special guest at graduation. president obama will give the commencement speech. the nato conference in chicago ground zero for diplomacy and protests. a fierce confrontation yesterday between protesters and police left dozens of people injured on both sides. today more demonstrations are planned. our ted rowlands has been basically in the thick of all of that. protesters, ted, vowing to shut down, i understand, boeing s chicago headquarters today. what is happening now? is it fairly peaceful here? have they managed to shut down anything? they re just finishing a march, suzanne, arriving at boeing headquarters, and there s a couple hundred people there, so at this point it s been very peaceful. they have just been marching through the streets of chicago, but we ll see what happens in the next hour or two as they entrench themselves at boeing. we ve been hearing some reports that they are possibly shutting down some streets. if they do that, police may be forced to go in an
but you really see this bain attack emerging in the last 24 hours as a common theme among all the candidates. huntsman was hitting romney in new hampshire and perry in anderson, drilled mitt romney on this and he said he looted with bbain, he tried to localizend and he said that romney was profiting off failure. so it s an interesting attack in a republican primary. the romney campaign is defending this saying that these other republicans are attacking the private sector and sound like democrats. but this is a state that s lost a lot of jobs and manufacturing jobs, a lot of textile industry jobs and the unemployment rate is almost 10% here. so it could be a potent theme hitting the sort of wall street corporate-raider mentality in the state where there s a lot of populist frustration with the tough economy, wolf. did rick perry, peter, mention the tens of thousands of jobs that bain capital helped to create, staples, domino pizza?
is spending millions of dollars to flood the airwaves with anti-romney attack ads. is this payback time for newt gingrich? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. president obama dropped a bit of a bombshell a little while ago in an unscheduled appearance announcing bill daily is stepping down after just a year. he ll. replaced by the budget director, jack lou. here s jessica yellin. she s working the story for us. jessica, what s going on over here? well, wolf, first of all the president actually said that bill daley wants to spend more time with his family. let s listen to part of what the president had to say and then we ll talk about it a little bit on the back end. here s the president. obviously, this was not easy news to hear. and i didn t accept bill s decision right away. in fact, i asked him to take a couple of days to make sure that he was sure about this. but in the end, the pull of the hometown, we both love. a city that s been synonymous with