we'll take you inside the murder mustry grabbing headlines around the globe. we begin with a look at today's "eye opener" your world in 90 seconds. >> charlie, this election's going to be a refuse dumb on the president's economic policies. it didn't help the economy. actually made it worse. >> the gop lines up behind-m mi romney. >> the president doesn't understand what's unique and exceptional. >> as cbs news poll shows a dead heat for mid-november. >> the secret service now says its agents brought as many as 21 prostitutes back to their hotel. >> military people actually went to a brothel in cartagena, colombia, called the pley club. >> the president wants it investigated. >> bill clinton said, i am on it. >> in texas, a newborn there has been found alive after his mother was gunned down. >> witnesses say a woman shot golden several times and the baby was snatched from her by a man. >> i loved her. she loved me. everything was going fine until today. >> warren buffett has been diagnosed with stage one prostate cancer. he says his condition is not life-threatening. the woman plowed her car right into a supermarket full of shoppers. no one was killed. >> kim kardashian, mayor of glendale. media celebrities says she's serious but it coo it happen. >> oink oink. there you have it. >> she says she's the ultimate cougar. >> i am. >> make love to betty white. >> and all that matters. >> jamie moyer made baseball history at 49. the oldest pitcher ever to win a major league ball game. >> i'm still able to live the dream. >> on "cbs this morning." >> in japan, a 76-year-old man has spent the last 20 years living naked on a remote island. now the man is famous for having the least successful match.com profile ever. welcome to "cbs this morning." for the first time top two republicans are backing mitt romney's presidential campaign. >> john boehner and mitch mcconnell endorsed romney, a year after the 2012 campaign began. >> after that announcement, speaker boehner sat down with us at the capitol for his first national interview. >> you endorsed mitt romney today. how much did the primary campaign do to his election that he faces? >> i don't think there was any real damage done. it got messy. just like the race four years ago between barack obama and hillary clinton. it went on until june of 2008. charlie, this election's going to be a referendum on the president's economic policy. it did not help the economy. it actually made it worse. >> what's the debate going to be, what we've just been talking about? >> no. it's going to be over the president's economic policies. pure and simple. they've made matters worse. america should be doing a lot better today, but when you look at his calls for higher taxes, his refusal to deal with the debt, the regular regime here in washington out of control, they've scared every business person and investor in america. that's why you see record amounts of cash in these businesses, in banks, because they don't know what tomorrow's going to look like. >> no one doubts you're not in touch, not only with the constituents you have ohio but generally, you're that kind of guy. is mitt romney that kind of guy? he's had a very different lifestyle from you. >> we're all different. different personalities -- >> but can he be in touch? does he need to figure out how to are the same kind of visceral appeal? . >> i think he's done a good job in a republican primary. understand some very difficult circumstances. and i think he's prepared for this general election and will appeal to more than half of america. >> but after any primary, there's always a little retooling. always some adjustments in terms of now you have a different opponent. so, i think you'll see some new things out of this campaign. >> like what? >> a real focus on what the election's going to be about. >> well -- >> economicing, economics, economics. >> well, he's pulled back in this the other day in a closed meeting. he talked about, perhaps, abolishing hew -- hud as well as department of education. >> well, there were a lot of things said there, all right? we've got to make choices. we shouldn't criticize candidates because they're talking about the big choices that we have to make. when you have a $1.3 trillion budget deficit, have you to do something. >> the president would say to you, if you said that to him x you're friends, this is going to be a referendum on the ryan budget. because the speaker has even said, it's a vision of what we want to do. >> the president's going to try to make the election about anything other than his failed economic policy. because he can't run on his record. so, they're going to pull out every boogie man they can. the fact is, is that we've got a serious problem. that's why republicans have a plan, from america job creators, to put america back to work. >> do you think the ryan plan is to do that, because governor romney has made it at one with him. >> somebody in this town has to own up to the problems we face. >> and that --. >> and that budget does it. now, if the president doesn't like that budget, where is his budget? his budget failed on the floor of the house, zero to 414. not one democrat or one republican voted for the president's budget. why? because he wasn't serious about dealing with america's problem. >> the catholic bishops today said that the ryan budget fails to meet moral criteria and disproportionately cuts programs that seven the poor and vulnerable, which sounds like the president. >> i understand. listen, when you look at the budget choices that we have to make, it's time that congress and washington and the president quit kicking the can down the road and address our challenges. i don't believe our budget will hurt the poor in any way. i don't think it will hurt the safety net in any way. but we can't continue to spend money we don't have. >> why cannot two people who are friends come to some understanding on this grand bargain and make it happen because of the american people want it to happen? >> i sat for months with the president. he wanted revenue. i said, mr. president, i'll put revenue on the table that we can achieve without affecting our tax code. but the only way i'll do that is if you're willing to have real, fundamental reform of our entitlement programs. and the fact is, is we have an agreement. then two days later the president decided he wanted $400 billion of more revenue, which was next --. >> but at the same time, you came to an agreement, in your mind, that was acceptable. >> until he lost his courage. >> lost his courage? >> he lost his courage. >> he couldn't face what? >> why did he blow the deal up? >> what did he tell you? >> that he needed more revenue, needed more revenue. he lost his courage. >> will anything happen between now and the election? >> i would hope so. but i'm not optimistic. the president checked out last labor day. all he's done is campaign full time for the last six months. he's not been engaged in the legislative process at all. there have been no effort at trying to work with democrats and republicans to address this issue at all. and it's shameful. >> he's able to change the emphasis of the future or to the ryan plan or to governor romney -- >> the american people -- >> if he prevents it -- >> the american people vote with their wallet. they have for the history of our country and it's not going to change. >> we'll have more of that interview in our next hour. speaker boehner talk about the sometimes rough relationship with the president only on "cbs this morning." the race between romney and president obama is now dead even, according to a cbs news/"new york times" poll released just this morning. 46% of registered voters say they will vote for the president, the same number say they'll vote for romney. meantime, more republican primary voters are now backing romney, 33% say they that's up five points from january. >> with us from washington be, political director john dickerson. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what's happening with these numbers? >> well, the republican party is slowly gathering behind mitt romney. still some reservations out there for people. that's to be expected after a bruising primary. remember, in that primary there was the hard core of the conservative base that couldn't get over mitt romney. no matter, you know, they kept looking for other alternatives. so there's a little of that lingering out there. you do see the republican party coming behind mitt romney and he's basically reminding them, we're all in this against president obama. >> so, electability now becomes a big issue for the republicans and they're willing to support the guy that -- the primary process has chosen. will they be enthusiastically, these conservatives who supported santorum and gingrich and others? >> right now that group of conservatives are not enthusiastic about mitt romney but very enthusiastic about beating the president. we saw last week in this flap about women's and ann romney and her role and women's roles, that was a impavl nizing moment for conservatives. if there continue to be a number of those in which conservatives can see something they don't like about democrats or this president, that will help mitt romney a great deal. >> what speaker boehner lays out is that he hopes this will will be a referendum on obama. the president says to say it will be a referendum on the ryan budget and what it would mean for the country. >> that's right. as you were trying to say in your interview there with him, that's the president. the choice don't want this just to be a referendum. if you look at polls, this they have consistently shown the way president obama has handled the economy. thumbs up or down on his handling of the economy, the president is in bad shape. what they'll hope to say is, don't look at the past, look at the future, where things are headed. people are starting to think the economy is getting better. a lot of people think it's going in the wrong direction. the president will hope to say, look, the future's a little brighter and brighter with me than with the other team. >> each going to spin it to their advantage. john, speaker bonier wy boehne talking to charlie and said the president lost his courage when it came to budget negotiations. how much will courage or lack thereafter be as we head into november? >> if it's a conversation just about reducing deficits, republicans will do well. people trust romney on that question over president obama. if the conversation is about who's going to be more fair in the future in terms of dividing up the government and also if everybody's got to sacrifice, who will have the fair distribution and sacrifice. that's turf on which the president would like to fight the election, in which he's got a slightly better chance. the budget will be a big conversation and they will both be fighting about what exactly it means to have a fight over the budget. >> one last question from me, john. this notion of the gender gap, how will the romney campaign go at trying to change those numbers, which are overwhelming? >> they will basically go back to the economy. they'll say, look, the president is trying to have all of these side fights about nonimportant issues, but women, which is the group that mitt romney has difficulty with, you need to think about your economic conditions and think about the president and his handling of the economy. they're hoping to just drive home that exact same message from the general election. what they'll need to do is make mitt romney a little more approachable. they're sort of redefining him now. that will also be part of it. >> thank you. >> john dickerson, thanks. turning to the secret service sex scandal, investigators are in cartagena, colombia, asking exactly what happened. witnesses say up to 20 women were involved with aides and secret service. nora o'donnell is at the white house with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. we've learned new information. the secret service now wants to polygrap a number of those agents and officers involved in this. part of the reason, a lot of those agents are telling different stories about exactly what happened. but as one law enforcement official tells us, they're going to do this because, quote, we want to use every possible tool to get to the bottom of this. this is the strip club, the pley club, where cbs news learned president obama's security team was partying 48 hours before the president arrived in colombia. the men, 11 secret service and 10 military members met as many as 20 foreign women, some prostitut prostitutes, and reportedly paid them $60 each to go to their cartagena hotel. the two highest ranking members are receiving briefings on the investigation. they want to know whether national security was jeopardized. >> we don't know what kind of access these women had to highly classified information. >> reporter: connecticut senator joe lieberman said if the allegations are true, people should be punished. he's considering holding a hearing on the scandal. but a top law enforcement official tells cbs news, no sensitive information was compromised 37 these agents had not yet received a briefing on the president's trip and would not have had his schedule. the pentagon is also investigating. it's looking into the ten military members involved, which includes five members of the army's elise special forces. at the white house, the president spokesman would not answer questions on whether this is an isolated incident or a pattern of behave. is the president convinced this is not part of a broader cull toural problem? >> again, there is an investigation ongoing that we should let take its course before we speculate about its conclusions. >> reporter: and the investigation is growing, too. there's that military investigation. investigators down in colombia. secret service has it's own internal investigation and now the department of homeland security, which oversees the secret service, is launching their own investigation as well. >> nora o'donnell at the white house, thank you. yesterday we talked about the skajtsdz with former secret service agent dan now running for u.s. senate in maryland. we spoke with him because he had spoken to a number of the agents who were directly involved. we asked him what they had told him. after the interview we learned his brother was with the secret service detail in colombia. i spoke with him yesterday on the phone in the afternoon, asking him about thinks brother's involvement. he said, while he is helping the investigation, he is not a target of the investigation. in texas, newborn baby has been found in good condition after someone shot his mother to death outside a doctor's office. police are questioning a person of interest. the child was stolen yesterday, in spring, texas. as michelle miller reports, the baby was taken from his mother's arms. >> reporter: 3-day-old keegan schuchardt was found hours after his mother was gunned down in this parking lot in houston. >> nice, sweet, loveable. i loved her. she loved me and everything was going fine. until today. >> reporter: authorities say 28-year-old kala golden was leaving a pediatrician's office with her son when she apparently got into an argument with another woman in a parked car. witnesses said the woman shot golden several times before grabbing the child from his carseat and way. golden fought desperately to hang on, screaming for her baby. >> she tried to get the child from the vehicle and she was dragged to the ground as the car took off. >> she's laying on the ground, she wasn't moving for nothing. then i saw them drive off in that direction. >> reporter: police issued an amber alert and sealed off the parking lot. they raided a nearby apartment complex and hauled away a vehicle that matched the description of the suspect's car. baby keegan was found at another investigation and authorities were conducting a background check on the entire family before releasing him. >> obviously, when you have a kidnapping case or aggravated kidnapping case on top of a murder, this is dire circumstances. >> now golden's husband is trying to come to grips with raising his three children without a mother. >> it's hard, man. it's hard. i'm going to miss her a lot. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," i'm michelle miller. time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. "the new york times" reports that pay packages for top citigroup executives were rejected in a stockholder suit. about 55% of stockholders voted against the big executive payday, including $15 million for citigroup's ceo. the rote is not binling but officials say they are taking it seriously. one day after the tax deadline, "usa today" reports u.s. troops have about $390 million in back taxes. the irs blames confusion. warren buffett says early stage prostate cancer is no cause for alarm. he will get radiation treatments in nebraska beginning in july. britain telegraph has the official change. the games begin in 100 days. and the oregonian reports that a man tried to get through security at portland international airport naked last night. john brennan says he was protesting against tsa screeners who were allegedly harassing >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by the makers of zyrtec. love the air. the death of a british businessman in china leads a top communist party leader in disgrace and his wife in prison. we'll take a rare peek at china's modern side. the justice department is investigating 17 police departments accused of breaking the law. >> from time to time in our police work we find departments that are, frankly, broken from top to bottom. >> john miller has the story behind the unprecedented federal crackdown. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by trifexis. learn more and get money saving offers at trifexis.com. 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