toast, bacon, ham, sausage, chicken sausage, wheat or rye toast, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, no substitutions. rollout out. take you out to your car and put you on a treadmill. this morning i m going to stick with the tater tots because they re easy to eat to anchor a show. hello, everybody. cnn s political analyst roland martin is with us this morning. it s a bad start if i can t get through roland s name. david frum is back with us. nice to have you in person. chatting by satellite. and also this morning, norquist is joining us, president of americans for tax reform. you re going to be our tax expert this morning as we sort through mitt romney s taxes. it s nice to have you. thanks for being with us. mitt romney we know now officially released his tax returns. we re expecting that in about 90 minutes. but there is a preview. the preview is roughly 550 pages long. romney made $21.6 million in 2010. paid over $3 million in taxes. and tesktive tax rate as we mentioned is 1
how funny is that. and sean penn, what he thinks americans need to ask. what do we stand for as a community and our country and what do i stand for in my family. his thoughts in the white house. i don t want to see a narrow-minded leadership encourage a narrow-minded congress. his hollywood life. it s my pleasure to sit down exclusively with the second lady, in california. jill biden joins me now. this is such an amazing place. tell me what you ve been doing here? this morning, i went to a place, they took me to a village they had constructed, like an afghan village and did a live fire and showed me what the marines went through or are going through as they went to afghanistan. i went and looked at the place where they teach them how to handle bombs and ieds and talked to all the marines there in. it was a pretty intense morning. when you are that close and they re firing live ammunition, what s the difference between that and everything you ve read or heard a
contract with freddie mac. tonight, speaker gingrich s lobbying firm did just that. only partly. releasing one year of a multiyear deal. just what is it gingrich was paid an estimated $1.7 million to do. that s not only the breaking news tonight. ros reports tonight out of las vegas 245 a gingrich friend is writing another $5 million check to the supersuper pac. all this showing that mitt romney s lead is evaporating in florida and basically gone nationwide. take a look at the latest tracking poll. shows a virtual-romney gingrich dead heat. that s a sharp change from just last week before this weekend s south carolina gingrich blowout victory. those numbers could and almost certainly will change, but for now, the trend is so worrying to the romney forces they re attacking the challenger, not through surrogates like they have in the past or through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was pai
murderer they believe to be someone who is on the run and won t be showing up today. they haven t gotten any cooperation from his family. that judge will decide if, that judge will decide what to do with those pardoned, so there is that likelihood that they could be taken back into custody if these pardoned are somehow overruled. you mentioned the attorney general. explain to me the argument here on behalf of the a.g. to overturn the governor the pardons why he would want to overturn them. forgive me. no problem. what the a.g. is going to argue, he says according to mississippi state constitution, these people who apply for these pardons have to announce these, that they re applying for these, for 30 days, in newspapers, wherever these crimes might have occurred, and the a.g. is saying that insufficient notice is given in some of these cases, the murder suspects only published these announcements for 28 days inn stead of the required 30 days, and the a.g. is going to
listen to the roar of the tornado. this is in arkansas. severe weather is now tearing across the southeast today. at least two people have already been killed near birmingham, alabama. dozens of homes are destroyed. another 100 people now injured. we made it just in the nick of time. the good lord just blessed us and we re just glad we re here. we ve lost our house but at least we have i m sorry. we got our family, and that s all that matters right now. wow. that is tragic. chad myers here to tell us about where the storms are right now and what caused this outbreak. chad? well, it was just a big storm in the upper atmosphere. it was cold. temperatures were only in the 50s and 60s. in alabama and mississippi, around 70. sometimes in the spring you can get to be 80 degrees and then you really get the juice going. storms went across parts of birmingham, south of birmingham as well. the biggest storm headed into columbus, georgia. not rotating enough to put a tornado war