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>> governor, i am a registered conservative and all of my conservative friends put an excellent choice. but for me with vice-president cheney. it seems governor romney is saying we are heading off a fiscal cliff and five trillion in debt and heres the truth, do you want to fix it. it is a choice election, isnt it? >> mitt romney is running not because he wants another title but he knows the problem has to be fix he know that he and paul ryan is fixing it. the question we ought to ask are we bett...

>> sean: pretty sick stuff. the obamas associate with david letterman. they took bill mahers million dollars. babe maybe in the case of rush limbaugh, he ought to donate to the obama super pac and say anything he wants. >> give them full immunity. >> sean: heres chris matthews attacking mormons, talking about mitt romney. >> culturally, they are out to lunch for the president. i am going on vote for president obama. who do they get to beat him? they are willing to outsource it to a mormon. that ...

White and joe conspiracion with nationalmemo.com. joe, does he have a point there? >> he probably does have a point, but i would say he couldnt afford to fix the straw poll, even if he wanted to. so, he made a virtue out of his situation. its true that ron paul has won a lot in the past. he does have a lot of money to spend, always has, so i wouldnt accuse him of fixing it, nor do i see any proof that romney did. but santorum actually shouldnt have such sour grapes. hes looking pretty good in oh...

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...

picture this, youre walking through the airport checkpoint with your shoes on and your belt on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorums stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. hes grabbed some delegates and more importantly hes grabbing the momentum. thats enabling him to raise lots of cash an...

were talking about on wealthy americans. some of the taxes we have talked about before, limiting those itemized deductions that the wealthy take. closing loopholes on hedge fund managers, oil and gas companies, corporate jet owners and also letting the bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest americans expire when they are set to. also a little more than $1 trillion in war savings. of course, we do know that the wars in afghanistan and iraq are already going to be winding down. and thats s...

Drilling? what thoughts do you have on that issue, eugene, moving forward? >> its a complicated issue, but i think in the first place drill, baby, drill cant be a republican slogan and people are going to be suspicious ofç offshore drilling after what theyve seen. by the same token, you and i both know that offshore oil drilling is really important to the economy, especially of the gulf coast. and it is part of president obamas overall vision of the energy future of the united states. so i als...

>> you would think at a minimum people would come to the conclusion if depth was the problem in terms of fixing it, then you shouldnt be drilling that the depth. >> exactly. i think the depth is going to be one variable thats going to depend, thats going to determine what positions people take. and now, does this give real impetus to the presidents initiative to try to get an energy bill through and do people pay attention, pay more attention when politicians talk about. >> gene, ive got to wrap...

Gene, about the prognosis on that issue moving forward? >> its a complicated issue but basically, i think the first principal is that drill, baby, drill cant be a republican slogan. people are going to be suspicious of offshore drilling after what theyve seen. by the same token, you and i both know that offshore oil drilling is -- is really important to the economy, essentially of the gulf coast. and it is part of president obamas overall vision of the energy future of the united states. so i al...

Congress, do not act and remember how often the president said it is the democrats fault. >> if you notice when i came over, they were all saying about separating the families and thats a democrat bill. thats democrats wanting to do that and they could solve it very easily by getting together. they think it is a good election point. i think it is a horrible election point for them. >> but now with dont waste your time until we elect more republicans, who is playing politics now? well, do not ask...