limits on the justices, are on the table as a presidential commission examines the impact of the changes that could be raised to current conservative majority. they are going to report back here within 180 days. before the election democrats really didn t want to go there. should democrats pack the supreme court? this was as close as biting god? i ve already spoken, i m not a fan of court packing. now that they are the white house the administration is asking 36 as experts to study the effects of expanding the supreme court and filling new seats would liberal justices, something biden did not like as a senator in 1983. he said he thought that court packing was the boneheaded idea when fdr tried it. it was a boneheaded idea. it was a terrible mistake to make. so why should he do it now if it is a good idea? so the panel is being asked to do a number of steps, including the pros and cons on exactly that issue. they will also be were looking at the courts rule
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.
Aftershocks has killed at least 51 people. this is some of the video we re getting and the mud brick houses in the shaken area were no match for the magnitude six quake which struck around 4:30 in the morning local time. a seismologist tells the associated press there s no connection between this quake and the ones in chile or haiti. and large numbers of u.s. troops are leaving haiti raising security concerns and leaving some fearing dwindling international interests in the wake of the january 12th earthquake there. the total number of u.s. troops in haiti is expected to drop to 8,000 in the coming days, down from a high of 20,000 on february 1st. the u.s. military incysists security will be spearheaded by u.n. peacekeepers and local authorities. and the white house confirms president obama plans to appoint retired major general robert harding as the next head of the transportation security administration, the tsa. general harding is a former