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yp you juyou just heard to tax returns. mitt romney released histax returns 30 minutes ago. it's no surprise. mitt's a rich guy. here's a look at just how rich. he made more than $21 million in 2010. almost all of it came from incompetent vestments, not wages. he payed $3 million in taxes that year or 13.9%. christine romans is digging deeper into the 1040s. let's start with his offshore funds, christine. we had talked a little bit about that this week, and now we're actually seeing it in this, what is it, 200 something pages i've got on the table. >> let me show you. i have it too...

aren't statistics they are people in pain. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". we begin this hour with what's happening in iowa. right now the state that holds the lead off presidential contest is gauging early support for the republican candidates. we're standing by for the results of the iowa straw poll. the winner could get an important boost heading in to the 2012 primary season. cnn don lemon is joining us from ames, iowa. don? >> all right. thank you very much for that, wolf. joining me ...

could affect all of us, including our own mail delivery. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." jtsdzer. it all begins in iowa. right now many of the republican presidential candidates are in that state, a state that holds the lead-off contest in 2012. they're working the crowds at the state fair before tomorrow's pivotal iowa straw poll. and they're taking direct aim at president obama's handling of the debt crisis and the u.s. economy. listen to some of the republican hopefuls, including sarah palin, who insists she still hasn't decided whether to run. >> i think the q...

Have three debates. my thought is romney will be pushed hard on, how is your health care law different than the one that was federally supported and how do you explain your position? and have you flip-flopped? they're going to ask him that question and it seems clear he'll have a hard time answering it based on what we've seen in the last week. >> anne, big voices in the republican camp suggest mr. romney should consider shaking up his staff and add more seasoned operatives. do you hear anything about that happening? >> well, we had a story actually in yesterday's paper by my colleague phil ru...

Dramatically change the picture. no president has won in modern times with unemployment higher than 7.4%. the president will have to make history because it's pretty clear after yesterday that the unemployment will be higher than that on election die. what you're seeing is him arguing, not that the economy is doing great or going gangbusters, but he'll do better creating jobs than romney. >> anne, how about the meter which hasn't moved too much in the swing states either in the latest polls and the president is hitting mitt romney in the ads as an outsourcer of jobs in key states. what do you ...