>> axelrod: tonight the mounting death toll in syria. more civilians are reported killed as the spreading conflict closes in on damascus. elizabeth palmer is there. treacherous tunnel. john bentley takes us through the dangerous passageway that's a lifeline for nato forces in afghanistan. keeping your eye on the road and not the dashboard. mark strassmann on new federal guidelines targeting distracted drivers. and lasting image, 40 years after this vietnam war photo shocked the world, the photographer and his subject meet again. tony guida has the story. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. the fighting in syria is widening tonight and claiming still more civilian lives. more than 50 today alone according to one activist group. more than a dozen people are reported dead in the southern city of deraa, and today there was combat, as well new york damascus itself. elizabeth palmer is there. >> reporter: united nations observers arrived in syria supposedly to monitor a ceasefi

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening, i'm jim axelrod. we begin tonight in oslo, norway, and a remarkable nobel peace prize ceremony for burma's uung san suu kyi, a ceremony delayed 21 years as the military dictatorship kept its human rights campaigner under arrest. she'd won the prize in 1991, but chose not to go to oslo to bcept, fearing she would not be allowed to return to one of asia's most isolated and impoverished nations. nd nrway today, she sat down with scott pelley. >> pelley: aung san suu kyi spent most of the last 25 years ry prison or confined by the military to her home. she is the reveered leader of eeat has been a brutally repressed democracy movement in d dea. in '91 she was in her second year of house arrest when the nobel prize brought world attention to a lonely struggle. were there times when you thought of giving it up, thought iv leaving burma? > no, never. >> pelley: never. >> never. er.re were times, of course, when i felt rather tired physically, but never did i ever think that i would leave burma. >> pelley: s

>> axelrod: tonight it, at last. aung san suu kyi of burma is finally honored at a ceremony in norway. scott pelley talks to the nobel peace prize winner about her long years of struggle for democracy. >> pelley: were there times when you thought of giving it up, thought of leaving burma? >> no, never. >> pelley: never. >> never. >> axelrod: under increasing fire, u.n. observers suspend their mission in syria. >> go get them, governor. >> axelrod: day two of the mitt romney road trip through six crucial swing states. bob schieffer tells us about his interview with the candidate. and silver star, david martin has the final chapter of the complicated story of cold war spy plane pilot francis gary powers. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening, i'm jim axelrod. we begin tonight in oslo, norway, and a remarkable nobel peace prize ceremony for burma's aung san suu kyi, a ceremony delayed 21 years as the military dictatorship kept its human rights campaigner under arrest. she's

axelrod about messaging related to fast and furious? >> about messaging with regard to fast and furious? >> comments that were made, how you were going to message it? >> we certainly talked about the way in which we could deal with the interaction between the justice department and congress about ways in which we would -- >> but nothing about press messaging at all? >> well, i mean in terms of trying to get a message out that was consistent with the facts and make sure that it was done in an appropriate way, i've had conversations like that with people in the white house council. >> just two other quick questions. i know that you filed actions against arizona, south carolina, utah and alabama all republican governors. my time is out. would you give us a list of any similar actions of the similar profile you filed against any democratic governor -- states with democratic governors and also the final thing is, if you'll let us know if you had any relationship or meetings with the white house and members of the campaign about any of the me

>> first of all, i know david axelrod, i like david axelrod.t us a new president four years ago and will give us a new president next time. let's just keep that. but the president has failed. the president talked about an 8% unemployment rate. we thought it was a ceiling, it's turned out to be a floor. the unemployment rate is going up, factory orders are going down. the president is still the president. he's not the candidate. he can pose the extension of the bush tax cuts. he could propose part or all of bowles-simpson. he could do something instead of sitting there criticizing bush. there is no obama plan to make this better. >> let me just go, tad, this is interesting. to some extent, vin took the words right out of my head. why doesn't the president have a response to these lousy unemployment numbers, 1.9% gdp? analytically we're on the front edge of a recession. that's just an objective fact. any little thing goes wrong, we can go into recession. it's salvageable. why doesn't the president say he will, for the second time, extend the bush

the president's top campaign stratejist, david axelrod. romney's runner-up, rick santorum and another powerhouse roundtable. >>> hello again. as you just heard a rough week for the president's re-election campaign. let's get right to his top campaign strategist. david axelrod. let's start with that press conference on friday. the president making that statement saying that the private sector is doing fine. you saw how fast mitt romney pounced. this morning the campaign is out with a new video to drive that point home. take a look. >> we have seen layoffs, cutbacks. >> i'm making $200 a month. >> i have been looking for a job for two years. haven't found any. >> i have had to file my own personal bankruptcy. >> no, mr. president, we're not "doing fine." how big of a mistake did the president make and is it going to stick? >> look, george, i think the american people are smarter than that. they understand. the president called the press conference to say, because of the storm clouds that are rolling in from europe and elsewhere, we need to u

this is david axelrod. he is trying to give a press conference about the obama campaign's new focus on mitt romney's tenure as governor of massachusetts in the early 2000 seats. he criticized the obama campaign for focusing on his time at bane capital. and so the obama campaign is saying, fine. we won't talk about bane capital. let's talk about what you were like as a governor? i know that's what the obama campaign is trying to do now. i saw the ad that the obama folks put out today. i saw the written press materials saying this was their obama campaign message today. but anybody who just went to hear david axelrod talk about it in boston today instead did not hear any of that. instead, what they heard was this. >> where are the jobs? where are the jobs? where are the jobs? >> you can't handle the truth, my friends. that's the problem. you can handle the truth, then quiet down. >> that was not an organic grassroots spontaneous pro romney crowd there yelling at david axelrod. they were blowing bubbles. they

is donald trump a better surrogate than david axelrod? so. >> i would take him over the money i would take from bill mauer. but here's the question. it seems everything, the war on women backfired , the dog backfired, and now they are yelling where are the jobs. >> well, what they keep doing, sean, we talked about this last week and the week before. they are called rabbits. see if the media chases the rabbit and takes your mind off the bad stuff, the jobs, the economy. these rabbits keep turning around and running back to the white house. the more you talk about jobs, whether it's massachusetts or california, you still electric to go back to what's going on in america in jobs. 500,000 fewer jobs today than the day that president obama took the oath. tomorrow morning we are probably going to have an 8.1 or 8.2 unemployment rate released with 150,000 jobs created. >> and how many people have left the workplace? >> absolutely the most important, two numbers you look for tomorrow. the amount of people that left the workforce and what that doe

we want to get your reaction to some of the things that david axelrod said. but, first, you're out there to campaign for republican governor scott walker. who faces a recall election this week. i just wanted to get your sense of how you think it's going. >> well, i think it's going pretty well, bob. but, you know, here in wisconsin, we know as republicans we've got to keep our foot on the pedal, see this thing through the end and, you know, the difference between scott walker and the president is pretty stark. you know, you mentioned it earlier, but scott walker is talking about his record. he's talking about the fact that his reforms are working, that people are getting back to work, that businesses are coming in. un, people's property taxes have gone down. and, you know, you can't keep operating a government that spends more money than it takes in. so scott walk 0 one of these special people that have made promises and kept promises. you contrast that to david axelrod's boss, he's a president who is in love with the sound of his own voice but hasn't been ab

axelrod over the weekend, axelrod over the weekend said the phrase, the comment taken out of context. that is something that obama already walked back the comment. >> greg: clarification of the clarification. the animosity toward the private sec store palpable. to obama in the weird way, private sector is like an uncool parent who has to fund your failures. has to go back to defend on them to depend on the public failing. >> kimberly: i think having axelrod go out, who isn't the most likable or articulate individual to defend you. guess what? no one else is left standing. clinton, corey booker. buler? buler? nobody left. axelrod goes out and he doesn't do a good job of it. they are alienating facts. >> bob: if we could make a point of relationship to the public at large. the sunday talk shows are -- nobody watches them outside of boston. >> kimberly: we watch them. >> bob: in new york. people in the average america doesn't follow those things. having said that, dana said the public sector is doing better than the private secto sector. in the last 27 months 4.5 million jobs created in

david axelrod and i are good friends. he's a close friend of mine. we have a great relationship. he's a person i respect a great deal. we work together on the campaign while he was at the white house. but he's never done anything that i would consider inappropriate. >> but then what you're saying is, you have had contact with mr. axelrod, campaign strategists, about how you should handle different attacks coming to you as attorney general, correct? >> yeah, there's a political dimension to the job that i have as attorney general. the reality is that i don't sit up in an ivory tower and just -- >> you can see all of this in our overnight programming of c-span 2 and on c-span.org. >>> president obama is at the university of nevada in las vegas, where he'll deliver remarks on improving college affordability. the president is urging congress to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling from 3.4% to 6.8%. ♪ >>> hello, las vegas! well, how is it going, rebels! >> four more years four more years! >> thank you! >> four more years! >> thank you so much. if you've got a chair, go a

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eric, play axelrod. >> eric: that is a tough one. think that -- i think that would be mushed in with the supreme court strikes down the whole law. at that point, you have to, as axelrod, you would have to, the bottom of the ninth, two outs you need a home run. swing for the fence. you have to be liberal. the next thing i'd say is in order to save the economy because you did this, supreme court, and righties, stimulus three would have to be announced the next day. >> kimberly: the last one won't work. >> juan: it could work. >> kimberly: that is a whole new law. you can't piecemeal it like that. >> juan: the medicare and medicaid part would be left in place. right now, part of the good part of the law. >> kimberly: but that is not -- >> dana: the governors don't like it. >> juan: if you are a senior, this is help with closing the doughnut hole. now, here is one that will excite the table. greg gutfeld? >> greg: this will be amazing. talk radio. it will be doing it every single day. but it also -- >> dana: "fast and furious" will move

axelrod looks like he is on pills. he's very calm. doing this stuff. >> he is like frenetic. he is not the candidate. he is supposed to be -- >> that is a great point. where is he? >> where are the surrogates? >> sean: the question i want the media does obama agree with that attack? a rising star. everybody i know wants rubio. >> that's why they have done it. conservatives behind rubio. >> sean: you want rubio? >> i love him. he immediately disarms the left and elitist on the left, smart intelligent guy with sound solutions. he has been a conservative here. a great choice. they know that. that is why they go in for the kill. >> sean: did you hear it's terribly unfail for the president on the failing economy? according to liberal krugman? unfair to judge the president on his record. >> that is amazing to me. this president, if he had done everything he wanted to do we wouldn't recognize ourselves now. he has done obamacare and dodd-frank. all these things. people in my district, fedex or joe creating something in the garage. they're ju

it appears axelrod was wrong. he tried to put a political person and holder was right? >> yeah.ut from axelrod's point of view, he was not trying to influence the justice department's policy. >> he can have any point of view you are like. if you are trying to coordinate a message with the justice department, you are putting politics in the justice department which they did over and over. i don't just get that because i get it from your book. i mean holder comes on you in the beginning and actually appears to be a progressive. by the end he is saying due process is not judicial process like more nixon than nixon so something happened to irek holder and they beat him up throughout your book. don't do that. don't do that. >> first of all, let me just say in defense ofaxelrod i did not come up with any reporting to suggest axelrod was trying to influence policy improperly influence policy at the justice department. he did know where that line was. i think he was pretty careful about it. now, you are right that on some major decisions that the attorney general tried to make and these

romney's tenure as massachusetts governor, but they let people know in advance that david axelrod was going to be at the specific press conference today. and the romney campaign -- they knew this was coming. they knew this was going to happen. the romney campaign cooked up two strategies for trying to distract what the obama folks were doing today. the first strategy was literally just to drown out david axelrod so people could not hear him speak. it's a mini brooks brothers riot on the steps of the massachusetts state capitol. the romney campaign had a second strategy, distract from what the obama campaign is doing today, to not really respond but to change the narrative. their other strategy today besides trying to drown out david axelrod is they sent their own candidate to do a simultaneous stunt on west coast. so while the george w. bush portrait veiling thing was going on and while the nation's news rooms were riveted to the prospect of this john edwards verdict that nobody understood, and what the david axelrod thing was being drowned out by romney campaign aides and staffers, i

reports from anthony mason, mark phillips and jim axelrod. george zimmerman is going to jail. mark strassmann on why the judge revoked bond for the man who killed trayvon martin. wyatt andrews on america's nuns rejecting a vatican scolding. and steve hartman with the educational "on the road." >> every teacher should try a day with a blindfold and really learn how to talk to your students. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we were already having the slowest economic recovery ever, but the news we got today confirms that even that weak recovery is slowing down. today's unemployment report sent numbers and spirits slumping on wall street. we'll get to that in just a moment. but first: the jobs numbers. the labor department says unemployment rose a tenth of a point last month to 8.2%-- the first increase in nearly a year. only 69,000 new jobs were created. have a look at this. starting last fall and for seven straight months, the economy was cranking out jobs in the hundreds of thousands, but that slowed to just

axelrod as well. you know, if anything, the attorney general's office ought to be above politics. >> let's talk about the meeting and sometimes just interactions with axelrod between the attorney general axelrod. it is described in a book that we were talking to the author the other day, don't ever accuse me of trying to interfere with the operations of the justice department, axelrod warned holder, after confronting him in the hallway, he writes. i'm not karl rove. the two men stood chest to chest. it was like a schoolyard fight. white house staffers caught in the cross fire averted their eyes. at issue there is allegedly in that scuffle that axelrod was said to have tried to influence hiring at the doj. what did you think of the testimony on that front involving that particular interaction? >> the attorney general said that mr. axelrod had not tried to influence hiring and so we have to take him at his word on that. i think what concerned most of us is when the attorney general acknowledged that he

. >> bill: will axelrod settle on it axelrod in his mind for some reason, maybe he will come on and explain it to me tomorrow thinks that all the ads they have put together are positive. maybe he thinks it's positive it say romney is a greed head to screwed up the economy by being in bain because, i don't know. i just don't know. >> well, look, it does come down to a question whether a president who was sort of set a tone of uplift during his 2008 campaign has anything to lose by going sharply negative for a signature didn't part -- significant part of this campaign. >> bill: i don't think he does. but i wouldn't be telling guys like bob schieffer that all the ads we run are positive. >> bill, let the record show that you pointed out what you believe to be a clear inconsistencies between the facts and what david axelrod said. >> depends >> and my thought about that would be that romney will undoubtedly run a lot of ads that add up to saying that answered will say it a lot himself and so will his surrogates on the campaign trail. i think romney has -- look, i think obama a record that is suc

but ooama campaign senior sttategist david axelrod says mitt romnee is living on another planet if henks hat will strengthen the economy. &paxelrod says: "his ssatemmnt was we don'tt eed any more teachers, we don't need any pmre firefighters or police. the president is out of touch. out of touch? e have lost 27 -- couple of years. every commmnity in the coontry is feeling it. "and while wisconsin's governorrthhnks romney is árighhá, one former governor does not. walker reforms.rennell says: "ask ny residenn of any city in and they'rr endangering safety 3 on thh streetsdoocy says: "in an e-maillbllsttabout pxelrod's appearance his morning, romney spokesman axelrod struggled and added strategist cant defend your your assessment of the economy peter doocy, fox news. " makeeroom pple... google and amazonn another major app store.layer... now has an store.the facebookkapp centtr gives users a one-stop shop for "draw ssmething", "instagram", "pinttrest" and hundreds of other apps that run on tte social-media mega--ite.the storeealready for the first time, facebook will beeoffering paid apps

wisconsin is that it's time to cut back on government, but obama campaign senior strategist david axelrod said mitt romney is living on another planet if he thinks that will strengthen the economy. >> his statement was we don't need any more teachers. we don't need any more firefighters or police. the president is out of touch. out of touch? we've lost 250,000 teachers in the last couple of years. every community in the country is feeling it. >> reporter: while wisconsin's governor thinks romney is right, one former governor does not. >> governor romney has a shot if the r in his name doesn't just stand for republican and stands for reform. >> ask any city in america if they have enough police. they're cutting police and endangering safety on the streets. >> reporter: in an e-mail blast about axelrod's appearance this williams, romney spokesman said when your own chief strategist can't defend your comments, it indicates your assessment of the economy might be wrong. peter doocy, fox news. >>> egypt's ousted former leader hosni mubarak said to be in stable condition tonight, this just eigh

mitt romney stopping by sew linda and david axelrod, what is he doing in massachusetts? is he the candidate? one crowd gets out of control. i'll explain. >> disgraced democrat john edwards is a free man this morning. after the judge declared a mistrial, he makes hints of a comeback? >> i don't think god is through with me. i really believe he thinks there's still some good things i can do. >> ok. if you say so. more from the courthouse and what the justice department plans to do next with that guy who god is not done with. >> and wisconsin unions came out strong against governor walker to force a recall election. so why are members fleeing the union in droves? we crunch the numbers and why would the president show up to help? "fox & friends" starts now! > >> here's the music. nobody is on stage. she's going to be there. you're listening to the incredible music of jana kramer, she's kicking off that launch of a live performance here on "fox & friends" of our all american summer concert series rolls on or gets going. >> this is week two. we're getting used to it. we're out