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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...

many untrue things as fast as you can to get them all into one or two quick statements. so i thought it was kind of wild. >> heres a snapshot of romneys tax details. for 2010, he and his wife reported income topping $21 million, mostly from investments on which they paid less than 14% in federal tax. the gingriches and the obamas earned far less and paid, percentage wise, far more. tax rates are sure to come up in president obamas third state of the union speech. heres one tip-off. wer...

the debris, but the odds of it actually hitting you, we took this a step further. thats one in several trillion, trillion with a t. chad myers, so the news today, we are now in the strike zone. is that for now or for good? >> that will be for good, until it falls out of the sky and well know. we were doing this little tweet thing back and forth a little bit ago about how the earth is not round. the earth is not round. its fatter at the equator. so this thing will be closer to the atmos...

Investigation is casting doubt on that account. our brian todd has been looking into this, and brian, i guess we have some questions about whether or not this is really true. we do now, suzanne, toyota pushing back hard and publicly against this drivers account that he had an out of control prius. jim sikes claimed the gas pedal on his car got stuck on a highway near sand dag, that it got pass 90 miles per hour, says he kept trying the brakes, the car kept speeding up, and finally a highway patr...

Managed to bring it to a stop. >> as it was going, i was trying the brakes. i was on the brakes pretty healthy. it wasnt stopping -- it wasnt doing anything to it. and just kept speeding up, just kept going. i was worried about going off the side of the road, going down the embankment. i wont drive that car again, period. if i can have a problem, anybody can have a problem. >> that was it. he was most concerned about the fact that his carbon footprint was expanding because he was using too much ...

Take it back. >> take it to the dealership right away? >> take it back to the dealer and make sure they look at it. as general advice, if youre ever in the situation with unintended situation, basically push the car into neutral, pull it over to the side of the road, the engine will be revving. turn it off, put it into park. >> some people say you should -- in other words, if you see the accelerator going, if the car begins speeding up, and and you put it in neutral, then you should turn offer t...

David, what does this say about the speed of this investigation to you? >> well, im not sure its speeding up, but it youre is moving towards the highest targets. theyve clearly waited toward the end of the investigation to go for the chief of staff of the white house. you know, you gradually build it up to the top and that suggests were not far away from asking questions of the president himself. >> margaret, how does the white house see this? we know former and current officials are going to sp...

>> sarah murray joins us now from the white house. the breaking news tonight about michael flynn. what else do we know? >> reporter: we know that obviously michael flynn, who is the ousted national security director, has been sort of a central figure in this probe into the russia investigation. now were being told from a source close to michael flynn that he is going to hand over a batch of documents, some of these related to his businesses, some personal documents, to the senate intelligence co...

But it is something the president has been talking about. but here is the thing for everyone. the president has been talking about since nafta came into play under president clinton. so this isnt anyones idea. >> bret: but doing an executive order rather than through congress would be different. >> well, it is different -- different legal hurdles that you have to satisfy before you actually either renegotiate or withdraw from nafta. so those legal hurdles are one thing, withdrawing is another th...

Them talk about stagnation, we did not see it at m.i.t. or we go to silicon val or examples surround us, know no vagu innovn has not slowed down. if you look specifically at what is happening with technology, i think it never has been faster it just not nearly captured. john: we have not seen some innovation, we were once promised like flying cars and trains and planes not much faster? >> maybe cars are not but they are learning how to drive themselves there are other dimensions that are speedin...