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president mahmoud ahmadinejad is in pakistan for a regional summit. he joins pakistani prime minister gilani who is facing a contempt of court charge before his countrys supreme court. hamid karzai is there as well, saying his government is holding talks with the taliban, a claim the taliban denies. police in thailand are seeking an arrest warrant for a fifth iranian suspect in connection with a bomb incident in the thai capital on tuesday. theyre looking to detain javad, a 52-year-o...

>> if you watched the grammys last night you know it was a soulful tribute to whitney houston. one performer there still too shaken up to sing and well talk about all the winners from last night. a massive budget battle. an election preview. it seems to be. the president is unveiling his final spending plan before the 2012 election today. and you know what, its mot even delivered to capitol hill and the gop is already on it. what are they going to say about it and how do we know this...

Unjustified. he has some strong feels about this. >> reporter: absolutely. edward wiler is certainly not alone here. there is a lot of backlash as early word has been leaking out about the $18 billion roughly requests unveiled by nasa this monday. in it the early word here is that hundreds of millions of dollars are going to be cut from planetary exploration and that means mars. only the united states of course has been onto the martian planet surface with the mars rover which still sits there. ...

controversy dogging president obama. did top aides, including the vice president joe biden warn him about it beforehand? new information coming in. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." our national political correspondent jim acosta is following it for us. >> reporter: it sounded like he was referring to mitt romney as mr. burns, the villain from "the simpsons" who once said release the hounds. thats because in the race for the alpha dog, the fangs are out. rick santorum...

For the cure foundation the rewriting. the president of planned parenthood, cecile richards, joined me. how comfortable are you now with where planned parenthood stands with the komen foundation going forward. not just on meeting the commitments that had been pledged but going forward into the future years? >> i feel very good, lawrence. youre right, this has been a long week, but we feel very good about the relationship with the komen foundation. obviously, very grateful that theyve changed the...

says theres something to be said about being the underdog. >> one of the great gift that is ive had in my political career is that no one ever think that is i could ever win anything. [ laughter ] >> the gift of being underestimated is a wonderful gift. [ laughter ] >> and i think we might have seen a little bit of that last night. >> last night santorums trifecta reshuffles the republican race. the question tonight is can he sustain it? dana bash is back in washington with us live ton...

This your triumphant return to the place where you began talking about this on television last week. theres nothing triumphant about this. this is a horrible mess. how comfortable are you now with where planned parenthood stands with the komen foundation going forward not just on meeting the commitments that had already been pledged but going forward into the future years? >> i feel very good, lawrence, and youre right. this is a real long week, but we feel very good about the relationship with ...

President cecile richards. cecile, i was tempted to call this your triumphant return to the place where you began talking about this on television last week. theres nothing triumphant about this. this is a horrible mess. how comfortable are you now with where planned parenthood stands with the komen foundation going forward not just on meeting the commitments that had already been pledged but going forward into the future years? >> i feel very good, lawrence, and youre right. this is a real long...

America, we are different. we are different. thats why the left in america is so much wanting to transform us away from our founding principles. thats why they dont want to talk in our schools. but america is different because we were founded different. were a great country because from the very beginning of the country, from the very first declaration, america was different. barack obama does not believe that. he said about nine months ago, in paul ryans budget, he listed a whole host of entitl...

He said, ill go one step further. america was not a great country until these commitments. according to the president of the united states, america became a great country when the government of this country took money from you, sent it to washington, and redistributed it to those who they believe were more worthy of the money than the people who made it. you see, barack obama doesnt understand that america was born great. [ applause ] >> well, thats former senator rick santorum of pennsylvania c...