gun lobby president obama seemed to reject calls for any new gun controls his press secretary jay carney carney told reporters on sunday the president is focused on doing the things that we can do that protect second amendment rights which he thinks is important but also to make it harder for it of vigils who should not under existing law have weapons to obtain them the key words there are under existing law meaning no new laws regarding gun control democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney a champion for gun control in recent years offered this sobering assessment on the chances of any sensible gun control legislation coming out of this latest tragedy saying this. i always look at it this way no one from the n.r.a. is ever going to vote for me and they're just not they might even come after me on other issues but the thing of it is as a politician a lot of politicians know it's the right thing to try to fight for something to save lives they don't have a spine anymore they pander to who's giving them money and the n.r.a. has a lot of money so what is our in a nation do in the wake of this lates

. >> jay carney answered questions from our own ed henry about the investigation into leaks that many republicans, some democrats, believe are coming up from the white house. jay carneyhing back on a romney campaign advisor pointing to tom done donnelly. by wednesday, gates, defense secretary robert gates, went to see done lynn. iii have a >> thatwhat about all this and e it's headed? >>> marry mary katherine, welcome back. >> here we have a situation where it's clear it's coming from the white house. >> the cyber attack on iran. >> the story about the jihad kill list. there are dozens and dozens of high level officials. some say that were you be inside the situation room at the time. it's i am plausible to say these are not coming from the white house. the shift in the white house has gone from absolutely not, this is an insult, to which cases are you talking about? >> charles, it was interesting to listen to jay carney, he said it would be preposterous to suggest they would leak it for political gain, then he said classified information. >> the president has the power to unilaterally make anything nonclassified if he wants. any information that he would authorize u

jay carney said he believes the administration is faltering. >> i think the incident today makes clear that assad is losing control. that violence is increasing, rather than decreasing. >> carney said he fears more violence and chaos will follow if assad stays in power. he called on the international community to support a transition of power. >>> former egyptian vice president omar suleiman has died of a heart attack. he was one of expresident hosni mubarak's associates. the news agency reported he died on thursday in a u.s. hospital. he was 76 years old. he served as the head of the country's intelligence services for 18 years. s suleman played a role in many things. observers considered him a possible successor to mubarak. he announced his candidacy for if the presidency in april but the election commission did not allow him to run. he had been receiving treatment for lung and heart diseases in the u.s. for the past three weeks. >>> american corporate executives are running around this week announcing earnings. we've already heard from several leading chipmakers this week. our business team joins us with the latest from another tech giant? >> exactly, catherine. we heard fr

jay carney on air force one, howard was talking about what mayor bloomberg is calling for, it certainly seems like it's falling on deaf ears with the white house and in the romney campaign. jay carneyntly, his instant reaction while briefing reporters was on the one hand, on the other, we want to protect second amendment rights and want to make sure guns like this do not get into the hands of people that will do harm with them. totally meaningless kind of statement that indicated the white house had absolutely no interest in moving forward on the national conversation -- >> literally days after, the exact quote yesterday was as you know, there has been opposition to that since the assault weapons ban, renewing -- renewed push to put it in place. as you know, there has been an opposition to that since it expired within congress. i wouldn't argue with your assessment about that so the president is focused on doing the things we can do that protect second amendment rights which he thinks is important but also to make it harder for individuals who should not under existing law have weapons to obtain them. very carefully parsing, i'm not going to try and do anything that might touch the

. >> white house spokesman jay carney says the president continues to support the weapons ban but described it as an issue for the future, not now. carney also said existing laws are enough. if president obama has recently started downplaying the former position as the presidential campaign has gotten started, mitt romney has done a complete 180 on the issue. here's what he said when he was running for governor of massachusetts. >> we do have tough gun laws in massachusetts. support them. i won't chip away at them. i believe they help protect us and provide for our safety. >> that was in 2002 running for governor. governor romney signed a permanent assault weapons law. deadly assault weapons had no place in the commonwealth he said at the time. in the next year in anticipation of a presidential run, he began shifting his position on gun control. he designated may 7th the right to bear arms day in massachusetts and he began quoting the national rifle association. then in 2007, he became a lifetime member. after the nra's endorsement, he said at the time, i'm not sure they'll give it to me, i hope they will. also that year when asked on "

>> jay carney was pressed on this by dan lothian and carney emphasized domestic jobs created even ift meet the strict definition, it might be palatable to voters to know their taxpayer dollars substantially enriched foreign countries. >> what about now? is this program continuing? is it over with? >> a lot of this has actually sort of gone away. and you're seeing that the solar industry, renewable energy industry is kind of dealing with the fact that some of these dollars have dried up. in fact, a lot of jobs that were created arguably were somewhat temporary construction jobs for the assembly, for instance in the case of wind turbines, the assembly of those wind farms, but then ultimately there's not that many jobs that are needed to keep those plants going. >> thanks very much for that report, brianna keilar's our white house correspondent. other news we're following, we're watching a controversial case in mississippi right now that could wind up closing the only clinic in the state that provides women with abortions. cnn's david mattingly is joining us. a judge's decision has just

press secretary jay carney flat out denying that the white house or the president had anything to do with the string of national security leaks that came out earlier this year. but while carneyampaign sounds as they are basically admitting to the leaks. listen to david axelrod. >> why is it leaking out of the white house? >> joe joe, joe, there's an investigation going -- well, you stop it by sending strong signals. strong signals have been sent. there are leaks out of every administration. >> so he basically is admitting it because senator dianne feinstein, a democrat and chairman of the intelligence committee said. we asked david axelrod to come on the show and he never answered so we'll go with our great panel. how will the president be affected by this issue? here's our political panel and they're some of the best. sasha burns is here democratic strategist. angela mcglowan is here and not a democratic strategist, aaron task editor in chief of yahoo finance and welcome to all of you. first off, is this a legitimate feeling, sense of concern? number one that these leaks happened out of the white house and senator dianne feinstein kind of said that? >> i think there's alway

jay carney was asked hey, you know what? the president's schedule tomorrow, today is absolutely clear. why is he sending joe biden? why isn't the president going? it was awkward for mr. carney. listen. >> is the president's decision not to go to the naacp meetings suggests that he takes the black vote for grant ed? >> for campaign specific questions about voting blocks and things like that, i'd refer you to the campaign. he's spoken before the organization in the past. he met with them last year. his vice president is speaking this year. he is -- i mean, for campaign scheduling, i would refer you to the campaign. >> this is purely a scheduling manner that kept him from speaking there? >> in terms of the scheduling of it, i don't know. >> he spoke in 2009, there wasn't a campaign issue there. >> i think the nominee for the other party spoke as somebody just mentioned, i don't know, i think you have to ask the campaign. >> that's crazy because he answers campaign questions all the time. >> it's an arm of the campaign half the time. >> absolutely. >> why didn't he go? why didn't the president go? and after 30 seconds of that -- >> why didn't jay carney have a better answer? he