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in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." the race for president of the united states is getting more brutal by the day. we begin this hour with mitt romney responding to a firestorm of controversy, surrounding his taxes and his time at bain capital. and he's accusing the obama campaign of stooping to a new low. our national political correspondent jim acosta had a chance on friday to interview romney. it was an excellent interview. >> thank you. >> and there were some real nuggets that we got out of it. >> that's right, wolf. the ...

greenberg are here in the studio to tell us what every politician should be saying right now. and the whole world's buzzing about a north korea mystery woman. she's always by the side of the new leader there. nobody seems to be saying who she is. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." president obama's been hammering mitt romney for sending u.s. jobs overseas during the years he rain bane capital. this afternoon in colorado romney turned the tables labeling the president as the outsourcer in chief. our white house correspondent, brianna keilar, is following all this ba...

Shaikh mohammed. he is alleged to be one of the masterminds of al qaeda. apprehended in pakistan and transferred to guantanamo partly i think by the bush administration, right? partly as a kind of propaganda ploy. once khalid sheik mohammed was in guantanamo, we just brought him in. when you talk about the politics i want to get back to in a second. guantanamo issue, people forget. this was a consensus position in american politics like so much that consensus fallen apart and like john mccain wanted to close guantanamo. i think what happened was as soon as the president wanted to do it, all of...

There have been a lot of folks in the gay community who have been disappointed with the obama administration. you will have david axelrod on later and definitely want to ask him about this. >> ezra klein, let's bring you in. isn't the white house trying to be too clever if you ask barack obama, as he was asked on the 2008 campaign, do you support gay marriage, he will tell you no, i do not support gay marriage. doesn't seem to me that is threading the needle. it seems to me that's a pretty conservative position. >> yeah. but i think if you ask the people who supported barack obama and you said...

Joining us now, we have simon rosenberg, founder and executive director of the new democratic network and also with us, syndicated columnist tony blankley who served as press secretary for newt gingrich years past. tony, let me begin with you. the speech that we heard from newt gingrich yesterday, first of all, what will he repeal? why would he want to repeal health care when its fundamental premises came from mitt romney and senator mccain? why would do you that? >> neither mitt romney nor senator mccain represent where the conservative republican party has been or is. the bill has been unpop...