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Latino vote, and are they capable of running something similar in that community? >> arizona, for the very first time, looks like its in play. they definitely need colorado. you need north carolina. ohio might be in play because of the latino vote. and whats nuts is even virginia because of the latino vote. what romney needs to do is basically start shaking his strange bedfellows off such as chris, which is what hes trying to do now, distance himself who was the architect sb-1070 in arizona. >> ...

Disappointing jobs report. the dow lost 130-1/2. s&p 500 gave back 16. nasdaq closed 33 behind. speaking of big numbers, it has been more than 1,070 days since the democrat controlled senate voted on a proposed budget. though the democratic president has submitted one each year. jim angle tells us that could be about to change. >> the last thing they want to do in an election year is vote on budget with tax increases in it, after avoiding it for three years, though, the hand may now be forced. >...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com an historic and stunning showdown is under way right now between the obama administration and federal judges. a three-member appeals panel all republican appointees has taken issue with the presidents jawboning of the u.s. supreme court over the health care reform law. now an unusual demand from those judges is putting a lot of heat from the justice department in washington. brian todd is following this battle for us. brian, whats going on? >> re...

Stunt. fell 414-0. senate democrats have not passed a budget resolution in 1,070 days. why? >> cmon, bret. you can cite and i know that you often do the statistics that represent gimmickry -- >> bret: wait. what is gimmickry about passing a budget. >> its our opinion they work effectively to pass a budget. >> bret: why didnt the president call harry reed and say get a budget together and vote on it. >> thats what you want to make the segment about. the president put forward and laid out the budg...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com major new backing and a brewing new controversy for the republican presidential candidate mitt romney. hes picked up one of the most sought-after endorsements of the campaign, but a remark by one of his top aides is now threatening to overshadow it. our national political correspondent jim acosta is with romney who is holding a town hall meeting outside baltimore. jim, what happened? >> reporter: wolf, as you just mentioned mitt romney is about t...

About. martha: so you came out just recently and put your support behind mitt romney, he had a big night last night in arizona. what did your reaction to how things went last night? >> well, i thought it was terrific. it was a big win, and i think that we will see a lot more winning states coming our way, if you will, given the fact that people will rally around mitt romney because he they believe that hes the candidate that can turn our country around. martha: you know, talk to me a little abou...

that disaster. more people hurt, more people killed today across syria. this is the city of homa where nine people died today in street battles between security forces and anti-government fighters. violence across the country has not let up, despite todays nationwide vote over whether to change syrias constitution. nelson mandela, the founding father of democracy in south africa is out of the hospital. he was discharged today after undergoing treatment for an abdominal ailment. a f...

Who are very skevenive, tend to be older and whiter, against what they see as this just terrifying encroachment into their state and that produces like 1070. is that an accurate way of understanding the access of the states politics? >> i think definitely. i was just in arizona last weekend. arizona now has hispanic population of 30% which continues to grow. i was interviewing hispanic asu students. a clash going on whether older white republican politicians, like it or not, weird saying that. >...

See that as symbolic? you dont see that as a more substantive bill? >> rather than say the content of the bill is symbol lick, why is this a bill here and why are we seeing legislation continue to be -- when we can say, we dont need to pass a bunch more law because its a new legislative session, right? the reason why the legislate tors are cra-- legislators are crafting certain bills. >> a weird example right now. arizona continues to be the state the rest of the united states looks for weird bi...

this volatile republican nominating contest. since the last debate nearly a month ago, rick santorum has surged into the lead in the national polls. but its a mitt romney-santorum dead heat in one of the states that votes next, thats michigan. and the polls here in arizona suggest a late shift here perhaps in governor romneys favor. our chief political analyst gloria borger is here to get us started. gloria lets focus on the poll here today. we had a poll out yesterday that showed a re...