during his friday dance. have a good morning to our viewers in the west. it is friday, june 8th, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. president obama is set to speak at the white house after a week to forget from wisconsin to fund-raising to supporters going rogue. we'll carry the president's remarks live. >> i'm gayle king. he got his chance and making the most of it. how brian banks is one step closer from going from prison to the nfl playing field and when i see you at 8:00, the one and

only neil patrick harris. >> we begin as we do every day, with today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> i'm telling you, the american people are just really disgusted and outraged. >> congress blasts the tsa. >> criticizing it for being bloated, inefficient and unprofessional. >> we're not going to have 100% customer satisfaction. >> talking about whether the tsa is too rude. yes, too rude. >> you just got to use common sense. people are going to say they are patting down beyonce. she's not going to blow a plane up. >> parts of wyoming and colorado are recovering from a powerful line of storms that triggered up to ten tornadoes. >> graduation day ends with a bang at a school in new jersey when a funnel cloud sends students running for cover. >> two weeks after a judge exonerated brian banks, the

former high school standout tried out for the seattle seahawks. >> winning a super bowl and then yelling out i'm going to disneyland but that times ten. >> a customer stopped an armed robber in his tracks with just one kick. >> all that -- >> is it a lot of good time party kind of activity? >> that's not me anymore. >> people still offer me crack when i walk down the street. >> and all that matters. >> he walked into the building and says lebron james goes for 45. >> on "cbs this morning." >> tbeing the presidential fron runner was the most exhilarating three hours of my life. it was awesome. it is just past 7:00 a.m. in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." president obama is getting ready

to talk about the economy. he's expected to appear in the briefing room in about 12 minutes. we'll bring you a statement live. >> before we get to that, other business in washington that caused quite a stir on thursday. the transport safety administration has been getting a lot of flak accused of doing a poor job serving tens of thousands of passengers who pass through every day. tsa's top administrator heard all about it from congress yesterday. we go to reagan national airport and witt johnson. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. one pr nightmare after another made the tsa a popular target on capitol hill. the agency took a beating with lawmakers from both parties demanding immediate change. >> the american people are just really disgusted and outraged. >> reporter: while unleashing his attack on tsa administrator john pistole, mike rogers says the agency lacks common sense.

>> why are we patting down donald rumsfeld? >> reporter: making colorful references about public officials and pop icons. >> people are going to say they are patting down beyonce. she's not going to blow a plane up. >> reporter: following recent negative headlines like dozens of tsa workers in ft. myers, florida, busted for failing to perform proper screenings, pistole defended the agency and pointed to improvements for travelers like relaxed screening measures for children and seniors. >> with over 630 million people in a year, we're not going to have 100% customer satisfaction. >> reporter: tsa staff increased nearly 400% from 16,500 workers in 2001, to more than 65,000 now. but pistole says demands to cut the agency's ballooning workforce won't fly. >> i believe in the personnel we have currently are necessary to provide security the american people expect today.

>> would you say the tsa as it stands today is effective at protecting the american people? >> i believe that it is effective. there's no question in my mind about that. >> reporter: former deputy tsa administrate tom blank says criticism is expected but it's important for people to remember why the tsa got started in the first place. >> what we're going threw out there is connected directly to 9/11. we know from incidents that have happened that aviation is still a key sector of interest to those that would do us harm. >> reporter: despite public frustration, pistole says the agency doesn't get too many complaints. last year of 525,000 calls to its call center, only about 6% or 7% were complaints. >> whit johnson, thank you. one man who knows about complaints is former tsa administrat administrator kip hawley.

good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> are you arguing that the tsa needs to redefine its mission and its strategy? >> it needs to redefine strategy to get really risk based and take away the things that were effective after 9/11 that are just causing wasted time and energy now like fishing through bags for swiss army knives and things like that. i think that would take a lot of tension out of the checkpoint and reduce the disconnect that we saw yesterday at the hearing. >> that would eliminate in your judgment the security lapses that we've seen? >> it would allow officers to focus on the truly big threats and right now they have got so much congestion looking in bags for laundry list of "prohibited" items that the lines get long and people's tempers get short. i think the pat-down, the one they are doing today, is one

that can be reduced and probably should have been reduced within about six months of when they put it in for an emergency. i think that would calm things down. mostly they are talking past each other as tsa has some positive programs like precheck but then the congressmen see everything weekend in their district how angry the public is. >> there's often criticism as you know very well that security measures are reactive in this country. but do you see in the near future there being a change where they become more pro-active? >> i think they are pro-active. the problem is not that they're not pro-active but problem is they don't get rid of old ones when they are no longer needed. one good thing to say about administrator pistole is they are connected with the intelligence community and are hyper about making sure that there's whatever measure needs to be taken with air marshals anywhere else are taken but the problem is they have this

leftover security protocols that are clogging up the system and angering the public. >> why are they talking past each other? >> well, i think it really boils down to the administration being the white house and dhs has got to decide whether they want to have john pistol make changes or whether they want to stand behind him but right now they leave him hanging out by himself where he marches up with talking points and congressmen attack him. i think the administration should say to tsa, get this fixed. take the prohibited items, reduce it, get that pat-down. another way to do the pat-down. start listening to the people rather than talking past them. >> kip hawley, thank you. >> thank you. >> rough weather across the nation. in southern new jersey a funnel cloud shook up a high school graduation. you see the cloud there off in the distance.

it happened last night. had people running for cover as soon as that ceremony ended. no one was injured there. in southeastern wyoming, however, a tornado did injure one person and damaged more than a dozen homes yesterday. that twister was a quarter mile wide and stayed on the ground for almost 20 miles. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke says the u.s. economy appears ready to grow at a moderate pace this year. on capitol hill yesterday, bernanke said that the fed will not take more steps to boost the economy for now. he says that all depends on unemployment and the debt crisis in europe. >> the crisis in europe affected the u.s. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring u.s. financial markets and institutions. >> bernanke says nothing will be off the table when federal reserve governors meet in two weeks. in just a few minutes, president obama is expected to make a statement on the economy at the white house. we'll bring that to you live.

this has been a week the president may want to forget at this point. a potential turning point for mitt romney's campaign. >> as jan crawford reports just about everything that could go wrong for the democrats did. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. we have all had fridays where we woke up and thought i am so glad this week is over. that may be the way the president is feeling after the week he's had. on the campaign trail this week, romney has sounded confident. >> as your president starting on day one, i will do everything in my power to end these days of drift and disappointment. >> reporter: why not. in the first head to head fund-raising battle with the president, romney came out on top. in may, romney's first month as only republican running for president, republicans hauled in $76.8 million. that's unsettling news for the president. the fund-raising numbers were just the latest example of a not so great week for mr. obama's

re-election bid. >> i'm very sorry about what happened yesterday. >> reporter: there was high profile so-called misstatement by president clinton who was forced to apologize for comments that seemed to undercut mr. obama's economic plan. clinton said the bush tax cuts should be extended. a position mr. obama opposes. >> i think what it means is they will have to extend the -- they will probably have to put everything off until early next year. >> reporter: bill clinton wasn't the only high ranking supporter this week to go off message. on "cbs this morning" former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, made a comment not flattering to the obama campaign. >> i think she would have come in with more executive experience. i think the president was being hurt by being a legislator only. i think hillary clinton would have sent them a bill and said here's what i want. >> reporter: if that weren't enough, there was the recall election in wisconsin. >> that's what you have done for

wisconsin. and for america. >> reporter: many thought that as a proxy for president's re-election and republican scott walker won handedly. the unions wanted walker out. their defeat is a bad sign for mr. obama. unions have long been forces in democratic politics. the question is whether any of these things will matter in november. the fund-raising numbers are important. there is also another bad number for the president. the unemployment rate. it was up slightly in may. charlie and erica? >> jan crawford, thank you. we go now to chief washington support conn correspondent and host of "face the nation." what's the president's goal here? what does he hope to accomplish? >> he has to get a handle on this not just on the economic situation itself. we're told he's probably going to talk about the congress. needs to act on some legislation he has up there to get

construction started around the country. a few things to try to prime this pump a little bit as it were. congress hasn't given him much help. how far he's got to go on that, we'll find out when he comes into the briefing room in just a minute. you know, you're hearing people now saying, you know, the president has to do something. they all have to get on the same team and all of that. in addition to trying to get this economy started again, he's got to also try to change the conversation a little bit. i suppose that's part of what this is about this morning. >> it's not just a question of one bad week but a question of maybe worrying about something wrong at the heart of the campaign. >> well, it's not so much at the heart of the campaign as it is at the heart of the economy. i mean, you know, these numbers that came out this week where you see unemployment ticking up. that is not good news. i mean, if you have that kind of

situation in october, i think it's going to be very difficult for the president to be re-elected. the other part is that we're a long way from october. and i don't think mitt romney should start measuring curtains for the oval office quite yet. this was a week that was not a good week for the obama administration. >> the president will also look at -- it is said -- talk about europe and the debt crisis and what's happening in greece to suggest is not all his fault. >> well, it's not all his fault. i don't mean that to make an excuse for the president. the fact of the matter is that it's very difficult for him to control events in europe right now where you have all of these governments in big trouble. you have greece with to declare bankruptcy and there is no question that's what's going to happen there is going to impact on our economy.

the thing to remember, charlie, is people don't blame people in other places for things. you know, they take it out on the guy in the white house when bad things happen. that's just the way of american politics. that's what the president is trying to turn around. >> part of what comes with that job. bill plante is at the white house now as we wait on this statement from the president. what more are you hearing? have they given out specifics? >> reporter: he's going to try to change the subject and do it by talking about those things you have been discussing after having a bad week as you heard. he wants to ask congress to do things which he's asked them to do before. and there's obviously no guarantee and in fact very little likelihood that they will even consider doing these things. but he changes the subject and tries to get upper hand and says we can help cushion the effects of what's going on in europe if

congress will only do this. he's going to list these things that you heard about, construction jobs, hiring more teachers and firefighters and money for local businesses and so forth. but this is a way to reposition himself in the conversation and things are not going well as you heard. >> how much concern is there in the white house in terms of repositioning himself and that conversation that he does it as president and not necessarily as a candidate? >> reporter: everything he does at this point is framed by the white house as being presidential. even though it can be sort of nakedly campaign orientated. it doesn't matter. it is what they say it is for their purposes and we see it as what we think it is which is often campaign related. >> these are proposals the president made before, correct? >> reporter: that's right. >> bill is right about that. perhaps he's going to unveil something we haven't heard

before. the fact of the matter is they have given us very little information and i would guess bill would agree on exactly what it is the president is going to talk about here today. they are not calling this a news conference. they say it might take a few questions. if it is a news conference, it sounds like they are planning a very short one. >> reporter: it's a mini news conference that they have in mind. two or three questions and first on the economy and second probably on things like the situation in syria which has gotten even worse today and possibly also on the charges by republicans that the administration has been using selective intelligence leaks to sort of help the president along in his campaign. >> can you guys explain to me the relationship that exists today between the former president, bill clinton, and the president, barack obama. >> reporter: i can try, charlie. there's less there than meets the eye. i think they do get along very

well. president clinton goes off script. i don't think it's for reasons some have suggested which is that he's trying to make sure obama loses so that his wife can run in 2016. i don't believe that's the case. i think they actually do get along fairly well. they're not exactly buddies but on the other hand i think they do see eye to eye. the former president does tend to say whatever is on his mind as we've seen this past week. >> you know, charlie, that is the way of a former president. they always tend to want to decide what it is they're going to say. you don't see former presidents just buying in on the party line all of the time because sometimes they have different ideas about things. look at george bush right now. you know, a little distance between president clinton and president obama, the only thing former president bush said about governor romney right now is

someone caught him as elevator doors were closing one day some place and said i'm for rom

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we are standing by at this moment for that live statement from the white house. the president expected to speak about the economy. charlie, we were talking about what the president is expected to say earlier talking with bob schieffer and bill plante and we're told he'll talk about the economy and urging congress to pass legislation that's been there. since this line of messaging was put out by the president about whether or not washington can work together, there's been a lot of talk about whether there's incentive for either side to compromise at this point in an election year. >> this is clearly the president trying to say i've been trying to get things done and republican congress will not do anything. what strikes me is that this presidential race is becoming more intensive so that every gesture, every word by anybody

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." you're looking at the white house where president obama is expected to make a statement shortly on the economy. when he does, we'll bring it to you live. >> first, there is new information on a story that's been making big news out west. on thursday, brian banks, the california man who spent more than five years in prison for a rape that never happened, had his first nfl tryout. it went so well, he's been asked to come back for more. >> randy paige broke the story that led to banks being exonerated. he asked banks what it was like to show an nfl coach what he could do. >> i walked out there on that field and took it all in.

this is it. now or never. let's just shine. >> reporter: shine he did. ten years after his hopes of a career in football were cut short by a false rape accusation, brian banks got the chance to show seattle seahawks coach pete carroll that he still had the right stuff to be considered for the nfl. he's been invited to return to seattle next week to take part in the team's mini camp training session. >> this is great illustration for us of why people deserve a second chance. this is just one step. it's a step he's been dreaming about for a long time. >> it's been a long, hard ten years. >> reporter: ten years ago banks was a rising high school football star. everything unraveled after a fellow student falsely accused him of raping her in this stairwell. advised to plead no contest despite his innocence, banks was imprisoned and paroled as a registered sex offender until banks and a private investigators were able to catch the accuser on tape admitting

she lied about the assault. in two weeks since his exoneration, five nfl teams in addition to the seahawks say they want to give him a tryout including a scheduled session today with the this is a cbs news special report. i'm erica hill in new york. president obama is about to make a statement at the white house talking about the economy. officials say the president will also talk about the european debt crisis, which is affecting conditions in the u.s. bill plante is at the white house. bill, do we know what the president is likely to say? we may not be able to get to bill right now. we are, as mentioned, a it wag the president. he should be arriving at any moment in the briefing room. bob schieffer is in washington,

of course host of "face the nation". any word what we can expect to hear from the president? >> i think the president will make the case that congress needs to take up some of the legislation he's already proposed to give the economy a little mop-up. things like construction bills, legislation of that sort. you know, this is not been a very good week for the president. the economic numbers came out. they were quite dismal. you had the recall election out there in washington. the republican governor out there survived that recall. just not an all-around good week for the president. what he will try to do today is, number one, get correct me if i am wrong to work with him to try to do something to get this economy going again and also to try to change the conversation a bit. i mean, you know, economic come out that unemployment is now ticking up. if that kind of situation

continues, then it's going to be very difficult for the president come october and november. so today he's going to try to, number one, change the conversation. we're told he'll also talk a little bit about the situation in europe and what the economic situation there, the impact it is having in this country. and there may be something else. they're not calling this a news conference. they're just saying the president wants to make a statement and then he might take two or three questions. so i don't know exactly what that means, but that's what they told us. we were told in the beginning he was going to come out about, oh, i guess, about 20 minutes ago and talk to us about all of this. maybe he is, as they say on capitol hill, revising and extending his remarks. because as you can see from the picture he's still not there. >> not there yet. he may have the red pen out. bill plante is there. bill, we want to bring you into the conversation now. as bob mentioned, a lot of this is really about trying to regain

control of the message. >> that's right. this is about talking about things that he's proposed already to congress. he's going to say that these are ideas paid for. by paid for, he means that there are offsets proposed so cuts elsewhere to make up for the money to be spent here, money for construction of roads, bridges, state and local government toss refund the hiring of teachers, firefighters and police. all ideas have been up on capitol hill for some time. this is the president's way of regaining control of the situation, if you will, trying to at least and say, hey, let's do this. and let's do it, he will say, sass a hedge against the economic headwinds out of europe. he's going to acknowledge that the situation in europe is not very good and say if congress will only do these things then that will cushion us in the u.s. a little bit. and we also expect that when he takes questions he'll probably be asked about syria and other world events. >> that's an interesting question, bill. knowing this president, this

white house, if they had something big to say on something like syria, is this the time and playing that the president would choose to say it? >> no, i don't think so. i think this is really about the economy and about what we've been discussing here this morning. the idea that he wants to position himself visa a vie congress to gain the upper hand. if he had something to say about syria, he would do it in a different setting. not to offer any kind of military assistance. >> we've been talking all morning about where the white house sees this race. do you sense there, even though the campaign is based in chicago, that they're getting more concerned and they're more worried than they have been about the challenge of mitt romney? >> charlie, i wouldn't say worried but concern for sure. >> bob? >> i think there is concern.

and i would say probably also some worry. because when you look at what happened -- there's more than just economic numbers came out this week. yesterday the numbers came out on fund-raising. and it turns out that mitt romney, for the first time during the month of may, raised more money for his campaign than barack obama did. and a considerable amount more. he raised $76 million, which was almost as well as he raised during the entire republican primary season. he raised 76 plus million dollars during the month of may. the president raised only $60 million. these are staggering sums. to think that in american politics these are the kind of numbers. it's this much money that it's going to take to run a competitive race for president. but that's the case. so they've got to be a little concerned about that. i mean, all of this will come down to what the economy looks like in october, i think.

but for right now, not the best of weeks for this president. >> as you've said a times the debate will take place between the president and mitt romney takes on increasing importance. >> yes. i don't think there's any question about that. you know, mitt romney very seldom does live interviews on television. you saw him during the republican primary debates. there was a whole host of people out on the stage. we haven't seen him much in a one-on-one setting. i think he's debates in october, and there will be three of them where it's obama and mitt romney at the same table, one on one, i think they could be perhaps as decisive as these debates have ever been. and these debates will move votes. there's no question about that. >> bill, i think just about a minute ago i heard in the background, the second two-minute warning for the president. does it seem like we are actually, in fact, getting closer? >> yeah, i think so. i think you'll see him pop through the door at any moment.

they don't wait until october anymore. they know better than that. the campaign is on full blast right now trying to position voters in his calm to define mitt romney before mitt romney can define him. >> then he should get out there to the podium. >> that's right. >> it's open. it's waiting for him. what's he doing back there? >> that's exactly what i was thinking, bob. what is the president doing in the oval office when he was scheduled to come out 15, 20 minutes ago. >> he's a pretty punctual guy, we know. >> yes. >> he's probably either talking to somebody about something or oblivious to the time. who is going to tell him? hey, he's the boss. >> maybe he's watching bob schieffer and getting a little advice. >> here he comes. >> here he comes. >> here's the president now. >> good morning. i just want to say a few words about the economy and then i will take some of your questions. today we're fighting back from the deepest economic crisis since the great depression.

after losing jobs for 25 months in a row, our businesses have now created jobs for 27 months in a row. 4.3 million new jobs in all. the fact is job growth in this recovery has been stronger than in the one following the last recession a decade ago. but the hole we have to fill is much deeper and the global aftershocks are much greater. that's why we have to keep on pressing with actions that further strengthen the economy. right now one concern is europe, which faces a threat of renewed recession has countries deal with a financial crisis. obviously this matters to us because europe is our largest economic trading partner. if there's less demand for our products in places like paris or madrid, it could mean less businesses -- or less business for manufactures in place like pittsburgh or milwaukee. the good news is there is a path out of this challenge. these decisions are fundamentally in the hands of

europe's leaders. fortunately, they understand the seriousness of the situation and the urgent need to act. i've been in frequent contact with them over the past several weeks, and we know that there's specific steps they can take right now to prevent the situation there from getting worse. in the short-term, they have to stabilize their financial system. part of that is taking clear action as soon as possible to inject capital into weak banks. just as important, leaders can lay out a framework and a vision for a stronger eurozone, including deeper collaboration on budgets and banking policy. getting there is going to take some time, but showing the political commitment to share the benefits and responsibilities of an integrated europe will be a strong step. with respect to greece, which has important elections next weekend, we've said that it is in everybody's interest for greece to remain in the eurozone while respecting its commitments to reform. we recognize the sacrifices that

the great people have made and european leaders understand the need to provide support if the greek people choose to remain in the eurozone. but the people also need to recognize that their hardships will will likely be worse if they choose to exit from the eurozone. as they carry out necessary fiscal reforms, they also have to promote economic growth and job creation. as some countries have discovered, it's a lot harder to reign in deficits and debt if your economy isn't growing. sao so it's a positive thing that the conversation has moved in that direction and leaders like angela merkel and fran soy roux hand are looking to put in place a growth agenda for fiscal plans. the bottom line is the solutions are hard but there are solutions. the decisions required are tough but europe has the capacity to make them.

and they have america's support. their success is good for us and the sooner that they act and the more decisive and concrete their actions the sooner people and markets will regain some confidence and the cheaper the costs of clean jupp will be down the road. in the meantime, given the signs of weakness in the world economy, not just in europe but also some softening in asia, it's critical that we take the actions we can to strengthen the american economy right now. last september i sent congress a detailed jobs plan full of the bipartisan ideas that would put more americans back to work. it had broad support from the american people. it was fully paid for. if congress had passed it in full, we'd be on track to have a million more americans working this year. the unemployment rate would be lower. our economy would be stronger. of course congress refused to

pass this jobs plan in full. they did act on a few parts of the bill. most significantly the payroll tax cut that's putting more money in every working person's paycheck right now. and i appreciate them taking that action. but they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there. and in light of the head winds that we're facing right now, i urge them to reconsider. because there are steps we can take right now to put more people back to work. they're not just my ideas. they're not just democratic ideas. there are ideas that independent, nonpartisan economists believe would make a real difference in our economy. keep in mind that the private sector has been hiring at a solid pace over the last 27 months. but one of the biggest weaknesses has been state and local governments, which have laid off 450,000 americans. these are teachers and cops and firefighters. congress should pass a bill putting them back to work right now.

giving help to the states so those layoffs are not occurring. in addition, since the housing bubble burst, we've gotten more than a million construction workers out of work. there's nothing fiscally responsible about waiting to fix your roof until it caves in. we've got a lot of deferred maintenance in this country. we could be putting a lot of people back to work rebuilding our roads, our bridges, some of our schools. there's work to be done. there are workers to do it. let's put them back to work right now. the housing market is stabilizing and beginning to come back in many parts of the country, but there are still millions of responsible homeowners who have done everything right but still struggle to make ends meet. so, as i talked about just a few weeks ago, let's pass a bill that gives them a chance to save an average of $3,000 a year by refinancing their mortgage and taking advantage of these historically low rates. that's something we can do right now that would make a difference. instead of just talking good game about job creators,

congress should give small business owners that create most of the new jobs in america a tax break for hiring more workers. these are ideas that, again, have gotten strong validation from independent, nonpartisan economists. it would make a difference in our economy. and there's no excuse for not passing these ideas. we know they can work. now, if congress decides despite all of 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. there's going to be plenty of time to debate our respective plans for the future. that's a debate i'm eager to have. but right now people in this town should be focused on doing everything we can to keep our recovery going and keeping our country strong. and that requires some action on the part of congress. so i would urge them to take another look at some of the ideas that have already been put

forward. with that i'm going to take a couple of questions and i'm going to start with karen bowen who is with reuters, but as we all know, is about to go get a fancy job with national journal and we're very proud of her. so congratulations to you, karen. you get the first crack at it. >> thank you very much, mr. president. can you tell what role the united states is playing in the european debt crisis, and also do you think european leaders have a handle on what's needed to stem the crisis? finally, you talked about a number of ideas that you already put forth to shield the american economy. do you plan to give a speech or lay out additional ideas now that the crisis is really escalate something. >> well, a couple of things. first of all, the situation in europe is not simply a debt crisis. you've got some countries like greece that genuinely have spent more than they're bringing in and they've got problems.

there are other countries that actually were running a surplus and had fairly responsible fiscal policies but had weaknesses similar to what happened here with respect to their housing market or their real estate markets, and that has weakened their financial system. so there are a bunch of different issues going on in europe. it's not simply a debt crisis. what is true is that the markets getting nervous started making it much more expensive for them to borrow. and that then gets them on a downward spiral. we have been in constant contact with europe -- european leaders over the last two years. and, you know, we have consulted with them both at the head of government and head of state level. i frequently speak to the leaders not only at formal settings like the g-8 but also

on the telephone or via video conference and our economic teams have gone over there to consult. as i said in my opening remarks, the challenges they face are solvable. right now their focus has to be on strengthening their overall banking system, much in the same way that we did back in 2009 and 2010. making a series of decisive actions that give people confidence that the banking system is solid, the capital requirements are being met, that various stresses that may be out there can be absorbed by the system. and i think that european leaders are in discussions about that and they're moving in the right direction. in addition, they're going to have to look at how do they achieve growth at the same time

as they're carrying out structural reforms that may take two, three, five years to fully accomplish? countries like spain and italy, for example, have embarked on some smart structural reforms that everyone thinks are necessary, everything from tax collection to labor markets, to a whole host of different issues. but they've got to have the time and the space for those steps to succeed. and if they are just cutting and cutting and cutting and their unemployment rate is going up and up and up and people are pulling back further from spending money because they're feeling a lot of pressure, ironically that can actually make it harder for them to carry out some of these reforms over the long term. so i think there's discussion now about in addition to sensible ways to deal with debt and government finances, there's a parallel discussion that's

taking place among european leaders to figure out how do we encourage growth and show flexibility to allow some of these reforms to really take root. now, keep in mind that this obviously can have a potential impact on us because europe is our largest trading partner. the good news is that a lot of the work we did back in 2009 and 2010 have put our financial system on a much more solid footing. our insistence on capital requirements for banks mean they can absorb some of the shocks that might come from across the atlantic. you know, folks in the financial sector had been monitoring this carefully, and i think are prepared for a range of contingencies. but even if we weren't directly hit in the sense that our financial system still stays

solid, if europe goes into a recession, that means we're selling fewer goods, fewer services, and that is going to have some impact on the pace of our recovery. so we want to do everything we can to make sure that we are supportive of what european leaders are talking about. ultimately it is a decision they've got to make in terms of how they move forward, towards more integration, how they move forward in terms of accommodating the needs for both reform and growth. and the most important thing i think we can do is make sure we continue to have a strong, robust recovery. so the steps that i've outlined are the ones that are needed. we've got a couple of sectors in our economy still weak. overall, the private sector has been doing a good job creating jobs. we've seen record profits in the

corporate sector. the big challenge we have in our economy right now is state and local government hiring has been going in the wrong direction. you have seen teacher layoffs, police officers, cops, firefighters being laid off. and the other sector that is still weak has been the construction industry. those two areas we've directly addressed with our jobs plan. the problem is that it requires congress to take action, and we're going to keep pushing them to see if they can move in that direction. okay. jackie combs? where did jackie go? there she is. >> thank you, mr. president. i would like to ask you about what a couple other people have said about europe. i would like to know if you agree with former president bill clinton who said in the past week that the european policies that you described here today are much like those of the republicans in this country,

austerity that would take us in the same direction as europe? do you agree with that? the republicans, for their part, have said you're simply blaming the europeans for problems that have been caused by your own policies. so i would like you to respond to both of those. and also tell us precisely how much time you personally spend on the european situation. >> any other aspects to the question? >> i do have more questions. >> first of all, in terms of the amount of time i spend, look, i think it's fair to say that over the last two years i'm in consistent discussions with european leadership and consistent discussions with my economic team. this is one of the things that's changed in the world economy over the last two or three decades is that this is a global

economy now. and what happens anywhere in the world can have an impact here in the united states. certainly that's true after the kind of trauma we saw in 2008 and 2009. and, you know, if you think about the situation in europe, they're going through a lot of things that we went through back in 2009-2010 where we took some very decisive action. the challenge they have is they have 17 governments that have to coordinate. 27 if you count the entire european union, not just the eurozone. imagine dealing with 17 congresses instead of just one. that makes things more challenging. but what we try to do is to be constructive, to not frame this as us scolding them or telling them what to do but to give them advice in part based on our

experiences here and having stabilized a financial situation effectively. you know, ultimately, though, they're going to have to make a lot of these decisions. and so what we can do is to prod, advise, suggest. but ultimately they're going to have to make these decisions. in terms of characterizing the situation over there, what is absolutely true, this is true in europe and it's true here in the united states, is that we've got short-term problems and long-term problems. and the short-term problems are how do we put people back to work, how do we make the economy grow as rapidly as possible, how do we ensure that the recovery

gains momentum? because if we do those things, not only is it good for the people who find work, not only is it good for families who are able to pay the bills, but it actually is one of the most important things we can do to reduce deficits and debt. it's a lot easier to deal with deficits and debt if you're growing, because you're bringing in more revenue and you're not spending as much because people don't need unemployment insurance as much. they don't need other programs that are providing support to people in need because things are going pretty good. that's true here in the united states and that's true in europe. so the problem i think president clinton identified is that if when an economy is still weak and a recovery is still fragile

that you resort to a strategy of let's cutmore so that you're saying government layoffs, reductions in government spending, severe cutbacks in major investments that help the economy grow over the long term, if you're doing all those things at the same time consumers are pulling back, because they're still trying to pay off credit card debt, and there's generally weak demand in the economy as a whole, then you can get on a downward spiral where everybody is pulling back at the same time, that weakens demand and that further crimps the desire of companies to hire more people. and that's the pattern that europe is in danger of getting into. you know, some countries in europe right now have an unemployment rate of 15%, 20%.

if you are engaging in too much austerity too quickly and that unemployment rate goes up to 20 or 25%, then that actually makes it harder to then pay off your debts. and the markets, by the way, respond in -- you know, when they see this kind of downward spiral happening, they start mawing a calculation, well, if you're not growing at all, if you're contracting, you may end up having more trouble paying us off so we're going to charge you even more. your interest rates will go up. and it makes it that much tougher. so i think that what we want both for ourselves but what we've advised in europe as well is a strategy that says let's do everything we can to grow now even as we lock in a long-term plan to stabilize our debt and our deficits and start bringing

them down in a steady sensible way. and by the way, that's what we proposed last year. that's what's proposed in my budget. what i've said is let's make long-term spending cuts, let's initiate long-term reforms, let's reduce our health care spending, let's make sure that we've got a pathway, a glide path to fiscal responsibility. but at the same time let's not under invest in the things that we need to do right now to grow. and that recipe of short-term investments in growth and in jobs be a long-term path of fiscal responsibility is the right approach to take for i think not only the united states but also for europe. okay.

>> -- saying you're blaming the europeans for the failure of your own policies? >> the truth of the matter is, as i've said, we created 4.3 million jobs over the past 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone. the private sector is doing fine. where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government. oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don't have the same kind of flexibility as the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in. and so, you know, if republicans

want to be helpful, if they really want to move forward and put people back to work, what they should be thinking about is how do we help state and local governments and how do we help the construction industry? because the recipes that they're promoting are basically the kinds of policies that would add weakness to the economy. would result in further layoffs, would not provide relief in the housing market. and would result i think most economists estimate in slower growth and fewer jobs not more. all right. dave jackson. >> thank you, sir. a couple of books out especially details about national security issues, reports of terrorists that you supervised their reports of cyber tax on the iranian nuclear programs you

ordered. first of all, what's your reaction about this getting out in public and second, your team of leaking these details in order to promote your reelection bid? >> well, first of all, i'm not going to comment on the details of what are supposed to be classified items. second, as commander in chief, the issues that you've mentioned touch on our national security, touch on critical issues of war and peace and they're classified for a reason. because they're sensitive. and because the people involved may in some case be in danger if

they're carrying out some of these missions. and when this information or reports, whether true or false, surface on the front page of newspapers, that makes the job of folks on the front lines tougher and it makes my job tougher. which is why, since i've been in office, my attitude has been zero tolerance for these kinds of leaks and speculation. now, we had mechanisms in place where if we can root out folks who have leaked they will suffer consequences. in some case it's criminal. these are criminal acts when they release information like this.

and we will conduct thorough investigations as we have in the past. the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. it's wrong. and -- you know, people i think need to have the better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. we're dealing with issues that can touch on the safety and security of the american people, our families. or our military personnel or our allies. and so we don't play with that.

and it is a source of consistent frustration, not just for my administration but previous administrations when this stuff happens. and we will continue to let everybody know in government or after they leave government that they have certainly obligations that they should carry out. but as i think has been indicated from these articles, whether or not the information they received is true, the writers of these articles have allstat stated unequivocally th have not come from the white house. what i'm saying is we consistently, whenever there is classified information that is put out into the public we try to find out where that came

from. all right. okay. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> -- wisconsin? >> and that was president obama there speaking to reporters at the white house. we will have more on this story throughout the day on your local cbs stations on cbsnews.com and tonight on the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. this has been a cbs news special report. i'm erica hill in new york. acceptance of sort of the gay community as legitimate people within our society is slow-moving, yes, but i think the slow s >> think slow steps are necessary. as i think you guys know, if you make a big broad changes, people then want to rechange it in another direction. i'm very proud of what the president has done. a lot of people i think feel like he's moving too slow but i think he's always been a friend

and he's made some amazing moves that are very sincere and respectable and appreciated. >> the other day there you and the president were on the same stage together. you opened for him. >> that was fun. >> i thought so too. >> great to have you here. >> thank you so much. thanks for having me. >> we'll cheer you on on sunday. >>

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floating museum in los angeles. john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and gayle. the iowa makes a big impression and made an impression on two young sailors that served aboard had in the 1980s.

their story is part of the history of the grand battleship. it was built for service in the second world war and during the cold war was fitted with missiles. almost 900 feet long and rises 175 feet over the water. "the uss iowa" remains an emblem of power. the age of the battleship is long past but you would never know it with all of the work going on on the "iowa" today. the old ship is being given new life and no one is working harder to make her ship shape than mike and david. >> my first love. she's a ship. you know. she's old and beautiful and cranky and hard to please. i love her any way. >> reporter: it's a love story with some heartbreak and a lot of healing. >> it's like having waves wash over you. emotion and memory and the comradery that is hard to put into words.

>> reporter: david was 17 when he joined the navy. his first job, 27 years ago, was on the "iowa" seven decks down well below the water line. >> engineering space. >> reporter: you can't even stand up in here. >> it was tight quarters. >> reporter: mike was his boss and his mentor. >> he asked me every question to the point where he bugged me. leave me alone. he just wanted to know. wanted to know. he became the best lower level watch i had. >> reporter: the work was demanding. for these friends, the battleship was a young man's playground and it seemed the same today. just try to keep up as they race down the steep staircases. i cannot -- somehow they can still throw themselves into their old bunks. >> there you have it. >> gunpowder around us. weapons around us. we were fearless. if you gave me this job today, you're crazy. this place is dangerous. >> reporter: for all of the days of youthful adventure that david and michael had aboard the

"iowa" there was one day of horror that changed their lives forever. >> what day did you become a man? i can tell you chapter verse, date and minute. 9:55 a.m. april 19th, 1989. that's the day i stopped being a kid. >> reporter: on that day an explosion ripped through. >> i was sitting on the cleaning bench swinging my feet without a care in the world. all hell broke loose. >> dressed out in my fire suit. went forward and went in and helped put the fire out and we put them in bags. it was awful. we saved the ship. >> reporter: the "iowa" was saved but 47 of her crew were killed. what david and mike witnessed that day was so terrible that for years they were unable to speak about it. and then david volunteered to help with the ship's restoration. when he returned for the first time, he found a wreath with a

plaque. the tear s slid down my face. i read each name and said a silent prayer for my shipmate and their family. >> i think so myself, it's been 23 years. you know, you really ought to have a handle on this by now. but there's a part of me that says i hope i never do. i hope i never have such a handle on it that it doesn't hurt. >> reporter: for mike the horror was such an aching silent wound he was discharged for post-traumatic stress disorder. so david urged mike to join the restoration crew hoping it would help him heal. >> i'll have my good days and bad days just like anybody else. >> reporter: he admits returning to the ship is the best thing that happened in years. >> is it an act of fate? i don't know. did he have his finger on it? i think so. >> reporter: they helped save

the "iowa" and now they is saving them. she proudly show her off. >> a wonderful feel to it. >> mice mechanics to it. >> reporter: they even venture into the captain's cabin. under normal circumstances wouldn't walk in here. >> usually a marine outside the door. >> reporter: they hope thousands of others will come see it all when the iowa opens as a museum in los angeles next month. >> we want people to come out here. we saved the ship. it's a happy time. >> reporter: mike will never forget that one tragic day on this battleship, he also remembers the many good days in the glorious history of the "uss iowa." while tens of thousands of sailors served aboard the iowa, david and mike are the only two veterans of the ship that came back to help on the restoration. perhaps it was meant to be. early on in the restoration another worker found an old set

of dog tags at the back of a locker. they belonged to dave. he lost them aboard the ship almost 25 years ago. >> a great story. i am never ceased to be amazed at the testimony of people who have gone through trauma. i'm also amazed at how long it took to get this ship to los angeles. what's the story? >> reporter: well, certainly the decision -- when the decision was made she was decommissioned on the east coast and had to be towed through the panama canal up the west coast and she was stored in what's called a moth ball fleet in san francisco bay for years. finally private group made the arrangements to have her restore as a museum and brought down here to los angeles and that meant restoration in san francisco bay and then again a long trip being towed down down the west coast out of san francisco bay and down the west coast to here now and then she'll go to her permanent

location where she will be opened as a museum here. >> it's a great story. >> i see why you were so passionate about those two. what an amazing tale you just told. two of them and their friendship. go ahead. >> reporter: they are indeed. and as charlie was saying, one of the messages of this story is that even in peace time, work in the military and any branch of the military is a dangerous business. >> john blackstone, thank you so much. >> nicely done. >> from sliced beef brisket to bono. looking for america's best sandwich. we'll see why

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taking four days to prepare in multiple elements and beautiful simplicity of home cooked quality here at time-out. because of balance and element of elements in it, i'll give it a slight advantage. that said, i'm totally finishing this sandwich. >> adam richman is a food fanatic on a mission to find the best sandwich in america happens to be the name of his new program on the travel channel. >> he'll travel all over from jumpen jay's fish cafe to famous katz deli here in new york city. >> thank you for having me. >> you are my type of guy. you get to travel around and taste wonderful food. you have a formula. it's the bite theory. b stands for? >> bread. >> i is interior.

t is taste and e is eating experience. it's the best sandwich in america simply put this is my personal preferences and this is what makes a sandwich that i love. we figure that the bite scale would be a catchall. bread, is it crunchy and chewy or complement that inside the region. interior, balance of condiments, protein to vegetables and again balance and textures. taste is the whole sandwich. and eating experience is everything from decor and people who serve it and brass tax, does it fall apart or get soggy, is there a place to sit if it is a fall apart sandwich. it has ramifications on your enjoyment of it. >> you getting too everywhere. chapel hill. portland, oregon. >> that's correct. i got a chance to be in

maryland, north carolina for chicken cheddar biscuit which you just saw. >> one of the best is portland, oregon. i like this name. big ass sandwiches. i want to go there just because. or in st. louis, heart stopping blt. >> it's definitely one that my cardiologist perked up about. you ate something called heart stopping blt. >> do you know whether it is good at first bite? >> yes. of the 30 sandwiches on the show, i picked 20. three sandwiches per region. we wanted to play with march madness conference model. ten regions. three sandwiches per region. two are my picks from my travels and one is a brand new sandwiched picked by a celebrity. in south we had a musician of nashville. and then from sports world curtis granderson, we mixed it

up. >> how do you this job and keep your weight in check. i was raised in a house where you clean your plate. >> there were older relatives that thought there was a coralition between food finished in brooklyn had something to do with hunger in china. i don't get that. you know, the thing is as a single child i found that women like a guy who can see his feet. i'll continue to go with that one. >> you are actually right about that. you don't eat the whole sandwich. when charlie said first bite, do you take a couple bites and you're done? >> it depends on the sandwich quite frankly. some i know i'll come back to or if i know that it's sort of been a sandwich with decadent eating. like in tampa, florida, there's a restaurant called burns steakhouse which is not so much a restaurant as it is a true dining -- largest wine cellar in

the world. i knew if i would go to burns, i would take my crew out to say thank you for your hard work periodically, i knew burns and burns dessert room was in the horizon, i was only having a few bites but in chicago at old italian beef, i took a hold one. >> do other countries appreciate sandwiches as much as we do? >> quite a bit. every culture has a sandwich. i know that you lived in turkey with the yogurt. also what i loved about it is sandwich defines even social groups. the richest to poorest person can appreciate the value of a sandwich. >> they say anybody can make a sandwich. >> that's true. >> think there's a lot of ways to make a bad sandwich. i was impressed you got your masters at yale in fine arts. how do you go from yale fine arts to doing what you do?

>> i'm sure many guidance counselors ask that same question. >> it's a serious job for you. >> your parents are asking it. >> mom got sticker for the windshield and yale mom mug. >> let's bring out the sandwiches. >> i love this show. new favorite morning show. that's tremendous. one of the biggest -- i don't want to say failings because i'm an executive producer. >> it has carrots on it. >> is that a drawback. >> this is a vietnamese sandwich. it's from brooklyn. it's my favorite. i so wish i could have gotten -- i don't know the translation. i wouldn't want to hazard a guess. it's rice flour baggett, some ham. my gosh. i'm going to wait until i'm done speaking. and then i'm going to. >> what happened to fine arts part of your life?

>> you know, i wanted to form the other. i think all of the camera breath support and things i learned at yale really do have ramifications in hosting and understanding the structure of a half hour show and doing 11 to 12 pages of voiceover. i still miss walking boards and watching that standby segment earlier struck a cord. ironically enough it was doing regional theater around the united states. i started a food journal when i was at emery university in '95. >> thank you, adam richman. you can see best sandwich in america on wednesdays on the travel channel. we'll be,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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among them, talk about climbing mt. mckinley, america's highest peak. that journey begins right after they stop by studio 57. that's tomorrow on "cbs this morning: saturday." >> the human spirit, that does it for us as we look back at the past week. we show you the names of the people who brought you this broadcast. have a great weekend. >> take it easy. >> voters really do want leaders who stand up and make the tough decisions. >> the white house will be talking. >> romney immediately issued a statement last night. people are rejecting liberal ideas and are ready for change. >> created jobs for 27 straight months. >> 4.3 million private sector jobs. >> the country's still not back to where it needs to be. >> the dow jones gaining 287 points. >> there's now a new-found hope that took hold of the markets. >> i'm not going to do it and i'm not going to be asked. it's not going to happen. that doesn't mean i don't have a voice. >> this is a big loss for al qaeda. >> american lives in danger of revealing our most highly classified operations. this is not something where someone from the white house --

>> drop by and we'll tell you about our program. that doesn't happen. >> and getting to the kind of story that david sanger just talked about, takes time. >> not really a group, more like a community or a movement. >> it's anonymous, not unanimous. >> right, exactly, exactly. >> i hope so. she has never said that, but i think so. ♪ >> erica hill is in london. >> you see people lining the streets for union jack in full effect there. >> later this afternoon, there are going to be 12,000 people here. >> i think she is hugely admired. obviously, here in the united kingdom. >> treated to the queen's diamond jubilee picnic. >> we've got coats, we've got food. >> the idea of a constitutional monarchy -- >> we've got scottish salmon, jubilee chicken, straw ber crumble crunch. >> we managed to get performers from all over. >> very british, even down to the weather. >> a dluction waterproof poncho.

>> we just carry on. >> elton john, stevie wonder, tom jones, they'll all be there. and so will i. ♪ >> what a show. some of britain's biggest musical names performed. the crowd stretched all the way down to the end of mile. >> when you have a bladder infection, it makes global news. >> go either, can't bear the thought of being in bed. >> the events that i have attended to mark my diamond jubilee have been a humbling experience. >> look what north carolia sent you. troy said, i got to send this to our man charlie. you've got your own -- >> thank you, troy. >> all that -- >> have you lost some weight? >> i just did it by not eating as much crap. >> survey says! >> and raising four daughters. >> and all that matters. >> this is what we brought back from london. guess who brought it back for me? there you go. ,,,,,,,,

>> to morning. a crime in sacker, san francisco will not stop a wfp t. someone stole the specially designed bike from the apartment building where the man was staying. the pair olympics athlete is exploring other options now including borrowing a wheelchair in cases bike is not found. the alameda county prosecutors have decided not to file charges against seven people who were arrested during and occupy the farm protest in albany. they were arrested last month outside the 10 a. plot of land that was the focus of the protest. two others were arrested on the property owned by uc-berkeley and they could still face trespassing charges. especially towards the coast.

getting windy at times this afternoon so watch out for that. the temperatures will be just a tad cooler than yesterday. the weekend is looking fantastic. the wind begins to turn off shore, calming down a little bit and we will likely see some '80s by saturday in the warm spots. getting off on sunday but sunshine all the way to the coastline.

>> good morning. not a bad ride out there. a few brake lights northbound on the golden gate bridge. so far so good southbound 101 in two san francisco. here is a live look at the bay bridge on the upper deck. not too much of it back up at the bay bridge toll plaza. 800 80/237 also looking very light. hopefully they will have work wrapped up by noon today, not

affecting the main lines of 101. affecting the main lines of 101. have a great day ,,,,,,