Stand up and be held accountable and hold each other accountable for where we stand today, going into this midterm election. well, secretary clinton, hold on for a second. we re going to take a quick commercial break. we have lots more to talk to you about. lots more to talk about with secretary hillary clinton. what s for dinner? panera! freshly prepared with clean ingredients. it s not just a night off from cooking. it s a delicious night on. for everyone at the table.
to congress with voters knowing he s gay. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a very weak jobs report is having a very chilling effect on wall street and the economy right now. the dow jones industrials closing down about 270 points only moments ago. the other major indices also taking a hit. we learned today that only 69,000 jobs were added to america s workforce last month. that s the weakest growth in a year and the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2%. president obama on the campaign trail today. he s struggling to convince voters he s part of the solution and not part of the problem. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is traveling with the president right now. brianna, what s the latest reaction? reporter: wolf, it was a similar refrain we heard from president obama. he urged americans to look at the broader trends for jobs and unemployment, and he did give congress a little credit specifically for passing th
supermarket. lots of injuries, but amazingly, no one killed. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s begin with breaking news just coming into the situation room right now out of afghanistan. word of a military crash. let s go straight to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. i know there are casualties. what are you hearing? wolf, a u.s. official tells us a u.s. army black hawk helicopter has crashed in southern afghanistan. at this point they believe it crashed during bad weather, but the official tells us they cannot yet rule out enemy action in this incident. sadly, they do believe all four crew members onboard perished in this helicopter crash. there were a number of soldiers on the ground at a combat outpost waiting to be picked up by the helicopter, transported to another area and they report seeing the helicopter go down. so it could have been significantly worse, but the m
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that.