don't miss elizabeth's special report called "25 shocking medical mistakes." it's tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. and liz wet, sometimes it's things that are so simple it's like, baffling. >> it is possible to avoid a lot of these mistakes. but you have to be an empowered patient. >> thank you. thanks for watching, everyone. we appreciate it. now here's mr. wolf blitzer. president obama gives romney a campaign present and romney is taking advantage. a 911 call is bogus, designed to harass a conservative blogger. we'll take a look at the shocking crime known as swatting. plus, right as theet high school

graduates toss their caps in the air, a frightening storm moves in. you'll see why they scramble for cover. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room kwoem. president obama took a few questions in the white house briefing room today but in rushing to get out front of the jobs issue, the president stumbled and republicans are already reaping the benefits. let's go straight to jessica yellen standing by with the details. president obama hammered congress, telling them to pass his long stalled jobs bill as a way to cushion the u.s. from the effects of europe's worsening economy. but that's 23409 the part of his remarks that's making news.

the president trying to regain control of his mess amg. >> if congress decides despite all that that they aren't going to do anything about this simply because it's an election year, then they should explain to the american people why. >> after disappointing jobs numbers drove unemployment up to 8.2%, he called on congress to pass the jobs bill he bruintrodd back in september. but he hit an offkeynote. >> the private sector is doing fine. >> republicans were quick to pounce. >> mr. president, take it from me, the private sector is not doing well. >> my question would be to the president, are you kidding? did he see the job numbers? >> here's the president in context. >> we've created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months. over 800,000 just this year alone. the private sector is doing fine. where we're seeing weakness in our economy have to do with

state and local government. >> reporter: but last month, private sector jobs grew at a slower pace than previous months, adding 82,000 jobs compared to 87,000 in april, 147,000 in march. later in the day, the president tried to clean up his remarks. >> i spent this past year talking about how to make the economy strong. >> he answered questions about a spate of news reports raurding leaks of national security information. >> the notion that my white house would purposefully release

classified national security information is offensive. it's wrong. you know, people i think need to have a better sense of how i approach this office. >> asked if the administration is investigating the leaks? >> what i'm saying is that we consistency, whenever there is classified information, thoo that is put out into the public, we try to find out where that came from. okay, thank you very much, everybody. >> the president also said he has a zero tolerance policy for leaks and if there are criminal leaks, there are consequences. he would not say if there is currently an investigation ongoing. this has been a tough week for the president overall. not just the bad jobs snum

number, but also the loss in the wisconsin recall. mitt romney's campaign outraising the president's campaign in fundraising and also bill clinton going offmessage with the president's campaign, if if the president was trying to regain the upper hand and get back on message with this q and a today, it doesn't seem like they managed to do it. >> when you add those bad jobs numbers that were released last friday, it's been a really, really bad week for the president this past week. jessica, thanks very much. republicans wasted no time in jumping all over the president's remark that the private sector is doing just fine. >> the president cleaned up his remarks saying the economy is not doing fine. but that doesn't stop republicans who see a strong fundamentals of a new line of attack. >> the truth of the matter is that -- >> within moments after the comment crossed the president's

lips, republican leards were blowing it up on twitter. >> we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months. over 800,000 just this year alone. the private sector is doing fine. >> those five words became mitt romney's mess anl of tage of th. >> he said the private sector is doing fine. is he really that out of touch? >> the private sector is doing fine. >> the republicans quickly cranked out a new video pointing to the unemployment report, just 69,000 jobs created last month and an overall rate to rose to 8.2%. romney sensed a defining moment. >> for the president of the united states to stand up and say the private sector is doing fine is going to go down in history as an extraordinary miscalculation. >> even a potential running mate was piling on. >> standing there and staring at the tv. i couldn't believe he said it.

. >> four years ago, democrats said it was john mccain who was out of touch in his comments just as the nation was plunging into the financial crisis. >> the fundamentals of our economy are strong. >> in a new ad, romney points to his record of lowering the unemployment rate in massachusetts, which the obama administration pointed out was 47th in the nation. >> they were averaging out over the four years. they're bringing down the gains of his fourth year in office. >> romney says that's just spin. >> >> every governor faces challenges. the question is what do you do with that moment? >> reporter: but for romney, the coordinated republican response is the first clear sign that he has the gop firmly behind him. >> freedom, an opportunity in

america. >> save one -- rick santorum who announced a new conservative group and a web video that doesn't mention romney but vows to hold republican politics accountable. >> and monitor every day to make sure they stick to our conservative principles. >> but santorum insisted that he's on the romney team. >> i think we could have been even more of an improvement, but that's -- you know, that issue has passed. >> a romney visitor described the president's comments today as the gift that keeps on giving, saying the remarks are coming to an ad near you. and wolf, there was already one ad earlier today. i think it's safe to say there are more to come. >> etless dig even deeper. thank very much. candy crowley is the host of cnn's state of the union. these words, the private sector is doing fine. the president has since tried to clean it up, i'm sure that have they'll come back to haunt the

president. >> let me give you sort of two opinions on this. my initial reaction is remember when mitt romney said i'm not worried about the poor because they have a safety net or something to that effect. i'm not worried about the poor became something that democrats made commercials out of. it stuck to mitt romney in a way that i don't know that it sticks to prem simply because when you ask who best understands your problems, president obama always wins that particular competition in the polls. so it doesn't -- you know, for mitt romney to say listen, i'm not worried about the poor kind of fits into the story line the democrats are trying to wrap around him. he doesn't care about you, he doesn't understand you. that is not president obama's problem. and so i think, you know look, they took the day away in the sense that this is a story that's going to eat up 48 hours worth of headlines. after that, i'm just not sure where you go with it. >> so you don't think it's going

to be like when romney said i like to fire people, i'm paraphrasing, that stuck with him for a while. or corporations are fitting, too? this is going to be different you're saying? >> let me tell you, the other half of that is, i spoke to a couple of folks today and poz zitted this to them. if mitt romney runs on the president doesn't unction how the economy works, this is a pretty good line to fit into that. you see, he thinks everything is fine. actually even found a democrat who said i think it's more along that line. my initial reaction is it doesn't stick to thim because that's not what people see as the problem for president obama. but i guess it depends on how well they're able to spin it off the romney campaign. >> the republicans are spinning it and they're suggesting sort of like the moment for the first presidensh grge h. wush bush when he was going through the supermarket and saw the scanner through the checkout

scanser. >> that was a pronceived notion that he was a great cold war president but he's out of touch. most people don't think that president obama is out of touch. >> the with the was very forceful, abmated in rejecting this notion that his administration is deliberately leaking classified information. >> he was pretty tough on that pushback, i think. what's interesting is the relationship between president obama and his 20080 opponent, job mccain. it's a pretty tense long distance exchange. and mccain has come back and said he still needs to get someone to investigate how this all happened. this was a serious leak. but the president did exactly what he had to do. you don't understand me if you think this -- you don't understand how the white house works. it's not over. there will be several chapters to this story.

i'll speak, by the way, about the national security leaks with congressman rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence committee coming up at the top of our next hour. it's called swatting. bogus 911 calls that bring police out in force. >> my wife was actually watching some plates in the sink when she looked up and said what have the kids done? there. >>'s a police officer in the driveway. >> now conservative bloggers are increasingly targeted by these so-called swatters. we're digging deeper. by those so-called swatters. also, a horse racing heartbreak, a potential triple crown champion scratched from tomorrow's belmont stakes. plus, severe weather sparks panic at a graduation ceremony. we'll show you some of this incredible video. our cloud is not soft and fluffy. our cloud is made of bedrock. concrete. and steel. our cloud is the smartest brains combating the latest security threats.

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tomorrow's belmont stakes have turned to bitter disappointment. the horse that was poised to possibly be the first triple

crown winner in 34 years has been pulled from the race due to an injury his trainer is calling freakish. we're talking about the horse named i'll have another. what exactly happened? >> reporter: i'll have another is not going to be in the gate for what's called the test of champions. the mile and a half champions. a bad step, saying one consu consulting veterinarian, but enough to not risk him in the big race. the horse was walked in the media and he'll be out for the lucrative career. it happened within the last 24 hours. >> obviously he's done so much that it was unanimous between the redmonds and my brother and i at the barns to retire him.

it is a bummer. far from tragic, but it is very disappointing. >> reporter: doug o'neal and his family and paul redham, the owner and their entire network connected to this horse later seen hugging each other, very emotional, disappointment of course, on a lot of levels for the people connected with i'll have another. he would have been bidding to be the 12th horse to win the elusive triple crown. >> he was by far, the favorite, wasn't he? >> reporter: that's right. i tried to get reaction from his jockey mario gutierrez who was on a horse here at belmont and he walked quickly by me and he didn't want to talk. we were on top of the empire state building and he was looking forward and he said this horse was doubted by many and they'll be on the post parade on the track shortly before the belmont, wolf, tomorrow. i'm sure he'll get a rousing

ovation from the crowd, a crowd that will be diminished by several thousand because i'll have another will not be starting in the belmont stakes field. >> at least the horse is going to be fine in the long run. thanks very much for that, richard. >> we'll hear from the owner of i'll have another and he'll be on with erin burnett and she'll be out front with the story. at 7:00 p.m. eastern. an american apologizes for civilian deaths in afghanistan. mary snow is monitoring that and other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what do you have? >> general john allen saw the scene himself, visiting the village south of kabul where afghan officials said people died in the air strike. he offered condolences along with an apology and explained how the tragedy happened. >> we didn't see the civilians.

>> as the force approached the building, they were taken under fire, a number of our forces and this was joint afghan and u.s. force. they were taken under fire, a hand grenade was thrown. three of our people were wounded and we called for the people who were shooting to come out and then the situation became more grave and the innocent people were killed. >> here in the u.s. well-known megachurch pastor creflo dollar, and the police in suburban atlanta said they responded to a domestic abuse charges and he was released on $5,000 bail. a solo around the world voyage cut short for a british woman. the coast guard picked up sarah uten after her boat was damaged in a tropical storm. she left london in 2011 to

cycle, row and kayak around the world. she's trekked 11,000 miles. it is not clear, though, wolf, if she plans to continue her journey. she's half way to her goal. >> an amazing journey. thanks very much, mary, for that. imagine finding yourself surrounded by a s.w.a.t. team and having no idea why. >> as the police officer was in my driveway, there were actually police officers surrounding my house and there was a police radio report to take my house which meant they had police officers in the woods. >> it's happening to conservative bloggers out there. they're the victims of bogus 911 calls. we have details of a disturbing new level of political trickery.

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call to the police emergency line and end with the urgent deployment of a s.w.a.t. team. a shocking and dangerous new crime wave as hackers target political opponents. our senior correspondent joe johns has been looking into the story for us. it is pretty chilling. what's going on here? >> it is messing business no matter how you look at it. a hoax that sends guys with guns expecting trouble. this has been going for years, but now authorities say they're starting to see possible political motivations behind it. >> reporter: the start of a bad situation, a call comes into the local 911 communications center. >> just shot my wife. >> you just shot your wife? >> i don't think i can come down there. >> where's your wife now? >> she's dead now. you don't know where she's located now. >> i know where she's located.

>> well i know where she's located. >> even the s.w.a.t. team shows up, locked and loaded, ready for trouble and problem is it was a bogus 911 call from the start. knownsa s.w.a.t.ing it is a crime committed hundreds of times over the decade says. s.w.a.t.ers have targeted at least three conservative bloggers. in fact, the call you just heard sent the police to cnn contributor eric ericssoericsso. my wife was washing dishes at the sink when see asked what have the kids done? there's police on the driveway. >> as the police officer was in the driveway there were police officers surrounding my house. there was a police radio report to take my house which meant they had police officers in the woods behind my house and blocking all of the roads behind the house. >> reporter: investigators are investigating who did it?

the targeting of conservative bloggers led saxby chambliss of georgia to write a letter to the attorney general asking them to review the cases. the perpetrators appear to be targeting individuals who are exercising their first amendment rights to free speech. it is anything, but a harmless prank. >> we've had several instances where there has been instances where someone has been hurt. we had one where an individual was taken down with a lot of force and he received a lot of scrapes and bruises. we had two instances where victims have had heart attacks because of the stress. >> reporter: with caller i.d. and gps you would think s.w.a.t.ers would get locked up after dialing the number.

>> spoofing the telephone number in itself is not a crime although legislation is currently acting on trying to make it illegal to spoof, but spoofing your phone number or masking it with the intent of committing a crime or making a false police report isn't a crime and it is a federal crime. >> the fbi will not talk about the status of individual s.w.a.t.ing cases, but they do say they've made num rouse arrests in the past and intend to keep the pressure on. >> no arrests yet have been made? >> no arrests yet, but they're certainly looking into it. >> this is a felony, right? >> absolutely. it is a serious situation. it is also a false police report. >> they catch the individuals responsible they're likely to go to jail. >> right, and the other charge is basically about wire fraud and then they a question about whether it's across state lines and there's an interstate component and then if it's three or four people doing it it's

conspiracy. so you have a lot of problems if you do this with the federal government, potentially. >> joe johns reporting. republicans rushing to take advantage of the president's stumble. they launched an instant ad about his comments about the economy. bill clinton, as you know, he apologized yesterday for going off message on the economy. that was in my interview here in "the situation room." coming up, we'll discuss this question. did he learn a lesson? rion. like the dual-defense antioxidants in our food that work around the clock... supporting your dog's immune system on the inside... while helping to keep his skin and coat healthy on the outside. with this kind of thinking going into our food... imagine all the goodness that can come out of it. just one way we're making the world a better place... one pet at a time. purina one smartblend.

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wisconsin. maybe he wouldn't be an asset? maybe he saw his own poll numbers because he would be a drag of the campaign? maybe a majority of those voters supported those reforms? hi he did not go to wisconsin afraid of hurting himself by backing a loser? >> maybe he's auditioning for the vice presidential -- >> i think it was a huge tryout for the vice presidential slot and frankly at cpac, too, so he had to give red meat to the audience. >> a conservative political action. >> i think that's all it was. a big tryout, red meat for conservatives and frankly what he was saying is wisconsin, yes, was difficult, but it wasn't a national election. romney wasn't there either. if he's going to say that about obama, he has to say it about romney, too. >> it is the floaters, about the bobby jindal name. i think that does look like an audition. it is a reminder that this very

cerebral politician of jindal was a knowledgeable person that he can also do the role that running mates traditionally do. something else needs to be said about why he's an attractive running mate. republicanses need to break out of this narrow label that they belong to a certain ethnic group and certain age group. it is one of the most republican available of the new population groups in america. there are a number of outstanding politicians with nikki haley and bobby jindal and without having to change their message. >> indian ancestry, and from india, not native american. >> right. >> he certainly is intelligent and certainly qualified, governor, reelected, ivy league education. he'd be formidable. >> absolutely. i totally agree with david in that the republican needs to branch out. right now they're seen as the

party of white men, frankly, and that's not something that's helpful to them especially in a demographic that we have in the united states today where we are becoming much more majority minority and several states especially the battleground states. >> let's move on and talk about the president's stumble today when he said the private sector was doing fine. the republicans pouncing and the rnc, the republican national committee, wasted no time posting this. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the private sector is doing fine. the private sector is doing fine. >> these stumbles don't matter very much for anybody, but what is interesting with the stumble and what the danger is it tells you something about the president's mindset. this president is a very public

sector oriented person and he believes in it more strongly than recent democrats have done. you can't describe that the private sector is doing fine and he is very concerned with the public sector, and it is a relatively small part of american life and they've suggested an increase in the private sector and a way to have middle class wages. >> when he said that the economy was not in good shape. >> sure, and i don't think those five words are going stick. it won't stick because the president has said time and again, he's the first one who always says that we're not doing enough for the economy, that the economy has to grow at a much more expansive rate and frankly the reason he had his press conference was to push congress to basically pass his jobs act which frankly, a lot of independent analysts have said

could create more than a million jobs. >> he delivered a major speech, how do we sustain middle-class wages in a globalized world either directublic employment or government grants to create government contingent private sector jobs. that's how he saw wages being raised and that tells you something about -- it's a hard question about how to keep rages up. >> and the thing is you have to do both. you can't take away from this president that he's give know small businesses more than 16 tax cuts and there are more sitting in the jobs act. >> all of us the next five months, major legislation, bipartisan legislation and what the president can do and started doing is by executive order start to do stuff that doesn't necessarily need congressional legislation. >> everything that he's supported aren't things that we've supported in the past.

i sat down with bill clinton at the global initiative in chicago. i have to ask you if he's learned lessons from the stumbles from the obama campaign. here's what he told me. >> i'm very sorry about what happened yesterday. it was what i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year, so i think he should just stick with his position. >> do you buy that? everybody who knows bill clinton he's a policy wonk if there ever were one. do you think something had to be done before the election or before the end of the calendar year? >> if you want something to happen before the end of the year, getting it done before the election would be a good idea. i think he fell into a slightly different track. there's a part of him that wants to be an elder statesman, and he

was trying to be an above the fray person ask then you want the intimacy orred white house from being in the fight. you forkeds for president clinton. you were with him at the clinton global initiative. those are big, hard issues that he's dealing with on a day-to-day basis. he wasn't necessarily looking at the timing of this, but regardless, there is no question that he's a huge asset for president obama because he will fire up the democratic base and he is so credible because the proposals he's supporting for president obama are the same ones he had when he was president. >> he's no doubt a huge asset for the obama re-election. >> no question. >> despite a stumble here and there. >> thanks very much. millions of dollars in military equipment damaged from war. we'll take you inside the place

where they're fixing up thousands of machinery used in iraq and afghanistan. plus, imagine looking up and seeing this? the severe weather scare that sent people running at a high school graduation.

>> for more than a decade u.s. marines have been steadily rotating in and out of war zones. ever wonder what happens to all their banged up, bullet-riddled military hardware when it comes back from the front lines? cnn's john zarrella has an inside look at a massive maintenance facility that keeps marines ready to fight. show our viewers what you're seeing. >> reporter: wolf, most of us probably don't even think about what happens to all these thousands upon thousands of pieces of equipment coming back from iraq and afghanistan now with the drawdown. a lot of it ends up on an island. think of it like an auto repair

shop. >> one thing we found is it has a fuel leak. >> reporter: but not any you've been to. >> it's not like you can take your car to the dealership and say it's skipping. >> reporter: what are they fixing? thousands of pieces of beat up marine corps equipment and armor used to fight in iraq and afghanistan. this cavernous maintenance facility sits on blunt island near jacksonville, florida, when marine hardware returns anywhere in the world, it comes here. it's cleaned and repaired, upgrades are made. saves lives. this truck had aluminum doors, little protection against shrapnel from ieds. >> you would see a hole in that door and you would see it embedded in the actual seat and you know someone was injured. >> now the entire cab of the marine's 7-ton trucks are armor plated. >> wow! >> reporter: when the maintenance contracted to honeywell is complete, every piece must be combat ready.

why? because it's headed right back out. this is the 900-foot long climate-controlled fred stockholm, six decks filled with armored personnel carriers, amphibious assault vehicles, humvees and building equipment, everything the marines would need to fight or handle a humanitarian mission. it would take seven days, 24 hours a day to completely load the ship and latch everything down for the trip. when they're done there will be 51,000 tons onboard. it is headed to a rendezvous with diego garcia in the indian ocean. it's one of three staging areas around the world. the marines say in less than a week, they and their equipment can be anywhere in the world. >> nobody else in the world can get there like we can. we've proven it. >> it will stay in diego garcia

for up to three years and it might sit there and never needed. >> if everything worked out perfectly, we would bring the gear back never having touched it, but steele says it hasn't worked out quite that way. now one of the things they do, wolf, is they fumigate all of that equipment before it comes home and then they fumigate it again before it chiefs. on the boat, they fumigate it and it doesn't always work and in 2009 on one of the ships they ended up with an infestation of spiders and they got rid of them all, but it wasn't a good place to be, they say, if perhaps, you had arachnephobiarachnephobia. >> i think i have that. >> john zarrella, as usual. excellent work. thank you. dismembered bodies. one in hollywood and the others in canada.

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>> we've got dramatic video of a very dangerous severe weather incident that could have turned a celebration into a real tragedy. cnn meteorologist chad meyers has the pictures and details. chad? >> wolf, you almost can't believe the pictures you're seeing right here. this is galaway in new jersey, not that far from atlantic city. high school graduation in that area and this is what the graduates saw. that's what they would see if they were turning around and

there they are on the lawn on the football field here. the people in view watching this what looked like a wall cloud, possibly a tornado. certainly a funnel coming out of that wall cloud for a while. as the storm came down from the northwest and blew up right over it, and look at that in the last couple of frames and that's where the storm was spinning and it was a super cell thunderstorm and that's where the funnel possibly came out of the storm itself. let's go through this video and frame by frame, and there's the funnel cloud, and the graduates not all that faze said, cheering along until the lightning was striking very close to the football field and all of a sudden people were panicking and literally you can hear them screaming there in the background. you can hear them screaming because the lightning was all around. i know this looks dangerous, but people were focused on the funnel and they weren't focused on the danger of the lightning that was everywhere. let me show you one of the strikes that i put in a stop

game. here is are those people. that lightning half a mile away and lightning will probably kill more people in the united states than tornadoes this year. you have to understand if you are outside when a storm comes close, this big with lightning and if you can hear the thunder you need to run inside and get inside a building. luckily no one was injure happened. >> thanks very much, luckily indeed. two murders with the victims' bodies dismembered. one in hollywood and one in montreal. are the cases related? mary snow is monitoring that and other top stories in "the situation room." what's going on, mary? >> los angeles investigators are looking for a possible link in the cases. they're tracing the whereabouts of the suspect in the montreal case rocco magnotta. he's accused of murdering a chinese exchange student and mailing his body parts to

political offices in canada. there are reports magnotta may have been in los angeles in january when the dismembered body of a 66-year-old man was found near the famous hollywood sign. a not guilty plea and set for -- t.j. lane is charged in the attack that killed three students and injured three others. a judge ruled that lane can be tried as an adult. they may still change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. >> mary, thank you. >> it's an allegation that has president obama indignant. >> the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. >> a republican lawmakers taking him at his word? i'll ask the republican mike

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eastern washington state. >> so what's been the highlight so far? >> to say she has a busy job is an understatement. >> can i go through all of it? >> reporter: she has one foot on each coast, shuttling back and forth. >> almost what she usually covers. >> reporter: she's more than an elected official. she's also a mom. >> these are his little feat si weeks. >> reporter: she holds the distinction of being the only member of congress in history to give birth twice while in office. >> i was first elected to congress in 2004, and i was still single. met brian a year later. we got married and soon after that, i was pregnant and cole was born in 2007 and grace was born in 2010. >> 1-year-old grace and 5-year-old cole. cole who loves rocking out to bruce springsteen. and is a budding athlete and who

was born with down syndrome. >> that's tough news to receive. it's not what you dream. it's not what you expect. >> reporter: life has been a series of adjustments. >> look at that. >> reporter: a pressing of the reset button. >> do you want the egg? >> reporter: for kathy mcmorris rogers and her husband brian who retired from the military. >> i spent 26 years in the navy and so this is a lot like the navy, you know. it's dynamic and very interesting. there's a lot of purpose to it. it's good. it's real good. >> reporter: your commanders are a little younger, though, right? >> that's true. that's true. >> reporter: the family moved to washington, d.c., but it's still a challenge trying to make all of the pieces fit. >> i love what i do, and i love being a mom. it's a constant juggling act.

some days i feel like i'm handling it better than other days. >> becoming a parent has given her a new outlook. having a child with a disability has given her a new objective. >> want a bite? >> reporter: she's the co-founder of the down syndrome caucus. >> you want to be the best parent possible. >> reporter: similar to a 401(k) retirement plan or a 529 college savings plan. >> and just help them through it is, maybe through furthering their education or housing or transportation needs that they might have. it just would give them some more resources to hopefully be as independent as possible and the able act would help them achieve that. >> yes, you did. >> it's an issue that unites even political opposites. >> good job. >> i met the lobbyist for the sierra club, and yet he has his

two sons with do you understand syndrome and he said, you know what? i want to work with you on these issues. >> these are really tough numbers. >> reporter: to the world she's a rising star in the gop. >> what are you doing here, bud? >> reporter: at home she's mommy. >> the able act stands for achieving a better life experience. it would change to set up special savings accounts for families with disabilities and among the supporters, democrat representative chris van holland and republican representative pete sessions who also has a son with down syndrome. good story, thanks, lisa. you're in "the situation room," happening now -- >> the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. >> an angry president obama comes out swinging for the first time, slamming allegations his

administration authorized leaks for personal gain. plus, syrians risking their lives to show u.n. observers the scene of a vicious massacre they say left almost 80 people dead. the nomination for one of the most sensitive government positions now in question over sorted e-mail allegedly with a prominent reporter. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a fiery president obama putting anyone on notice. his motives are subject to a swift rebuke from the president. he told the news conference today he has zero tolerance for leaks of classified information and that those responsible would suffer consequences.

this after sensitive intelligence information recently came up in newspaper articles prompting john mccain to accuse the white house of authorizing the leaks for political gain. our congressional correspondent kate bolduan is here. he came out swinging today. >> offensive is one of the presidents he used today. strong pushback by president obama on the brewing controversy over who is behind a string of intelligence leaks. senator john mccain is calling the leaks politically motivated to make president obama look good in an election year. president obama fired back, calling the acquisition the white house would purposely leak this information offensive and wrong. >> we're dealing with issues that can touch on the safety and security of the american people, our families or our military

personnel or allies and so we don't play with that. and it is a source of consistent frustration, not just for my administration, but for previous administrations when this stuff happens. and we will continue to let everybody know in government or after they leave government that they have certain obligations that they should carry out but as i think has been indicated from these articles, the writers of these articles have all stated unequivocally that they didn't come from this white house and that's not how we operate. >> senator mccain is not satisfied by the president's remarks releasing a statement late today accusing the president of now trying to distance himself and the

administration from the leaks and saying, quote, what the president did not unequivocally say is that none of the classified or highly sensitive information came from the media came from the white house. i continue to call on the president to immediately point to a special council to investigate and where necessary prosecute these gravely serious breaches of our national security. that's unlikely to happen any time soon, even though mccain, as well as the chairman of the intelligence committee mike rogers are pushing for others to be brought in, other democrats and republicans. as you know, wolf, they're satisfied at least for now that the fbi is investigating. >> the fbi can do the job, and the justice department can do the job and not a special council to be put in place. >> a lot of them saying it's too soon to say. we need to let run its investigation and it continues to develop. >> kate bolduan, thanks very much.

let's dig deeper into the story right now with the chairman of the house collect committee on intelligence committee, mike rogers from michigan, himself a former fbi agent. so you do think, though, that they need a special council, a ken starr, if you will, to investigate independently the justice department or the white house. is that what you're saying, mr. chairman? >> i have not pushed for a special council nor have i called forra i special council. i have raised the question, and i have done this in conversations with the attorney general and the fbi director and others just to make sure that we can do this in a fair and balanced and a non-partisan way and we took the republican and democrat leaders on two intelligence committees in the senate and the house together to come out. think of the threshold that must have been crossed for all of us to stand at the microphone and say this is as serious a leak problem as we have ever seen.

that took a lot, so i want to make sure given the senior level of people who had to have this classified material that we had the ability to do the investigation in a fair and non-partial way, saying can we talk to the dod or cia or the national security council and without being unfettered or without having anyone who had access to the information in that chain of command. that's what i'm trying to determine. senator feinstein and i have had good conversations. we want to find the right forum to get the unbiased investigation. it's that important. >> like you, she's irate. the chair of the senate intelligence committee. she was here in "the situation ro room" earlier in the week. unlike john mccain she's not ready to call for a special council, at least not yet and certainly not ready to suggest

as john mccain does, that the president and his advisers are deliberately authorizing these leaks for political purposes to help the president, for example, get reelected. how far are you on this specific accusation that there's a political moist for these leaks. >> i have not gone down that route. i think we have to keep this in the realm, you never want to come to the conclusion, and that's always a dangerous place to be for the investigation side. so i want the answers and we should keep this as nonpartisan as we possibly can because this is as serious a national security beach as i think i've seen in my time over a pattern of years and that pattern has grown more emboldened, and i will tell you, it is having real consequences today. we know that sources, lives may be, in fact, in jeopardy and we know that operations that may be underway will have to be reconfigured or done other ways.

again, over the course of these years this informations has been talked about privately and we have to get to the bottom of it. and the only reason why i even looked at the special council statute and it was a very officer issue. it was released and pretty damning seve is stiff, ver dangerous stuff.somebody went tf it and i argue rightly so. vale case -- i am asking the question could the people in the chain of command of this investigation, who by the way, who had this information can they do this investigation in a fair and unbiased way? i haven't come to the conclusion yet, but i'm asking a lot of questions. >> valerie plame, the cia officer, was there a special

council, the u.s. attorney in chicago. he investigated. i don't think anyone went to jail. scooter libby, the vice president's chief of staff was found guilty of lying, if you will, but he never went to jail. is there someone else i'm missing. scooter libby was not pardoned. >> he wasn't pardoned, but his sentence was -- the president said that he didn't have to go to jail or anything like that. >> my point being that somebody -- >> his sentence was commuted. >> well, somebody was punished for the crime, and i argue if you think that was serious enough to have a special council maybe, and i don't know. maybe this isn't -- maybe this doesn't rise to the level of special council because we can't do it. i just think we'd be remiss if we don't ask the question, wolf, that hey, listen, is that the right way to do it? i'm not sure it is, but i'll tell you this, over time, it has

no prub limb interest or some whistle blowing case. i thought we were doing america a favor and you did america no favor and whoever leaked this for whatever purpose committed a crime, a serious crime, and i'm just asking the question how do we determine who it was to take care of the problem? and how do we move forward? that's what senator feinstein and i have been talking about. this isn't mike rogers saying all of this. this is republicans and democrats saying this is as huge a problem as we've seen and we better do everything about it. lives potentially could be at stake. certainly sources and methods and this is serious stuff. mr. chairman, thanks for coming in. >> wolf, i appreciate it. >> the president didn't play defense. he attempted to get out in front of a struggling economy. just ahead, why it could be the perfect storm threatening his

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>> president obama didn't just play defense on the intelligence leaks today. he also struggled to get ahead of a dismal jobs outlook and a european debt crisis threatening to hurt the u.s. economy even more, but did it do more political harm than good? it's all raising serious questions about whether he can turn it all around before it's too late as far as his re-election is concerned. let's bring in our white house correspondent dan lothian. >> reporter: wolf, you heard the president today trying to point to the positives in this struggling economy, but he ran into a messaging problem when the public sector was doing

fine. >> the republicans pounced and releasing a quick web video. it is all about the economy and computer models indicate that it could be the president's greatest opponent. the price at the pump is dropping, but still high, the stock market remains volatile, unemployment ticked up again and the eurozone crisis lingers. it's the perfect storm that threatens to sink the president's prospect to the second term. >> the global aftershocks are much greater. >> reporter: this computer model created by george washington university created by john size is one indicator of the pressure on the campaign. >> the forecasting modelling ises a very close race with a slight edge to obama, but not necessarily a large edge. nothing he can be confident in. >> reporter: here's how he does it. he uses approval rating,

economic condition and consumer confidence and compares these factors to past presidential races. >> carter loses to reagan in 1980. >> reporter: what his models show, that president obama is facing similar conditions to what former president jimmy carter faced when he lost to president ronald reagan in 1980 with one exception. >> both were facing difficult economies and carter was facing much worse and he was much less popular than obama, especially among his own party. >> reporter: one other indicator that screams doom and gloom. >> the best thing the president can hope for is not just a good economy, but good economic headlines. >> voters don't have faith that either candidate can fix the problem according to a cnn/orc poll, but a slight majority believes that former massachusetts governor mitt romney has the right kind of business experience for the task, despite the private equity

firm bain capital. >> i wouldn't want him there. he would be so out of touch with the average person. >> romney hits back with the struggling economy, accusing the president of not only failing, but playing the blame game. >> have you heard his campaign slogan? >> forward. forward. forward over a cliff and so he's looking around and he's trying to find someone to blame. >> reporter: now there are several experts out there who use various economic indicators in order to predict the outcome of presidential races. many are right spot on. this is the first time, first presidential race that professor sides has crunched the numbers and they are in line with many of the current polls that are out there. one other point, wolf, today with the president coming out to the briefing room. he wanted to again put pressure on congress to take action on his to-do list, but republicans counter by talking about the

more than 30 bills currently in the senate that were passed by the house that would create jobs. let's talk about this and more with rick stangel. there you see the cover "the decider." let me pick your brain on what we just heard. this has been a pretty bad week for the president. he said this with five months until election day, barack obama faces a grim new reality. republicans now believe mitt romney can win and democrats believe obama can lose. is it a whole new ball game out there right now, rick? >> i don't know about that, wolf. it certainly hasn't been a sterling week for the president to use the term bill clinton used to describe mitt romney's business career. there's so much out there that is so ominous, including what's happening in europe, greece and

spain. the jobs figures are anemic. it is sxoor we recash theed and he's running against a structural ship. what we've seen in looking at the figures of the previous races. it is very hard for a sitting president to win when unemployment is this high and when gdp growth is this slow. he has a lot of headwinds to use the phrase he always uses. the romney campaign last month raising more money than the obama campaign and we know the super pacs will raise more money than the pro-obama super pacs. the bad news could get worse. let me refer to the cover story on the new issue of "time" magazine. when it comes to health care and the health care law within the next few weeks this month, we will know whether the supreme

court rules it is constitutional or unconstitutional. give us a sense of what you're seeing there. >> it's a wonderful story and one of the things in the story that we explain is that other justices on the court aren't even sure how anthony kennedy will vote on these kinds of things. it's a 4-4 split and he's the sdeeder in the sense that he's always the swing vote and the affordable care act, what everyone calls brom care and he had questions on both sides, whether it was a violation of the commerce clause saying the government can impose a tax on people. it is not clear what will happen and it is also not clear even if the law is declared unconstitutional who that hurts and who that helps. there are those who say the republicans will have to come up with a policy regarding health care if obama care is overruled. >> it would be a huge embarrassment to the president of the administration if they worked so hard to achieve is deemed unconstitutional by the

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the feds announce a big sweep of child porn. mary snow is monitoring that and other top stories in "the situation room." what's the latest, mary? >> wolf, 190 people arrested and 18 victims rescued. u.s. immigration and customs enforcement issued that result from a month-long nationwide operation targeting child pornographers. operation ryan was a homeland venture with homeland security. it had possession and video production of child pornography. federal health officials have their eyes on a strain of e. coli. the centers for disease control and prevention says 14 people in six states have been sickened all by the same strain of the bacteria. the cdc says onsets occurred from april 15th to may 12th and it reported cases in florida, alabama, california and louisiana where one person died.

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this week's reported massacre. u.n. observers got their first glimpse of the massacre earlier today. arwa damon is joining us live from beirut. arwa, it's friday and yet more deaths in syria, the slaughter doesn't seem to stop. what's the latest? >> reporter: it doesn't stop, wolf, but i think what's incredible is that the demonstrations don't stop either, and as we've been seeing on every single friday since this uprising began, people continuing to take to the streets throughout the entire country, even though in numerous looks they were still targeted by syrian security forces and the shelling continues as well in some parts of syria like the city of homs. very dramatic images from there with smoke billowing and you can hear the massive explosions caused by the incoming artillery

shells. also in the capital damascus, the very center of it, some pretty intense clashes between members of the syrian army and government forces. certainly the cycle that we have been seeing, a tragic cycle does still continue there, wolf. >> kofi annan, the u.n. secretary-general and now the special envoy in syria, when you hear from the opposition from the regime of bashar al assad, do they think he has any credibility right now? do they think he's accomplishing anything? >> reporter: no, they don't, wolf, and they weren't holding out hope that his six-point peace plan was going to work either. for them a lot of them a lot of what was said when kofi annan was briefing the united nations, they already knew it. they expected that was going to take place and the syrian government wasn't going to adhere to the six-point peace plan, and it was stating the

obvious when mr. annan other ands say that if there is not a change in the course of action in syria there are only going to be more massacres, more sectarian killings and more violence and potentially, of course, a full-on civil war and that is why it is so critical that the global community unite when it comes to finding a solution. >> i'm not holding my breathe. it looks like the chinese and the russians, permanent numbers of the u.n. security council are still not onboard. arwa, thanks very much. we'll stay in close touch. let's continue the conversation with a mideast scholar, a senior fellow at the hoover institution and author of the important new book, the "syrian rebellion." fouad, any chance the russians and the chinese will join the rest of the u.n. security council, would authorize a resolution to take a serious action in syria to stop the slaughter?

>> you know, wolf, the very short answer is none whatsoever. the idea that we would lie on the sweet% of v lad nir putin is laughable, and the chinese and russians have declared it themselves and they have vetoed one resolution one after another and they're committed to the bashar regime, and i think we go to them and we go to the russians and the chinese to simply run out the clock. >> why did they agree to allow the u.n. security council resolution to be passed as far as libya and moammar gadhafi is concerned and bashar al assad is concerned. wolf, there you have it, and in fact, the security council resolution passed over libya became an ally for the russians and the chinese. it became the proof positive that you can't trust me with any resolution that you would use that resolution in order to overthrough the bash adregime.

i think the game of the and i think what's going on in this youtube war, we can see it every day and i think you have done the same as i have. let it go and take a look at the youtube that is coming out in syria. look at the children who have become the target of this war and look at the killings, and in fact, all kind of things, gruesome things are happening in syria. now they're killing the villagers and they're taking their bodies as trophies to their own villagers, we are there and in the midst of a sectarian war. >> when i interviewed bill clinton in chicago. he said there were significant differences in libya and syria. the opposition in libya was very well organized unlike the opposition in syria and many made this point. listen. >> this is not like libya where

there are vast stretches of land that you could bomb opposition forces in civilians. >> what do you make of that argument that these are different situations where the u.s. would stay away from syria and i have to disagree with the former president and both in 1995 and particularly in kosovo in 1999 and belgrade for something like 11 weeks we had 30,000 sorties and we finally broke milosevic and to have the former president utter these kinds of statements, he's covering up for the obama administration and he's covering up for his wife and this is just a service to the obama administration. it has no intellectual or political merit and let's remember one thing. all of the things that are now being said about syria were also

said about libya and the opposition was divided and we don't know where they were and they're penetrated by islamists and they want to do things and it can do it when it wants, alibis and there are all kind of alibis. >> you heard arwa just report that syria seems to be on the verge of an all-out civil war and i'm not sure how much worse it can get, but it could get much worse. what do you make of that? >> we are already in a civil war in syria. we are already in a sectarian war. the most interesting thing about the recent massacres. the killing was not done by the special forces, not by the army, but, in fact, villagers. villagers came to converge on the poor villagers and massacred them. we are in the middle of a civil war. we keep saying we want to avoid

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a nominee for a key post at the u.s. diplomatic corps could see his ambitions dashed. brett mcgirka is being considered for ambassadorship in

iraq. an e-mail who now happens to be his wife could derail his candidacy. what's in these e-mails and what's going on? >> suggestive phrases in there, wolf, but what's raising concerns on capitol hill is the implication that bred mcgirk may have given too much access to this reporter who he was romantically involved with. he's tapped for one of the most sensitive positions in the u.s. government, america's ambassador to iraq, but there are a number of senators in the committee over the nomination of brett mcgirk to that post. their concerns stem from leaked e-mails between mcgirk and "wall street journal" reporter gina chang. in june of 2008 he apparently writes to chan, thanks again for the dinner conversation. please let me know when you

might want to get together. i'll tell you what i know if you can teach me something about cars. if treated to many glasses of wine, you could be the chosen vultures. >> mcgirk's judgment, while they don't release significant details on negotiations. >> it is hard to see if sensitive information was leaked in the context of a romantic relationship at a time when this ambassador to iraq was engaged in extremely sensitive negotiations. >> the conversations got more suggestive later. i had a good day with the iraqis, best yet. can't tell you about it, but you should definitely stay past sunday. >> she writes back. stop being such a tease. this is like a journalist's blank. >> i had i think they're still

blue. >> poor baby, she writes back. you can come by here afterwards. mcgirk had married another woman in 2006 and it is not clear whether they divorced before or after his relationship with gina chang, but chang subsequently married and she was behind him during a senate hearing on his nomination. >> my eyes are wide open to the recent challenges ahead. >> the e-mails were posted anonymously this week on the website flicker. there are e-mails out there for, quote, for everyone to see. officials at state are standing by mcgirk saying he's uniquely qualified to serve as ambassador. they say he's been fully vetted. but the concerns on capitol hill are building up and an aide to james inhofe, a key member of the foreign relations committee that until issues are resolved he will not meet with mcgirk as

he usually does with nominees and we were not able to reach mcgirk or chan for comment. "the wall street journal's" parent company is not available for comment. she works with their money and investing unit. she had asked for a leave of absence when it became apparent that brett mcgirk was available for ambassadorship, but she's still a viable member of the paper. >> thanks very much for that report. it costs about $4 a gallon of gas. so why is the navy spending $26 a gallon to fuel its fighter jets? also still ahead, the story of one dog's unfortunate encounter with a plastic milk jug. how social media played a big role in saving her life.

>> we want to update you on a remarkable story of survival of a young marine in afghanistan. an unexploded rocket propelled grenade became lodged in his leg thanks to risky decisions by his fellow marines he lived to tell about it. barbara starr has spoken to the corporal himself about the rescue. she's joining us with the

latest. >> wolf, you saw the video just there of help coming to corporal winter perez who had a rocket-propelled grenade embedded in his body. i was finally able to sit down and chat with him. let's get right to it. i want you to hear what he had to say. >> all of a sudden, i just saw the rpg coming toward me, and it hit me and, you know, i was hit and my boys knew exactly what to do and they came down. no hesitation, no nothing. the rpg had struck the battery in my radio. i tried calling it in and i'm, like, what the hell? the radio wasn't working and thank god perrera came right away and he came in and the helicopter was inbound and i was coming in for a little girl that was injured. thanks to perrera he redirected the helicopter. obviously, they had their

issues. i did have a live rocket in my leg so eventually they did come. they got me in there. >> so the marines on the ground, the helicopter crew, the medics on the ground all risking their own livesgrown, all risking the own lives to help this young marine and pull a live grenade out of his body. he just finished his last surgery yesterday. i want to tell you, i had an e-mail from him this morning, 23-year-old marine saying he was feeling just fine. and that everything was okay. you can watch the full interview with him on sanjay coupe ta's show this weekend that's 6:30 on saturday, 4:30 on saturday and 7:30 sunday morning. a young 23-year-old marine who had a death-defying experience and says he is just fine. >> 4:30 p.m. eastern, 7:30 p.m.

ear eastern. thanks very much, barbara. some members of congress are having sticker shock and may try to force the defense department to save money by scrapping more expensive biofuels. is it the right move for now or is it short-sighted? here is our pentagon correspondent, chris lawrence. >> the military can fuel a fighter jet for under $4 a gallon. congressional critics were shocked when the navy paid $26 a gallon for biofuel. >> it is huge back home and for the taxpayers. >> the representative inserted a provision that says, the pentagon must buy the cheapest available fuel, especially while planning to cut 100,000 troops from the payroll. >> we ought to be saving every single dollar we can to protect the people. >> every day, the pentagon burns through 300,000 barrels of oil.

if the price goes up just $1. it have t it costs the military well under $100 million. >> we have to get out from under the oil markets. >> reporter: the military has been testing ships, planes and vehicles to accept alternative fuel. the pentagon wants future flexibility especially as it shifts focus to asia pacific. >> it is really important. when you are talking about projecting and sustaining troops and forces that far from your own country. we are opposed to any efforts that restrict our options in this area. >> the secretary of the navy has argued that biofuels are a young industry. of course, they can't compete pricewise with fossil fuels that have been around for centuries. >> is it the federal government's responsibility to start that industry. if he can find it at $4 a gal, terrific, buy it. he can't. it is not the department of defense's role to build that fuel market. biofuel advocates say, thanks

for the billions for the free flow of oil. >> we keep those open for countries that are hostile to our interests like iran. >> is this the time to pour this money into biofuels? >> absolutely. you know, it is really about investment today for payoff tomorrow. how much did the first pair of night vision goggles cost us? a lot more than they cost now. >> it is a good point. pentagon officials say this overreliance on foreign oil is a matter of national security. it looks like these restrictions are going to go into effect. enough members of congress say the alternative just isn't affordable. wolf? >> chris lawrence, thanks for that report. her head was stuck in a jug. now, she is living high on the hog and looking for a new home. how one dog's life took a lucky turn thanks to social media and

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in kenya, children emerge from their classroom in streets plagued by poor sanitation. >> in india, a woman covers her face woo while riding her computer. >> one of the computers created by steve jobs is put up for auction. >> a psychic octopus predicts spain to be the winner of the euro 2012 games. hot shots. pictures coming in from around the world. if a dog gets her head stuck in the jar of the woods, does

anyone know? they do after a photo ends up on a social media website and then it is volunteer rescue workers to the rescue. >> we have seen a squirrel driven squirrelly by a cup stuck on his head and a skunk that would have preferred skipping the jar of peanut butter but when this photo went out over facebook, animal lovers in facebook knew they had to ablct. >> we have to get her. she doesn't have a whole lot of time with that over her head. >> beth gresham took the photo after they spotted the pitbull mix. the frightened dog ran back into the woods. plastic container stuck over her head, can't eat or drink. 10-20 people went out searching. >> i seen him coming down the bath way with the jug on his head. >> chester burns said he had to

corner the dog against a fence with his jeep. they used wire cutters to cut off the jar. any dog that is getting her 15 minutes of fame is going to need a name. people suggested pickles, jug head, astro after the jetson's dog. not to mention the movie space dogs but rather than a floating at stro naught, her temporary owner says, she is an angel. >> they named her miracle. >> she said she ate ravenously from the moment they got the jar off, dog food, cat food, roe at this timery chicken. >> she was 27.7 pounds and she should be around 45 pounds. >> el rays showed a broken pelvis and fractured jaw. >> somebody shot her with a bebe gun. >> already, she has gaineded five ps