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earth. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." mitt romney is using ads, web videos, speeches to hammer away at president obama on welfare. romney is taking a lot of heat though over his claims about the administrations policies, but with support from an unlikely ally hes raising the stakes today. heres our national political correspondent jim acosta. >> reporter: wolf, mitt romney is not backing away from his accusation that president obama is trying to make it easier for th...

Cinderella gates. remember, weve been counting them in the jar? and mitts delegates are represented by the jelly beans you recognize. he is so close to the 1,044 delegates he needs to cinch the nomination, the red line here. texas will vote on tuesday, so one can assume that romney will get a pretty good portion of those texas jelly beans. once he does, romney will have his 1,144 delegates and thats when hes going to pivot. the pivot weve talked about here before. hell have all of the delegates ...

skeptical social conservatives. ill talk about that and more with this former rival who just dropped out of the race newt gingrich. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." formally this week, satellites would have been dominated by the race for the white house and the increasingly heating battle between the obama and romney campaigns. but president obama rewrote the script, catching the world by surpris...

The romney machine can drive down turnout, run over opponents with negative ads. it doesnt seem positive. the result is very, very worry some if youre thinking about the fall campaign. >> are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> newt gingrich could not bring himself to endorse mitt romney today, even though gingrich has already lost his two most prominent endorses, mitt romney and herman cain who has endorsed their party as the nominee. this is the best newt could do for mitt today. >> as ...

more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in ch...

Business about food stamp president. >> and there are a lot of children on food stamps and more people on food stamps under george bush than barack obama. let me go back to the original point, mark, when you talk about when he said that mr. gingrich should just embrace mr. romney, eventually he will have to get there. when he does, he will have a problem cause of all of the things he said through the primary. let me remind you and our viewers about what he will have to overcome before he does th...

now were learning the reason why they chose that specific target. it might not necessarily be what you think. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hes certainly one of the most visible people on the planet that with global media watching his every single move. how did president obama take most of the world by surprise when he showed up in afghanistan. were learning new details of this rather complex and massive operation. our white hou...

A great response in north carolina and see what happens in the upcoming primaries. it is interesting when you are out on the road or even last night i went to easter vigil at the basilica and people walk up. and in delaware this week and north carolina this week people dont walk up and stay please drop out. people walk up and say im glad you are here and talking about ideas, please stay in. how can i help. i think there is a desire for a more idea oriented republican party even if it doesnt tran...

Basically thinks that if he can get in front of an audience the audience will applaud and be converted. it is just not going to happen. he had a shot. he was a frontrunner for a period of time. he never put a campaign together. he had very talented people around him. he didnt use them. this has been a campaign run by him and his wife and daughters. bill: you have spoken before about his hatred for mitt romney. >> still there. bill: hatred. >> still there. bill: strong word. >> he started this he...

1144 delegates to get the nomination outright? is that more the goal? -- >> well -- >> sean: im sorry, go ahead. >> sean, had itself to be a two-pointed process. obviously, if governor romneys able by the sheer weight of money. in illinois, by the way, turnout was down, once again. the romney machine can drive down turnout. it can run over oppons with negative ads. it doesnt seem capable of inspiring positive turnout. and the result is very, very worrisome, if you are thinking about the fall cam...