, joe biden and there are some surprises in both documents. as lisa sylvester has been carefully going after these tax returns, what do you see? first off, the obamas, like the romneys, gave generously to charities. the president s income, which was $1.7 million in 2010 was down significantly as sales of his book dropped off, but the focus was on taxes and more specifically, rates. there are some surprises there. who was taxed at a higher rate? the president, mitt romney or the president s secretary? it might surprise you, but it s actually the president s secretary. she makes $95,000 a year. the obama administration confirms her rate is is higher than t