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outcome, ohio. where the candidates spoke speaks volumes in the battleground. in northeast ohio, blue from 2008, cuyahoga county, democrats must dominate to win close races statewide. mitt romney was here, hamilton county, where cincinnati is in the southwest corner. pivotal for republicans in close statewide races. may notice president obama carried that area or part of it in 2008. republican challenger hopes to look at the last three plus years, convinces voters not to give the incum...

crackdown on dissent. we begin with todays dramatic, intensely partisan confrontations between senate republicans and attorney general of the united states. a feisty appearance before the senate judiciary committee, attorney jenner i can holder refused demands that he apoint special counsel to investigate recent leaks of sensitive national security information. >> two people i pointed to look into matters are first rate prosecutors. >> special counsel, somebody new other than the two...

characterized as a litmus test for the presidential election. mitt romney right after the verdict came in released a statement, praising the governor and saying tonights results will echo beyond the borders of wisconsin. now, were waiting to hear from the governor, governor walker will be speaking any moment. well bring it to you live. as you can see, a lot of people getting ready in the badger state for him to make his appearance. john king is with me now. john avlon, reihan salam, gl...

go county by county and scott walker overperformed two years ago in an election that was a referendum on him. >> pretty amazing. for those of you out there, the big players, sheldon adelson who supported -- supporter for newt gingrich, they were all playing in this. debbie wasserman schultz is going to regret saying this was a dry run for november. >> that is a big sound bite and im sure the chair woman would like to take it about. most special elections dont have an impact on the na...

hate. the tsa and ticket fees. add them together. >> what is it thats prompting them to ask for more? >> reporter: the agency backed by democrats in the senate wants to increase the security fee everyone pays for the ticket. from $2.50 a flight to $5 per one-way ticket. $10 round trip. >> 10s pushing it to a limit. i guess its only $5 more but i wonder, you know, how that fits in. they already have a budget. >> reporter: tsas budget is set to be cut. the agency says boosting this fee w...

Successes than say the administration might feel they have had on economics. some of this looking the part. some of the comparison with romney is essentially a stature gap issue. there are few things more presidential than the president addressing the military at a commentment address. i dont think a lot of this is a substantive speech other than talking about how america is leading. thats where he wants to be right now. >> we were starting, john, i so rudely cut you off to go to the president f...

Allegations, the deeper it seems to run. >> eric: how do you feel about this. a dozen or so public official, including the mayor elect charged in this case? >> yes. as of friday, we had 12 individuals charged. we made some more arrests and i think we are up to 15 now. and the investigation is ongoing. >> eric: what were they trying to do? >> what started out was, their vote -- their election was in march. i received calls of concerned citizens that the election was not going properly. so i put t...

. >> and this morning the times is out with a very lengthy examination of romneys mormonism. president obama, meanwhile, has been getting a very different reception. >> which one of us here at "the view" was on "dancing with the stars?" >> that would be sherri. >> are the media giving romney far more scrutiny in this campaign? facebook goes public with a bang. >> tonight the facebook frenzy. >> tonight on world news, facebook fever. one of the biggest stock sales ever creating a thousa...

Barack obama and mitt romney, its a clear contrast election. in 2000 when ralph nader made a move, people would make the argument theres not a lot of difference between gore and bush. now on all policies theres a clear contrast. >> third-party movements and ive seen others write about this, theres this great dream in washington of the radical centrists. they dont exist. its tom friedman and a couple of his friends. thats it. really when it comes to third-party movement, energy is an ideology. >>...

Link the president to reverend wright from someone who was alarmed by it. but thats pretty vegas. what -- pretty vague. what does have the eyebrows raise the speed and coordination in which the democrats attacked the president or rather the campaigns manager even joined. in wasted no time pumped out a combative statement fanning the flames the appalling length to which republic operatives and super pacs are apparently willing to go to tear down the president and elect mitt romney. the blueprint ...