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he joins me to tell us his inspiring story, coming up. storp good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars ....
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and leading lifestyles that mirror the rich and famous. biden s ....
plus, disturbing video of a deadly police beating. the victim, a meanta willy ill homeless man who can be heard calling out to his father they re killing me. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com while we begin this hour with the romney campaign, having some trouble staying on message. let s go straight to our national political correspondent jim acosta. he s on the campaign trail with the presumptive republican nominee. you re in lansing, michigan, right now. tell us what s going on, jim. reporter: wolf, earlier today mitt romney accused president obama of governing to the left of bill clinton and bringing big government back with a vengeance. it is a new message for a campaign that is sometimes straight off script in recent days. in michigan, mitt romney tried to steer his campaign back on message. america is going in the wrong direction. not forward, but sideways, or worse. reporter: he not only hit the presid ....
killings tragic and shocking and vows to hold the killer responsible. the suspect is on his first appointment in afghanistan after several tours in iraq. a live report from kabul just moments for now. and it s a rainy monday in mississippi and alabama, including the park where mitt romney appeared with comedian j jeff foxworthy. he learned to ay all. he likes grits. now he s side by side with the most famous red neck. the fact that you would stand here in this pouring down rain to listen to the next president of the united states [ cheering ] meanwhile, rick santorum is coming off a big win in the kansas caucuses, aiming to symptom newt gingrich from building on his win in georgia on super tuesday. both men are fighting to be the more conservative alternative to front-runner romney. gingrich addresses an energy form in biloxi later this hour. gas prices back up again. the national price of self served regular shot up 3.5 cents over the weekend to $3.80 a gallon. ....