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korea plans to launch a long-range rocket. why tensions are soaring ahead of a world nuclear summit. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com on this, the eve of a key gop primary in louisiana, rick santorum is charging hard. polls show him as a double digit favorite there, but santorum is also on the defensive today. he's taking a lot of heat from his rivals for hinting that reelecting barack obama might -- might be preferable to electing mitt romney. listen to this. >> you win by giving people a choice. you win by giving people the o...

Is going to be a fighter, maybe not war wounds, but has a passion to paraphrase -- >> maybe an instinct. >> the fire in the belly as it were and experience is one way of developing that. >> and, mike, when i first got to washington, i loved the idea of the outsider that had never been to washington, didn't know how to the game was played, fresh start. that's one thing if you're a back bench congressman or congresswoman. it's another thing again if we have a system that's possibly so unstable that you could get somebody from the outside that had no idea how to -- let's say a ceo, and some ceos ...

that the president is doing this at all because it represents 180-degree shift, a total reversal in his prior position on super pac money. listen to what he said back in october of 2010. >> thanks to a gigantic loophole, these special interests can spend unlimited amounts without even disclosing where the money is coming from. we don't know where it's coming from. is it from the oil industry? we don't know if it's from banks. we don't know if it's insurance companies. could be coming overseas. we don't know. they won't tell you. they don't want you to know. they don't want you to kno...

Reporters looking at these things don't have any idea what a lot of them mean. >> i think it's so remarkable to think about what -- we are in the midst of seeing something that's a seismic shift. i don't think you can overstate. the only thing restraining us right now are habits, status quo and old norms that will fall by the wayside as the campaign ramps up and people start writing more and more of these million dollar checks. >> so it's clear we are going to have an ol gark -- oligarchy. i got to see, he says to me, the money is the problem. we have to get rid of it. >> right. >> they have t...

Form as much as republicans are. the democratic super pacs are lagging way behind. >> the president's super pac raised $4 million or the associated super pac that is working on behalf of getting president obama re-elected. here's something interested, too, in the numbers in small dollar donations. one of the interesting cycles that happened, we had watergate and the post-watergate creation of campaign finance reform. we saw the slow dissolution, destruction of that system. howard dean campaign, and then the obama campaign. romney has 9% of his donations raised from small dollar donors. barack ...