possible spin on romney s failure to win in alabama or mississippi. our goal was to take out one third of the delegates and possibly do slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. it s important to your goal wasn t to win one of the states? i don t think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him, and i think that s true. look, this is a delegate contest. and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in fact, one person did expect, mitt romney, in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney, of course, listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you a second what will become a challenge is we ll have three or four days of news media and they
he s claiming he s raised a million dollars in less than 24 hours following that south carolina win. so no big surprise that the attacks on both sides are ramping up. we ve got congressman bob mcewen joining us. he s a newt deng grich surrogate. sir, welcome to you. also produce you to our pan panelist. we have bob grobrownstein. i just called you bob. i m going to make up names. and will cain and roland martin. and also this morning, we are being joined by tom, thank you for being with us. appreciate your time. let s get right to it. sir, what s the plan for today when you look at the graphics that show us the lead that you actually had, looks like a nice solid 12-point lead for newt gingrich. give me analysis, why do you think he won? what did you write? what? am i on, soledad? yes rk, you are. last week terrific things happened. one was the united states for the first time in its peace time history has a debt greater than 100% of its gdp. the same time, nine countrie
listen to the roar of the tornado. this is in arkansas. severe weather is now tearing across the southeast today. at least two people have already been killed near birmingham, alabama. dozens of homes are destroyed. another 100 people now injured. we made it just in the nick of time. the good lord just blessed us and we re just glad we re here. we ve lost our house but at least we have i m sorry. we got our family, and that s all that matters right now. wow. that is tragic. chad myers here to tell us about where the storms are right now and what caused this outbreak. chad? well, it was just a big storm in the upper atmosphere. it was cold. temperatures were only in the 50s and 60s. in alabama and mississippi, around 70. sometimes in the spring you can get to be 80 degrees and then you really get the juice going. storms went across parts of birmingham, south of birmingham as well. the biggest storm headed into columbus, georgia. not rotating enough to put a tornado war
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u.s. ship. and they didn t respond to signals or voices. they re threatening to close the strait of hormuz. it s a choke point, and as american officials have been warning privately and publicly, a serious flash point. what about if they decide to block us off at the straits of hormuz. we have made it clear that the united states will not tolerate the blocking of the straits of hormuz. we will respond to that. the question tonight is, what will iran do next? what happens then? what s being done right now to head it off. barbara starr is here, and on the phone, curt lithal, former commander of the u.s.s. cole. what do you believe to be the intent of the iranians. were they trying to bait the u.s. military, provoke an altercation? maybe just a little bit of both, anderson. the thinking is that the iranians were not looking for a shooting match. they were going to break off, but they were going to cause a little heart-stopping action before they did that. one of the thin