400,000 since april. that is too high. economists say to make a dent in the unemployment rate. federal authorities have charged a young massachusetts physics grad in a terror plot. agents say rezwan ferdaus planned to use remote control airlines to hit the u.s. capitol and the pentagon. they would have been filled with a plastic explosive. the fbi says that they arrested him, he s an american citizen, after a lengthy undercover operation. john mccain leading a delegation of republican senators on a trip to libya today. the group has been meeting with libya s national transition council, the rebel leaders that drove moammar gadhafi from power. a spokesman says the council knows gadhafi s general location. senator mccain talked to cnn from tripoli. i think that the people of libya, the ones that i ve talked to, would like to catch him alive. they would like to see him on trial for the horrendous crimes that he has committed. every few days they come across another grave.
situation room starts right now. thanks, very much happening right now. the gop battle for the white house. eating up here in tampa, florida. just three hours away from hearing eight presidential candidates go ahead it head. they will join me on cnn s first ever tea party republican presidential debate. can the texas governor rick perry maintain his growing lead in the polls despite a highly controversial stance on social security? or will mitt romney come from behind and once again, seize the top spot? is it too late for michele bachmann? standing by with complete coverage and analysis. meanwhile, in washington, president obama scrambling to defeat them all and save the ailing economy before time runs out. but there are new signs in congress his blueprint for recovery could be dead on arrival. i m wolf blitzer in tampa, here in the situation room. we re just three hours away from what s going to be a critical potentially make or break moment for some of the republic
phone hacking scandal that doomed a best-selling tabloid and rocked the very pillars of society. today, the parliamentary committee that grilled rupert murdoch and his son james last month released letters suggesting that illegal snooping, hacking, eavesdropping, were a lot more common at the now defunct news of the world than the murdochs led on. one such letter is from a reporter named clive goodman who was sacked and jailed for hacking the cell phones of the royal family. he writes to his paper s human resources department, this decision is inconsistent because, here s a name blacked out, and other members of staff were carrying out the same illegal procedures. he says this practice was widely discussed in the daily editorial conference until explicit reference to it was banned by the editor. now james murdoch appears to have some explaining to do. highly likely james murdoch will be invited back to give evidence. before that we want to take a very detailed account of
insurance that government would manda mandate. third you said the era of small government was over. that sounds a lot more like barack obama, if you ask me. she s got a record of misstating and making false statements and that s another example of that list, she says that she s fighting for these things, she fought for less government spending. we got a lot more. she led the effort against obama care, we got obama care. she led the effort against t.a.r.p. we got t.a.r.p. she said she s got a titanium spine. it s record of her results. please stop because you re killing us. tonight also the debate debut of jon huntsman who urged conservatives not to be turned away by his moderate views on gay rights and his service as president obama s ambassador to china. that s exactly what needs to happen in this nation. i am running on my record. and i m proud to run on my record. when elected president, i m simply going to prove to the american people that we can secure the border.
with middle-class economic anxiety front and center, well, the early gop front runner might want to rethink this line governor romney is also exhibit a if you need any proof this week matters. saturday s iowa republican straw poll could knock a candidate or two from the race and so democratic activists are now turning up at gop events hoping to rattle the republicans who would be president. what are you going to do to strengthen social security, medicare and medicaid without cutting benefits? what are you dough going to do? you ve had your chance. anything else you want to say? well, i m going to see what you re going to say. you get to ask your question and i get to ask my answer. if you don t like my answer, you can vote for someone else. but now it s my turn to give my answer. there you go. are you ready for an answer? i m not going to raise taxes. that s my answer. i m not going to raise taxes. if you want someone to raise taxes, you can vote for barack ob