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police suspect her husband, a prominent scientist and he says he was out of town at the time and she doesnt remember. were digging deeper. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com mitt romneys latest campaign ads are full of pledges about what hed do on day one of his presidency, but our reality check shows hed have to wake up extra, extra early on january 20th to start on that to-do list. its a long list. our national political correspond...

Outrageous, but it is not the first time they have done that. using taxpayers dollars in order to hype a program which is under attack or is not succeeding. this is probably the greatest example of it, $20 million. when we are cutting defense spending and cutting a lot of programs. it is outrageous, nato meeting in chicago. are you satisfied with the progress? or do you disagree with it? >> well, i notice that the president had a lot to say... about leaving afghanistan. he had nothing to say abo...

Plans in place if greece leaves euro to prevent a layman like shock to the united states and global economy. >> we had an extensive situation of the situation not euro zone and obviously everyone is keenly interested in getting that issue resolved. i will not speculate on what happens if the greek choose to exit because they have an election and this will be an important debate inside of greece. everyone who was involved in the g-8 summit indicated their desire to see greece stay not euro zone i...

Troops from afghanistan. so who will pay for that? the united states is prepared to shoulder most of that financial cost. theyre also looking for some financial commitments from the european allies and other nato allies. the senior administration official tells me that other countries have actually been quite receptive to requests for monetary assistance. what were waiting for though is some actual figures. some actual names of countries that are going to be helping out in this effort. so those ...

That are contingency plans in place to cope if greece leaves urt o the euro to leave a lehman-like shock to greece and the economy. >> everyone is keenly interested in getting that issue resolved. im not going to speculate what happens if the greek choose to exit because theyve got an election and this is going to be an important debate inside of greece. everybody who is involved in the ga summit indicated their desire to see greece stay in the eurozone in a way thats consistent with the commitm...

As well as the leadership of our outstanding armed forces, that we can advance that goal today and responsibly bring this war to an end. >> reporter: so today, thomas, is really going to be about ironing out the finer details of how this transition will take place. part of that is, of course, funding. it will cost about $4 billion every year over the next ten years to fund the afghan security forces. the united states has been looking for monetary commitments from its allies. it had secured some...

the united states. we talk about his personal relationship with president obama and even his personal relationship with mitt romney. stand by for that as well. and the man sometimes nicknamed americas supermayor, has made a super gaffe. im wolf blitzer in chicago. youre in the situation room. but first, through my exclusive far reaching interview, i just completed only a few minutes ago with the afghan president hamid karzai, its his only interview while here in the united states...

special guest at graduation. president obama will give the commencement speech. the nato conference in chicago ground zero for diplomacy and protests. a fierce confrontation yesterday between protesters and police left dozens of people injured on both sides. today more demonstrations are planned. our ted rowlands has been basically in the thick of all of that. protesters, ted, vowing to shut down, i understand, boeings chicago headquarters today. what is happening now? is it fairly p...

The end of 2014, something that the president and karzai will be discussing, as well as other leaders here. nato, one of the big questions is how to fund it. thomas, according to senior administration officials, it will cost about $4 billion every year, over the next ten years to fund the afghan security forces. the united states is prepared to shoulder about two-thirds of that burden. and they had secured some monetary commitments if you will prior to this summit. not all of the commitments the...

Campaign promise to withdraw troops by the end of this year. of course, that is a disappointment to the white house and to other nato allies. however, hollande said he would help the troop withdrawal in other ways, potentially with monetary commitments, thats something thats going to have to be worked out over the next 48 horse. but certainly president obama was hoping to be able to convince him otherwise. but it turns out that that did not happen. the french will be pulling out by the end of th...