a week of twists and turns in the race for the republican presidential nomination. with two of the candidates in a very hot spotlight. herman cain facing accusations of sexual harassment and rick perry stumbling badly if the latest gop debate and now struggling to recover. cnn s jim acosta is watching awe of this unfold. so what s going on right now? there are certain there is certainly a lot at play. certainly. there is an unromney and his name is newt gingrich. take a look at new polls that came out, first the let s look at the first poll first. mitt romney on top 23% and then newt gingrich at 19%. he has moved into that unromy position. he is sliding it with herman cain. and then you see ron paul and rick perry. this poll, we should note, is interesting in that it was taken in part after the gop debate on wednesday night when rick perry had that big oops moment. so that potentially has hurt him in this race for the gop nomination. now to the cbs poll which also confirm
out for the first time about some shocking revelations that cremated remains of american war dead were simply dumped in landfills. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it may have been the most awkward 53 seconds of the presidential campaign so far and certainly the most widely seen. texas governor rick perry s brain freeze during last night s republican presidential debate was the most viewed video on youtube in the united states earlier today. if you haven t seen it, you re about to as we look ahead to what happens to rick perry s campaign now. jim acosta is in auburn hills, michigan. the scene of perry s monumental stumble. how does he recover from this? wolf, after last night s debate and rick perry s meltdown in michigan, the candidate and his campaign seem to have a new strategy. get the voters to laugh with him and not at him. commerce, education and the what s the third one there? let s see i
tied to taxes and overregulation. why are they giving big fat bonuses. we ll leave that and up next. europe is going bust and how a international bail out fund might hit us for extra cash. what about our own 14 trillion dollar debt? looking good! you lost some weight.
his administration anonymously to politico. very, very brave. they say he hurt their feelings. did he? are you okay? did your feelings get hurty wurty? an anonymous wall street banker complains that president obama wind everyone into a frenzy against us. oh, are you going to be all right? all you did was cause the great recession and nearly destroy the whole world economy. but obama said bad things about you? an anonymous bank executive says, you have to understand it is very personal. he raised money from us. then he started calling us bad people. so forgive us for not wanting to buy him a drink after getting punched in the eye. oh, you got punched in eye, did you? what a joke. apparently, you have never taken a real punch. obama let them their banking monopoly, their fat jobs, their fat bonuses, their risky derivatives trading, their unlimited leverage and their record profits. mean while what did real americans get to keep?
there are no charges yet. as soon as there are any new developments, we will bring that to you live. so remember those big, fat bonuses? well, they re back. while your tax money bailed out aig, now they re set to hand out $100 million in rewards. but it s not to you. cnn s christine romans joins us live from new york. what gives, christine? this is the same big pot of money we ve been hearing about and the american public s been outraged about for over a year. another big set of bonuses set to go out. this is all based on a 2007 contract with the aig financial products division. the very division that wrote those insurance contracts that turned out to be so, so detrimental to the country. we think about $100 million is due to some these employees at aig. aig tells us that the staff has agreed much of the staff, 97% of the staff, has agreed to take pay cuts. pay cuts, kyra, to the tune of