south carolina. paul ryan said the same thing last night in ohio. surrogates have been repeating that for several days now. keeping them honest though, as we and many reporters, fact checking organizations, have been pointing out, paul ryan s house republican budget actually adopted that same $716 billion in savings and mitt romney endorsed it. i asked a key romney surrogate about that endorsement just the other day. isn t the ryan plan the romney plan? no, it isn t. let me read you a quote. hang on. no, it isn t. you keep want to say it and i m telling you it s not. that s been mr. romney s line as well, downplaying his prior endorsement of the ryan budget plan. last night on wisconsin local television, he seemed to try to do two things at once, both back away from the ryan plan, while also suggesting there s nothing to back away from. take a look. your senior campaign adviser said sunday if the ryan budget would have come to your desk, you would have signed it i
the obama camp today is trying a unique way to remind voters that mitt romney is refusing to release anymore of his tax returns. the president s team is in athens offering to help romney make the problem go away. but there is a catch of course. our white house correspondent dan lothian has more on that live now. dan. reporter: you know, joe, democrats say they want to know more about mitt romney s personal finances. they ve been hitting him on news shows and political ads. now the obama campaign says they ll stop asking questions if mitt romney releases just three more years of his tax returns. it s the political version of let s make a deal. if mitt romney releases more tax returns, the obama campaign promises to back off and stop running ads like this one. did romney pay 10% in taxes, 5%, 0%, we don t know. reporter: the offer came in a letter from obama re-election to governor mitt romney s campaign manager matt rose. governor romney apparently fears the more he of
4 million people will lose their coverage under medicare advantage. that s mitt romney today in south carolina. paul ryan said the same thing last night in ohio. surrogates have been repeating that for several days now. keeping them honest though, as we and many reporters, fact checking organizations, have been pointing out, paul ryan s house republican budget actually adopted that same $716 billion in savings and mitt romney endorsed it. i asked a key romney surrogate about that endorsement just the other day. isn t the ryan plan the romney plan? no, it isn t. let me read you a quote. hang on. no, it isn t. you keep want to say it and i m telling you it s not. that s been mr. romney s line as well, downplaying his prior endorsement of the ryan budget plan. last night on wisconsin local television, he seemed to try to do two things at once, both back away from the ryan plan, while also suggesting there s nothing to back away from. take a look. your senior campai
a nap shot 14 years in the making. a ugandan boy, the 41st president. a touching reunion from half a world away. cnn newsroom begins right now. and good morning. so glad you re with us on this friday. i m alina cho in for carol costello. we begin this hour in afghanistan. and the latest deadly attack on u.s. troops by the very allies they are supposed to trust. and it s not the first time. the latest incident earlier today in farah province. a uniformed afghan police officer opened fire on u.s. troops and killed two americans. it s the third such attack on americans in just the past week. that makes 31 times this year that afghan security personnel have turned on nato troops, including americans. at least 39 coalition forces have been killed just this year. most of them americans. 21 in all. that compares to 15 such fatalities in all of last year. our barbara starr is at the pentagon watching the story for us. good morning. you know, these are the very troops that america
4 million people will lose their coverage under medicare advantage. that s mitt romney today in south carolina. paul ryan said the same thing last night in ohio. surrogates have been repeating that for several days now. keeping them honest though, as we and many reporters, fact checking organizations, have been pointing out, paul ryan s house republican budget actually adopted that same $716 billion in savings and mitt romney endorsed it. i asked a key romney surrogate about that endorsement just the other day. isn t the ryan plan the romney plan? no, it isn t. let me read you a quote. hang on. no, it isn t. you keep want to say it and i m telling you it s not. that s been mr. romney s line as well, downplaying his prior endorsement of the ryan budget plan. last night on wisconsin local television, he seemed to try to do two things at once, both back away from the ryan plan, while also suggesting there s nothing to back away from. take a look. your senior campai