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arizona, youre in "the situation room." this just coming in. on the eve of the new nuclear weapons showing that just how tight the race is. take a look 32% say rick san storm, but with the sampling eras thats constituentically a tie. ron paul coming in at 6%, lets go in depth right now with our chief political analyst gloria borger and depend can i washington bureau chief michael crowley. gloria, first you. arizona we all thought was supposed to be relatively easy for mitt rom in, but ...

arizona. youre in "the situation room." they are numbers that are making mitt romney nervous. they are certainly catching the attention of the obama re-election campaign. were talking about the latest polls that show rick santorum at the front of the republican presidential pack. look at that gallup tracking poll number that has santorum ten points aheads of romney nationally among registered republicans. even with the sampling error, santorum is the frontrunner in this poll. but that ...

attracting the attention of homeland security. wolf blitzer is off today, im candy crowley, and youre in "the situation room." right now theyre pretearing to vote on a resolution. it strongly condemns the killing, gee mooning the assad regime call off sits forces and cease all violence. well bring the vote to you live when it happens. we have cnn journalists in syria right now documenting some of the awful violence. youll see that as well, ahead. bus first to the battle for michiga...

just into "the situation room," brand-new poll numbers confirming a new lineup in the fight for the gop presidential nomination. the cnn/orc survey has just been released and shows a two-man contest at this point. the poll shows 34% of republicans asked say santorum is their choice. 32% say romney. with a sampling error, that means its a statistic cal tie. ron paul and newt gingrich are far behind at 16 and 15%. first big picture, ron, what do you make of santorums rise? >> i think thi...

>> congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama and without delay and without needs to pass this without drama and delay and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. weve been through this before, remember? weve seen this movie. we dont need to see it again. the time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over. >> lets go straight to cnn congressional correspondent kate bouldan. kate, this is a surprisi...

and sharp and sudden turnaround by the obama administration. the white house now says its tweaking the health care reform provision that sparked a sudden confrontation between church and state as well as republicans and democrats. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here in "the situation room" watching all of this unfold. it was pretty dramatic what happened. >> it was, and all of this caught the white house off-guard. theres no sign that the uproar is dying down. th...

controversy dogging president obama. did top aides, including the vice president joe biden warn him about it beforehand? new information coming in. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." our national political correspondent jim acosta is following it for us. >> reporter: it sounded like he was referring to mitt romney as mr. burns, the villain from "the simpsons" who once said release the hounds. thats because in the race for the alpha dog, the fangs are out. rick santorum...

♪ [ male announcer ] its sweet, its nutty... its absolutely delicious. kelloggs crunchy nut. its morning somewhere. this afternoon the president is taking time for a little retreat meeting with senate democrats in their weekly strategy session. now usually its in some boring conference room. today its at nationals park. no ball game but definitely game on. and speaking of strategy democratic senator debbie stabenow is fund-raising off that attack that angered both republicans and democrats. ...

picture this, youre walking through the airport checkpoint with your shoes on and your belt on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorums stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. hes grabbed some delegates and more importantly hes grabbing the momentum. thats enabling him to raise lots of cash an...

>> in just a few hours results will start coming in from todays republican triple-header caucuses in colorado, minnesota and a primary in missouri up for grabs. dozens of delegates, but perhaps more importantly momentum. the front-runner mitt romneys campaign is anticipating a potential setback as his rivals look for an opportunity. our jim acosta is in denver. >> reporter: were going to turn around and look at this screen back here, because mitt romney will talk to us from his bus. >>...