when obama and biden took offers.d enough enriched uranium to produce one bomb, now they can produce four. they had zero stockpiles of higher enriched uranium. today they have 73 kilograms and it only takes 85 to produce a bomb. when obama-biden took office it would have taken months for the iranian regime to go nuclear. now that window has slowed to weeks. under obama-biden the iranians have produced a nuclear weapons brakeout capability and they have done nothing to stop it. megyn: general keen, you have a good perspective on where we stand with respect to running and whether they are more emboldened now or during the bush years. what is your take? >> the facts of the matter is the iranians declared in 1980 after they took over the regime from the shaw. their strategic objective was to export the islamic reactions to in the region. the unstated policy was to develop a nuclear weapon. then they began systematically killing us. they killed 500 of us in lebanon using the hezbollah proxy and we left. they did same thing

. >> reporter: gay marriage is an emotional issue and not necessarily a winning one for obama-biden. >> this is potential big wedge issue in the african american community, works class whites. this is an issue that will mobilize the evangelical and conservative vote. >> reporter: voters in the swing state of north carolina overwhelmingly passed a measure to ban gay marriage and civil unions. mitt romney said his position has not changed. >> i pointed out i'm in favor of traditional marriage between a man and woman and don't favor civil union or gay marriage. >> reporter: president obama sales he favors vote. i'm steve handelsman. >>> at the trial of john edwards, prosecutors are getting ready to wrap-up their case. the most dramatic testimony yesterday involved edwards late wife he lelizabeth and when she found out about the affair. jay gray has the latest. >> reporter: prosecutors called on members of the inner circle of the campaign, speech writer wendy button continued her testimony saying edwards knew donations from wealthy supporter were being used to take care of rielle hunter

it is obama/biden 50. romney/christie 42. ead. this is good for him. this state could have gone the other way with. 53-41. if you add kelly ayot, still double digits. obama/biden 52. romney/ayote 42. don't count on the running mate it change nothing. we'll be right back. i've been crisscrossing the gulf for the past two years now. i can tell you, down here, people measure commitment by what's getting done. i'm mike utsler, and it's my job to make sure we keep making progress in the gulf. the twenty billion dollars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. another fourteen billion dollars has been spent on response and cleanup. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to the gulf of mexico research initiative... to support ten years of independent scientific research on the environment. results will continue to be shared with the public. and we're making sure people know that the gulf is open for business - the beaches are beautiful, the seafood is delicious. last year, many areas ev

that's a state that voted for obama/biden for four years ago but for bush cheney four years before thatn his remarks today the former massachusetts governor accused president obama of having created a, quote, prairie fire of debt. >> rather than putting out that spending fire, he has been feeding it. he has spent more, and borrowed more. the time has come for a president ', a leader, who will lead. i will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno. >> romney's team also unveiled a new web video featuring stories of economic hardship as told by ordinary juans, iowans. >> shepard: now supporters are going after romney on business record. >> priorities u.s.a. this is a super pac led by bill burton. you may remember him tropical storm iter press aid to president obama. they unveiled an attack ad today that was eerily similar to yesterday's obama biden team featuring that by now familiar steel mill that bain cap talg acquired and ultimately went bankrupt. the white house sawing in amiss however in that president obama took in $2 million at a manhattan fundraiser hosted by this man, tony j

i mean, they've already obama/biden. you are looking at the vice presidential candidate of the united states. >> has it annoyed you that there's been all this buzz about, well, if the president put in secretary clinton he'd be a shoo-in for re-election? >> the thing that aannoys me that somehow president clinton is weak -- president obama is weak. that's not directed at me. it's unfair. i think -- look we have the strongest candidate. in every presidential race, david, it's the only race in which the public demands one threshold test be met. is the individual strong, and is their character consistent with what they say they'll do? is their character strong enough to say they'll do it? we have the best candidate, man. he has a backbone like a ramrod. i think we have clearly the best candidate. >> is it going to be a close election? >> it may be close electorally. i think all laekdzs are close, and my grandfather used to say who was a good athlete. joe, remember any team can beat any other team in any given day, but they'r

they are there for ohio and take back the states mentioned earlier they have to coach from the obama bidenr bush cheney before turning blue in 08. democratic consultant told bret baier he sees this as a tall order. >> obama starts off with a huge electoral advantage. only looking at 27 electoral votes from getting there. it is easier path for him. forget about the millions you will hear about spending on ads and the polling data. i know both of you heather and ainsley are up to the job. >> before you leave the house this morning let's get the weather update with janna dean. >> we are looking for potential of a cold front to move eastward. can you see it on this map? i bet you can. cooler dry air. in front of that front we are looking at the potential for warm humid air. the front moves eastward a lot of unsettled weather as we go through the map. south florida we continue to see the potential for more heavy rain. we want to keep a close watch on the potential for a developing system. you can see showers and thunderstorms. large hail even isolated tornadoes. travel forecast looking good acr

>> nira tannen previously served as director for public policy for the obama/biden campaign and then. tony previously served as deputy press secretary in the george w. bush white house. thank you, both. what about the attack on bain? it has really exacerbated the business world's suspicion, concern about barack obama. >> you know, i think that the issue really here is that the country went through a significant economic crisis. that had something to do with wall street. so, you know, the president is really acknowledging that to some degree, but really the mitt romney has made his bain experience front and center. i mean, it wasn't too long ago he was talking about the 100,000 jobs he allegedly created at bain as his unique business experience to be president of the united states. that was later challenged by numerous fact checkers. he's put that experience front and center really demonstrating to people -- being president is a big deal. you should have your record vetted. vetting that is part of the process. >> tony? >> i think actually mitt has a terrific story to tell and private

a senior obama biden campaign official told me that won't happen both because the campaign thinks the convention can be useful in winning north carolina and because a move isn't logistically possible at this point. james rosen, fox news. s. >>> romney's next some on the east coast is virginia. tomorrow he'll address the nation's largest evangelical university, liberty university in lynchburg. this could be a defining moment for the mormon candidate. cand >> given the choice between a christian like barack obama who embraces nonbiblical positions like abortion and a nonchristian like mitt romney who embraces biblical values, i think there's a good case to be made for voting with mitt romney. >> meanwhile just after rubbing shoulders with hollywood celebrity donors president obama headed to reno, nevada and focused on the housing market and foreclosure. four years later naff has improved to the second -- nevada has improved to the second worse state in the country with foreclosures. >>> still to come, dozens of people, hundreds of teeth getting a much needed free checkup today. >> plus

the obama/biden ticket comes out by five points when robert portman is added to the ballot.n virginia, governor bob mcdonnell helps romney bring the race to within the margin of error. a romney/rubio ticket trails the president and vice president by four points while former governor jeb bush narrows the democr democrats' lead to two points. senator rubio was on hand yesterday in washington as former governor romney addressed the latino coalition's annual economic summit. romney made no mention of the issue of immigration. instead, focusing his remarks on education equality calling it the, quote, civil rights issue of our time. >> as president, i'm going to give the parents of every low-income and special needs student the chance to choose where their child goes to school. for the first time in history, federal education funds will be linked to the student so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school of their choice. >> as romney works to connect with latino voters, our new poll shows president obama leading with 61% support among that demographic. all

obama did that interview. on sunday, biden marriage without permission from the white house. president obama told biden the move actually helped him to decide to go ahead and do that interview. >>> a multistate manhunt comes to an end. acting on i atip, mississippi authorities found adam mayes and the two sisters he is accused of kidnapping. the gung i didn't recalls are safe. mayes is dead, however. elizabeth prann has more. >> reporter: two young sisters from tennessee along with that are abductor have been found they are alive but he is dead. >> i'm pleased to announce that earlier this evening, troopers with the mississippi highway safety patrol special operations group and the law enforcement arm of mississippi wildlife, fisheries and parks assigned to our fbi affect force rescued the girls. >> reporter: the discovery puts the nearly two-week multistate manhunt for 35-year-old fugitive adam mayes to an end. mayes is suspected in the murder of the girls' mother and elder sister. joanne and adrienne bain's bodies were found

>> obama spent his whole life in tax supported institutions. he knows nothing -- >> does bidene any executive experience in. >> no, and obama experience is from -- his friends. he has been in universities -- [overlapping speakers] he's got no private sector experience! >> claim to fame of romney is executive experience in the area of business. >> and government! >> and government! and its current state. >> obama has terrible relations with the congress. he can't know how to deal with these people to establish relationships. >> he can't talk in economic terms? >> no. there was a story front page story in the new york times. help hadn't had a meeting with mitch mcconnell the first 18 months of offers. >> the have truth is there aren't many mention of congress who do have very much experience in the economic sector and financial sector. >> and romney does. >> this might be just what the country needs! we never had a ceo as president of the united states! >> what we need is someone who understands macroeconomics. >> and willing to pare things back even when unpopular. >> we'll be r

if joe biden and barack obama a team. was the one who will say things sometimes that barack obama doesn't say, but barack obama and joe biden are thinking the same things basically. >> if we're going into the convention and barack obama has his back against the wall and he does not think he can win, he needs this election to become historic. one of of the reasons he won last time was he had an historic moment. young people, african-americans, women, folks who might not vote this time in some cases showed up. this would happen again if hillary is on the ticket. >> what you fail to understand apparently is you apparently forgot what happened in 2008 when john mccain tried this whole idea of having a game changing can't. >> are you comparing hillary clinton to sarah palin? are you seriously doing that? >> my point is you don't make changes and pick somebody just because they're a woman. you pick the person who is the best president. >> i hope the rnc is keeping this tape. >> hillary clinton is a great candidate, by the way a

it wasn't enough just to talk about gay marriage. >> i want to ask about biden, obama said biden got ahead of his skis, saying he got ahead of himself on saying he's so comfortable as you said. >> you have to be very naive they sent him out there on purpose. people know he makes a mistake, he has a reputation of sticking his foot in his mouth. he went out there to get the white house's message going and biden saying he's comfortable is as good saying he's comfortable. they are both gay marriage comfy. >> is evolution the big word now, evolving? >> yeah, just the imagery. he could have said he made up his mind after he consulted with the burning bush and would have mitigated the backlash, he went with evolution, he's evolving, his opinions of mutating, acting to the political losing the tale of doubt, i'm for marriage equality. essentially he said nobody should be denied the right to do something they might regret. >> let's get to the next topic here before we run out of of time. i want to look at the front page cover, yes, i know, time is of the essence here, "time" magazine, a mom b

standing in the muslim world and his reasons for wanting to assassinate president obama and not vice president joe biden. on a surprise visit to afghanistan, president obama said that the timing of his trip was no accident. >> and one year ago from a base here in afghanistan, the troops launched an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> reporter: for the first time now, new details of bin laden's last days are being made public and in newly declassified letters found in his compound. in a report released thursday at west point, bin laden appears concerned that al qaeda attacks had killed too many muslims and damaged his support. >> and in 2010, bin laden wrote i plan to release a statement that we're starting a new phase to correct the mistakes we made n. doing so, we shall reclaim, god willing, the lost trust of those who lost their trust in the jihaddists. the experts say a letter shows a frustrated bin laden who, rather than pulling al qaeda's strings, was sitting on the sidelines in hiding. >> he spent most of his time hovering somewhere trying not to be killed and that is the reality of it and t

lots of signs are being made. >> obama/biden. >> reporter: biden was less definitive when he was asked if he would run for the presidency in 2016. >> ron paul does not have any campaign events on the schedule. we'll bring you the latest on the candidate and the issues. >>> a nationwide alert for dog owners, your pet food could make you sick. the centers for disease controllers is investigating the sal salmonella outbreak. it's possible that they became sick after touching the food or handling dogs that ate it. >>> a governor task force is counseling parents about sun exposure in children. >> reporter: 14-year-old sabrina cohen spends most afternoons in the sun. whether she's playing on the water or out she's always wearing sunscreen. >> it's fun to be tanned and looks nice sometimes but it's really not worth it. >> reporter: counseling children on skin care helped them become more alert about skin cancer. doctors spoke to patients between the ages of 10 and 24 even if they had no history of the disease. >> the sun damage that people get in their youth is probably more damaging than wha

i mean, they've already picked president obama. >> biden was less definitive when asked if he would run16. >> ron paul still claims he's in the race for the republican no, ma'am -- nomination. >>> france has a new president this morning. he defeated the former president over the weekend. president obama called to con grand -- congratulate him and invite him to the white house. >>> the avengers score to a record setting weekend. fans lined up to see the flick which grossed more than $200 million in its debut weekend. that's the biggest opening ever. the avengers was relaesed internationally -- released internationally a week earlier. it's already brought in $640 million worldwide. >>> the winner of the kentucky derby will be in maryland today. i'll have another, he won saturday. the trainer, doug o'neil says the horse will fly to baltimore today. >>> the oriels and red sox played one for the record books. game 3 went 17 innings and lasted more than 6 hours. adam jones put the bird ahead with -- birds ahead with this hoper. that's the -- homer. the oriels begin a four game series with the

but the priorities usa launch came one day after the obama biden campaign unveiled its own add and websitemneyeconomics.com. focused on the same steel plant. what is more. the president monday night raked in $2 million at manhattan fundraiser. at the home after private equity first twice the size of bain capital. white house saw no incon analysis stepsy in bashing of one private equity firm and milking of another. >> it's not a question of whether private equity specifically is important or valid. it's the vision you bring to the job. >> team romney struck back with the second web video in two days. this focused not on another plant thying today, but on the ordinary iowanss among the 23 million americans unemployed, underemployed or departed from the workforce. >> that is the problem. a lot of people were around here. everyone believed, everyone had hope. they all thought, this guy will get something done. now it seems like nothing will get done. >> he harkened back to era of big government is over. >> this is enough to make you wonder maybe it was personal beef with the clintons but proba

is joining us now from north carolina where he will be campaigning later today on behalf of the obama/biden ticket. it is always a pleasure to see you on our air. >> thanks for having me on. >> so mr. biden, sharing the last name biden with a vice president named biden, you're familiar with the events of recent weeks, which is to say folks going off message. how do you think the administration has handled this? how would you grade the events of the last 24 hours in terms of managing the message? >> i let you and the great roundtable have you there assembled, great grade people. i'm here to talk about in north carolina, i was in virginia to the talk about a great grassroots organization called veterans for obama. we're laying this out. it's grace roots organization with 10,000 people strong. and talking about why veterans i being one among many think. obama should be re-elected to a second term. that's why i'm here in north carolina. >> we will be going back to the bain question in a second. but the last poll that we had shows between president obama and mitt romney on veterans, obama's winn

the obama-biden campaign using your words in a new commercial hammering away at mitt romney.ay a clip. >> the romney machine can drive down turnout, run over opponents with negative ads. it doesn't seem capable of inspiring turnout. the result is i think very, very worrisome if you're thinking about the fall campaign. >> is he still the most anti-immigrant candidate? >> i think of the four of us, yes. >> are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> the truth team they call it. how do you feel when you see your words used in a campaign commercial like that to hammer away at mitt romney? >> you have a rough and tumble primary season. you're going to get word like that. i think when mccain tried to use hillary clinton's words against obama, it didn't work all that well. the fact is you have a president with the worst unemployment record of any president since the great depression. you have a president with the highest price of gasoline of any president in american history on average. you have a president who is running up huge deficits to crush our children and grandchildren w

obama/biden, 45. that gives them a point. maybe enough. orida, a new suffolk poll has obama at 46 and romney, 45. look at how ahead romney gets if he puts rubio on the ticket. 47. we'll be right back. >>> back to "hardball." debate over gay marriage is being played out at the state level, but could this wind up in the supreme court, and what did obama's comments do yesterday to increase those arguments? now with his one-time opponent, david boyce in the bush versus gore fight. edward lawson is also an attorney who founded the president's group freedom to marry. let me show you both what the president said in that abc interview about gay marriage today being a state issue. that's what the president says. let's watch him. >> i continue to believe that this is an issue that is going to be worked out at the local level because historically this has not been a federal issue. >> as president, it's not being worked out on the state level. we saw that tuesday in north carolina, the 30th straight, to ban gay marriage. >> what i'm saying is different

>> yes. ♪ >> obama/biden the truth team they call it.e to see your words used in a campaign commercial like that to hammer away at mitt romney. >> you have a rough-and-tumble primary season and you'll get words like that. i think when mick cane tried to use hillary clinton's words against obama it didn't work all that well. the fact is you have a president with the worst unemployment record of any president since the great depression. you have a president with the highest price of gasoline of any president in american history on average. you have a president who is rung up huge deficits to crush the children and grandchildren with the level of debt we've never dreamed of before. this president will say anything to make sure we don't pay attention -- >> do you still believe romney is a liar? >> is mitt romney a liar? >> the governor said some things that weren't true? >> the answer is yes. >> i also believe that compared to barack obama i would trust mitt romney 100 times over. >> that reference to him yesterday was sort of a lukewarm --

. ♪ >> so gay marriage appears to be an issue that the white house and the obama-biden campaign is goingbe wrestling with from the moment this campaign got started. we knew it would come up, and it has come up in a way that the white house did not expect it to come up. vice president joe biden on "meet the press" this sunday. >> i am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexuals are entitled to all the same exact rights, all the same civil liberties. >> this is at specific odds at what the white house has said. they have said nothing that is specific. but they did not like what the vice president went on to say. he must have thought about it because live to how he stutters with david gregory. >> the second term with this administration come out behind same-sex marriage, the institution of marriage. >> i can't speak to that i-i-i-i don't know the answer. i-i-i---um--i-i-i- >> that's your vice president. he did say something that was at odds with what the white house was saying. did show a support for same-sex marriage which the white ho

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there was a deep concern in the obama-biden campaign leadership that maybe they weren't generating enoughpport out there as they had four years ago, for example, when the president kicked off his campaign officially last saturday in ohio state university. there were thousands of empty seats inside that stadium on the campus of ohio state university. four years ago that wouldn't have happened so that might energize some of the base for the president's historic decision today. on the other side, there are a lot of religious people, kath lishgs evangelical christians, baptists who strongly oppose same-sex marriage and that may hurt him in a state like north carolina, in a state like virginia and maybe even in ohio. you have six months to go, so a lot can play out on this issue, but obviously an important decision will be all over in "the situation room." wolf blitzer, thank you. we will see you in a matter of nine minutes in "the situation room." we'll get a quick break in and then we gl to the uk where the queen is speaking to parliament here on this historic 57th time she has ever done thi