Recommended charges against joe biden today, he tried to explain why he did not tried. The lead starts right now the report by Special Counsel robert hur, ripped apart today On Capitol Hill republicans questioning why no charges. Despite a report finding joe biden knowingly mishandled classified documents, democrats on the other hand, accusing her of Playing Politics with lines in his report about bidens age and memory what did todays hearing really achieved . Well talk to a democrat who was in the room. Plus, why did the Justice Department release a transcript of President Bidens interview with robert hur just as the Special Counsel was showing up On Capitol Hill. Go incidents. Were going to dig deeper into what that transcript reveals and confirmation today of tragic news that an american israeli hostage was killed by hamas back in october. His parents braun, the lead just last week, you know them, the hand family new reaction ahead from a republican senator who hosted the parents at
say i m still alive, and if you don t fall within that window there s nothing the judge can do or an appellate court can do. i spoke with his lawyer today. frank marley out of ohio. and i asked him, what is the next step and what happened? court? he said he was basically throwing a hail mary hoping the court would do something in equity, meaning doing the right thing. but the judge wants to follow the law and the law is three years from the day you re keir declared dead. he lost his. skimmed the family, went away, not to be seen. years later the family declared him dead. but he is very much alive. en in you can declare me dead bit i m very much alive. it is problematic. i m sure there s plenty of my, girlfriends want to do the same. the issue is what he can do from this point forward i spoke with his attorney as well like i said, what i think to the
the banks that were too big to fail are bigger than ever and still making multimillion dollar bets. i m wore blitzer, you re in the situation room of . the latest skirmishes are being fought on college campuses with both president obama and mitt romney but neither candidate is saying much not saying much at all about same-sex marriage. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us from new york so. jessica, what exactly did the president say when he addressed the graduates today? reporter: the president had a real message of empowerment and a little bit of politics. from president obama a message to female graduates that equality can be theirs. it is simple math, today women are not just half this country, it s half its workforce. reporter: if they work for it. don t just get involved, fight for your seat at the table. better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. reporter: wonder if this is part of the campaign s apile to women voter
pakistan. and north korea prepares for a rocket launch. we have an up-close look at the launch pad, could a nuclear test be next? i ll ask bill richardson why the rest of the world is so worried. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. but we begin with the obama administration, pressing hard right now for legislation that would ensure that the wealthiest americans don t pay a lower income tax rate than the middle class, this drawing iss let bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. jessica, the president s getting ready to score some political points on this issue? reporter: the white house says this is all about policy, but on a campaign conference call they could not behind the push for the buff let rule. it s the front page of the website, president obama bushing the buffet rule. if you make more than a million dollars a year, you should not pay less than 30% in taxes. the buffet rule says if you make more than a million dollars a
that the cold war ended more than two decades ago. wolf blitzer is off today. i m gloria borger and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the average price for a gallon of regular gas today is about $4. make that $3.92. our new poll shows nearly half of americans expect that price to hit $5. that s $5 this year and most blame the oil companies. president obama tried to hitch a ride on those sentiments today. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here. jessica, is the president going after big oil? again. believe it or not, it really felt like today was let s play politics with gas prices day in washington. the president played his part from the rose garden. think about that. it s like hitting the american people twice. he called on the senate to pass a bill that would have eliminated billions in tax breaks for oil companies. american oil is booming. the oil industry is doing just fine, with record profits and rising prod