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talk more about it in our crime and consequences segment in 20 minutes. the clock is still ticking toward a midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown but the pressure s gone down just a little bit. that s john boehner s way of saying both parties in both houses have agreed on a trillion dollar spending package. now they just have to vote on it. the house will vote first. then start its holiday recess. the senate will vote after that. and will try to agree on extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. if it does, the house will come back to vote on that. stay tuned. ballistics and fingerprint analysis now links oscar ortega hernandez to the rifle used to fire bullets at the white house last month according to new court filings. the 21-year-old from idaho is being charged with attempting to assassinate the president. ortega is in washington today for a hearing on whether he should undergo more missile testing to determine if he is competen ....
mitt romney is picking up a significant endorsement in south carolina today. one that could help boost his standing with tea party republicans who continue to question his conservative credentials. romney now has the backing of governor nikki hailey, who herself was propelled into office with tea party support. can she convince those same tea party voters to back mitt romney? joe johns is joining us now. this is a huge day for mitt romney. tell us what we know. mitt romney continued to get a bunch of big endorsements. this goes up on the top shelf. republicans of south carolina have been telling the romney organization to make more of a play for voters in the state and stop acting like there s no way he can win there. the nikki hailey endorsement suggesting the romney camp is responding. the nomination race in the early state of south carolina, the first primary in the south, just got interesting. nikki hailey endorsing mitt romney for president. today is the day i ....
accuser may go to the grand jury and there may be victims with another bombshell concerning the former charity second mile, the one he founded allegedly to recruit victims while projecting a saintly image. david whittle saying the organization could end up folding. that s one of three options he laid out. that in his words the organization could end up not continuing. the move matters because second mile faces a potential civil liability nightmare if the allegations are true and second mile turned a blind eye. they re launching an internal investigation. but they ve been less than forthcoming so far about what they knew and had they knew it. in 2002 when the graduate assistant mike mcqueary saw sandusky raping a boy. curley told the grand jury he notified second mile yet second mile did not bar sandusky from contact with kids until 2008. six years. no comment from second mile. nor comment from the new york times that several years of records were missing and possibl ....
cain doesn t have the foreign policy chops on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everybody. it s tuesday, november 15th. ali velshi off today. i m christine romans along with carol costello on american morning. welcome back, carol. thanks. i had a great few days off, but it s going to be back. good morning to you. breaking news to tell you about right at the top. overnight police in new york city moved in and cleared out the occupy wall street protesters from zuccotti park, the birthplace ever the occupy movement. the evictions came overnight. police ripping down tents, signs and cleaning up. a number of protesters were arrested for refusing to get out. poppy harlow now downtown. we re hearing the park is back open. so have police allowed the protesters to go back, like they said they would? reporter: so far, no. so far we ve still got police as far as we can tell surrounding the park, but it is all cleaned out. we made ....
matter, penn state university. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. but first, a stunning new shift in the republican race for the presidency. our new polls shows gingrich gained 14 points since october. that puts him in a virtual tie for the lead with mitt romney. herm yan can dropped 11 points. that puts him in a battle for third place right now with rick perry. ron paul and michele bachmann follow with jon huntsman and rick santorum rounding out the field. herman cain s plunge comes as he struggled with allegations of sexual harassment going back pour than a decade. now herman cain s wife is speaking out, but she isn t the only one. cnn s joe john says tracking the latest developments for us. and there have been many joe, what s the late snef. with herman cain losing status in the polls, the latest person to talk about the sexual harassment controversy happens to be a man. it is a case in the court of public opinion where proof, illusive. herman cain ....