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We need new shoes. reporter: these two seem mismatched by senator rubio s boots are made for walking and for those we snicker. are you ready start jeanne moos, cnn, new york. good evening. thanks for joining us. busy night indeed. donald trump has been making insenuations about ted cruz citizen ship and denying responsibility saying he is only asking what others are asking him. senator cruz was born in alberta to an american mother and trump s thoughts surfaced when he was asked about it late yesterday by the washington post and spoke today the situation room s wolf blitzer. senator ted cruz is your main rival in iowa according to the polls right now. all of a sudden, this issue of the fact he was born in canada has come up whether or not he s a natural born citizen. ....
Others are asking him. senator cruz was born in alberta to an american mother and trump s thoughts surfaced when he was asked about it late yesterday by the washington post and spoke today the situation room s wolf blitzer. senator ted cruz is your main rival in iowa according to the polls right now. all of a sudden, this issue of the fact he was born in canada has come up whether or not he s a natural born citizen. you know the constitution says no person except a natural born citizen shall be eligible to the office of president. do you believe senator ted cruz is a natural born citizen? i don t know, to be honest. and i like him a lot. and i don t like the issue. i don t like even bringing it up and wasn t me that brought it up. it was the washington post doing an interview. they ask you a question one of the questions they asked me was this question and they went with it. and i wasn t very aggressive with the answer except one thing. you can t have somebody running i ....
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first it s today s new round of attack in the presidential race campaign and the much winning battleground state of ohio this afternoon. president obama slammed the tax proposals, warninging they ll send thousands of u.s. jobs overs overs overseas. > the romney campaign is accusing them of another dishonest attack. why did the president level this new corporate tax attack on romney in ohio? reporter: well, wolf, the president is trying to draw sharp contrast between his campaign and romney s campaign, trying to suggest romney is looking out for the people at the the very top. specifically in ohio the people are making the argument that romney supports are eliminating tax. this will lead to job creations overseas. and that will come at the expense of jobs in ohio. we have not found any serious economic studies that the economic plan would actually create jobs until today. i ve got to be honest. today we found out ....
they bear the name of his predecessor. president obama is seizing the bush tax cutted and calling for them to be extend, but not for everyone. the president wants to let them expire for the wealthiest americans. that puts him at odds with congressional republicans, as well as his rival mitt romney and sets the stage for a very heated battle with less than four months to go before the election. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is covering this for us. first of all, why is the president doing this today? reporter: well, wolf, this is certainly part of his narrative that he s trying to put out there as he runs for re-election. this is very much happening through that political prism. he tried to portray himself as really the one fighting for the middle class. now he s trying to portray his opponent mitt romney and congressional republicans as being defenders of the wealthy. so what he s calling for is for an extension of the bush-era tax cuts only for america ....
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him brie ....