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more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in china tells cnn a very different account of what happened. cnn's stan grant is in beijing and has be...

It's not going to work here. i believe in america. i believe in the opportunity and in the freedom that is american opportunity and freedom. >> uma: that is mitt romney from this week's debate. republican presidential contenders duking it out in the fox news google debate. fox news contributor liz trotta joining us with a look at the media analysis of the candidate's performance. liz, how do you think they did? >> well, surprises all around the place, uma. according to the media, the biggest surprise was that rick perry is worse than they thought he was. now, mr. romney also, governor romney a...

Of these people, particularly poor people, brown people, black people, young people, we're against that. and it's really -- the thing is it's not symbolic of you are the woman who can't get the pap smear. it is a symbolic move a kind of putting his hand out a gesture to the part of the republican party that he hasn't pandered to as governor of indiana. >> asking you to do a little bit of media analysis here, why do you think the social conservativism issues in republican politics this year are really getting no traction in terms of how people are talking about the republican presidential nomin...

No half-smart religious person actually believes the book of revelation. they are certain that their god would never turn into a malicious torturer and mass murderer beyond hitler's wildest dreams. glenn beck, of course, does believe the book of revelation. why is he bringing it up in his discussion of the crisis in japan? >> the book of revelation was written so you would know what it looks like, you would know, warning, in these days these things will happen. now, i don't know if it's these days. >> so glenn beck is saying he doesn't know if the nuclear crisis in japan is signaling the immin...

So that's now the exclusive foray of abrams research. >> you were of course the general manager of msnbc. you left that job. not voluntarily. and you -- >> it was voluntarily. >> you stepped down voluntarily? >> absolutely. >> you say you were not forced out? >> not in any way. >> why did you step down? >> because i got the 9:00 show on msnbc. >> and you couldn't do both? >> right. so there's no question, anyone would tell you at msnbc that my general manager role was ended because i asked to take the 9:00 show. >> then you lost the 9:00 show. >> that's right. >> and it was a show that i liked...