hands. keep in mind, this is not a situation where the two parties are miles apart. we re in rough agreement about how much spending can be cut responsibly as a first step towards reducing our deficit. we agree on a process where the next step is a debate in the coming months on tax reform and entitlement reform, and i am willing and ready to have that debate. if we need to put in place an enforcement mechanism to hold us accountable for making the reforms, i will support that too if it s done in a smart and balanced way. so there are plenty of ways out of this mess. but we are almost out of time. i want to bring in cnn s joe johns to tell us where things stand at this moment. how is speaker boehner trying to reach his magic number of 217? randy, when i was listening to you at the top sounded like you were describing theater of the absurd. house republicans are inches closer to fixing their problem in the house of representatives. i think we have pictures now of the hou
also, penny lee. and finally, eman al-obeidy political analyst michelle bernard. also president of bernard center for women politics and public policy. is her bach against the wall? get it? get it? ? so karl rove wrote an ad saying, let s not go to the tea party direction too hard. because we might regret that. here is the quote. republicans also must not confuse the tea party movement with the larger more important tea party sentiment. okay. i think it was fairly clear if you read the whole off ad it was a warning to people. don t go in bachmann s direction. it is a bad idea. then on the other hand, bill clinton can t say enough nice things about her. listen to this. if i say anything nice about them, they will lose for sure.
an affair and pay his mistress. edwards attorney says known was not a campaign donation but a gift from two edwards supporters. joe johns is following the latest developments and he joins us by phone from near raleigh, north carolina. joe, you ve been following the twists and turns how this unfolded. what do we know about the specific counts against edwards now? reporter: the indictment, as i looking through it, has a lot of the information we expected to be in there, essentially, illegal campaign contributions, a number of counts on that. there s a conspiracy count and the other thing is the thing we ve been looking for forever since we really heard about this case, a false statements count. that is essentially, that edwards was able to falsify wilfully conceal, cover up and otherwise keep information out of the public eye about contributions that he received from at least two individuals we ve talked about again and again. that would be a woman named bunny melon, a phila
to see former massachusetts governor mitt romney formally that s why right here, in australia, announcing he s a candidate for chevron is building the republican presidential one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. nomination. staffers say romney will enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. telecrowd at a new hampshire what s it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. farm. we ve got to be smart about this. and he ll talk about how barack it s a smart way to go. obama failed america. new york congressman anthony weiner keeps getting asked about a picture on his twitter down the hill? account. he told cnn s wolf blitzer he man: all right. did not tweet a picture of a man we were actually thinking, maybe. in his underwear, but weiner did we re going to hike up here, so we ll catch up with you guys. not dismiss the possibility that [ indistinct talking and laughter ] the picture might be him. he
good evening. breaking news tonight in the search for victims in the joplin tornado. first, though, i want to show you some remarkable new video showing the initial moments after the tornado struck, video captured by a couple racing to find a family member, a brother looking for his sister through a neighborhood which after the tornado they barely even recognized. oh, look at this. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh, aaron. oh, my gosh. it went right through here. i don t know where we are. i don t know where to go. we got to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. come on. i feel like i need to help if someone is hurt. we ll keep asking. look at this house. come on. you guys okay? yeah. oh, my gosh! look at these houses, babe. you guys okay? yes. what street is this? i don t know. oh, babe, look. what? oh, no. it s the hospital. it was the hospital. show you more of that video. imagine you don t even recognize the community you