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fear of the assad regime. a rear window inside a brutal crackdown. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm blitz and you're in "the situation room." a tightening race heading in to south carolina's republican primary one week from today. a new american research group poll of likely primary voters in that state puts mitt romney on top but, but in a statistical tie with newt gingrich who is just ahead of ron paul. the texas congressman has surged in south carolina from 9% just a week ago while rick santorum has taken the biggest hit down from 24% ...

Proposed a jobs plan, with many pieces that in the past republicans have supported. and that all he's asking for is that congress pass that jobs bill. because the obama white house has been on that message for the last two or three weeks. they think that it's been working. they look at recent polls that show some bump up in numbers for the democrats and so forth. also, the obama campaign's been out advertising heavily in a lot of swing states to push his numbers up a little bit. i think they'd much rather try to let occupy wall street energize the base, but not get dragged off into a pure conf...

And that all he's asking for is that congress pass that jobs bill. because the obama white house has been on that message for the last two or three weeks. they think that it's been working. they look at recent polls that show some bump up in numbers for the democrats and so forth. also, the obama campaign's been out advertising heavily in a lot of swing states to push his numbers up a little bit. i think they'd much rather try to let occupy wall street, energize the base, but not get dragged off into a pure confrontation with wall street. first of all, president obama's not like that. secondly...

Biggest threat here. craig? >> nick, thanks. appreciate that. new numbers show a recovery in the housing market may be far off. that's because the number of people who signed contracts to buy homes fell sharply in april to its lowest point in seven months. let's get the details now from cnbc's diana olick live in washington for us this afternoon. diana, what do we know about the drop here? what is behind this steep drop in pending home sales? >> well, craig, it was really a big surprise to a lot of the forecasters. this drop in the pending home sales is an indicator of the future of closings...

Welcome back. we have a new poll out today from the washington post about president obama's approval ratings. chris alisa joins us. chris, these numbers from the washington post pew poll indicates a bump up for the president. take us through it. >> sure. not terribly surprising, andrea if you look back in history after big foreign policy moments, the president usually benefits a little bit from a rallying effect that is what appears to be happening in the washington post poll. president obama was at 49% the last time we did this. we did an evernight poll last night. he's at 56% approval. it is...