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head matchup with mibarack obam. kim jong-un s first speech in public. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. it can be a politician s worst enemy as politicians from ronald reagan to barack obama have learned the hard way. now a would be president is having his own open mike moment, mitt romney speaking candidly at a public fund-raiser about eliminating tax deductions and other loopholes. jim, tell our viewers what s going on. this is sort of an open mike moment, even though there were no microphones, mitt romney has been reluctant to offer many details to voters. yet at a private fundrai-raiser over the weekend, romney was willing to get specific. reporter: for mitt romney, it was supposed to be a private fund-raiser. but two reporters overheard specifics from romney s deficit reduction plan that he has yet to share with the public. among other things, romney was considering eliminating the department of housing and human development, he talked about ....
grilled and lambasteds by british law makers and now a whistleblower in the growing phone hackl scandal reportedly is dead. and a 77-year-old man defends his home and family from an intruder with a gun. stand by for the dramatic story. that s even more compelling because get this he s a member of the united states congress. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the u.s. defaulting on its debt for the first time in history? we can t state it enough, this has enormous consequences for all of us, and time is quickly running out to prevent what the president calls armageddon. let s check in with kate baldwin. she s standing by with the latest. where do the negotiations stand right now? the two top republicans in the house. no official readout from the white house, but president obama says we are making progress when asked today by reporters how the debt talks were going when he was leaving an event in the rose garden. on the part of speaker boehner, a sp ....