Week In The News: Campaign Barbs, Killer Drought, Syria Blast

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Romney’s tax storm. Killer drought deepens. Syria “spinning out of control.” Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Batman and death last night in Colorado.  A dozen dead, fifty wounded in the cinema shooting spree.  A ghoulish, terrible opening night.  In Damascus this week, blows to the heart of the Assad regime.  Fighting goes on.  Across the Midwest and beyond, punishing drought.  Crops hit.  We will pay.
In politics, Mitt Romney says no, no, no to releasing more than two years’ tax returns.  But the pressure’s still on.  Romney’s surrogate says President Obama needs to “learn to be an American.”  The campaigns debate what that means.
This hour, On Point:  our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.