governor paul la page. and records smashed from the midwest to the east coast. and now a new record. this past year has been the warmest ever for america. so turn up the ac, grab a cold drunk. cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. right now, president obama is just about to head to the heartland. he is visiting the battle ground state of iowa and reaching out to middle class voters. that s who would most benefit from his plan to extend the bush era tax cuts. here s what s going to change. basically if we don t do anything, everybody s taxes go up at the end of this year. now, understand what i m proposing is 98% of america, 98% of american families, won t see their taxes go up according to my plaque. plan. the only folks who would see their taxes go up would be the top 2%, folks like me who don t need those tax breaks, are doing just fine without them. republicans will seize the spotlight first in
gdp growth below 2% here. that means our economy is not growing fast enough. it s growing but not fast enough. your most important asset, your home, despite government efforts to prop up housing markets, home prices have fallen in the last three and a half years. and jobs, 20 consecutive months of jobs gains. it s these last five months right here, this slowdown in jobs growth right here, that could cost the president his job. that s at least what the republicans are hoping for. pete dominick, host of sirius standup. president obama did not cause this recession but three and a half years into his term the recovery is now slowing. i want you to listen to this clip from the today show. it was taped in february 2009 just two weeks after the president took office. a year from now, i think people are going to see that we re starting to make some progress. there s still going to be some pain out there. if i don t have this done in three years, there s going to be a one-term pro
how much money was at his disposal. they could have used it to get him out, but on the other hand judge lester runs aa tight courtroom, as well he should, and he was frustrated because he doesn t think they were being as straightforward and honest as he thought they should. he hope the revocation is temporary. i hope he ll give us a day in court to explain george s behavior and look at all the circumstances, even the discovery that s come out to date, in determining what to do to let him back out on bond. within 48 hours. i haven t even spoken to him yet. reporter: did you read the motion? it talked apparently about the conversations talk inning codes about the tens of thousands of dolla dollars? there s certainly collusion between him and his wife. if you consider about talking about 10, 20, 155 as being code maybe you re accurate. i ve involved myself in cases where drug dealers talk, and they talk about watermelons and things like that. when you talk about nine or te
as the gop nominee to be hoping to win back a state that went for president obama in 2008. and he s hoping hispanics will help him out. our colleague on that story in-depth for us in denver. i mentioned 2008. two thirds of the hispanic vote nationwide went to the democratic ticket but the vote in colorado was closer. does romney see an opening and could that spell a difference, do you think? oh, he definitely seeing an opening. both kand date candidates do. 12% to 14% of the overall voterless here in colorado and both sides are going at them. romney, the second trip since basically becoming the nominee, at least, unofficially to colorado. he is in the far west shoring up the business interests today and the latino voters, the swing voters and late deciders they hope to bring over to their side. a pollster here in colorado breaks it down why both candidates are after hispanics here in colorado, new mexico and in nevada. these candidates are looking at different pathways to