robert gibbs says that we completely disagree with that, comparing u.s. soldiers with east german secret police. >> will be any consequences for u.s. military strategy in afghanistan? >> the national security adviser says that nothing will change. the white house also pointed out that these documents that were revealed are from a time span from 2004 to 2009. presidt obama, ter th, d change the strategy in afghanistan therefore, this is irrelevant, the lead from wikileaks. >> thank you very much for that update from washington. >> the eu foreign ministers have approved a tough package of sanctions aimed at convincing iran to stop developing its nuclear program. the sanctions target iran's oil and gas industries, which are key elements of the country's economy. it includes a ban on eu companies selling energy roduction equipment to iran. >> finding consensus is not always easy for eu foreign ministers. but on monday, they should resolve to get to run back to the negotiating table. the decision to -- to get tehran back to the negotiating book. >> the europea

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a fuse lit by spokesman, robert gibbs, saying that democrats could lose the house this november. >> i think there's no doubt, there's enough seats in play. that could cause republicans to gain control, there's no doubt about that. >> reporter: remarks many house democrats thought unappreciative and suspected as an attempt by the white house to distance itself from am impending loss. >> i think the comment was unfortunate. >> i think robert gibbs' statement was completely wrong. we're not going to lose the house of representatives. >> reporter: and it prompted larger gripe sessions among house democrats this week with the president. what's their beef? one democratic congressman told me that, quote, obama has a general thrust of, we've got to do tough things. and then he says to congress, okay. you guys go do that, without providing us enough cover of guidance. you saw it during health care. you saw it during financial reform. we're doing a lot of heavy lifting for him. and it's almost as if the guys in the white house are saying, you should be saying thank you to us. k you?'s, what the

a fuse lit by spokesman robert gibbs saying that democrats could lose the house this there are enough that could cause republicans to gain control, there's no doubt about tha ter anye democrats thought unapprecia and suspected were an attempt by the white house to distance itself from a pending loss. >> i think the comment was unfortunate. >> i think robert gibbs' statement was completely wrong. we're not going to lose the houf epativ largripens house deday lasnighhe pnt. what's their beef? one democratic congressman told me that, quote, obama has a general thrust of, we've got to do tough things and then he says to congress, okay, you guys go do that, without providing us enough cover or guy dance. you saw it during health care, you saw it during financial reform. we're doing a lot of heavy lifting for him and it's almost as if the guys in the white house are saying, you should be saying thank you to us. and it's, what the beep? thank you? didth wpyoing the >> there's always room for improvement and i know our members would like to s president out there more talking about our accompl

. >> reporter: the controversy consumed almost the entire briefing by press secretary robert gibbs, at one point a flustered gibbs was even told sherrod was watching it on television. >> apparently she's watching this briefing, shirley sherrod, on cnn right now. is there anything you want to say to her? (laughter) >> she's watching it? >> i understand. >> she's watching you. >> and let me... the secretary is trying to reach her? >> reporter: it all started three days ago when a clip lit up the internet and cable outlets. but that wasn't the whole speech or the whole story. >> it was just unbelievable, unbelievable to me. >> reporter: it turns out, sherrod didn't say anything racist at all. her comments were edited and taken out of context which the administration would have known if someone had known if some one had watched the entire tape before they fired her. >> they definitely didn't do the right thing because they didn't look deeper to see what i was trying to say to them. please look at the whole tape so that you see what my message is. >> reporter: her message in the speech was

joining us now from the white house is the president's press secretary, robert gibbs. mr. gibbs, good morning. >> good morning. >> i want to ask you very quickly about charles rangel, this bipartisan committee, bringing charges against rangel. they cite a pattern of indifference and disregard for the law. if this trial happens it will happen in september right in the midst of the congressional elections. should charles rangel quit? >> well, look, harry, i think, as you mentioned, there's the bipartisan committee looking into some very serious charges. we think that's certain there right thing to do. i don't want to prejudge the outcome of that. i think that democrats going into this midterm election have an agenda to offer the american people about moving our country forward. s that where we will spend our time talking about this. >> all right. so today you go to detroit. and you are going to visit a gm plan and you will visit a chrysler plan. people will be stunned to know that both of those companies are turning a profit. they are hiring new workers. does it surprise eve

robert gibbs experienced some of that -- >> i've never had a gaffe. >> you've never had an issue can. so you can't relate. but he said that enough seats are in play in the house for the democrats to possibly lose the house. empirically true. how bad are the losses going to be for democrats? >> i don't think the loss is going to be bad at all. i think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody. i really -- and i've been saying this now, i think when you and i went down to north carolina, you followed me on a recovery trip, i was saying it then. i am absolutely confidence -- confident, when people take a look at what has happened since we've taken office in november and comparing it to the alternative, we're going to be in great shape. here's the deal. what robert gibbs also said is what he believes, what i believe, what the president believes, we're going to win the house, we're going to win the senate. we're not going to lose either one of those bodies. and so -- again, this is july. november. and at the time the most vulnerable time any public official finds himself in is when t

and even now, some of his own party are complaining after press secretary robert gibbs says there's a chance the democrats could lose control of the house of representatives. >> democrats said, we're going vent our complaints about the white house, and so we have had a week of political intrigue and drama. >> the biggest problem is the biggest victories have not put a dent in the unemployment rate of nearly 10%. the number one issue for most americans. mr. obama says he hears the anger. >> if somebody is out of work right now, the only answer that i'm going to have for them is when they get a job. up until that point, from their perspective, the economic policies aren't working. >> alan: now, on tuesday, the senate plans to vote again on a bill extending unemployment benefits through november. last extension ran out at the end of may, leave 2-g .5 million people without benefits. since then lawmakers have been battling the measure. the republicans will only approve if the bill is paid for. $34 billion would be needed. this morning, in his weekly address, president obama accused g.o.p.

. >> in defense of robert gibbs, the white house press secretary who the other week said the democrats are in danger of losing the house. that was meant as an alarm, meant to lower expectations and also make the point that john made. is it's unusual to have this discussion now. these weafs tend to surprise people and that's the one glimmer of hope obama has. chris: is this going to save the democrats, this offshore warning? >> it will certainly help, that and scott brown. he was also a big warning for the democrats, they hope before it's too late. chris: we'll be right back with scoops and predictions. tell me something i don't know. be r [ female announcer ] jobs leaving. a budget disaster. california on the brink. jerry brown's plan? you run for office and the assumption is, oh, i know what to do. you don't. i didn't have a plan for california. [ female announcer ] with our state in crisis, we need a governor with a plan. you need a real plan, something i'll acknowledge i did not have. [ female announcer ] jerry brown. no plan then. no plan now. meg whitman. a plan for jobs. log on.

dana, white house press secretary robert gibbs has some key congressional democrats riled up.ledged this weekend that republicans could regain control of congress in november. what do you think's going to happen in november? do you think gibbs is right? >> i think gibbs is being honest. it's nice to see. i think he's being very honest and probably it rattled some people. because the narrative is, oh, well, we're going to win, we're going to keep these seats. that's not where all the polling dat -- the polling data showing the majority of americans are losing confidence in this administration. they're not happy with the way things are going, concerning jobs. our unemployment rate is at 9.5%. so they're -- you know, they're not very happy. i think we're a little bit too close to the midterms here in order to really back-pedal and turn a lot of that around think right now they're just sort of setting expectations kind of low. and they'll probably come in a little bit lower than that. whether or not republicans will take back the house, i don't know. >> larry: stephanie, off-year

robert gibbs experienced that. >> i have never had a gaffe. >> you have never had an issue with that. no, i know. so you can't relate. but he said that enough seats are in play in the house for the democrats to possibly lose the house. empirically true. how bad are the losses going to be for the democrats? >> i don't think it will be bad at all. i think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody. i've been saying this now. when you and i went to north carolina, you followed me on the recovery trip. i said it then. i'm absolutely confident that when people take a look at what has happened since we have taken office in november and compare it to the alternative, we're going to be in great shape. here's the deal. robert gibbs said what he believes, what i believe, what the president believes, we're going to win the house and we're going to win the senate. we're not going to lose either one of those bodies. this is july. november, and at the time, the most vulnerable time any public official finds himself in is when they have no opponent. look at harry reid. i got banged around when i

. >> i hear nancy pelosi was furious about what robert gibbs said on television. >> she was very angry. the house liaison for the obama administration got an earful. this comment was a great washington moment it was behind what was said. everybody knows the house will be in play. this tore off the bandage on it won't between the house democrats and this white house. house democrats have long felt that this administration is overly senate-focused. they have done three events for harry reid and not one for individual house members. this was the first spark that tore open this. you saw that in nancy pelosi's private caucus and i'm sure you saw it at the white house thursday. >> these people have cast some very tough votes. they think that clinton cared more about himself and that is one of the reasons they lost the house in 1994. nancy pelosi has been an extraordinary speaker. she is probably would offend the best and most beloved speakers since sam rayburn. the fact that she blew a gasket is fine. >> do you think the president is more focused on the senate? >> yes, a key is spread -- yes

interview with abc's "this week," vice president joe biden took issueww with wouse press secretary robert gibbsfall elections. >> the vice president said reports of the democrats demise are premature. david kerley has details. >> reporter: with his main getaway over president obama returns to the dissent over parties are of members fearful of losing power. nt joe biden on abc's "this week" boldly predicted it won't be that bad. >> i think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody. we're going to win the house and win the senate. >> reporter: that after the press secretary admitted that the democrats could lose control of the house. simple statement of fact, and calling it gibbs-gate proclaiming they will win enough seats. >> i think we'll be slightly over 40. >> i know the guys are popping the champagne bottles already over there, but fact of the matter is, the democrats will retain the majority of the house. >> reporter: a most abc news poll says that while voters have just 32% confidence. >> and what we're proud to say no to and what the government wants to us say no do, insurance compan

white house spokesman robert gibbs conceded today the firing of shirley sherrod was hasty and wrong.> she is owed an apology and i would do so on behalf of this administration. >> lehrer: it all began when the conservative web site biggovernment.com posted video of sherrod, from an n.a.a.c.p. event. she described working for a farm assistance group in 1986, and meeting with a white farmer who, she said, acted "superior." >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland. and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> lehrer: that was part of a two and a-half minute clip and once it got out, the agriculture department quickly demanded sherrod's resignation. the n.a.a.c.p. also condemned her comments, until last night when it posted her entire 43- minute speech on its web site. in it, sherrod went on to say meeting the white farmer actually changed her views. >> working with him made me see that it's really about those who have versus those who don't. you know, and the

maybe not as optimistic as robert gibbs but i like our chances.n the reality is, and you see this whether it's tea parties or town hall meetings across the country, the american people are tired of borrowing and spending and bail-outs and takeovers and i believe they're poised to express themselveses in the mid-term elections. how republicans are determined to give voice to those millions of americans that want to see our country turn back to limited government, personal responsibility, freedom and the fundamental principles of the american family. >> chris: congressman clyburn, you were in a meeting of house democrats this week. where your colleagues were blaming the president for not providing political cover and forcing a lot of tough votes. let me put something up on the screen. here is what congressman said to the "washington post" -- he accused the white house of wanting to pre-emptively pin the blame on lawmakers, should the democrat lose majority, and not on obama's sagging approval rating. question, how widespread is the feeling among the

at the white house, robert gibbs apologizes. on fox, bill reilly apologizes but finally, the president himself calls shirley himself. colby, what you make of this? >> it is a sad commentary on where we are as a country. if you listen to the speech, it was a good speech, made the exact opposite point that the right-wingers tried to make out of it. but everybody behaved bad up and down the line, including the president. i wrote an article that set the administration showed its two colors -- true colors, which is yellow. >> perhaps you ought to apologize for saying that fox news had on the air before the administration fired her bro. our story appeared on fox news later. -- her story appeared on fox news later. and the secretary about culture repeated his intention to have her fired -- secretary of agriculture repeated his intention to have her fire. the 6:00 news show, i call for reinstatement and an apology, as did the entire fox news channel. -- panel. >> nobody mentioned that the naacp called for her firing. that speech was to

white house spokesman robert gibbs warned hayward's departure won't change that. >> regardless of who leads the company, these obligations and responsibilities must be met. >> reporter: while hayward is expected to depart in october as c.e.o., he won't be completely out of the picture. he's expected to lead b.p.'s joint venture project with russia. stephanie dhue, "nightly business report," washington. >> susie: tomorrow, we'll find out how the disaster in gulf has affected b.p.'s bottom line, when the oil giant reports quarterly earnings. excluding spill costs, b.p. is expected to earn $1.42 a share on revenue of $72.5 billion. that's up 28% from last year. >> tom: here are the stories in tonight's n.b.r. newswheel: stocks started the week with a boost following some good news about the economy. the dow jumped 100 points, the nasdaq rose 27 and the s&p 500 gained 12 points. volume on the big board and the nasdaq backed off from friday's pace. the good economic news was new home sales. they rebounded in june from the record low hit the previous month, but still remained weak. the comm

robert gibbs says this -->> i think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause republicans to gain control. gwen: coming from a pundit, this comment is conventional wisdom, but coming from the president's spokesman, it seemed to some democrats like betrayal. it must have made people develop unhappy on capitol hill, democrats. >> it did. and it's the words of a white house spokesman. others around him have said this. david plouffe said this recently in an interview i did with him and tp got very little attention. nobody really cared. but when a white house press secretary says it, it rattles through washington. house democrats were outraged. they know they're in a tough fight. it wasn't a surprise for them. and he didn't finish the thought, which is they could take it over, but in the end they're not going to, we have ways to prevent that. and there was this tension between congress and the administration, particularly between the house and the white house, that they're more focused at the white house about 2012 re-election and less on what happens in the house.

. >> reporter: white house press secretary robert gibbs publicly apologized to sherrod and no less thanmentators on the conservative national review website cautioned outlets on the right to use care before rushing to judgment. >> it was wrong. the story was entirely wrong. if there's an hour-long speech or a 30-minute long speech and you're putting up seven seconds of it and you haven't seen the rest of it, you feed to say, i'm putting up seven seconds of this and i haven't seen the rest of it. >> reporter: if you're an optimist you might look at this as what the president calls a teachable moment. maybe we should all wait and see what happens next time. jeff greenfield, cbs news, new york. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. hope you'll join us a little later for "the early show." i'm betty nguyen. later for "the early show." i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. comments@captioncolorado.com >>> hey, good morning. it's thursday, the 2

robert gibbs comment hurt house democrats." kendall, indiana, francis, democratic line. caller: good morning, susan. i think that you are the best of the best. i wanted to talk about legislators being in authority or separate. democrats do not all vote the same way. they are not in lockstep like republicans. there is one little thing that was done when they were all locked steps, they passed a tax reform bill in houston, texas, leaving billions of dollars to their heirs. the normal extension is 3.5 million for individuals and 7,000,004 couples. this man gets to leave $9 billion to his heirs. his name is mr. duncan. the story was told by the senate floor last night. the senator from north dakota is not running again in his wonderful -- again and he is wonderful. we cannot have these kind of laws passed or repealed, because it goes to the top 100 of 1%. the rest of us are left out. if democracy is going to be lost, privatizing our schools and pentagon, privatizing social security, it is just so incredible what the republicans can do in step lock. host: thank you for callin

. >> reporter: at the white house today, press secretary robert gibbs called the allegations old news, and insisted pakistan has stepped up its efforts to eliminate safe havens and drive out the taliban. >> i'm not going to stand here on july the 26th and tell you that all is well. i will tell you that we have made progress in moving this relationship forward. >> reporter: the documents do show serious concerns among u.s. military commanders. they repeatedly complain about lack of resources, unreliable afghan soldiers and a corrupt afghan government. some cases suggest possible military cover-ups. in may 2007 documents show the taliban shot down a u.s. helicopter with a shoulder-fired heat-seeking missile, killing seven soldiers. but american commanders concealed that fact. today, u.s. military officials tell nbc news that it was an iranian-made heat-seeker that brought down the chopper. there are concerns, however, that the massive breakdown in security, revealing sources of battlefield intelligence puts u.s. forces and their allies at greater risk. >> will we see friendly human inte

robert gibbs was a guest on "meet the press," yesterday. he had this to say about republican leadership on capitol hill. >> the financial calamity, the man they want to put in as speaker of the house, he believes that the front -- financial calamity is as big as an ant. a man that was apologizing to the ceo of the oil companies, not the people of the gulf. john maynard, joe barton, you will hear those things that lot about what you would get with republicans gaining control. host: "republicans oppose stimulus funds. a new analysis finds that paying unemployment benefits does not deter the jobless from still seeking work, throwing more fuel on the heated debate that has dominated congress for much of the past several months. out of one of benefits have become the chief battleground in president obama's call to passing new round of stimulus spending." gainesville, florida, independent line. go ahead and. caller: thank you for c-span. thank you for providing an objective point of view in the news. i don't think a republican will ever regain an

down quite hard on wiki leaks press briefing wrapped up with president obama's press secretary robert gibbs he says wiki leaks is not an unbiased media source something interesting to note here . at no point even though a lot of the questions i would even say the majority of the questions to mr gibbs were about this week. not once did he necessarily dispute the content of it he did sort of try to say again that wiki leaks was not totally credible and he really disputed how this came about the vis is a breach of federal law so certainly the white house coming down but in addition to this criticism they are also really really downplaying what has been released on wiki leaks they're saying that you know this is from a period of time the majority of which president obama wasn't even in office it was a time that he wasn't overseeing the war and that since december two thousand and nine which is sort of when this picture that's painted in the documents and the relationship between the united states and pakistan has gotten much better he says also sort of trying to turn this wiki leaks story aroun

yesterday it was robert gibbs and the agriculture secretary, today the president himself. >> reporter: the president has avoided public comment on the firing of shirley sherrod. >> thank you. >> reporter: but today from his private study he joined the chorus of administration officials offering her an apology. >> she did accept his apology. >> reporter: the white house says it took the president three tries over two days to reach her. she called it a very good conversation. >> he wanted me to know he's supportive and... i've been dealing with some of the same issues he's had to deal with. >> reporter: sherrod was fired monday after a conservative web site released portions of a speech she gave earlier this year. she appeared to say that years ago she was reluctant to help a struggling farmer because he was white. but the full speech shows she was describing the need for racial reconciliation. >> the president said i think there's an opportunity for you to continue that work if you want to do so. >> reporter: sherrod says she hadn't decided if she'll accept that offer. there may be goo

white house press secretary robert gibbs ignited a firestorm this week with this comment: >> i think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause republicans to gain control. there's no doubt about that. >> reporter: gibbs says he was simply stating the obvious but sources say speaker nancy pelosi is angry at him and deeply unhappy the white house isn't doing more to help. after meeting with the president last night, pelosi said he will now campaign more for house democrats. but that creates another problem. many vulnerable democrats don't want the increasingly unpopular president in their district at all. now, many of those vulnerable democrats say wall street reform is fine, but what their constituents are desperately calling for now is jobs and they're just not seeing it. katie? >> couric: chip reid at the white house tonight, chip, thank you. and on the matter of jobs, chip mentioned the stimulus program the president was touting today in holland, michigan. our cynthia bowers was there. >> reporter: president barack obama climbed into an electric car today hop

. >> reporter: today press secretary robert gibbs said it's hard to wage war without the support of the american people. >> i think obviously public opinion matters quite a bit when you have your forces in harm's way. >> reporter: if fact only in the early years did americans believe the war in afghanistan was going well. between 2003 and 2008 when the focus was on iraq support plummeted. after some minor ups and downs today stands at a mere 31%. even if the president's right, that there isn't much new in the leaked documents, they still threaten to turn public opinion against the war even more, by focusing a spotlight on all that's gone wrong. mounting u.s. casualties, civilian casualties, afghan government corruption and claims that pakistan is helping the taliban. >> the fact is the revelation of these documents, these raw reports, really brings to the for all of the core challenges that we've been facing in afghanistan for a number of years. >> reporter: the war funding bill now goes to the president for his signature, but it only funds the war for a few months so another big battle

we heard robert gibbs say this week, you know, we learned we live in a 24-7 news cycle. and we have to kind of sit back and think more and we reacted too quickly. >> i think the issue of the white house, to order your steps more carefully. do your homework. this is a white house like all presidents who learned during the campaign that speed skills and to honor every threat. and especially ones in a come from the right wing blogosphere which in the past has tripped up this white house a couple of times. they learn to be fast during the campaign and their first year in office they slowed down a bit. there were a couple of things that came along that they did not summoned to quickly enough. they were on the hair trigger for this one and this is a case where ned an opportunity to think it over and didn't. and now i think they regret it. >> wasn't it also an indictment of the media? it wasn't doctored. it was heavily edited, right? so everybody just replayed it and didn't bother to look at the entire thing. >> a 43 minute speech which is remarkable in a lot of ways because it

the white house claims there's nothing really new in the documents, but spokesman robert gibbs says the leaks constitute a potential national security concern. david martin begins our coverage tonight. >> reporter: the avalanche of documents, most of them classified secret, shows how the u.s. has been losing the war in afghanistan one day at a time. >> the real story of this material is that it's war. it's one damned thing after another. >> reporter: julian assange the head of wikileaks which posted the documents on the web hopes researchers will mine them for a real picture of the war. this new trove covers six years of war in afghanistan through kind of reports both accurate and inaccurate every commander receives at his morning briefing. >> small arms fire and rpg. >> reporter: for instance, this report of the first use of the heat-seeking surface-to- air missile against an american aircraft. a weapon that would cripple u.s. air power if the taliban ever got them in large numbers. most of the reports document what is already well known. for years the u.s. has not had enough troops in

secretary, her boss, tom vilsack personally apologized to her so did white house press secretary, robert gibbs. both said the comments were taken way out of context, regretted a rush to judgment. but serious questions remain about how this all began, and there's no doubt about it. the administration could have handled it better. >> that's right. and ms. sherrod still has questions she wants answered before she accepts the job offer that came from secretary vilsack. >>> we're also watching the gulf this morning. they are preparing to evacuate all ships ahead of what could become tropical storm bonnie. rough weather already forced bp to suspend drilling those relief wells on wednesday. you know, one of them was supposed to be finished in a couple of days. if this hits, it could set efforts back two weeks. sam is tracking i th >>> we begin wi shiey sod. the houn th we have her rean th she's going to joinere our studio. but first, jake tapper has the latest there at the white house. good morning, jake. >> reporter: good morning, robin. you know, you seldom see something like this where somebody cl

some democrats have said after press secretary robert gibbs basically said look it's possible that the could take over the house, they're saying this is not the kind of support that we need right now as we're heading into this election season. but in the end, could losing the house ultimately be good for the president because it certainly helped bill clinton? >> you know erica, i don't think it is ever good to lose. i think you're always better off when you win, but i'll tell you this, i think unless this economy begins to look a lot better, i mean robert gibbs was just stating the obvious, that if things don't get better with all that anger and frustration out there, a lot of democrats are going to lose their seats. a lot of democrats, especially in the house, didn't like to hear that because the way they see it and the way they hear it the president's trying to divorce himself from them and sort of leaving them out there on their own where, you know he can say, you know it's their fault if they get beat. it doesn't have anything to do with me. but again, i think this is just a sympto