president obama formally canceled the meeting next month with president putin. why? because of russia s offer of asylum to edward snowden. that is just the tip of an icebe iceberg. let s go live to our chief white house correspondent jessia yellin. she has all the latest for us. wolf, for a while the u.s. tried to reset relations for russia. if the administration had big hopes to reduce nuclear stockpiles or agree on how to press iran and syria for civility in the middle east. thanks to the breakdown in relations over edward snowden, now the goals are even further out of reach. also also set no thanks to russian president putin s one on one summit in moscow, putting a new frost in an already chili relationship. behind the latest cold front? edward snowden. even though we don t have a
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for
arizona, you re in the situation room. this just coming in. on the eve of the new nuclear weapons showing that just how tight the race is. take a look 32% say rick san storm, but with the sampling eras that s constituentically a tie. ron paul coming in at 6%, let s go in depth right now with our chief political analyst gloria borger and depend can i washington bureau chief michael crowley. gloria, first you. arizona we all thought was supposed to be relatively easy for mitt rom in, but this a week before the primary is a horse race. nothing succeeds like success. rick santorum has had a lot of success, and we see him defining himself as the cultural conservative. as you point out, this was supposed to be an easy state for mitt romney. he could win, but there s a substantial number of mormons, he has moved way to the right and also has an organization dating back. show shows you that republican voters can to get their arrange. they were for pretty romney, but we know in mi
look for the grown in idaho seal. time to check the news out of washington, d.c. jessia yellin, part of the best political team on television, live from the political desk. hi, jessica, what s crossing right now? hey, don, a big bill died last night, the omnibus spending