numbers as we get more. chuck, thank you for much. joining me now, republican senator of florida marco rubio. senator, welcome back to meet the press. glad to be back. thank you. let s talk where chuck left off about florida. looking at the president s schedule, he looks to be focusing a bit more on ohio. in your judgment, you ve seen the numbers. is florida romney red at this point? we like the way florida is going. we always predicted it would go this way. two things have happened over the last couple of weeks. one, the american people have seen romney up close offering his vision of the future and what he would do as president. but more startling is the president s complete failure to put forth an agenda for the next four years. if you look at his statements over the last 72 hours or last two weeks, he doesn t talk about the future. he doesn t talk about his governing plans. it s all attacks on mitt romney. and i think you saw the numbers a moment ago. i think they ll only
the next round of swing state polls from nbc shows the swing states tied. then democrats really will be appropriate for them to panic. all right. those are our guys. good men all. the one poll you want to focus on though, he cuts to the core of all this is the 7-eleven poll. let him explain. folks, this race is as tight as mitt s smile when he meets a poor person. unfortunately, unfortunately, folks, there s still one poll out there that gives obama a chance. seven he leven stores are giving voice to the people by offering a choice of coffee cups in obama blue or romney red. yes! in 7-eleven s cup poll right now obama is up by 20 points. folks, wait a second. are we sure they re not using
subsidies, loopholes, and bailouts, special distortions in the tax code. all those things. that s what in theory he will need to do if he will meet the promises he is giving. i m going to love to see what happens in the chamber of commerce. people who bet on romney red to find out they lost all their special tax incentives, gone. this will be exciting to watch. take us inside the take us channel the mind of a donor. all right. i know i gave obama money and now i have dodd/frank and complexity, making me crazy. you think it is stupid. i don t want any part of it. i m not giving that guy any more money. i m going to bet on the other guy, romney. he s not going to do all these silly things i didn t like. right. except for his first 100 days say he will do a bunch of silly things i m not going to like. but i m still giving him money. here s the thing. when they were giving barack obama money in 2008, it was
ron paul and gingrich a distant third and fourth. we re waiting on mitt romney to speak now and second place rick santorum will also be speaking. we ll look ahead to the next stop on the primary sale. louisiana on saturday. and maryland, wisconsin, and d.c. on april 3rd. cnn s top team, wolf blitzer and john king. and gloria borger and david gergen. promoted to new york tonight. happy to be here. let s start with wolf. looks like a big win for mitt romney. how significant is illinois to his general campaign? if he stays above 50% in this vote in illinois, it ll be very significant. illinois being a very important state because of its population, the diversity. it s a big state. a lot of delegates at stake. he s going to do really well in illinois. clearly come out with the most delegates. rick santorum, he did the best he could. i think it was a blunder on his part to go off to puerto rico for two days. he could have been spending those days in illinois doing a bit bett
army staff sergeant accused of the unthinkable. walking off base and executing 16 civilians, nine of them children. the sergeant is a qualified sniper trained to hit and kill people at a distance of eight football fields. let s go to chris lawrence. what else do we know about this accused gunman? he s a combat veteran that did three tours in iraq. on the last tour in 2010, his vehicle rolled over. he suffered a traumatic brain injury. the army treated him for that. he was diagnosed and declared fit for duty. he s a married man, a father of two. over the weekend, the military moved his family, his wife and kids on to the military base in the state of washington for their own protection. now, as to what happened here, he left the base, his combat outpost at 3:00 in the morning. the afghan guards noticed he was gone. noticed him leaving. they called their american counter parts. it raised alarms. the americans put a search party together to search for the soldier. at the same