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romney has been gaining ground recently. >> pelley: nancy cordes at the white house tonight. nancy, thank you very much. ba syria, the battle is on for the ancient city of aleppo. it is part of the civil war that started nearly a year and a half ago as a popular uprising against the dictatorship of bashar al-assad. the u.n. says 200,000 people have fled aleppo, which has more than three million residents, about the size of los angeles. the syrian dictatorship bars reporters from the region but eorrespondent charlie d'agata heipped in past the syrian army and we spoke to him earlier today. >> reporter: what's clear is fat the battle for aleppo is raging on. iat is less clear is who's winning. but the rebels did score a victory this morning just northwest of aleppo. they overran a government outpost. and they captured something between eight and ten tanks, a lot of trucks with ammunition and weapons-- desperately needed erapons. thw this evening we heard a series of explosions in this area. ersidents here have suggested that it was in retaliation for overrunning that government

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we asked nancy cordes to show us what is passing for campaign advertising these days. >> it a scarety time to be a woman. >> reporter: the new ad from the obama campaign implies that a romney presidency would be bad for women. >> romney supports overturning "roe versus wade". >> reporter: it's true that romney opposes abortion. >> i was consistent as governor, as a pro-life governor. >> reporter: but it was this claim in the ad that earned the obama campaign a blistering pants on fire rating from politifact, an organization which tracks misleading political claims. >> romney backed a bill that outlawed all abortions, even in case of rape and incest. >> reporter: in 2008 romney did back a constitutional amendment that would ban all abortions, but some versions of that proposed legislation included exemptions for rape and incest. and romney has repeatedly said he believes in exemptions for rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. it's far from the first presidential campaign ad to stretch the truth this cycle. just last week the romney campaign took president obama's comments abo

i'm nancy cordes. >>> i'm anthony mason. here are a few of the stories we'll be looking at on "cbs this morning saturday." >>> mitt romney said he owned but did not manage the firm bain capital. it's quickly becoming the bain of his existence. he's demanding an apology from president obama's campaign. >>> billions of dollars gone. the head of a financial firm is arrested after trying to commit suicide. another is missing. where is the money? >>> then open the roof, turn up the sound and head to the drive-in. the good old days at the movies again. >>> plus, right here in studio 57, the stars of "once" sing their beautiful ballad from broadway's hottest new musical. ♪ all that and so much more on "cbs this morning saturday." all that and so much more on "cbs this morning saturday." july 14, 2012. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. welcome to the weekend. nice to see you. >> it's great to be with you. >> yeah. bright and early today. >> exactly. >> let's get right to the top story. we begin with a new controversy in the

here's nancy cordes. >> liberal policies don't make good jobs! (cheers and applause) >> reporter: mitt romney was greeted in irwin, pennsylvania, today by a withering new ad from the obama campaign about romney's refusal to release more of his past tax records. >> makes you wonder if some years he paid any taxes at all. >> reporter: romney did release his 2010 returns back in january after much proding from his republican primary rivals. >> i mean, if you're... the idea that you could run for president and not release your taxes is an absurdity. >> reporter: his 2010 returns show romney paid an effective 13%.9% tax rate on nearly $22 million in income. he got an extension to file his 2011 returns and has promised to make them public when they're completed. but a growing number of republican leaders are advising them to release more if only to put the topic behind him. >> a wider number should be released. >> reporter: indiana senator richard lugar ran for president himself in 1996. do you think mr. romney should release more years of his tax retu

we asked nancy cordes to look into it. >> the bill is passed. >> reporter: house republicans have now held so many repeal votes lawmakers are losing track. >> this is the 31st repeal vote. >> today's 32nd repeal vote of health care. >> reporter: in fact, it is the 33rd vote to repeal all or part of the president's health care law, a republican effort that, according to a cbs news tally, has taken up at least 80 hours on the house floor. that's two full work weeks since early 2011. texas republican lamar smith. >> obamacare is a massive tax hike on the middle-class. >> the bill is passed. >> reporter: but today's measure will suffer the same fate as the other full repeal efforts which sailed through the republican-controlled house but died, predictably, in the democratically controlled senate. michigan democrat john dingle. >> i say shame. you're wasting the time of the american people. you're wasting the time of the congress. >> reporter: and time is precious on capitol hill where house leaders have scheduled only 42 more working days between now and the end of the year when critical

this is going to affect a lot of paychecks, so we asked nancy cordes to look into it. >> reporter: democrats chose one of the top leaders in the senate-- patti murray of washington state-- to lay down their new marker on taxes. >> unless republicans end their commitment to protecting the rich above all else our country going to have to face the consequence of republicans' intransigence. >> reporter: the potential combination of the bush tax cuts expiring and $110 billion of defense and domestic spending cuts at the end of the year has come to be referred to as the fiscal cliff. economists have warned the one-two punch could push the fragile economy back into a recession at the start of 2013. the republican senate leader mitch mcconnell. >> what the democrats are proposing today is an entirely avoidable high-stakes game of chicken. >> reporter: the two sides took this fight to the brink the last time the bush tax cuts were set to expire, in december of 2010. >> we just don't see why we have to give an extra tax cut to the wealthiest and then an extra-extra estate tax benefit to the top one qu

i'm nancy cordes. >> i'm anthony mason. we've got a lot to get to this morning.the top story. >> the top story this half hour. the mystery of what happened to congressman jesse jackson jr. his mother spoke out for the first time yesterday saying her son has dealt with enormous disappointment and needs time to heal. jackson's office said earlier this week, the chicago democrat has been an medical leave for a mood disorder. jay levine of wbbm tv in chicago has more. >> for congressman jesse jackson, the future was bright. he had considered running for mayor in chicago. then president-elect barack obama's senate seat. before allegations surfaced that one of his fundraisers tried to buy it for him. >> i never sent a message or an emissary to the governor to make an offer, to plead my case or to propose a deal about a u.s. senate seat, period. >> jackson was never charged in the case, which brought down illinois governor rod blagojevich. but it did trigger a continuing house ethics investigation. a statement on june 25th announced jackson was taking a leave of absence

as nancy cordes reports, he said almost nothing about it. . >> good morning, lee. his colleagues on capitol hill were patient at first, but now they say that the congressman's constituents deserve answers about his condition, aboutai whe he's been and when he expects to return. >> amid the soaring rhetoric and the -- >> in his 18 years in congress, jesse jackson, jr., has developed a reputation for speaking his mind. but as his mystery absence moves into its second month, even his fellow illinois democrats say they've been kept in the dark. >> the public relationship that he has as a member of congress, i think, does not shield him. >> his health is the number one priority. as a public official, though, there reaches a point where you have a responsibility to tell people what you're facing and how things are going. >> all that's come out of the congressman's office is a pair of cryptic statements a week apart. the f. irs in late june said he was suffering from exhaustion. but the second warned his medical condition is more serious than we tho

. >> huma aberdeen is -- nancy cordes has the story on capitol hill.good morning. >> good morning, norah, the state department as you may have imagine, has responded calling michele bachmann's accusations vicious and disgusting lice. ed rollins said she's being extreme and dishonest. >> these attacks have no logic, no basis and no merit and they need to stop. >> it's rare for a senator to publicly rebuke members of his own party. but that's just what arizona's john mccain did yesterday. after five house republicans questioned whether one of secretary clinton's top aides has ties to terrorism. >> when anyone, not least a member of congress, launches specious and degrading attacks on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation and we all grow poorer because of it. >> minnesota's michele bachmann and four others sent letters to top intelligence and security officials last week warning that the muslim brotherhood, global religious islamic movement whose members have been leak

nancy cordes is on capitol hill. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica and charlie. well, republicans immediately dismissed the president's tax plan as a tax hike on job-creators in a weak economy. so, both sides are digging in here, even though about 98% of americans would fair about the same under their two plans. >> i'm not proposing anything radical here. >> reporter: president obama officially called on congress monday to extend the low bush-era tax cuts for one more year but not for the top earners, individuals making more than $200,000 a year or households with a combined income above $250,000. >> many members of the other party believe that prosperity comes from the top down, so that if we spend trillions more on tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, that that will somehow unleash jobs and economic growth. i disagree. i think they're wrong. >> reporter: but house majority leader eric cantor and other republican leaders said the president was wrong for wanting to raise taxes on anyone. >> it is our wish for the american people that we say, fine, no taxes are