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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the secret service prostitution scandal that exploded in colombia may be just the tip of the iceberg. allegations have now surfaced of similar misconduct involving heavy drinking, a strip club, escorts on a previous presidential trip, this one to el salvador. reporter chris holmsby broke the story and he joins me now. chris, what happened in el salvador just prior to president obama's trip there in march of last year? >> reporter: we just flew to el salvador this last weekend to try to verify some of the information that we actually received so...

prospects in 2016. how could she best position herself now for a possible presidential bid then? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." s. a turning point in the race for the white house. the obama campaign is now going directly on the attack against the republican presidential candidates. they are naming names, and fighting back after months of largely turning the other cheek. but it's not the president taking on his gov challengers. that task is now falling to the vice president joe biden. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us now. jessica, t...

Big donations. we are going to level the playing field, we should not be operating under two sets of rules. >> four years ago, the president said that if they would abide by the financial campaign rules, he would do that he reversed on. that he -- he has a stated policy on finance reform but when it comes down to it, he puts winning ahead of, is he putting winning ahead of his principals here? >> absolutely not. you know, after citizens united came out, i heard you were playing some video in the run up to this segment about the president out there talking about the need for disclosure in campa...

Whole idea is it's not coordinated. if i were running for office, i wouldn't go talk to super pac downers. it's a fiction, it's sort of a legal fiction. but at the same time, there's not supposed to be coordination. so -- >> but the law allows you to solicit. >> i know. but if you're president of the united states, you can send somebody. you can send a cabinet secretary to do your bidding for you. right? >> i don't get the difference. >> it's not like these people aren't going to be coming to regular fundraisers and he puts his arm around them and says thank you for all your help. can we go go...

mississippi hood general went back to block some of those pardons. he said they're a slap in the face to everyone in law enforcement. first, though, four of the convicted murder who is received full pardons were released on sunday, according to the mississippi department of corrections. one link between them, as inmates, they all worked at the governor's mansion on a type of work release program. one of those men is david gatlan. the shooting victim of the family he left behind are in a word, scared. martin? >> anderson, it's been a very chaotic last couple of hours as the legal wran...