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earth. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." mitt romney is using ads, web videos, speeches to hammer away at president obama on welfare. romney is taking a lot of heat though over his claims about the administration's policies, but with support from an unlikely ally he's raising the stakes today. here's our national political correspondent jim acosta. >> reporter: wolf, mitt romney is not backing away from his accusation that president obama is trying to make it easier for the poor to receive welfare checks and to help make his case he's getting some help from an old r...

Cinderella gates. remember, we've been counting them in the jar? and mitt's delegates are represented by the jelly beans you recognize. he is so close to the 1,044 delegates he needs to cinch the nomination, the red line here. texas will vote on tuesday, so one can assume that romney will get a pretty good portion of those texas jelly beans. once he does, romney will have his 1,144 delegates and that's when he's going to pivot. the pivot we've talked about here before. he'll have all of the delegates he needs, but now he needs the voters, and the romney machine is in full effect. after his spe...

skeptical social conservatives. i'll talk about that and more with this former rival who just dropped out of the race newt gingrich. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." formally this week, satellites would have been dominated by the race for the white house and the increasingly heating battle between the obama and romney campaigns. but president obama rewrote the script, catching the world by surprise with an unexpected trip to afghanistan where he marked the one-year anniversary of the death of...

The romney machine can drive down turnout, run over opponents with negative ads. it doesn't seem positive. the result is very, very worry some if you're thinking about the fall campaign. >> are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> newt gingrich could not bring himself to endorse mitt romney today, even though gingrich has already lost his two most prominent endorses, mitt romney and herman cain who has endorsed their party as the nominee. this is the best newt could do for mitt today. >> as to the presidency, i'm asked sometimes, is mitt romney

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...