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number two, the cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. $1.3 trillion at this moment. a distant third, the president's stimulus plan, $831 billion. never thought $831 billion would look cheap. well, here's another powerful number. right now this country is paying $224 billion a year in interest on our debt and that number is mushrooming. it becomes an exponential problem. by 2020 we will be paying $544 billion in interest alone. if you want to see something really scary, let's compare that $544 billion to medicare. by 2020 in the year we're paying $544 billion in interest, medicare...

now we're learning the reason why they chose that specific target. it might not necessarily be what you think. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com he's certainly one of the most visible people on the planet that with global media watching his every single move. how did president obama take most of the world by surprise when he showed up in afghanistan. we're learning new details of this rather complex and massive operation. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is joining us. brianna, tell our viewers what you are learning....

There is 50% failure rate, we looked it up this morning, for all new businesses in this country. looks like bain was coming in by "the wall street journal"'s estimation was coming in at about 70% success raid. >> what is really interesting about this, kind of like what paul harvey used to say, the rest of the story. what doug said are true you will be able to point for layoffs. for every ad and piece of mail that the obama administration sends out about somebody laid off, romney and his campaign, assuming that he is the nominee will be able to push back with their own ads showing somebody save...

Reporting. if you're a ron paul supporter, it's beginning to look a little difficult to win, but let's count the votes. we'll see how that happens here. as i said earlier, in a close race, you look where the votes are. remember, early on, ron paul was leading. polk county, where des moines is, look at that now. dark red. mitt romney, a couple thousand votes, a little short, a thousand votes plus a little bit lead there. that could prove decisive. romney came back in des moines in the suburbs from early in the evening. and wolf, rick, again, 2008, this is romney county, right out here in the we...

About rick santorum. >> brett: internet ad, he said rick santorum was unelectable. >> megyn: he was on my show this afternoon ripping santorum. but clearly his words said one thing and body lnlz suggested something else. but this question suggests to me if he wanted to continue, if he wanted to take the fight to rick santorum, that would be his chief opponent right now if he were going on to south carolina. if he would have made that case he would have taken the opportunity to beat up rick santorum and he didn't. >> brett: couple things coming in. estimate the turnout is roughly 120,000. tha...