the last twitter foundation, has his creation become too powerful for its own good? and montel williams. i was trained by the military. why would you want to take away my gun? and moment of impact, extraordinary video inside a cockpit as a plane falled from the sky. an unbelievable story of what happened to everyone onboard. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. with both sides spending billions of dollars, this election campaign isn t the most expensive in history it s also turning out to be the ugliest. tonight, we re seeing proof how far president obama and mitt romney will go to win in november. the latest attack ad from an obama super pac. obama is doubling down on its shots on bain capital. it s saying romney may have played a role in a woman s death. my guest frank rich, you re getting very angry about this as the days have worn on. i heard the dissitancing from t super pac and all this. the bottom line, this ad, and we ll see it in a moment, it basically
divide and conquer. the union sent wisconsin into a completely red state. ranking member elijah cummings and two other democrats sent a letter to darrell issa requesting a clarification from walker over his sworn testimony. walker s trying to change the subject by touring the badger state. today, walker toured an agricultural equipment company in lacrosse, wisconsin. he was joined by a failed presidential candidate who left his state billions of dollars in debt. yes, there he is. romney campaign co-chair tim w pawlen pawlenty, former governor of new mexico. the romney campaign knows how big the walker-barrett election is. my question tonight, does the obama campaign now how big it is? i ll have much more on this topic tomorrow night. tonight, in our survey, i asked does mitt romney care more about people or profits? 4% said people.
more on that in a moment. dan is going to join us live. also, we want to tell you the company that owns the ship pointing the finger squarely at the ship s captain for allowing the ship to run aground on an italian island. cnn received a statement from costa cruises just a short time ago which reads in part, it says while the investigation is ongoing, preliminary indications are that there may have been significant human error on the part of the ship s master, captain francesco schettino, which resulted in these grave consequences. the captain is under arrest now. he could face charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. but he is defending himself today and you will hear that in just a moment as well. sadly though, crews today found two elderly people dead near the ship s restaurant. life vests still strapped around their bodies. that brings the death toll inside the ship to five. rescuers did pull out a south korean couple who were trapped for more than 24 hours. they re
to be severe. welcome to your money. i m ali velshi. august 2nd is the day the treasury department says it will no longer be able to pay all of our nation s bills. and the united states will default on its debt. republicans are going to vote on their own plan this week, complete with spending cuts. but president obama says he won t support deep cuts without increases in taxes. if you re trying to get to $2.4 trillion without any revenue, then you are effectively gutting a whole bunch of domestic spending that is going to be too burdensome and is not going to be something that i would support. david gergen is cnn s senior political analyst. david, there was a time when republican house speaker john boehner and president obama both talked of doing something big to change america s unsustainable economic path. what do you think? do you think that opportunity s lost? well, a week is a long time in politics. it can be a lifetime. i think what s now clear is that the big de
leadership structure of syria. should the goal be regime change to say explicitly assad should go and the policy for the united states should be to see him go. and let s talk syria. assad is somebody who, in my view should be transitioned out of the leadership of syria, but we don t have to invade every country nor should we. we need a president who will stand up in interest and reality on the ground and we have the president and his administration until recently implying or stating that assad was a reformer and we should put our chips on him and look what he is, a real truth has been revealed and once again, barack obama s naivete in foreign policy is revealed. let s go back to the question about your candidacy and ask you something about governor pawlen pawlenty s candidacy, i agree with him on policies and