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would win? selfishly maybe i might beat him. spits s inspiring advice and escape from a terror attack with the whole world watching. this is piers morgan tonight. mark spitz is a true olympic legendong before michael phelps was swimming in the pool. he won seven gold medals and 40 years later he remains an icon and american hero. welcome. my pleasure. what s it like being an american icon? probably more than not being an icon. i thrusted into that opportunity in 1972 and didn t realize my performance would elevate to a level where people would look at something special. i remember it vividly. it was the first olympic games i ever watched on television with any kind of interest or be old enough to understand. all i remember is you were this incredible fish. every time you went in the water, everyone else had to get out. you destroyed everyone. you had the most incredible mustache. it s now gone. i grew that out of spite because the college coach said you ....
personal returns. joining us now live, congressman steve king, a republican from iowa and member of the tea party caucus. good morning. good morning. the president wants to keep lower taxes for 97% of americans, the treasuries department s office of tax analysis for the tax year 2007, under bush, 3% of all tax returns were for incomes over $250,000. explain the view that obama s proposal would hurt. walk me through it. i recall back when the bush tax brackets were first implemented, a decade ago. the argument was how do you give tax breaks to people not paying taxes that s a number approaching or exceeding 50%. the lowest bracket would receive a 50% tax increase if the bush tax brackets were allowed to expire. i think this is just another one of the class pieces the president has done, dividing people along whatever lines he can demographically to how is that class envy? i m sorry. you say this is a class envy play by the president. what do you mean? i ....
costs more to fill up. 12 cents in a week. about 11% so far this year. we ve never seen gas prices this high so early in the season. usually you see gas prices going up into the spring and summer driving season. never so high so early. what goes into a gallon of gas? here s the breakdown according to the way the government looks at it. 12% of the price of gasoline are the taxes that we pay. 6% goes to distribution and marketing. 6% is refining. look at that, kyra, 76% is crude oil. crude oil is a price that is set in the global market that is a lot of different head winds and cross winds and when crude oil prices, gasoline prices rise, crude oil is above $108 a barrel. mostly because of this fear factor about iran but also because of, you know, consistent global demand for energy and oil, kyra. so you ve got the demand for oil, you ve got the arab spring, you have the fact that look what s happening here in the united states with regard to the economy. all of that c ....
exclusive interview with the arab league secretary general. you re in the situation room. newt gingrich may give it as the gift that keeps on giving. we re talking about the remark romney made right here on cnn that s gone viral that he s not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net. rather, he s concerned about the middle class. newt gingrich is making the most of it as he and rochl any cmney in nevada. joe, what s the latest on this latest round between newt gingrich and mitt romney? wolf, clearly the gingrich campaign right now is trying to sort of capitalize, if you will, and use the recent remarks by mitt romney. but one of the things they ve been concerned about is getting out of the habit of engaging in a mud slinging match with mitt romney. gingrich clearly being advised how to focus also on his own ideas, his vision for the put to try to say positively what he is for. and they viewed these recent comments by mitt romney about the poor ....
hello, everybody. i am randi kaye. we re glad you are with us. we start off with the victims of irene. for those of you who think irene was a dud, well, tell that to the families of the 21 people who died in that storm and the people that lost their homes and the estimated $10 billion price tag is nothing to sneeze at either. irene may not have been as bad as expected in some areas, but worst in others. vermont, much of the state is under water. a short time ago president obama declared a state of emergency making vermont elvauable for disaster relieve. it will take time to recover from the storm of this magnitude. the affects are being felt across much of the country. in new england and states like vermont where there has been an enormous amount of flooding. the responses continues and i want to make sure fema and other agencies are doing everything they can to help people on the ground. check out the video of vermont. it shows the power of irene destroying one of ....