this all adds up to the most detailed account yet of zimmerman s side of the story. when i got to right about here, he yelled from behind me, to the side of me. he said, yo, you got a problem? i said, hey, man, i don t have a problem. and he says, now you have a problem, and he punched me in the nose. at that point, i fell down. he ended up on top of me, and he just kept punching my face and my head. and i was screaming for help. he put his hand on his nose on my nose, and the other hand on my howamouth, and he said s the [ bleep ] up. i didn t know what he was hitting it felt like he was hitting me with bricks. it felt like my head was going to explode. he said, you re going to die tonight, mother [ bleep ]. he says, you re going to die tonight. you re going to die tonight, mother [ bleep ]. i felt his hand going down my side. and i grabbed my firearm. i grabbed it, i just grabbed my firearm, and i shot him. i just shot him, and then he falls off, and he s
we want more ben and we want him now. but tonight, the truth. there s not enough ben for america. more ben is bad. i m talking, of course, about this ben, fed chair ben bernanke. today he announced he ll continue so-called operation twist. the goal is to bring down interest rates. theoretically that would spark borrowing, spending and hiring. it would be a panacea to fix the whole problem. but even ben admits his supply of money is drying up. monetary policy is not a panacea, it s not going to solve our economic problems. the fed fed s drugs didn t come cheap either. there have been three rounds of fed stimulus with a total price tag of $2.7 trillion. and that doesn t include the $267 billion extension to operation twist that was announced today. so the question is, were the highs we got worth the price of $2.7 trillion? check this out. when the financial crisis hit, the fed stepped in with an unprecedented plan to lower interest rates. it was called q.e. 1 or quantitativ
up first tonight, presidential politics. a major shift in tone. not much new on policy front. mitt romney makes a direct appeal for latino votes. speaking to a national conv convention down in florida one day before the same group hears from president obama governor romney began by asking hispanic voters to remember promises the incumbent failed to keep on immigration and other issues. that you don t really have an alternative. i believe he s taking your vote for granted. i ve come here today with a very simple message. you do have an alternative. your vote should be respected, and your voice is more important now than ever before. making his case, governor romney focused primarily on economics. is the america of 11% hispanic unemployment the america of our dreams? we can do better. but he also offered a broad outline of his immigration policies. governor romney, for example, pledged a permanent status for young illegal immigrants brought across the border by their pa
and may have big-footed congress. kate bolduan is on the case. we heard it moments ago. the white house asserting executive privilege. reporter: it is the latest twist in this ongoing battle that is coming to his leading up to this showdown vote, this contempt vote, that the republican chairman of the house oversight committee, congressman darrell issa, has been threatening. he says he had a subpoena for documents relating you of the department of justice relating to this botched gun-running operation known as fast and furious. he wants these documents and the department of justice there has been a lot of back and forth, how they will get the documents if they could give over the documents, put all those details aside and the background. today what we are watching right here, you are see thing video of the live hearing going on right now. it is the chairman is moving forward with this vote to hold the attorney general in contempt of congress on this would be very bi
they ll pack they ll get on every single slice. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re expecting a vote in the house of representatives. the house oversight committee at any moment now on whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, eric holder, in contempt of congress. at issue, his refusal to turn over documents about the botched gun-running sting operation called fast and furious. the republican-led panel going forward even after president obama today invoked executive privilege claiming the release of the documents would have in his words, significant damaging consequences. the attorney general has refused to cooperate offering to provide subpoenaed documents only if the committee agrees in advance to close the investigation. no investigator would ever agree to that. the likes of the committee chairman. he will call the role call momentarily. want to know if senior justice officials knew if the fast and furious program was flawed. fe