hoping to take on the candidate who may pose the greatest challenge to president obama. we are talking about mitt romney. herman cain is live with us here in the situation room this hour. we will talk about what is behind declined in the recent polls. criticism of his 9-9-9 tax plan and much more. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. he s the only candidate whose been consistently at the top of the polls in the volatile republican race for the white house. that has mitt romney increasingly targeted by president obama s supporters. now in an unusual move, the democratic national committee is targeting romney in an effort to sway the gop nominated contest pmt cnn s joe john says working the scene for us. joe, what is going on here. it raises the question, whose primary is this anyway. it was much easier to keep track of this when it was just republicans fighting among themselves. the latest in the republican battle comes from the democratic national committee,
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. we ll speak with one of them. we expect to hear from speaker of the house, john boehner this hour. we ll carry that live for you. so stay tuned for that as well. let s begin here. as the clock continues to tick, nine hours now remaining until a potential default of the u.s. government. and congress still hasn t voted on the debt reduction agreement announced last night. we heard the senate would be voting first. then we heard the house would be voting first. but the house still hasn t voted. that tells me there may be a problem rounding up some of those votes. we have just heard from vice president joe bide
real reason that meghan fox was fired. you don t buy this courtney hazlett that it is the short list. no, it the not the list. the short list is ryan seacrest and bravo s andy cohen, and maybe mark consuelos. and just because these three gentlemen have a tendency to fill in for regis philben and do a great job filling in for regis, they are not necessarily the ones on the short list to replace him for the duration of the show. stay tuned for more information on that as we get closer to november. amy white house hhouse has two dates on the tour. she just recovering from a rehab, and she was stumbling around the stage and couldn t remember the lyrics to her songs
where congressman wiener and congressman madler and their colleagues can do whatever they want. they re saying give it to the first responders and give it to the families. no first responder left behind. their reaction? i think they re trying to be compassionate. there s been a lot of dispute over the size of the compensation fund. they re talking about compensating innocent people, many of whom were heroic and have suffered terribly. they can simply enact legislation that can add $50 million to the compensation fund. it can t be this $50 million. this has to go from secretary clinton to secretary geithner. this will be part of a fight probably. probably. what s coming up on our show? what s coming up on my show? congressman jeff flake and congressman jason chavits are going to say they agree with john boehner, debt ceiling should not be raised. good job filling in for glen beck yesterday.
on the 15 day dl with weakness in the legs, something i tried to use as an excuse to not come to work early in the morning several times and for some robes, nbc doesn t buy it. yeah. and cliff lee in the fourth inning against atlanta, looking to bounce back against nationals in washington and gets desmond looking. throwing a nasty curve to former team teammate, jayson werth, had his best stuff last night. threw three hits and 12 strikeouts. philly wins 4-zip. congratulations, philly. good job filling in for willie. supposed to have one of the great pitching staffs in the league but haven t gotten off to as good a start as they wanted looks like they re on the way. is willie s dad getting his star today? his star today.