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and sharp and sudden turnaround by the obama administration. the white house now says its tweaking the health care reform provision that sparked a sudden confrontation between church and state as well as republicans and democrats. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here in "the situation room" watching all of this unfold. it was pretty dramatic what happened. >> it was, and all of this caught the white house off-guard. theres no sign that the uproar is dying down. th...

wide-ranging better view. and growing likelihood israel could attack irans nuclear sites anytime in the next few months. that chilling prospect is only the latest stunning statement by leon panetta. why is she speaking so freely? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." its been a long time since economists have sounded so giddy about jobs, but theyre cheering, showing nearly a quarter of a million jobs, 243,000 were added in january, far more than expect ed the dow jones in...

Before the second fighting season, september of this year, bringing the surge forces home means general allen doesnt have the surge forces he need to go into the east. >> reporter: general allen, the top u.s. general in afghanistan is in brussels with leon panetta today but again it is not clear whether this was his recommendation or whether he was caught off-guard by panettas pronouncement on board the plane. jenna: very interesting the timing of it all. jennifer, thank you so much for that. on...

Hill and he downplayed the pronouncement. >> i think it was a startling overanalysis, not necessarily a startling statement. if you go back and read what he said, -- >> so that actually -- >> sir, if i could, this is exactly in line with the policy that you, we started back in the summer of 2011, transitioning leadership of combat operations from isaf to afghan forces. >> let me say this. >> progressively completed by the end of 2014. >> reporter: yet there was no mention of 2013 and end to comb...

When he made that criticism, the thunder had been stolen by rick santorum who was the first to lodge the objection, which is newt turned to him and said, do you want to try again? i dont think newt gingrich got out of that the mileage that he got in the debates in south carolina. furthermore, to add to the point, think how well newt did with the indignation in the debates in south carolina. tonight, early, it was mitt romney, calling the speaker out, on calling him anti-immigrant, which the spea...

year 56 million. the campaign says it has $19 million cash on hand. a big chunk of which will be spent right here, south carolina. site of the first southern primary a week from saturday. today romney and the other candidates intent of stopping him are tearing up the other highways. he says he is the guy that republicans are looking for. >> i dont believe any moderate can debate romney successfully and i believe if youre going to defeat barack obama, you are only going to defeat him wi...

I mean, i, i nursed my children. of course, i -- im kind of modest. i had a nursing shawl. but i did it in public. a very natural thing. i think stores like target want the moms there right to buy the diaper genie and bottles all the stuff. >> thats their bread and butter. and the fact of the matter is, i see it from a different point of view. i understand not something that you are going to see every day. it may catch some people off-guard. to have the outrage to say dont do that. >> people are...

"tonight show." well play more of that coming up. herman cain may be laying the groundwork to drop out of the race for president, even as his staffers s urge him to fig on. he said hell decide by monday whether or not to suspend his campaign. it follows accusations this week made by an atlanta woman who claims the two carried on a sexual affair for 13 years. cain insists it was simply a friendship and he was helping her financially over that period of time. still, it wasnt the candidates polit...

Oil and ethanol. >> we went ahead and evacuated two miles downwind and a mile each side of it just to make sure that everybody was out of any kind of smoke cloud or anything else. >> huge flames spew from the super-heated inferno and thick dark smoke fills the sky. >> pan back. pan back. pan back. we just had a huge explosion. >> it really kind of surprised us, caught us off guard. >> suddenly, one of the train cars explodes in a gigantic plume of fire. >> just blew up. my god! my god! >> it was...

lets all go "outfront." im erin burnett. "outfront," count down to another downgrade of america? the super committee held a rare public hearing today. theyre the group of 12 charged with cutting the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. if they dont do it, we can end up on a rate to higher interest rates and a lower standard of living. here are the dates we need to watch. november 1st, cbo says the super committee must submit their plan for review. that is five days from now. november 23r...