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And bill chrissal if they are quote, dopes. joining me now bob franken. thank you both for joining me. erin, let's start with romney's flip-flop on the tax issue. will this hurt him? >> oh, of course. it already has started to hurt him. there's no question. and with all of these republicans saying this was an unforced error, they need to figure out what to do. that's true. and the one thing i would take issue with is this is not necessarily a staff problem. this is a candidate problem. because the staff is always ayp% reflection of the candidate himself. >> now, you spend a lot of time coverin...

They would say but you have to tie some of these things off as well as you can, give it all the investment we've made, or else the risk of further implosion is too great. and we have some responsibility and ownership going forward. what it looks like we haven't figured out but we have some responsibility. >> i want to shift back to the campaign because it is sort of striking. it seems as if the romney campaign has decided they do need to get the candidate out there a little bit more so they are doing the conservative audiences and then a "60 minutes" sitdown which obviously they know they had,...

prime minister david cameron. mostly business, anyway. after they caught a game in the ncaa basketball tournament, president obama welcomed the british prime minister and his wife in a ceremony fit for a king. right now they're meeting in private on world issues tough to talk about. iran, syria, the debt crisis. stop me any time. they will be honored tonight at a state dinner as well. in a little over an hour from now, he and the president will be stepping into the rose garden for a news conference, and you'll be seeing it live here on cnn, so stay tuned. also in the news, secretar...

rick santorum has a brand-new surge coming after stunning victories in the deep county. newt gingrich is refusing to add up the numbers. mitt romney's cavern says this race is still a forgone conclusion. let's begin with joe johns, he's in illinois. joe? >> reporter: wolf, this is rosemo rosemont, illinois, outside of chicago, where newt gingrich is expected to appear shortly. there were new calls today from conservatives for gingrich to get out of the race and give rick santorum a clean shot at the republican nomination. as indecision limped closer to the halfway mark, the candidate...

>> i think the idea of getting -- i think the idea of getting money out of politics, i don't necessarily support. in the sense that i think it's good to have a lot of money and speech. >> but you support a level playing field. >> i do. the fact of the matter is -- >> you want people to spend live time talking about an election and that time is going to cost money in whatever way. right some if you want to have a platform in which people have a national network, right? in some way there is resources dedicated to the proliferation of ideas throughout an electoraelect to electorate in the campaig...