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we begin with both presidential campaigns getting down and dirty on the low road as the candidates themselves try to stick to the high road. the latest examples, killer tv ad that the obama campaign is using to welcome so-called welcome mitt romney to pennsylvania. and a top romney s surrogates complaint that the president should learn how to be an american. let s go to our white house correspondent, dan lothian, watching all of this unfold. we ve been saying it s getting ugly. reporter: certainly right. the fireworks today. the president was in texas attending a total of fundraisers trying to camp up in the campaign cash. some of those were with small donors, others with big names like tv star eva longoria. but today was more about money. the president was also going after his opponent, mitt romney, for more details about his personal finances. it won t help create jobs. and it won t ease the pain of homeowners stuck in upside down mortgages, but the obama re-elect ....
her husband the prominent scientist and he says he was out of town at the time. she doesn t remember. we re digging deeper. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s faced a barrage of attacks on his business record with democrats portraying him as a job-cutting corporate raider, but mitt romney is opening up about his time at bain capital and vowing to cut the jobless rate. let s go to our national political correspondent jim acosta and he has the latest. the way the day started it seemed that mitt romney was going to stay away from the subject of bain capital, but as it turned out he is taking the issue head-on. reporter: it was a day when mitt romney s campaign event, this one being a speech to a latino business group took a backseat to responding to campaign attacks on the democrats favorite subject bain capital. the american people are interested in not so much the history of where i was at bain capital o ....
more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in china tells cnn a very different account of what happened. cnn s stan grant is in beijing and has been following this story from the beginning. dramatic developments, huge interest at stake, stan. you had a chance to speak with the u.s. ambassador gary locke about all of this. what is the very latest? reporter: yes. he is gary locke, the man with the answers about what went wrong at the embassy. chen guangcheng said he was encouraged to leave and without knowing the full range of his threa ....
blossomed. and first there was bountygate, now there s spygate. the general manager of the new orleans saints is being accused of bugging the superdome to listen in on visiting coaches. there s talk of criminal charges, but mickey loomis is saying the report is 1,0000 plu false. a police dog sent in to end a high speed chase. apparently he worked it out. that s some nice maneuvers. up first this morning a dramatic turnaround in the trayvon martin case. the sanford, florida city commission voted to reject the police commissioner s resignation. last month he was blasted for not arresting trayvon martin immediately after the shooting, but now they question the fairness of removing him. chief lee is paying for the sins of past police officers. the police chiefs. he s been here he has been in office ten months. how do you steer a boat that big, mr. mayor? how do you steer a boat in ten months to a complete turnaround? you don t. heated discussion, in the meanti ....
cory booker racing into a neighbor s burning house crossing through smoke and flames to save a woman s life. newark, new jersey, has a new hero this morning. in control. the government taking a huge step in safety behind the wheel. a brake override. we ll tell you all about it. jackass award. the agency using your money to invent a fake award show at dinners you paid for. we re on the case. housing alert. have prices finally hit rock bottom? value of your home could go up for the first time in seven years. and it s iconic, studied in one of the most popular pieces of art around and now hitting the auction block. get ready for the scream. newsroom begins right now. up first this morning, north korea defies the world and then surprises it. the secretive regime admitting that the controversial rocket launch was a failure. pyongyang says it broke apart before it could put a satellite into orbit. the united states and other countries saw the test as a future ball ....