a witness claims to have seen the actual shooting. let s go outfront. well, good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight superfailed take two. the house of representatives passes paul ryan s 2013 budget plan. i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. the problem is we already know how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means it s dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the president s budget, it s a no-go too. according to republicans, it s a campaign document that raises taxes and doesn t rein in spending. here s the bottom line. america hasn t had a budget in 1,065 days. both sides say this is a tragedy but instead of compromising or embracing the bipartisan revenue raising and the blueprint of the gang of six or the simpson-bowles commission, both sides put their own budgets out knowing full well they won t pass.
passes paul ryan s 2013 budget plan. i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. the problem is we already now how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means it s dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the president s budget, it s a no-go too. it s a campaign document that raises taxes and doesn t rein in spending. here s the bottom line. america hasn t had a budget in 1,065 days. both sides say this is a tragedy but instead of compromising or embracing the revenue raising and the blueprint of the gang of six or the simpson-bowles commission, both sides put their own budgets out knowing full well they won t pass. the blame, they say, goes to the other side of the aisle. we don t think that the president s led on this issue by virtue he s given us four budgets with literally no proposal to prevent a debt crisis, to get this debt under c
getting fixed. in new york, the same roads fix them every week every year and broken the next week, something is wrong. we ve been having the infrastructure crisis since i can remember. the republican might get tripped up on when they went ahead and caved on the payroll tax extension because it was causing grief. the argument they wanted it paid for and now they re okay with it not being paid for. don t you think that the president has an advantage on this issue politically? well, i think the republicans problem was not cave, it was engaging in the argument and engaging in it. it should never have gone and cut the thing. to be honest with you, i don t have problems with cutting taxes and i, you know no matter where it s from. you know, i don t have a problem with it, i m for the smaller governments and and i like, i like taxes of all types to go down. i have a problem with cut being taxes and calling it temporary and then not figuring out a way to pay for it. and
more renewable energy, more oil production. they say all of that is up yet gas prices are not coming down. his conservative critics are saying he s focused too much on renewable energies. take a listen. the reality is the u.s. oil and gas industry the last four or five years as outinvited the renewable industry by far. that increase in innovation and long-reach drilling and hydraulic fracturing, the u.s. is producing record amounts of gas and will increase oil production by 2 million barrels a day. reporter: rising gas prices could wipe out that victory he had on the payroll tax extension. the tax cut could be wiped out by a tank of gals. but the president sounding confident. he all but guaranteed
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for