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Perhaps he has create add culture where his aides are nakedly political and are willing to go after democrats. but again, we do not know if christie himself knew of this. he has denied that. >> and peter, you know -- you were there kind of reporting on the signing of that immigration bill. come wg that signing was more conversations of this is laying the groundwork for his presidential run. it is months away before anyone will be announcing they are running in 2016. do you think that is the only...

2014. so a lot to discuss. peter, thank you very much for that. just a programming note, cnn will be carrying governor christies press conference at 11:00 a.m. you want to stick here for that for sure. cnn can now confirm that 29-year-old shezanne cassim has left the uae and is flying home to the u.s. he is traveling with his father. shez left dubai early this morning. he is expected to arrive in minneapolis later today. he was arrested for making a parody view. a second sailor now died af...

And you know why? and you know why? because the men and women in this room scare the living daylights out of them. >> some hacklers aside, though, this is friendly territory and historically is an important place for republican stars to shine. peter ham by joins us now. this group of people fully supports the government shutdown. any word hon how they are acting for a deal that would reopen the government without defunding the presidents health care law? >> not well, anderson. the tone couldnt b...

stay in contact with me. >> more on how this dramatic announcement will impact the martin investigation in a few moments. back now to a defining day in the race for the white house. tonight, the only candidate to emerge as a long-term threat to governor romney is out of the race. in pennsylvania this afternoon, just a few hours after bringing his 3-year-old daughter home from the hospital, rick santorum called it quits. >> we -- we made the decision to get into this race at our kitch...

candidates. so does this mean that some are struggling to throw their support behind any one of the four candidates? >> somewhat. there is certainly enthusiasm here for defeating barack obama and hear that from the candidates. thats their mission here. the problem is that republicans are not generally fired up about the field. polling bears that out. electability is obviously also a concern. the states that mitt romney won, for example, exit polls show that had electability was a ameri...

make a big decision when he made the call to go after obama. vice president joe biden shows the behind the scenes details on how that decision was made. this is "cnn saturday morning." im christi paul. so glad to have your company. lets start together here with the republican presidential race and the battle between newt gingrich and mitt romney in florida. take a look at this poll showing mitt romney with a nine-point lead. heres a significant thing with these numbers. just days earli...

todays reporter roulette. here we go. jojahn, straight to you in miami where newt gingrich is interest to hold a big event there. last night he had a bit of a weaker showing. what is his tacamp saying about that today? >> the first observation i have to make is the candidate looking a little tired here in south florida. a long slug down from jacksonville after the debate. now here? south florida, pu-- now here in florida, pushing for the hispanic vote. hes wishing certain questions h...

numbers that we were hoping to see and hopefully will continue. so new jobless claims plunged to 352,000 last week. thats a huge drop. down by 50,000. this demonstrates there are fewer layoffs. however, jobless claims can be a little volatile. for example, we saw claims jump a few weeks ago because of the temporary holiday workers that were laid off. and also the prior week was revised a little bit higher, not much. just by about 3,000. it did go above 400,000. we need to stay below th...

they were hanging in them and children were crying and people screaming and jumping. we heard crew members jumped at the end into the water. >> my goodness. frightening moments. a journalist is where survivors are being taken and joins us by phone. barbie, what is the latest on the rescue mission, the search for the missing people and if they know what the ship ran into. >> reporter: well, right now the rescue operations are sort of winding town. darkness has fallen here and its starti...

so lets get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. thats not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. >> congress didnt consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. thats a lot of paperwork. tha...