Michelle Obama En "Vogue" Again
BERMAN: Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. First lady, Michelle Obama, is everywhere this these days, from late-night talk shows to the academy awards. And come April, she will be on newsstands everywhere, becoming the first American first lady to grace the glossy cover of "Vogue" twice. CNN's first lady of fashion, Alina Cho, has more.</s>ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Second term, second cover. First lady, Michelle Obama, en "Vogue" again.</s>JONATHAN VAN METER, VOGUE CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: There's something so groundbreakingly modern about the Obamas. You know, they are the first Black president and first lady. And you know, Anna Wintour at "Vogue" is crazy about them.</s>CHO: "Vogue's" poweful editor-in-chief is a massive Obama fundraiser, once rumored to be the next U.S. ambassador to the U.K., so it's her friend, the first lady, appearing on "Vogue's" April cover, wearing a sleeveless dress by Reed Krakoff. Yes, that Reed Krakoff, the same designer Mrs. Obama chose for the inauguration. Here she is in Michael Kors. But writer, Jonathan Van Meters, spoke to both of them, the first lady and the president.</s>VAN METER: Them as a couple, their marriage, their children, how they live in the White House, how they deal with the bubble.</s>CHO: What struck him?</s>VAN METER: They're so sweet with each other. There's a lot of affection. And if there's any married couple to whom the phrase, they finish each other's sentences applies, it's them.</s>CHO: Of their marriage, the president says, "I think it would be a mistake to think of my wife when I walk in the door is, hey, honey, how is your day? Let me give you a neck rub. I think it's much more. We're a team." "Of his clothes, she jokes, this is the man who still boasts about this khaki pair of pants I've had since I was 20. And I'm like, you don't want to brag about that."</s>VAN METER: She very effortlessly tells a story that leads to a punch line that could crack you up. And what I loved is that, sometime, she and I weren't finished laughing.</s>VAN METER: And he was done and ready to move on, the president, and she would sort of look at me and keep laughing with me, like, I just loved that spirit in her, that jovial spirit, that really surprised me.</s>CHO: A story compelling readers to go beyond the cover. Alina Cho, CNN, New York.</s>SAMBOLIN: Forty-four minutes past the hour. Mitt Romney's infamous 47 percent comment didn't do his presidential campaign any favors. And now, for the first time, the man who recorded it has come forward. Scott Prouty was tending bar at the Romney fundraiser last year. This was in South Florida. Romney said 47 percent of voters would choose President Obama because their dependent on government and feel like victims who are entitled to handouts. Prouty says he didn't go in with a grudge against Romney and wasn't hoping for any gotcha moments.</s>SCOTT PROUTY, RECORDED ROMNEY'S 47 PERCENT COMMENT: I had brought the camera, and a lot of other people brought cameras, you know, like I said, for thinking that he would come back and take pictures. Clinton, in the past, had come back with the staff and taken pictures. And that was, you know, really my thought. I really had no idea he would say what he said. I thought it would -- he would say basically the same things he was saying in public. I had no idea it was going to be this big thing that it turned out to be. I had no idea. And I felt an obligation, in a way, to release it. I felt an obligation for all the people that can't afford to be there. You shouldn't have to be able to afford $50,000 to hear what the candidate actually thinks.</s>SAMBOLIN: Prouty said that he sat on the video for a couple of weeks and struggled with the idea of actually releasing it. He claims he didn't reveal his identity before the election because he didn't want to draw attention away from the video.</s>BERMAN: And it got a lot of attention.</s>SAMBOLIN: It sure did.</s>BERMAN: This progring note -- programming note, I should say. We're just days away from the launch of a new CNN show that will cover the world of politics and oh so very much more. "The Lead" with Jake Tapper live from Washington premieres Monday at four o'clock eastern time right here on</s>CNN. SAMBOLIN: And a lot of controversy over whether some small knives should be allowed on airplanes.</s>BERMAN: Ahead, why the TSA is defending its decision?