i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for
the outside world with william cohen. it is a new day hopefully a far safer one for sunlts at a los angeles school at the center of a shobi ishocking child abu n scandal. they were greeted with an entirely new staff. the whole staff was replaced after the arrest of at least two teachers accused of committing lewd acts with students. eight alleged victims are expected to announce the first lawsuits in that case. president obama is let sing states off the hook when it comes to the no child left behind law. the president is expected to announce this hour that he s freeing ten states from stricter parts of the law in return for a promise to improve how they evaluate and prepare students. those states will no longer be forced to meet the requirement that all students be proficient in reading and math by 2014. mr. obama s announcement is due to start at 1:55 eastern time and we ll bring it to you live. finally big relief to the tune of 26 billion for distressed homeowners. if y
gop frontrunner when it comes to the crucial issue of who can get the economy moving. a cnn/opinion research corporation poll finds just 40% say that president obama can get this economy moving, while more than half of those polls polled believe that mitt romney has what it takes. now, this polling data leads me to the most important economic issue of all, and that is jobs. more than 100,000 jobs have been added in each of the last six months. it is not enough. it is not enough, but it is steady improvement. nothing means more to how americans feel about the economy than whether they have a job or know someone who just got a job or conversely, someone who lost a job. let s head to south carolina and bring in cnn contributor will cane, a good friend of our show. will, as a conservative, are you sensing some worry among republicans that the stronger job creation will weaken the advantage that mitt romney could have over president obama on the issue of being better able to imp
i m ali velshi. welcome to your money. americans are split on whether they would vote for mitt romney over president obama if romney is the republican nominee. but they are solidly behind the gop front runner when it comes to the crucial issue of who can get the economy moving. a cnn opinion research corporation poll finds just 40% say that president obama can get this economy moving, while more than half of those polls believed that mitt romney has what it takes. now, this polling data leads me to the most important economic issue of all, and that is jobs. more than 100,000 jobs have been added in each of the last six months. it is not enough. it is not enough, but it is steady improvement. nothing means more to how americans feel about the economy than whether they have a job or know someone who just got a job or conversely, someone who lost a job. let s head to south carolina and bring in cnn contributor will cane, a good friend of our show. will, as a conservative, are
agreement. jenna: sad is one word to describe it senator graham. i can t help but thinking about the troops on the ground taking bullets while peace talks are happening with the very enemy that they re taking fire from. right, you don t negotiate while you re the point is that you start negotiations when you assure yourself and your allies that the taliban are finished militarily. you don t negotiate from weakness. these negotiations seem to wreak of wanting us to get out, about an exit strategy with perceived honor rather than what s best for the united states. i ve said this for years, jenna, our national securities in iraq are not going to be judged by the day we left but by what we left behind and i m worried we ve left behind a mess. history will not judge afghanistan as a success or failure by the day we left by what we left behind. and i believe if you do this right we can train up the afghans to win a fight against the taliban, with a relatively small follow-on u.s. pre