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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 th...

im candidate crowley, and youre in "the situation room." just coming in, a new snapshot capturing the big picture, a cnn lorcp poll shows support for president obama up slightly from last month 67 this new poll shows a five-point lead over romney, though still within a sampling error. the same poll shows a seven-point lead for the president over rick santorum. that is up only slightly from january. we want to bring in cnns chief analyst gloria borger. so i look at this and think mayb...

prove it again in florida. >> three state, three winners. next stop, florida, where mitt romney still has a commanding lead according to the latest poll. wolf blitzer, gloria and john king will be here in a moment to talk about it. but first, two people that are very happy with the results. i spoke with newt gingrichs daughters, jackie and cathy. ladies, judging by the big grins on your faces, youre pretty happy down there. >> were thrilled to be here in south carolina. >> its a great ...

wolf blitzer, gloria and john king will be here in a moment to talk about it. but first, two people that are very happy with the results. i spoke with newt gingrichs daughters, jackie and cathy. ladies, judging by the big grins on your faces, youre pretty happy down there. >> were thrilled to be here in south carolina. >> its a great place to be tonight. >> i bet it is. what an amazing turn around for your father. ive spoken to him a few times and he was dead on arrival in the summer. ...

still alive in there. but they havent reached them yet. the ship ran aground and sent passengers scrambling for lifeboats. >> [ screaming ] . [ speaking foreign language ]. >> three people are dead among 4,000 who were on board that ship. 43 to 73 people could be missing. 126 americans were on the cruise ship but none of them appear to be hurt. the captain could be charged with manslaughter and abandoning ship. the parent of the company is carnival cruise ship. some passengers got off ...

Really badly when the politics are over and it comes down to war or not. >> what is motivating all the chest beating? >> i think its important, but i think right now its politically advantageous. >> well, its something where they can beat up the president. >> it plays well with democrats and republicans, because you get outside of the foreign policy, and you know, the republican foreign policy establishment also, and its an elite world is that really disconnected from what i think rank and file ...

Really badly when the politics are over and it comes down to war or not. >> what is motivating all the chest beating? >> i think its important, but i think right now its politically advantageous. >> well, its something where they can beat up the president. >> it plays well with democrats and republicans, because you get outside of the foreign policy, and you know, the republican foreign policy establishment also, and its an elite world is that really disconnected from what i think rank and file ...

more on this story in a moment on "world business today." human rights groups are warning that they were struck on monday. troops were sent to hama on sunday to report on terrorist groups. by days end activists say at least 71 civilians have been killed in hama, the site of huge anti-government protests. on monday is the beginning of ramadan. its usually the time of good will and muslims fast to show devotion but its usually high attendance at mosques and many of the anti-governmen...

Technical measure that will allow treasury to borrow more in the markets. and if they are not allowed to borrow more, they have two bad choices. one, they have to cut spending or raise taxes by several hundred billion dollars just for this year alone or they have to acknowledge that were not going to be able as a country to pay our country in full. well only be able to pay as much as we get in revenue coming in. >> the debt limit needs to be extended by may 16th. that is the deadline. any kind o...

Going to become rgets. he could have said things that were much more inflammatory. syria has been, if anything, down playing the attacks. they mentioned it on the news but theyre not doing a great deal of chest beating. and neither is moscow. there have been some statements from moscow condemning it, calling it illegal, saying it was a violation of international sovereignty, putin calling it shortsighted, that kind of thick. and the only action weve seen, concrete action from russia, is to say t...