mr. wolfe? >> i am an attorney from chattanooga, tennessee. thank you for all the graciousness of your invitation. i would like to say i do not think we are a socialist country. you have one-fifth of the people that own 94% of the financial assets. the top 1% may 24% of the income. i do not think that is proof of socialism. i am in this race because there is a progressive avoid laughter d left here by president obama. president obama is a democrat, but president obama has lost the promise of the democratic party. he has basically sided with wall street from the day he has been in office. most of its funding comes from wall street. he surrounds himself with people like ge. -- erskine bowles and jeffrey immelt. he has people around that like him and they have a lot of influence on the oval office. the finance his campaigns. the outcome of that, the product of all this, it is an administration that has policies that are very favorable to wall street. but not to main street. president obama opposes

based on the conversation i had with mr. wolf and based on what a lot of us have been observing with corporations really moving hard in this last year to get control of the internet from various corporate angles, i do not think -- i know i have been kind of quarterly bringing this up, but i think it is time for us to start really hitting this again. i do not think we can wait much longer. i would urge you to agendize this session so we could talk about the possibility of fiber optic broadband as a public system so we no longer have to deal with just getting our service from comcast and at&t, which, from personal experience, has been held for me. i am sure some of you have probably had problems with those sort of duopoly carriers as well. there will be a key component with how we build howcca and -- how we build out cca and smart birds. i think it is time for lafco to take this on. -- smart grids. commissioner campos: any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will come back to this in a future meeting so

mr. wolfttorney from chattanooga tennessee. i'm happy to be here tonight and thank you for the gracious of your invitation. i would like to say i do not think we are a socialist country. you have one-fifth of the people who own one fifth of be -- the top 1% make 23% of the national income. i don't think that's much proof of socialism. i am in this race not to countermand my friend here, but i am in the race because there is a progressive void left here by president obama. president obama is a democrat, but president obama has lost the promise of the democratic party and the promise of his administration and the promise of this country. he has basically sided with wall street from the day he has been in office. most of his funding comes from wall street. he surrounds himself with people like erskine bowles, people like jeffrey campbell -- jeffrey imult, and have a lot of influence on the oval office and finance his campaigns. the product of all of this is an administration that has policies tha

mr. wolfe? >> i am an attorney from chattanooga, tennessee. thank you for all the graciousness of your invitation. i would like to say i do not think we are a socialist country. you have one-fifth of the people that own 94% of the financial assets. the top 1% may 24% of the income. i do not think that is proof of socialism. i am in this race because there is a progressive avoid laughter d left here by president obama. president obama is a democrat, but president obama has lost the promise of the democratic party. he has basically sided with wall street from the day he has been in office. most of its funding comes from wall street. he surrounds himself with people like ge. -- erskine bowles and jeffrey immelt. he has people around that like him and they have a lot of influence on the oval office. the finance his campaigns. the outcome of that, the product of all this, it is an administration that has policies that are very favorable to wall street. but not to main street. president obama opposes

rotenberg and mr. wolf. >> thank you, chairman franken, ranking member coburn and members of the committee. i'm a privacy lawyer at hogan loveliels and i'm a privacy advocate. i won a leading case against the government for violating the electronics communications act. i'm part of the group providing the oecd on the privacy guidelines and i'm on the epic advisory board and i founded and cochaired on the board for members on the board and academia focusing on practical ways to advance privacy. i'm pleased professor mcgeveran is a member of that advisory board. fundamentally privacy is about control. indeed, a principle goal of privacy laws is to put choices and decisions in the hands of informed consumers. with the advent of video streaming and social sharing, the video privacy protection act stand -- today stands in the way of consumers exercising exercising control and limits their choices and even limits -- vppa was designed to prevent prying into people's video rental history. the purpose of that law was

make sure you tune in to mr. wolf blitzer that begins right now. . >> you're in the "situation room," just three days to go to the next presidential republican contest in mitt romney's backyard. this hour, the state at play, and a tougher poll for romney at least, south carolina. i'll ask about the bitter primary attacks under way right now. are the gop candidates giving a gift to president obama? and the iowa women applaudeded by our own election team and caucus watchers around the country. stand by to learn more about edith and carolyn, who solved the case of the missing votes. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the "situation room." tuesday's new hampshire primary is just around the corner. get this, the dramatic anticipation is building for the republican presidential candidates. the first southern showdown will take place on january 21st, our new cnn poll is the first snapshot of support in south carolina, taken after the squeaker in iowa this pas

so a lot of pressure on you, mr. wolf, to get one over on mr. king. >> i'll do my best, thursday night, 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> congratulations on the coverage again. it's been exhilarating to watch. thank you all very much. >> thanks, piers. >>> when we come back, how will mitt romney and rick santorum respond to gingrich's surge? so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste and whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. that can help lower cholesterol? like splenda® essentials™ no calorie sweeteners. this bowl of strawberries is loaded with vitamin c. and now, b vitamins to boot. coffee doesn't have fiber. unless you want it to. splenda® essentials™ are the first and only line of sweeteners with a small boost of fiber, or antioxidants, or b vitamins in every packet. mmm. same great taste with an added "way to go, me" feeling. splenda® essentials™. get more ou

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so a lot of pressure on you, mr. wolf, to get one over on mr. king. >> i'll do my best, thursday night, 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> congratulations on the coverage again. it's been exhilarating to watch. thank you all very much. >> thanks, piers. >>> when we come back, how will mitt romney and rick santorum respond to gingrich's surge? there is a platform built for the purpose of driving innovation. one that's transforming how companies from every industry-- and of every size-- are doing business. a platform built for now. and for what's next. this...is the cisco intelligent network. cisco. and during the four course feast, there's so much to choose from. [ male announcer ] the four course seafood feast is back at red lobster. still just $15. get soup, salad, unlimited cheddar bay biscuits, dessert, and your choice of 7 entrées, like new honey bbq shrimp skewers or shrimp and scallops alfredo. all four courses, just $15. [ jody ] it's really good value. all my guests love it. i'm jody gonzalez, red lobster general manager. and i sea food differently.

"the situation room" with mr. wolf blitzer starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanks very much, don. happening now, some very surprising developments in south carolina where our brand new poll shows mitt romney racing to a big lead. taking a closer look, what's behind the surge? the first of the nation new hampshire primary only four days away. we have interviews this hour with rick santorum and jon huntsman, two candidates with a lot on the line. and a chilling new development in syria. a bombing in the heart of damascus leaves dozens dead and wounded. but who's responsible? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we begin with a stunning turnd around in south carolina where mitt romney has nearly downed his support in the past month to take a solid lead. in our latest cnn orc poll, 37% of likely voters are now backing romney in south carolina. santorum and gingrich are battling for second and 18% respectly. but santorum is soaring. while gingrich has dropped 25 points. paul has

wolf blitzer, ladies and gentlemen. we've been talking about mrs.ho walks you each and every caucus night. >> she does watch. >> obviously huge coverage. the a-team is here. starting at 7:00 eastern. lift the veil for us. what happens behind the scenes? >> you've got to do a lot of studying. this is homework. you've got to go through and learn a lot of stuff and this is just one state. before we know it, next week, new hampshire, and then south carolina and then florida. we're learning a lot about all of these states and stuff that's are really -- i love this kind of stuff. >> i heard we have what they call caucus cams? >> yes. cameras being short for camera. we have a lot of -- we'll see democracy unfold in iowa tonight. i think we have more caucus cams than anyone else. >> cedar caucus -- this one will have 6,000 people. and so we're going to try to give our viewers a flavor of what's going on. >> and also we'll be showing the poll numbers. this is the final time that we'll be able to hear the voice of the voter. >> it's almost like the final poll

. >>> in five minutes you have "the situation room" with wolf blitzer coming up. we always get mr. th a little preview. you know, i was talking to someone at the white house earlier they said without a doubt this is a steve union speech, not a campaign speech. what does wolf blitzer say? >> there's no doubt it's an important speech, setting the stage for the campaign, the reelection campaign, a lot of the themes we'll hear tonight will certainly continue over the weeks and months to come. this will heat up dramatically over this period, especially once the republicans settle on a presidential nominee. we're going on go in depth on the state of the union. right now jay carney, the white house press secretary is standing by to join us live. paul begala, mary matalin, they were worked in democratic white houses. we're going to go through what happens. also the presidential campaign, newt gingrich sort of backed down last night in the debate. what happened? we have a lot of that. >> we'll see el later and tonight, of course. >>> dana bash will go behind of scenes of the state of the uni

wolf blitzer vs. newt gingrich last night. it was an interesting moment. >> bill: mr. geraldo rivera very interested in immigration issues. one of our do baits almost went into a mud wrestling mat a few years ago immigration major topic last night. >> you have had an ad running saying that speaker gingrich called spanish, quote, the language of the gets toe. what do you mean by that? frks i haven't seen the ated. i'm sorry i don't get to see all the tv ads. i don't know, did he say that? >> no. what i said was we want everybody to learn english. i didn't use the word spanish. >> one of your ads running here in florida on the radio and at the end you say i'm mitt romney and i approve this ard. -- ad. >> let me did you say what the ad. >> it's taken totally out of context. did i not say it about spanish. >> bill: number one, the governor should have known what was in the ad if you are going to put your name on it. i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. have you got to know what the message is, all right? that was against him. number two, newt gingrich roll the tape.

on top of that, wolf's response in saying, mr. is actually your ad, romney tried to separate himself and say, i don't know if that's my ad or not that threw gingrich underneath the bus. if wolf was able to come back and say, yes, that was your ad and newt was able to tie into that sooner it would not have been as much of a win for romney as it was. truth of the matter was the way it played out romney won the debate there and was able to carry the momentum from there. he may care i it until tuesday. considering that newt is not on the ballot in virginia he could take a huge lead between virginia and florida if he wins wednesday tight. >> ruben, earlier when you were talking to ashleigh you said both of these candidates are out of touch with latino voters. and you were speaking specifically to the debate on immigration. but when we look at that ad and we look at the fact that they're going back actually to a statement that gingrich made about spanish being a ghetto language because there was a reference in there, do you think that th

wolf. >> i'll do my best. >> to get one over mr. king. >> thank you. i'll do my best thursday night 8:00 p.m. jacksonville, we'll all be there. >> be there. >> going to be terrific. convict gralt lai congratulations on the brilliant coverage. wolf, gloria, john, thank you all very much. >>> when we come back, how will mitt romney and rick santorum respond to tonight's gingrich's sunch and will his winl in south carolina give him the nomination? it [ todd ] hello? hello todd. just calling to let you know i'm giving you the silent treatment. so you're calling to tell me you're giving me the silent treatment? ummm, yeah. jen, this is like the eighth time you've called... no, it's fine, my family has free unlimited mobile-to-any-mobile minutes. i can call all i want. i don't think you understand how the silent treatment works. hello? [ male announcer ] buy unlimited messaging and get free unlimited calling to any mobile phone on any network. at&t. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geo

now a couple minutes away from wolf blitzer who i'm sure is in atlanta getting ready for the primary coverage tomorrow night. hello, mr? >> thank you very much. a lot coming up on "the situation room." all the florida primary news including my interview with john mccain who is supporting mitt romney, joe johns i should say, joe johns had a little interview with newt gingrich earlier in the day flt we'll play that for our viewers. they'll be anxious to hear what newt gingrich is saying on this day. he seems to be on the ropes here in florida. all that and plus all the news out of pakistan, egypt, big news day. all that. we miss you in atlanta. that's coming up. >> oh, it's nice to be in tampa though. i'm not complaining. wolf blitzer, thank you so much. coming up next we'll take you inside what police in oakland call the largest mass arrest in the city's history. [ mujahid ] there was a little bit of trepidation, not quite knowing what the next phase was going to be, you know, because you been, you know, this is what you had been doing. you know, working, working, working, working, working, working. and now you're talk

wolf. just as mr.antorum said a minute ago, the race now moves here and these folks will be watching and using these. they're called perception analyzers. we're here at the university of north florida. these are from southern methodist university. experts will be looking at the output from this while these folks listen to the speeches and say whether they like it or don't like it and the results will feed to these computers in the back and they will be analyzing the output. we'll have that on the screen realtime while those speeches are going down so can you see instantly the reaction that's coming up here in florida, which is the next big battle ground. later in the even we'll come back and talk to some of these folks as well about why they feel the way they do about these speeches. it's a fascinating insight into the next big battleground. >> that's why we'll see those squiggly lines at the bottom of the screen, what they like, they don't like, the money and women. and later, presumably, tom, you'll

>> wolf, you and i have a great relationship, goes back a long way. i'm with him. this is a nonsense question. [ applause ] >> mreaker, you made an issue of in this week when you said that he lives in a world of swiss bank and cayman island bank accounts. i didn't say that you did. >> i did. i'm perfectly happy to say that on an interview on some tv show. this is a national debate where you get the chance to get the four of us talk about -- >> you make a serious allegation against governor romney like that. you need to explain that. [boos] >> bill: awe, joining us from miami bernie goldberg who is usually on monday evenings but will be out of town so in case he never comes back we wanted to have him on one last time today. >> very nice, bill. very nice of you. >> bill: i'm always looking out for you bernie, come on, man. you know that the cnn suits, the people behind the throne told blitzer if he comes after you, you better slap him back. you know, no more john king stuff. you better go back after him. that's exactly what that was all about. i thought blitzer did a pretty good job saying, hey, if you are going t

wolf blitzer is up in a few minutes with a special two-hour look at the first contest of election 2012. mr, the countdown to iowa. what can we expect? >> well, we're talking about the countdown. look at this clock over here. two days, 13 minutes, 51 seconds to go until they shut the doors in iowa at those caucuses. and the actual voting, the first voting for this, the 2012 election cycle, will actually take place. we're going to set the scene tonight in our two-hour preview, right here in our brand-new cnn election center. rick santorum will be joining us live. he's in iowa. of course, he's been surging, natalie. as you know, michele bachmann joins us as well. we've got our political contributors. all of our reporters are standing by. our anchors are here. it's going to be a great two hours. if you want to -- if you're interested in politics, want to know what's going on in iowa, natalie, as i know you are, you should watch. we'll be starting at the top of the hour. >> certainly will. what's so interesting, wolf, is that iowa, many say it's not that important yet, because it's such a nail

wolf standing up for his craft. >> this is a nonsense question. how about if the four of us agree for the rest of the evening? >> mr. speaker -- >> i didn't say that. you did. >> i did. i'm perfectly happy to say on an interview. this is a national debate to get the four of us. >> if you make a serious accusation against governor romney, you need to explain that. >> you want to try again? >> wouldn't it be nice if people didn't make accusations somewhere else they weren't willing to defend here? >> ka boom. there was the important thing was not only that wolf blitzer stood his ground, and i think correctly so, even though boos came, but mitt romney well prepared for this debate sided with wolf blitzer in at the same time called newt gingrich out as a bully saying if you're going to say that off the air and off the stage, i want you to say it to my face. and that showed me just how well prepared and determined mitt romney was in this debate. >> great battle motion there. by the way, susan, you're a pro as a journalist. the great columnist you have to be willing to walk through the locker room after you have written a

mr. president, i'm here to collect. and he repeats that line on the trail frequently, wolf. >> as you know, the president had his own message at you, if you will. what was it? >> it's hardly an original idea to use a candidate's words against him. and now, so not surprisingly, the president's campaign is using the president's words to argue he has made good on his promises. we will play for you a bit of new video the president's campaign has leased. and it's all about the president's accomplishments. all over the speech the president delivered when he was here in iowa the night it began for him in the 2008 caucuses four years ago. watch this. >> i'll be a president who finally makes health care affordable and available to every single american. i'll be a president who ends the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas and put a middle class tax cut into the pockets of working americans who deserve it. >> that web video goes on to point out that the president ended the war in iraq. are republicans have taken issue with one of those claims and they'll use some of the accomplishments like passing health carry form a

mr. idea, the campaign of ideas, but then mitt romney kind of crushed him in iowa. wolf i were just talking about the onslaught of all those negative ads. but now your dad, jackie, is fighting back. when it comes to romney, is your dad angry or is this now personal? >> oh, no, it's not at all personal. there is a lot of money spent in iowa. it was roughly $10 million in negative advertising, and roughly half of that was against my father. if you equate that across the nation on a per vote basis, it's $5 million nationally. what dad was saying was, look, we need to provide clarity, we need to make sure people understand the backgrounds and experience of people. and he's been very clear about this, he said anyone that supports him should make sure they have factual information, but we do need to draw a contrast for the voters. >> so you're saying not personal, but angry, yes? >> no, he's not angry. he is not angry. he is not angry. >> okay. okay. we're about to see a bunch of ads, i know, starting tomorrow in south carolina. i'll take your word for it. you know your father

wolf. i talked to the secretary-general of that group. he told me that jessica and mr.e security with them on the ground at the time they were captured. he believes those security members were armed at the time. he didn't mince many words. he said we were disappointed given the fact they had security. they said they're eager to get a chance to talk to jessica and mr. thiested to find out the circumstances. he wasn't exactly sure how many team members with with them at the time of their capture. >> all right. brian, thanks very much. reporting a dramatic story, grateful she's okay. >>> on the heels of a critical state of the union address, president obama is taking his message on a three-day tour across the country, hoping to make a mark with potential voters. just minutes from now he's expected to touch down in arizona after a visit to iowa. tonight he heads to nevada colorado, tomorrow michigan and friday. let's bring in jessica yellin. what does the president need to accomplish, want to accomplish on this trip? >> reporter: well, wolf, he is today pushing manufacturin

mr. speaker, good luck. we'll take in close talk. >> stay in touch. >> thank you for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >>> and don't forget tomorrow night.m. eastern, watch cnn for the southern republican presidential debate. you'll see it only here. join us saturday night, special "the situation room," 6:00 p.m. eastern, followed by our full coverage of the south carolina primary. that primary coverage starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> media companies on one side, internet sites on the other side. the world over an antipiracy internet law is growing ugly. the. >>> captain of the costa concordia sailed into disaster and crashed into a worldwide infamy. you know the good folks over at prilosec otc have asked yours truly to teach you about treating frequent heartburn. 'cause i know a thing or two about eatin'. if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... well that's like checking on your burgers after they're burnt! [ male announcer ] treat your frequent heartburn by blocking the acid with prilosec otc. and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill a day. 24 hours. zero heartbur

wolf blitzer struck back at him. >> are you satisfied right now with the level of transparency as far as his personal finances? >> this is a nonsense question. >> mr. speaker, you made an issue of this this week when you said that he lives in a world of swiss bank and cayman island bank accounts. i didn't say that, you did. >> wouldn't it be nice if people didn't make accusations somewhere else they weren't willing to defend here? >> so gingrich must have known how important, the last big states before florida voters go. was he not prepared or did he come off as unprepared? he came off as sort of sleepy and off his game. he tends to be sort of a mercurial candidate. some days he's on, some he's off. i think there, wolf blitzer was prepared and wolf's a tough guy to push over. tougher than some of the other moderators we've had and wasn't going to take it. interestingly, just as the topic looked like it was going to be dropped, romney step ped in thee and made it an issue and again, made gingrich look like he wasn't playing that alpha dog role, which is what determines how these play out. >> there were two other men on the stage. i want to show eve