was in new hampshire announcing his candidacy. totally upstaging him as you see on the front page of "the new hampshire union leader," stepping all over mitt romney's headlines that day. and mrs. palin getting to new hampshire that day wasn't an accident. it was no easy task. her bus tour literally had to barrel through tornadoes in massachusetts in order to get her to new hampshire on time to big foot mitt romney. but there she was, just 20 minutes away from where mitt romney was about to make the biggest announcement of his political life. so it's not like the launch went perfectly smoothly this time around. but the romney campaign has decided tonight to return to the scene of the crime for this speech tonight. and there's no substantive connection between new hampshire and all of the places that voted tonight. i think we are left to conclude that the new hampshire choice for tonight's speech is supposed to have symbol inresonance. now that he's taking care of winning the republican nomination, tonight in new hampshire, he will

instead of going back to michigan, this time he's going back to new hampshire. in the new hampshire announcement speech they didn't have any camera angle problems like they had with the crop duster thing in 2008. the problem they had with the 2012 campaign launch was, do you remember sarah palin clam bake back when people were wonder if sarah palin might be running. she made sure she just happened to be in new hampshire for a clam bake on the same day that mitt romney was in new hampshire, totally up staging him stepping all over mitt romney's headlines that day. mr. palin getting to new hampshire that day wasn't an accident. it was no easy task. her bus tour had to barrel through tornadoes in massachusetts in order to get her to new hampshire on time to big foot mitt romney. there she was just 20 minutes away from where mitt romney was about to make the biggest announcement of his political life stealing all his political thunder. it's not like the 2012 mitt romney for president launch went perfectly smoothly this time around. nevertheless, the romney campaign

he went to new hampshire. and barack obama went to a state he won, and to north carolina, to talk to one of his key constituencies, which is young people. there have been a lot of polls recently, lawrence, that show while young people still support the president, talking 18 to 29, while they still support the president, they don't support him as overwhelmingly as they did four years ago, and there are some doubts about whether they're all going to turn out. so this is a dredging operation, if you will, by the president going to some key places, big campuses, chapel hill, boulder, et cetera, to really dredge for those votes and the support he had last time around. they're using the internet to do it. i think this may be the first speech in which the president has actually called out a hashtag, you know, #don'tdoublemyrates, and of course they'll try to harvest those names of people they get who go to that hashtag. >> and steve, "don't double my rates" was the hashtag that was in sandra fluke's tweet today that

hampshire or not and secondly with all the due respect to new hampshire, new hampshire is not going to decide who the next president is going to be. it really is going to be the battle ground states of ohio, pennsylvania, florida, michigan and even to a certain degree colorado and maybe even virginia. that's where we need to take a look and focus whether or not the romney campaign is going to be able to make up ground with the two key constituents that i mentioned, women and hispanics, and i think he will. >> you bring up women and h hispani hispanics. is mitt romney stumping with marco rubio, the florida senator, we see him in pennsylvania and when he was asked about rubio and his experience, enough to not vice president, here is how he answered. >> i don't think i have any comments on qualifications for individuals to serve in various positions in government at this stage. that's something that we're going to be considering down the road as we consider various potential vice presidential nominees. >> marco rubio stepped up and said he won't talk about it further than he had before

and all of the friends and family of the greenland, new hampshire police department and new hampshire law enforcement. >> nbc's michelle franzen joins me now from greenland, new hampshire with more on all this. michelle, explain to us about the search warrant, why police were originally going after muttry. >> reporter: he was certainly a suspect that police had been watching over the last few years and they were executing this search warrant that the attorney general in new hampshire says was part of a drug task force that was compiled of officers from five different communities and also that chief michael maloney was aiding those officers at that time when they tried to execute that warrant. when they entered the home. that is when authorities say that the suspect opened fire on them, of course killing the chief and also wounding four other officers. two of them were treated at the hospital, and two others remain there and awaiting surgery or have already gone through surgery. so they were executing that warrant, working together as they often do in these situations when that tragedy

nbc's michelle franzen is in greenland, new hampshire tonight. good evening. >> good evening, brian. the small town is in shock tonight. many residents coming here to the police and fire center to pay tribute to michael maloney. he was set to step down as police chief one week from today to start his new life. last night changed everything. flowers line the walkway of the town center where greenland new hampshire police chief michael maloney, headed the force for 12 years. the 48-year-old was gunned down thursday night in the town he was sworn to protect. trying to serve a search warrant during a drug raid. four other officers were wounded. >> everybody was stunned and they felt that they just couldn't believe this was happening. in our little state. >> across the country in modesto, california, sheriff's deputy robert paris was shot and killed serving an eviction notice at an apartment complex that was later set ablaze. the suspected shooter refused to come out. experts say the killing of these police officers are part of a worrying trend. 72 of

on the last day for filing in the new hampshire primary. it was a horrible snowstorm, but when we got to new hampshire and mr. nixon was put to bed for the night in nashua. you found out that something going on in vietnam was known as the tet offensive. that offensive lasted for weeks and was a political disaster in the united states as it was a military disaster for the vietcong. walter cronkite basically broke with the president johnson over the war because of the offensive and it completely guided the country and flamed the anti-war movement. within three weeks after nixon had filed, our opponent, george romney, dropped out of the race. the father of mitt romney. because we were leading him in our own closet polls 7-1. then came the new hampshire primary and the startling perceived upset of lyndon johnson by gene mccarthy. actually johnson won the race 49-42 and johnson was a write-in candidate. but mccarthy's 42% was so dramatic that everyone said, the press said, president of the united states is in deep trouble. four days later, after

new hampshire mitt romney won the first primary this year, tonight he sets up for the republican race is over. the general election is over president obama used rhetoric discussing the economy playing well the last time an income bent was unseated. take a listen. >> tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointment of the obama years. all of the thousands of good and decent americans i've met want nothing more than a better chance. a fighting chance to all of you i have a simple mess yanl. hold on a little longer. a better america begins tonight. >> bret: he focused his campaign on jobs and the economy. you may remember in 1992 when a democrat unseated a republican candidate the issue was the candidate. listen to how romney brought that rhetoric back. >> because he failed he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions. and distorgss. that kind of campaign may have worked in another place. and in a different time. but not here. and not now. it's still about the economy. and we're not stupid. >> and another note from the campaign trail tonight. newt gingrich said he will

new hampshire mitt romney won the first primary this year, tonight he sets up for the republican race is over. the general election is over president obama used rhetoric discussing the economy playing well the last time an income bent was unseated. take a listen. >> tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointment of the obama years. all of the thousands of good and decent americans i've met want nothing more than a better chance. a fighting chance to all of you i have a simple mess yanl. hold on a little longer. a better america begins tonight. >> bret: he focused his campaign on jobs and the economy. you may remember in 1992 when a democrat unseated a republican candidate the issue was the candidate. listen to how romney brought that rhetoric back. >> because he failed he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions. and distorgss. that kind of campaign may have worked in another place. and in a different time. but not here. and not now. it's still about the economy. and we're not stupid. >> and another note from the campaign trail tonight. newt gingrich said he will

manchester, new hampshire, carl, new hampshire? >> sure, and the banner reads better america begins tonight mitt romney the winning began in new hampshire. the home of the first primary where he scored his first victory. amounts to something of a victory lap. ever since rick santorum has been out his competition has been nominal. he will declare pivot. shift to general election mode over and say that the general election is now on and the nomination battle is essentially over and it's time for republicans to face exclusively on taking out president obama in the fall, shep. >> if you belief what we are hearing, i mean, it sounds like newt gingrich may be getting the message that this thing is over already. >> well, there were soundings from deep within his campaign insiders for the last three weeks have been saying what newt was looking for was a strong night in delaware this evening. a high note, after which he could bow out more gracefully. it's looking more and more unlikely that newt is going to -- mr. gingrich is going to start

new hampshire mitt romney won the first primary this year, tonight he sets up for the republican race is over. the general election is over president obama used rhetoric discussing the economy playing well the last time an income bent was unseated. take a listen. >> tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointment of the obama years. all of the thousands of good and decent americans i've met want nothing more than a better chance. a fighting chance to all of you i have a simple mess yanl. hold on a little longer. a better america begins tonight. >> bret: he focused his campaign on jobs and the economy. you may remember in 1992 when a democrat unseated a republican candidate the issue was the candidate. listen to how romney brought that rhetoric back. >> because he failed he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions. and distorgss. that kind of campaign may have worked in another place. and in a different time. but not here. and not now. it's still about the economy. and we're not stupid. >> and another note from the campaign trail tonight. newt gingrich said he will

i'm told past new hampshire avenue. let me show you here on the other side of 29 why we're still having these issues. even though they've opened the beltway. when you get to the accident scene past colesville, it's going to narrow down into two lanes. folks are going to have to make their way past the scene by squeezing through those two lanes. so the outer loop is still a mess. let me show you the accident and what it looked like earlier this morning. this was a fatal crash involving a tractor-trailer and at least two other vehicles. and as we said, at least one person died in this crash. police are still in the process of investigating to try and figure out exactly what led to all of this. and they're also still working to clean up the crash. so know that the outer loop is still a mess. with more information on how you can get around all of this, we'll go to matt. >> reporter: good morning. like you said, we have two lanes open. we're slowly but steadily improving. however, the damage still done. you're going to find

. >>> tragedy in new hampshire. a police chief just days from retirement is killed during a drug raid. >>> and hero mayor. newark's cory booker rushes into a burning building and saves his neighbor's life. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, april 13, 2012. >>> good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm michelle miller. it's being called an embarrassing failure. north korea defied the world and launched a rocket but about a minute after takeoff it broke into pieces. hours later north korea admitted the satellite failed to enter orbit. condemnation has been swift. the u.s. says it is suspending plans to give food to north korea and the u.n. security council has scheduled a meeting for later today. the rocket was supposed to have blasted off to the south, a trajectory not to threaten the u.s. or any other nation. it was to have splashed harmlessly into the sea but officials say it broke apart about 90 seconds after lift-off. the white house issued a statement saying north korea's provocative action threatened reg

he is from new hampshire. when i met him, in 1977, we will have been married 32 years, he prided himself on same that he would never have anything to do with lawyers or politicians. we joked that he married a lawyer and became a politician and ran for congress and served in congress for a few terms. >> when did he serve? >> 1990-1994. he was a moderate that got out in the mid been a revolution. >> how did he get to be ambassador to denmark? >> he had lost his seat in 1994 in part i think because he passed a very courageous vote on the assault weapons ban. it is a tough thing to do in a state like new hampshire. i think probably president clinton felt a degree of appreciation that he had been willing to put what he thought was the good of the country and as principles against his political interests. that was a tough experience. he had to wear a bulletproof vest on the advice of a police. some of our kids were pretty young then. it was a very difficult campaign. it was very vitriolic and violence. a lot was dir

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without ohio, without florida, without new hampshire, mind you, mitt romney could win iowa and new hampshire, win ohio, win florida, win north carolina. and because of his panics, that's what's going on here, he would be seven electoral votes short. that is a map problem like nobody's business. let's look at romney's issue to show you, again. let's say he is able to carry some of these bush states from '04. let's give him nevada for now. not colorado. colorado is a state that's been trending toward democrats slightly. let's give him nevada, north carolina and virginia. even if you give him new hampshire, at this point, he is still 35 votes short. what does that mean? he sits here and he's falling into the kerry/gore trap of needing two of three, florida, ohio, pennsylvania. that's the trap kerry and gore found themselves in. they feel okay about florida. you do florida and ohio. two of the three. it's a plausible path. he is falling into the trap of needing them both. now, here is the thing that keeps political junkies up at night. frankly, it does keep me up at night. if you randomly look a

. >>> tragedy in new hampshire. a police chief just days from retirement is killed during a drug raid. >>> and hero mayor. newark's cory booker rushes into a burning building and saves his neighbor's life. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, april 13, 2012. >>> good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm michelle miller. it's called an embarrassing failure. north korea defied the world and launched a rocket but about a minute after takeoff it broke into pieces. hours later north korea admitted the satellite failed to enter orbit. condemnation has been swift. the u.s. says it is suspending plans to give food to north korea and the u.n. security council has scheduled a meeting for later today. the rocket was to have blasted off to the south, a tnd flashed harmlessly into the sea. officials say it broke apart 90 seconds after the lift-off. white house issued a statement. the u.s. remains vigilant in north korean provocation and is fully committed to our allies in the region. japan was monitoring the satellite. yong

and the new hampshire senator was one of them. last week, mitt romney campaigned in pennsylvania with another rising star, the florida senator, marco rubio. what more do we know of this senator ayotte? >>reporter: an experienced lawyer, the attorney general of new hampshire and took a case against planned parenthood to the supreme court. one of the keys for romney as a senator from a native of the first primary in the nation she endorsed romney ahead of the primary in new hampshire and that goes a long way. >>shepard: i'd say. what are the odds, then, at this point from those who qualify and quantify such things, that mitt romney could pick her? >>guest: well as you noted he is openly acknowledged she is on the list, and she could offer an unwaivering conservative record on things like abortion, gun rights, gay marriage, and the health care law and bring a different dimension to the ticket as a woman and as a mother. she had the endorsement of sarah palin calling her a mama grizzly but the detractors say she is part of the "g.o.p.

and the new hampshire senator was one of them. last week, mitt romney campaigned in pennsylvania with another rising star, the florida senator, marco rubio. what more do we know of this senator ayotte? >>reporter: an experienced lawyer, the attorney general of new hampshire and took a case against planned parenthood to the supreme court. one of the keys for romney as a senator from a native of the first primary in the nation she endorsed romney ahead of the primary in new hampshire and that goes a long way. >>shepard: i'd say. what are the odds, then, at this point from those who qualify quantify such things, that mitt romney could pick her? >>guest: well as you noted he is openly acknowledged she is on the list, and she could offer an unwaivering conservative record on things like abortion, gun rights, gay marriage, and the health care law and bring a dierent dimension to the ticket as a woman and as a mother. she had the endorsement of sarah palin calling her a mama grizzly but the detractors say she is part of the "g.o.p. estab

new hampshire this afternoon, mitt romney cannot clinch it tonight. >>carl: well, and in fact he has been doing this pivot to the general election, since rick santorum dropped out and that is the banner they will unveil, a better america begins tonight, a reference to a victory lap, the first big win and he will tell everyone he essentially now recognizes he is the nominee, and he cannot clinch the nomination tonight even if he swept all five and it is likely he will. you need 1,144 and romney has 698. the map works out with five states voting a total of 2309 -- 209 available, so he will be halfway to the balance but it will be another set of primary nights. today and what he has been doing, is campaigning in the five states and elsewhere because there are primaries,

but for greenland, new hampshire, it is devastating. this morning, police in this small coastal town had the suspect surrounded. the gunman wanted for shooting five police officers during a drug raid, injuring four of them, and killing the local police chief. >> they entered the home at that time. and they encountered an armed subject. >> reporter: the shooter opened fire on the officers as they entered the house during a drug bust. a woman also remained in the home early this morning. chief michael maloney was killed leading his men in the raid. he was set to retire later this month. as one town leader put it, it's an unbelievable situation. state leaders have rushed to the hospital, where the injured officers are being treated. >> i do want to extend my thoughts and prayers to the family and relatives and loved ones of the police officer that has been killed and the four police officers that have been injured. >> reporter: an unthinkable tragedy for this police department that only has seven members. two of the injured officers have b

he is from new hampshire. when i met him, in 1977, we will have been married 32 years, met he prided himself on same that he would never have anything to with lawyers or politicians. we joked that he married a lawyer and became a politician and ran for congress and served in congress for a few terms. >> when did he serve? >> 1990-1994. he was a moderate that got out in the mid been a revolution. >> how did he get to be a to and in market? -- ambassador to denmark? >> he had lost his seat now could 1994 in part i think because he he passed a very courageous vote on the assault weapons ban. it is a tough thing to do in a state like new hampshire. i think probably president clinton felt a degree of appreciation that he had been willing to put what he thought was the good of the country and as principles against his political interests. that was a tough experience. he had to wear a bulletproof vest on the and buys a police. -- on the advice of a police. some of our kids were pretty young then. it was a very diffic

slow leaving college park trying to get past new hampshire avenue. we'll take a live look there. the delays continue most of the way through silver spring. this is the outer loop heading westbound on i-495. let's go back to the maps this time over to virginia. lots of bad news unfortunately. first of all, about 18 miles an hour out of manassas into sill centreville. the accident long gone from the road but sets a tone for a tough rush hour on 66. on the northbound side of 95 pretty much the same story. two separate accidents, one in woodbridge, one in lorton but all the slow traffic left over coming frup dale city -- coming up from dale city boast the way to springfield. no problems from duke street to the 14th street bridge. coming up in my next report, another look around the area at 6:58. back to you guys. >>> now we have a commuter alert for you. potholes. say your prayers. today the district kicks off its annual pothole palooza campaign, a month long effort to patch up all of those holes across the city that have wrecked the front ends of your v

well, in new hampshire is in that group. if you take new hampshire away, he gets 268. romney gets 270. that is the election. so even new hampshire, with just four electoral votes could end up being the pivot point of the election. jon: usually ohio is the state that sort of determines which man, which party wins the presidency. you say this year it could be a different state. why? >> well, i'm a little biased. i'm a native virginian but i think virginia bids fair to be as important, maybe more important than ohio. if you look at the map and you determine that this is going to be a close, competitive election, as most believe in april, that is the conventional wisdom in april. then, you look to a state that is clearly balanced between the two parties. well in 2008 virginia, of the 50 states, was the closest to the national picture, the national average vote for both barack obama and john mccain. if that continues, it would suggest that virginia could be the pivot point again, not new hampshire, but virginia. not ohio, by virginia. as i said we have a lot of scenarios an

nbc's michelle franzen is in greenland, new hampshire tonight. good evening. >> the small town is in shock tonight. many residents coming here to the police and fire center to pay tribute to michael maloney. he was set to step down as police chief one week from today to start his new life. last night changed everything. flowers line the walkway of the town center where greenland new hampshire police chief michael maloney, headed the force for 12 years. the 48-year-old was gunned down thursday night in the town he was sworn to protect. trying to serve a search warrant during a drug raid. four other officers were wounded. >> everybody was stunned and they felt that they just couldn't believe this was happening. in our little state. >> across the country in modesto, california, sheriff's deputy robert paris was shot and killed serving an evixz notice at an apartment complex that was later set ablaze. the suspected shooter refused to come out. experts say the killing of these police officers are part of a worrying trend. 72 officers were killed last

but for greenland, new hampshire it is devastating. this morning, police in this small coastal town had the suspects surrounded. the gunman wanted for shooting five police officers during a drug raid, injuring four of them and killing the local police chief. >> they entered the home at that time and they encountered an armed subject. >> reporter: the shooter opened fire on the officers as they entered the house during a drug bust. a woman also remained in the home early this morning. chief michael maloney was killed leading his men in the raid. he was set to retire later this month. as one town leader put it, it's an unbelievable situation. state leaders have rushed to the hospital where the injured officers are being treated. >> i do want to extend my thoughts and prayers to the family and relatives and loved ones of the police officer that has been killed and the four police officers that have been injured. >> reporter: an unthinkable tragedy for this police department that only has seven members. >> so two officers have been release

virginia we can believe but new hampshire? >> vote for your guy. >> i guess that's right. >> we should say something about our mutual centuries. although it didn't rise to a constitutional level, saloons were not just places that union leaders organized folk, i mean, saloons are where politicians walked in and treated -- >> the smoke filled rooms were? >> that was one of them. they treated everybody to a drink and of course the custom of drinking was if somebody treated you, you had to treat back, one beer led to another. and it's really where a lot of americans begame familiar with the political machine. they didn't have fox news. they weren't smart enough. they didn't even have you know, internet. they got to know the political system literally through the mechanism of treating buying a drink. of course that happen ond election day but it happened on a day-to-day basis. it's a way that constituents got to know their elected officials. >> we're not running for office so we're not treating. let's have another question. >> i'm

you could give romney -- we could give him new hampshire. again, he's got a vacation there he's stuck in the kerry/gore trap. he has to win two of the three. he would need one of those two. it's a viable path. president bush carried two of those three, but again it's that trap of those big three swing states. and then let me show you the nightmare scenario. yes, people were asking me if i was joking this morning when i said it keeps me up at night, 269-269, but the idea nobody could get an electoral majority. it would go like this. you would give the president colorado, you'd give him florida and you'd give him new hampshire. and he sits at 269. you would give romney everything else, nevada, i told you about how those numbers there could work, ohio, pennsylvania, virginia and north carolina and look where we're at. this is not an implausible scenario, thomas, and at 269-269, the election would be forced into the house. nightmare scenario. i'd say it's about a 5% to 10% chance, but you know what, it's a lot bigger than a 1% chance, that's for

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but for greenland, new hampshire, it is devastating. this morning, police in this small coastal town had the suspects surrounded. the gunman wanted for shooting five police officers during a drug raid, injuring four of them and killing the local police chief. >> they entered the home at that time and they encountered an armed subject. >> reporter: the shooter opened fire on the officers as they entered the house during a drug bust. a woman also remained in the home early this morning. chief michael maloney was killed leading his men in the raid. he was set to retire later this month. as one town leader put it, it's an unbelievable situation. state leaders have rushed to the hospital where the injured officers are being treated. >> i do want to extend my thoughts and prayers to the family and relatives and loved ones of the police officer that has been killed and the four police officers that have been injured. >> reporter: an unthinkable tragedy for this police department that only has seven members. >> so two officers have been release