we will bring him the speech live, and plus should the rich shoulder the tax burden or should it be spread evenly among all americans? well, that is the battle today as president obama calls out romney on the tax plan. i want to get right to it. three commercial airlines nearly collided in midair over reagan international airport when air traffic controllers were making adjustments in stormy weather and caused what officials call a miscommunication. the faa is looking into exactly what happened. house republicans taking their turn in the back and forth of the bush era tax cuts and they passed a gop plan to extend the tax cuts for everyone for one year, and most democrats want to extend them only for families making $250 a year. well sh well, a senate minority leader nancy pelosi and house speaker john boehner went before the cameras a short time ago and neither sign showing a sign of budging. >> on september 15th, 2010, president obama said that preventing the tax hikes was necessary to quote help our economy. what's changed? economic growth is even worse now, and the american people are still asking the question, where are the jobs? >> this blueprint for again extracting money from the middle-class and giving it to the wealthy in our country. you have to give the republicans credit, they very clear about their agenda. when they talk about tax cuts for the rich, they talk about rewarding success. what they don't talk about is the tax increase for the middle-class. >> the battle over your taxes, and it is now front and center in the presidential race. mitt romney is speaking at a campaign rally in golden, colorado, which is going to happen in 15 minutes. he is expected to keep hammering away at president obama over the economy. the president says that romney's tax policies would help wealthy americans and hurt the middle-class. he points to a study by researcher at the urban brookings tax policy center. >> they found that if governor romney wants to keep his word and pay for this plan of this $5 trillion tax cut, the only way the do it is to cut tax breaks that you middle class families depend on. the home mortgage deduction that you use to pay for your home. the health care deduction that your employers use to provide you health care. some of the tax credits that we have put in place to send your kids to college. what this means is the average middle class family with children would be hit with a tax increase of more than $2,000. >> romney's plan calls for 20% cuts to the current bush era tax rates and eliminate the al turntive minimum tax and limit deductions, be hbut he has not which ones he would eliminate. and the romney camp fired back saying that this would call for more tax hikes and more government spending. we have been down this road and it has led to 41 straight months of unemployment above 8%. and we go the our dan lothian, and first of all, do we expeck that the president is going to be keeping the focus on what he is talking about here and that is trying to help out the middle-class? >> he will. the president will continue to hammering that message and why? because the obama reelection campaign believes it is a message that resonates with the voters. the president has talked often about building this economy from the middle out rather than from the top-down and trying the draw the contrast between his policies and the policies of the opponent mitt romney. you will hear the president talk about that, and also talk about how he continues to push support extending the bush era tax cuts, but only for those making up to $250,000. incomes up to $250,000 a year. the overarching theme of the campaign continues to be that president obama is looking out for the middle-class, and mitt romney is looking out for the very wealthy. so that will be the message here today. at the same time while mitt romney is out in colorado, he does have a top surrogate here in the orlando area, marco rubio, and senator rubio is holding an event not far away from where we are standing where he said, yes, the president did inherit a bad economy and he made it much worse. he told the voters that the president will raise their taxes and then he proclaimed that the obama presidency has been a historic disaster, and so both campaigns are fighting very hard for the key battleground state, a state that most polls are showing the president is leading by six points, suzanne. >> and there are things that the romney campaign is pointing out, and that is growth has slowed to through the fourth quarter and unemployment is stuck at 8%. and the white house, the campaign, how do they counter that? are they vulnerable when it comes to the two points? >> well, it is, look, a very big concern for the campaign. they'd much rather see the unemployment rate below 8% and in fact, much lower. it continues to be at that level and the way that the president counters that and you listened to him yesterday in ohio, he tells the voters that he is making progress. he believes that his policies will impve things over time, but that there are no quick fixes. it will take time to turn things around, so that is really how the obama campaign has been countering it, but you know, it is a key issue for voters when they go to the polls what will be in the back of their minds is do they have a job? can they afford to keep their homes? can they afford the send their kids to college, and so that the economy is a huge issue, and the job numbers coming out tomorrow, everybody will be watching closely to see, because it could have a big impact on who wins the election, suzanne. >> yes, huge. dan, thank you so much. good to see you. a widening gap between the richest and the poorest americans is hitting home literally and we are talking about according the a new pew research study that poor are more segregated based on the income. the percentage of upper income households in an affluent neighborhood rose from 9% to 18% from 1980 to 2010, and meanwhile, low income households in poor neighborhoods rose from 23% to 28%. and the income in middle-class neighborhoods shrank from 85% to 76%. and in a senate runoff in texas, newcomer ted cruz backed the candidate backed by the establishment. but the leaders in congress warn that if he wins in november, it is more gridlock on capitol hill, and the tea party backers say just the opposite. our store pri from dy from dana >> reporter: a familiar rallying cry. >> millions of texans and millions of americans are rising up to reclaim our country to the defend liberty and to restore the constitution. >> reporter: 41-year-old first-time candidate ted cruz walloped the well funded republican establishment candidate in the gop senate primary with this promise. >> politicians cut deals. principled conservatives deliver. >> reporter: democratic leaders warn if cruz wins in november, the gridlock in the senate will be worse. >> anyone who elected to the senate starts off i won't compromise is not going to help us. >> reporter: the tea party is a good foil for the democrats, but cruz's vote won't make that much difference, because he is replacing kay bailey hutchinson, and she voted with the gop 90% of the time. but cruz like any senator would have a lot of power to grind business to a halt. >> you know what the senate is like. one senator stands up and says no, we stop the train. >> reporter: and cruz would not be the only possible new senator willing to do that. in indiana richard murdoch beat veteran incumbent richard lugar and vowing confrontation over compromise. >> what i have said and i continue to believe certainly is one side or the other must prevail, and i'm hoping that the candidacy will help to move the republican party forward to become a permanent majority. >> reporter: and the senate is bound to be a more polarized place because so many moderates chose to leave. more than half a dozen are retiring this years, and still it is a open question whether the tea party rhetoric on the campaign trail translates into action in office. two years ago a handful of tea party backed senators promised the hold their leadership's feet to the fire and protect civil l liberties, but once there, a few uncompromising demands like rand paul on the patriot act. >> call your congressman and tell them in washington you are unhappy. >> reporter: and also a kingmakers who says that ted kroousz can help the country. >> i think that ted cruz can empower the democrats to make the decisions. >> reporter: he says that the more tea party backed senators, the less gridlock and here is why. >> if we have a strong mandate election who will work with people like ted cruz and marco rubio and pat toomey and some of the senators here in a sensible way to change the course of the country. >> reporter: talking to the republicans here in the halls of congress, it is clear that if the leaders understand that the gop retakes control of the senate next year expectations will be higher and pressure more intense on the republican leadership to make good on campaign promises to make the federal government smaller. dana bash, cnn, capitol hill. here is what we are work on for this hour. the psychiatrist who treaedd the accused movie theater shooter was so alarmed by his behavior she reportedly notified the campus threat team. we will look at why james holmes was not taken into custody before his shooting spree. women's gymnastics takes n center stage today at the olympics. i will have some of the highlights. and we will take you through exactly what happened on the runway at reagan international airport when three planes nearly collided. male spirit present.trong it's the priceline negotiator. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's neexpress deals. it's a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding. pick one with a pool, a gym, a great guest rating. >>and save big. >>thanks negotiator. wherever you are. ya, no. he's over here. >>in the 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set the time line for you, and this is the early days of june. the court documents say that holmes was treated by dr. lynn fenton for several weeks. on june 7th, and again, this is the first ten days of june, on june 7th, holmes took a preliminary exam, oral exam and ba basically failed it. he was also having trouble getting a mentor to continue in the ph.d. program in the neuroscience program in the university of colorado. on the same day of june 7th after he failed that test, he went out and bought a ar assault rifle, and in this period, he was talking to dr. fenton, and during this period he told her something so disturbing that she decided that she h to contact this team, this threat assessment team, and we don't know specifically what she told him, but we know it involved her concern that he might be a threat to others. >> and how did the university respond here? because i know they have some sort of system that is set up in place, a threat assessment team. >> yeah. doctor, and dr. lynn fenton helped to form this threat assessment team in 2010 and she is a member of the team. we know she contact ed members f the team in separate conversations and discussing at this point whether to convene about the holmes' matter, but while they were doing that on june 10th, holmes made it known he was dropping out of school and initiated paperwork to do so and at that point the team decided that since they he was dropping out of school, they had no control or jurisdiction over him so that the team never convened and at that point holmes was gone and the team never convened and we don't know what happened after that. >> you actually talked to an expert when it comes to the threat assessment who believes that the university didn't do enough. why do they say that? i mean, was there more that the university should have done at this point since the student had already, holmes had left the campus and the university? >> here's the crux of the matter. we have two tracks here. first the threat assessment team, and dr. lynn fenton who is a psychiatrist and she had an obligation to report something to the police if it got to a certain bar, and we don't know whether that information met that bar. we know she went to the threat assessment team which could have been information far below the bar. what we know is that the threat assessment team didn't do -- did not convene. what the experts are saying is that it should have been a huge red flag when he left school that could have been a mental break, and in fact, he could have been at the end of the rope, and that is the time, they say when the threat assessment team should have swung into action. now on the other side, suzanne, we don't know if dr. fenton continued the treat holmes or if she referred to him to another psychiatrist and that what we don't know. >> still a lftot of questions, t john, appreciate your reporting. and team usa hits the floor again as the flying squirrel hits the ground running. 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