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im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hes plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individua...

but "cnn newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> speak of washington, we have a busy two hours ahead. randi, thank you very much. hello, everyone. are you ready for this? the debt deal is done, right? not exactly. we still need to see votes happening both in the senate and the house. on the house side, it looks like some democrats could be holding things up. well speak with one of them. we expect to hear from speaker of the house, john boehner this hour. well carry that...

purpose of sending our soldiers into the compound, rather than an aerial bombardment, was to obtain indisputable truth of bin ladens death. that was actually a statement, not a tweet. the problem with the pictures from abu ghraib, for example, wasnt the pictures themselves that caused a lot 6 trouble, but it was because of what we did in the pictures. in this case we killed a guy who killed nearly 3,000 americans. if it offends you to see him with a bullet in his head, you should have ...

that story. and also, explosive new information about life behind the walls in guantanamo bay, and we are hearing about detainees and osama bin ladens money problems all coming up. all of those good details, but first, i want to get to this. i want to begin with the terror on the streets of syria and to talk about that, you have to hear, and you have to see this video. watch. now, the syrian government sending tanks and troops into the town of daraa and they are launching this brutal a...

chairman don graham. offereders four sons memories of their father. he won the pulitzer in 1973 for his coverage of the watergate scandal. he died on march 9 and was 81- years old. this is about one hour and 30 minutes. ♪ >> welcome. david broder was a reporter. he knew that about himself from literally his youngest days. he never reconsidered or later in his passion for his calling for his competitive resolve to be the best he could keep became a columnist, a lecturer, a speaker,...

the pentagon said today theyre working to hand off control to nato by this weekend. what happened? i thought we were taking too long. in libya, after another intense round of air strikes, coalition forces appear to be making headway on breaking the grip of pro gadhafi forces and the grip that they had on some of those cities. what happened? i thought it wasnt working. in misrata, rebel fighters reported the air strikes helped them drive gadhafis forces out of the city, including forcin...

Speaker john boehner, but its more than that. joining me now is the congressman who spearheaded the coalition, tom rooney of florida. a famous family. of pittsburgh, of steelers. you won yesterday. what i found interesting is occasionally, theres common ground in congress and in your case, you were for deficit reduction, spending cuts and you managed to attract a lot of people from the left coast and the east coast and from the big cities to join you. i have never seen a coalition which included...

Project. politico touted it with a headline how a sophomore beat speaker john boehner, but its more than that. joining me now is the congressman who spearheaded the coalition, tom rooney of florida. a famous family. of pittsburgh, of steelers. you won yesterday. what i found interesting is occasionally, theres common ground in congress and in your case, you were for deficit reduction, spending cuts and you managed to attract a lot of people from the left coast and the east coast and from the big...

its about to break the back politically of the most relentless unions. howard fineman said yesterday, the anti-union push by republican governors is also about cracking down on the most enthusiastic foot soldiers. their first shot -- shrink their collective bargaining rights. shrink the unions today and you hurt the democrats in 2012. tea partiers and liberals voted down a jet fighter engine to be built in john boehners district. this is clear sign that boehner cannot control the tea p...

its the first battle in a huge war between republicans and the lay or move in this country. its about to break the back politically of the most relentless unions. howard fineman said yesterday, the anti-union push by republican governors is also about cracking down on the most enthusiastic foot soldiers. their first shot -- shrink their collective bargaining rights. shrink the unions today and you hurt the democrats in 2012. tea partiers and liberals voted down a jet fighter engine to ...