teacher is filing -- for robert gibbs. the e-mail said, "the nation's highest paid kindergarten teacher is finally" retiring. we have some special guests coming out who we have sparred with at that most public of podiums. ari fleischer threatened to turn this around and have the former press secretaries asked me questions, something i did not want to do. this ain't kindergarten. this is serious business. when cnn reassign me to capitol hill, i admit i was scared. this is a serious beat -- the big beat. capitol hill is big as well, but this has a narrower scope. for the first time, i went out on the north lawn and covered a crises in north korea. i know that we are dissected here and abroad. dozens of countries are watching these reports on tv and on their iphone, there android -- their androids, you name it. there is more pressure to get the story first and to get the story right and to be fair. the pressure that we have as journalists -- just multiply that when you talk about the press secretaries. the whole world is watc

ktvu.com just look for the egypt tab. >>> in a few hours from now white house press secretary robert gibbs will protect his last white house press briefing. after two years of his top spokeman this is his last day on the job. he was stepping down to become a democratic analyst. gibb's replacement is jay carney the current communication director for vice president joe biden. >>> there is a push in san francisco now to require someone familiar to be san francisco's next police chief. the residents and police officers voice their concerns at a public hearing last night. they don't want to see an outsider get that job. instead, they are lobbying for someone from within the police department who is going to stick around. >> odds are things will get resolved better. promoting from within the department would help moral because it gives us a sense of what they know what we have been through. >> police officers also said the department needs consistency right now. former chief george gascon has been brought in from mesa, arizona. he lasted only 18 months before becoming district attorney. there ar

it was robert gibbs last day a press secretary.mark the occasion the president returned a tie to gibbs that he had borrowed to wear while delivering the key note address to the democratic national convention in 2004. that speech as you may remember is largely credited with catapulting obama on the national stage little known senator from illinois. here's what he said today. >> 10 minutes before we were about to go on stage we were still having an argument about the tie. i bought 5 or 6 tie. and michelle didn't like any of them. axle rod didn't like a couple el of them. he's one of the best dress men in the worl world. so we really valued had opinion. and then somebody, i don't remember who is it was turned and said do you know what, what about gibbs tie? what about gibbs tie that might look good and frankly robert didn't weren't to give it up because he thought he looked really good in the tie but he was eventually to take one for the gipper so took off the tie and i put it on and that's the tie that i wore at the national conventi

. >> robert gibbs and our washington correspondent andrea north joins me now. the political crisis in egypt really has caused a president bush forbe the obama administration. are we now last beginning to see a coherent policy? >> well, very difficult to know because the white house does seem to change positions several times. it does now though appear to be stepping up the pressure again after recent days being criticized in quite a few quarters for appearing to go soft on the muehr barrack government, in particular allowing president mubarak to stay on until the elections planned for september. but i think given the continuing protest, of course, what we saw today, the biggest yet, i think their white house is getting nervous at the yesterday as some put it here being left on the wrong side of history. and there's also criticism coming from some quarters, an influential group of middle east experts put out a report calling what the mubarak government is doing a smoke screen to try to hang on to power and if the white house is not careful, it risks endorsing a

this is the final day on thb for white house press secrey robert gibbs. gibbs >>> there could be a going away party at the white house today. this is the final day on the job for the white house press secretary, robert gibbs. he announced last month that he would be leaving the post to become an outside political advisor to president obama and his re-election campaign. >>> the donald is talking about moving to washington. billionaire donald trump talked with a group of conservatives about the possibility of running for president. "usa today" reports that trump was nearly one of a dozen potential candidates who spoke. the united states is becoming the laughingstock of the world, he says, and he is going to decide by june whether or not to run. >>> officials at the metrodome in minneapolis say the roof will need to be replaced. there is new video that shows the gaping hole in the inflatable roof right after the collapse and during the collapse that happened in december under the weight of some heavy snowfall up in minnesota. it forced the minnesota vikings

all i could afford was robert gibbs. [laughter] robert came to work with me and we had what appeared to be a pretty significant general election. then alan keyes came and and, and that not been our primary focus, we then had an incredible opportunity to speak at the national convention in boston. a lot of you think that most attention was devoted to the speech that i delivered, the keynote speech in boston. in fact, the most challenging problem was what tie to wear. this went up to the very last minute. 10 minutes before we were about to go on stage, we were still having an argument about the tie. michelle did not like any of them. then somebody turned and said, you know what, why don't you wear gibb's tie? frankly, robert did not want to give it up. eventually, and he was willing to take one for the gipper. he took office tie and i put it on and that is the time that i wore at the national convention. he has not said anything about this time all these years. but i have to tell you that i know there is a simmering resentm

you can tell where robert gibbs was looking.d of know where they are generally chanting and you know what they need to get on television. >> he was clearly trying to confuse the moment and dodge the question with humor or by repeating it over and over again. >> these briefings or the raw ingredients of news coverage at the white house. they are not news in and of themselves. the idiot who allowed the tv cameras to go in there -- >> that would be me. [laughter] >> it is not supposed to be carried live on national television. it is supposed to be what reporters used to test and go to other sources and foreign the composite, which is the story they submit to the american people. >> you brought cameras to the briefing room on a regular basis. >> a good idea in 1995, a bad idea when monica lewinsky came along. >> i want to come back to that in a minute. this is the serious business of your job. in sending messages from the white house podium, -- you were there on 911 -- what role did you have in sending messages and were you consciou

today was secretary robert gibbs last day. president obama visited the briefing room to wish him farewell today. >> obviously gibbs' departure is not the biggest one today. >> the president said quote, you couldn't ask for somebody better in the fox hole with you. and he thanked robert gibbs for thanking him in the candidacy and in the white house. the new secretary is carney. >>> a mammogram could save a woman's life. but what if she can't afford one? find out how a special program happening in the south bay set out to meet that very need today. >>> a large truck rolled into san jose today bringing mobile mammogram services to the community. the medical professionals there say it was a matter of finding a need then filling it. >> we have women that are 40 years and older that can't afford to get a mammogram done any where. >> reporter: outside the gardener health center today, women filled out forms and climbed up the steps into a specially equipped truck. this new mobile mammogram unit provides breast cancer screenings for t

. >>> in just a couple hours from now white house press secretary robert gibbs will conduct his last white house press. he is stepping down to become a democratic analysts. gibb's replacement is jay carr any. carney. later this morning a pretrial meet will be held california's use of lethal injections for executions causes unconstitutional severe pain. jeremy fogel ruled in 2006 that the death chamber was out of date. he ordered it to be renovated. a couple days ago he toured the new death chamber. he will hold three more hearings whether on making a decision on resuming lethal injections. >>> one lane of southbound highway 101 is still closed this morning after a motorcycle crash into a highway patrol car. this happened about 9:30 last night on the southbound lanes of highway 101 near holly street. the highway patrol says one of the officers tried to pull over that motorcycle with two men on board. the driver wouldn't stop and crashed into the patrol car. the two men were take ton the hospital. one of them died. the officer was not hurt. sal will join us in a couple of minutes with

. >> how do you think brought gold -- barack obama and robert gibbs have done? >> what a surprise. the reason that president obama 's party lost 63 seats in november is not a message problem. he overreached his mandate. he enacted policies that the overwhelmingly majority of americans disagreed with. i do not see that aa communicions issue. >> do you agree with that? >> no, not entirely. i think that the process of making legislation is compared to sausage making for a very good reasons. president clinton had some of the same problems. if you want to accomplish anything in washington, one of the ways to do it is legislatively. president obama came in and said, i want to do a couple of big things. i want to reform the financial system bred those are big things and they are legislative things. the republicans have adopted a strategy of the just say no. could be president have done a better job of intervening? of course. i think he had a lot of political capital and he took it out and he spent it. >> he went into debt with it >> he was willing to do that. who would have thought two mo

robert gibbs said the government was scared of the will of experience. the language publicly from the obama administration has been carefully guarded on the idea of some spread across the middle east. the u.s. has still had very important allies across the middle east. the obama administration is keen to stress it is following the will of the egyptian people. they are deciding what happens and not powers in washington. >> they always talk about what countries want. they will have a long-term interest in developing the partnership. they had an allied-president mubarak. -- they had an ally in president mubarak. >> the alliance with egypt is key for people in washington. he did allude to the peace agreement between israel and the u.s. he hopes they will keep to that agreement. the importance of the statement tonight is clear. the words of our administration have been carefully chosen. >> thanks for joining us. cairo is regarded as the capital of capital is and has become under the gaze of the entire world. liberation square has truly earned its name. i know

that is the one piece of advice i pass on to robert gibbs.on't forget while those people in the briefing room can drive you crazy people all around the world are watching because they want to know where the leader of the free world stands. >> you are very unusual among white house press secretaries because you have an experience with the state department. >> i told president clinton of the two great job as he gave me that was a more challenging job to be at the podium of the state department because it was harder work. it is a much more substantive press corps. they'll have graduate degrees and don't go for a lot of the silly stuff that happens for the white house. if you have to rise up and express righteous indignation from the white house podium on a matter of critical foreign policy substance after you have been engaged in some political sparring about the republicans are doing, it is jarring for the american public because they don't know which hat you are wearing. are you the official spokesman on behalf of the u.s. government? we devel

robert gibbs called for the lifting of the emergency lot and says that the action taken so far did not meet of the minimum demands of the people. >> it is clear that the egyptian government will have to take some real concrete steps in order to meet the threshold that the people of egypt requires from the government. i think unless or until that process takes hold, you will see the continued pictures that all of us are watching out of cairo and other cities throughout egypt. >> the egyptian foreign minister has publicly rejected what he called american attempts to impose its will on the government in cairo. he said ben that the american vice president had called for the change in status. >> right now, as we speak, we have 10,000 prisoners out of jails that have been destroyed. how can you ask me to despair and the emergency laws? -- how can you ask me to>> hello and welcome. -- how can you ask me to disband. allow me to stabilize. then we will look into the issue. what we are in right now is imaginary. we imagine ourselves in the midst of the nile moving from one back to the other. we

today i got an e-mail and fighting need to a farewell party for robert gibbs. the nation's highest-paid kindergarten teacher is finally leaving the classroom. i thought was funny and all i thought was an insult to my colleagues in the media since we are in that robert room every day. i have been on the speed since march, 2006, and having sparred with the guest at a coming out, ari threatened to turn this around and and have the former press secretaries asked me questions. i can tell you having done this for five years, this is not to the guard. when cnn assignee, i admitted i was scared. this is a big beat. capitol hill is big. it has a narrower scope of domestic politics. when i was covering leaders by a slight dick armey -- the first time i went out on the north lawn, every word i uttered is dissected here and abroad. people in dozens of countries watching these reports. with the social media and the way it is growing, there is more pressure to get the store force. the pressure that we have multiplied that, when you talk about these press secretaries who are a

robert gibbs again called for the lifting of the emergency laws and said that actions taken so far haveot met the minimum demands of the people. >> i think it is clear that the egyptian government will have to take some real concrete steps in order to meet the threshold that the people of egypt require from their government. a lessor until that process takes hold, i think you will -- unless or until that process takes hold, i think you will see the pictures you see at of cairo and out of other cities in egypt. >> the prime minister has publicly rejected what he calls american attempts to put their bent. >> when i heard it this morning, i was really amazed. right now, as we speak, we have 10,000 prisoners loosen the streets, out of jails that have been destroyed. how can you ask me to disband the emergency law while we are in difficulty. give me time. allow me to have control, to stabilize the nation, to stabilize the citizens, and then we would look into the issue. you have a country in transformation. what we are in right now, supposedly, we imagine ourselves in a boat amidst the nile,

. >>> today is the last day on the job for white house press secretary robert gibbs after two years as president obama's top spokesman. he will remain as a democratic analysis. gibb's replacement is jay carney. >>> governor jerry brown is trying to cut costs every way possible yesterday he created quite a buzz when he took a southwest airlines flight by himself no security to address the chamber of commerce? southern california. he chatted with passengers during the flight. brown's predecessor used to travel with a private plane and had a security team. >>> a new terminal at sfo has a new -- it's being hailed as the most modern in the country and the greenest. >> we saved about 12-18 months after the usual construction cycle and the project is also being delivered under budget. >> the building also has increased natural lighting to save electricity. it features restrooms with recycled water and recharging stations for electronics. the new airport and terminal is scheduled to open april 14th. >>> the transit agency has joined ac transit, bart, cal train, and muni in accepting the cards.

. >> robert gibbs also said the obama administration will consider the egyptian government's actionsn reviewing decisions about $1.5 billion in u.s. aid to egypt. they urged egyptian president hosni mubarak to stop the violence but stopped short of saying he should step down immediately. journalists are now being attacked they say by pro-mubark recruiters. we'll be following the developments all day and, of course, bring you the latest at 5 and 6:00. >> jenelle, thanks very much. back here at home more than three-quarters of the nation is feeling the effects of record snow, coatings of ice and high winds steam rolling from texas and the midwest all the way to new england. the blizzard is now considered the third worse in chicago history. 250 drivers had to be rescued from the city's lake shore drive overnight. some were stranded for five hours it is. >> frozen, nothing's moving. it's just like insane. >> we know that hundreds of people were very inconvenienced and we apologize for that. >> more than a million americans could be without power by this afternoon because of downed lines.

spokesman robert gibbs said, "now means now."egypt's army ordered protesters to clear the streets, and the crowds here have thinned but the protests apparently will continue. that is the "cbs evening news" for tonight. i'm katie couric. reporting from cairo. thank you for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> free parking for bus drivers? i'm phil matier in san francisco where the city says no more to that perk. >>> confusion over clipper cards on cal trains. just ahead the $400 mistake you don't want to make. >>> take a look at this beautiful landmark behind me. the clairemont hotel surviving even the oakland hills fire. but now a new problem. bankruptcy. the story coming up. >>> good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm dana king. $80 a month to park. it would be a steal for a lot of people who work in san francisco. but muni drivers are furious that the city is ordering them to pay anything at all. phil matier shows us why muni employees say charging

white house press secretary robert gibbs will be packing up his belongings at the white house.is his last day after a more than two-year tenure. >>> also on the capital the man convicted of killing washington intern chandra levy will be sentenced. he was found guilty in november after nearly a decade after levy disappeared. >>> today marks the anniversary of the release of south african anti-apartheid leader nelson mandela from captivity. he was freed after being held as a political prisoner for 27 years. he would later become south africa's first black president. all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments and those and others as they break on msnbc, and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on "the today show". find out the latest details of the tense situation in egypt with a live report from cairo. and funny man adam sandler drops by to talk about his new movie "just go with it." now, keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm

mentioned to you -- the was a white house briefing earlier and much the white house press secretary robert gibbs spoke of an assassination attempt on the newly appointed vice president. he looked visibly uncomfortable, but he did not deny the report. he said "in not going to deny that question." >> interesting. it was a strong message from barack obama. a stronger message from the streets. we will continue to watch developments. back to you in london. >> lyse doucet in cairo there. mike embley year in london. very good to have you with us. we have a special report from dubai on the life of an egyptian? that trip, asking what this says about the roots of keeping the in uprising in egypt. first though, burma's parliament has named the outgoing prime minister tim finn the first civilian leader of the government. rachel harvey reports from bangkok. >> burma's first civilian president for half a century. but the new man is hardly a radical break with the past. he had a career in the military and only gave up his general's rank in uniform last year so he could leave and military-backed political party

. >> robert gibbs also said the obama administration will consider the egyptian government's actionsn reviewing decisions about $1.5 billion in u.s. aid to egypt. they urged egyptian president hosni mubarak to stop the violence but stopped short of saying he should step down immediately. journalists are now being attacked they say by pro-mubark recruiters. we'll be following the developments all day and, of course, bring you the latest at 5 and 6:00. >> jenelle, thanks very much. back here at home more than three-quarters of the nation is feeling the effects of record snow, coatings of ice and high winds steam rolling from texas and the midwest all the way to new england. the blizzard is now considered the third worse in chicago history. 250 drivers had to be rescued from the city's lake shore drive overnight. some were stranded for five hours it is. >> frozen, nothing's moving. it's just like insane. >> we know that hundreds of people were very inconvenienced and we apologize for that. >> more than a million americans could be without power by this afternoon because of downed lines.

but what helped this time according to robert gibbs is that close aides, marvin nicholson, and a couple others have also quit with him. they've all been smoke free for a year. >> power in numbers. i guess the last dedicated smoker in the white house was fdr. it's been a long time. chuck todd, thanks. >>> up next, after a break, the latest on the newest broadway sensation, love it or hate it. >>> we saw him during the super bowl, this nation's most recent recipient of the medal of honor. army staff sergeant salvatore giunta says he will not reenlist. he will get his college degree on the g.i. bill. the young man from iowa is already a two-tour combat veteran with multiple decorations. it's also true the pentagon traditionally frowns on medal of honor recipients returning to combat, though it has been done. >>> the quotes i'm about to read come from "the l.a. times," "the washington post" and "the new york times." they all have to do with the new broadway musical "spider-man." an artistic form of megalomania. a shrill insipid mess. incoherent. and finally, "spider-man" is so grievously br

here's how robert gibbs described that process at today's press briefing. >> this is about a process,'s not about a personality.grç and it is important that the people see progress toward that meaningful change, just as it is important that those in the opposition take part in this process and put forward what they want to see come out of this. >> reporter: the bottom line, brian, is that their efforts toñ keep pushing mubarak have sort  of been tabled a little bit, as ways the vice president, 1wñ suleiman, and get him to do the reforms he has promised to do to keep doing these meetings with these opposition leaders, in ñ many ways as one person joked with me, it's kind of like mubarak's junior soprano. he's still there, they know he's going to be there for a while. they don't think they can push him out the door in the near term and instead work with suleiman. >> one way of describing it. >> chuck todd at the white house as the diplomacy goes on. chuck, thanks. >>> tonight we want to bring you up to date on the 76-year-old american woman named mary thornberry whose story we've been

president biden was doing there because laettner the day we saw the president's press secretary robert gibbs at his final press release kind of stir the pot. >> the iranian government has been on the spot with these protests because the opposition movement, the green movement has really wanted to highlight its solidarity with the egyptian protestors. and on the one hand want tots embrace what's happening in egypt. they want to try and make sure it is not co-opted by the opposition movement. i think the iranian movement has been clever about this and really try to or kess strait this to orchestrate it and they have done a fairly effective job. >> to what degree are israeli concerns justified that this change of government in egypt might overturn or interfere with the peace treaty? >> i think that the scenario as we understand it and again, it's changed so much so quickly that who knows what it will be by tomorrow. but the scenario of a military council headed by generals of israels is from the israeli point of view given the range of outcome probably the best case scenario. >> the egyptians l

busier days at the obama white house, and yet this was the last day on the job for press secretary robert gibbson, the president showed up in the west wing briefing room and brought a gift, the tie he borrowed from gibbs to deliver the keynote speech at the '04 democratic convention back in boston because mr. obama wasn't even a u.s. senator back then, thought it looked better than any of the ones he brought for the occasion. gibbs had considered the tie long gone and was steamed about the event before he got it back today, albeit under glass. >>> another break. when we come back, why they're calling this the 18 days that changed the world. >>> finally tonight, we have indeed just witnessed 18 days that changed the world. as president obama put it today, egypt will never be the same. this was a genuine people's uprising, a revolution, make no mistake. the largest, biggest of the new media age of blanket media coverage and social media, and so we got to watch and listen as an entire nation went through a massive struggle. something enormously important is happening half a world away from us toni

we saw the press secretary, robert gibbs today, stop short of saying that the president had told mubarak directly last night leave office now. >> i'm not going to get into flushing out some of the very specifics of the conversation that was had. i think progress and change must come to cairo. progress and change must come to egypt and it needs to happen quickly. >> i do not think the president could have been clear with the president of egypt last night. >> reporter: and there are ongoing conversations at all levels of the u.s. government with egyptian officials leaning on mubarak to make this move, the transition to a new leader as the white house likes to say. but they don't want to publicly humiliate this long-time u.s. ally. as one senior aide said to me here today, there are a lot of audiences, including other allies in the middle east who are very, very uneasy. one other note, brian, they have said that the u.s. has gotten assurances from the egyptian military that they will not turn violent on the protesters. back to you. >> savannah guthrie at the white house tonight. savannah, t

we're still waiting for a statement from robert gibbs. in the meantime, more c-span programming here on c-span and c-span radio. or you can check out online act c-span.org. >> a former governor howard dean and former house speaker newt gingrich will debate at 7:00 on c-span. it is hosted by college democrats and republicans at george washington university. we will have that debate for you at 7:00. shortly, we expect to go to the white house for a briefing. that will be live when it happened here on c-span. they will hear about the president's proposed infrastructure spending plan. she is with the center for american progress. host: heather boushey from the center for american progress, a senior economist. what do you see out there? guest: there is research that shows the united states has a crumbling infrastructure kirk a recent report card from the nation's civil engineer's association that said we need trillions of dollars to repair the crumbling infrastructure that we have. let me give you an example from my o neighborhood. i live in t

i think robert gibbs did a great job in many ways but he did two jobs.senior adviser as well as the press secretary and spokesman. a lot of days i think reporters were frustrated they didn't get their calls returned. but i think it's an opportunity for the administration to reset a little bit and redefine the relationship with the press and to kind of start in a new direction. >> either thin skinned or too demanding. thanks to all of you. we will leave it there. that is all for [ male announcer ] at e-trade, low cost investing doesn't just mean a low price. it means getting everything you need to invest for yourself, not by yourself. it means choosing from stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and every etf sold. plus 5-star service and research designed to increase your intelligence, not insult it. so you can wave good riddance to some high-priced joker churning out cookie cutter portfolios. price is one thing. value is another. don't confuse the two. e-trade. investing unleashed. and this is everything people love about it. they're big fans of the 4g speed. and

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white house spokesman robert gibbs says the president was helped by the first lady, and aides who quit around the same time. >> i think when somebody decides to quit smoking, to try to overcome the physical addiction that they have, they do it not just because they want to, but because others want them to. >> reporter: the president started smoking as a teenager, and struggled over the years to quit. in 2009, he admitted to having an occasional cigarette. >> have i fallen off the wagon sometimes? yes. am i a daily smoker, a constant smoker? no. i don't do it in front of my kids. i don't do it in front of my family. >> every year that you don't smoke your risk of lung cancer and copd, emphysema, decreases steadily. >> reporter: the white house hasn't said how the president quit, but he has been known to chew nicotine gum. the first lady says it has been a personal struggle for the president, and many smokers can understand. less than 3% successfully quit every year. kendis gibson, cbs news, los angeles. >>> this morning on "the early show," an exclusive interview with ted williams, home

chris: back at home robert gibbs, the presidential press seck tashe fend his tour -- press secretary finished his tour of office and the new press secretary is jay carney moving up from his job as vice president biden spokesman. this week some of his predecessors held a forum on the tricks. trade of being presidential press secretary. like clever obfuscating and putting down the question, we've seen that. that was one of the chief tricks of nixon's guy, ron ziggler, who had to keep coming up with new ways to defend the indefensible. >> if we were going to tamper with these tapes, we would have done a far better job with it. chris: another trick avoid the tough questions in the room. they were pounding george w. bush's press secretary, scott mcclellan, over that c.e.a. leak story. so day after day mcclellan would call on our press room regular from the indian newspaper the globe, named goyle. the impertinent voice you hear is our buddy david korn. >> there's a deference between commenting on an investigation and taking an action. can i finish, please? >> i'll come back to you in a min

. >>> today is the last day on the job for white house press secretary robert gibbs. after two years, gibbs is stepping down, but will continue to be an outside adviser to the president. gibbs is eventually expected to join obama's re-election campaign. taking over for gibbs will be jay carney, who is vice president joe biden's press secretary. >>> the obama administration will issue reform proposals for the troubled mortgage giants freddie mac and fannie mae. between them the two government-sponsored companies hold more than half of all u.s. home mortgages. anthony mason reports. >> reporter: they were created to help the mortgage market, but fannie mae and freddie mac have become the mortgage market. backing $5 trillion worth of home loans. >> what happens with fannie mae and freddie mac could potentially change the face of american housing. >> reporter: set up by congress as private companies, to expand home ownership, fannie and freddie buy up mortgages from lenders, so those banks have money to lend again. but they're now holding hundreds of billions of dollars i

that is the one piece of advice i pass on to robert gibbs. don't forget while those people in the briefing room can drive you crazy people all aroun the world are watching because they want to know where the leader of the free world stands. >> you are very unusual among white house press secretaries because you have an experience with the state department. >> i told president clinton of the two great job as he gave me that was a more challenging job to be at the podium of the state department because it was harder work. it is a much more substantive press corps. they'll have graduate degrees and don't go for a lot of the silly stuff that happens for the white house. if you have to rise up and express righteous indignation from the white house podium on a matter of critical foreign policy substance after you have been engaged in some political sparring about the republicans are doing, it is jarring for the american public because they don't know which hat you are wearing. are you the official spokesman on behalf of the u.s. government? we deve

robert e. gibbs says that the egyptian people need to see change right now kron4 news rain kelly has spoken to one oakland woman who was able to make it out. >> let us get out of here. >> and janet king was describing what was going to her mind as she watched the political unrest first hand. she was dead it right next to where it easy it these protest happening. police vehicle was blown up right in front of where she was staying. >> we heard an explosion. a couple of them. we looked out the window and we could see up place, people carrier. a troop carrier. it was engulfed in flames. >> the view out of her window was a view of where they were clashing with the police. >> we saw a lot of writing. police with rocks at the demonstrators. --wheat saw all lot of writing. -- rioting >> they could see the police headquarters. but it was on fire. we sought tanks, police headquarters were on their roof shooting at people. but these are live pictures to show you where things are relatively quiet to in cairo. we

, cbs news, washington. >>> friday was the last day on the job for white house press secretary robert gibbs. his boss made a rare appearance in the white house briefing room to mark the occasion. >> obviously, gibbs' departure is not the biggest one today. >> the president also returned a pale blue tie he had bore reed from gibbs back in 2004 when he delivered the keynote address to the democratic national convention. after some time off, gibbs will join mr. obama's 2012 re-election campaign. >>> 60 years behind bars. that is the sentence given to the salvadoran man convicted of killing washington intern chandra levy ten years ago. ingmar guandique will be in prison until he is at least 80 years old. levy's disappearance drew national attention after she was romantically linked to then-california congressman gary condit who was considered a suspect. >>> federal officials have issued a voluntary recall for nearly 2 million baby video monitors with electrical cords. this comes after they were linked to the strangulation deaths of two infants over the past year. the monitors in question are ma

when robert gibbs the press secretary was asked, what does now mean? he said now means yesterday. so there's an urgency and there's a real concern officials tell me, the president is concerned that mubarak is going to delay this transition of power and that could cause a lot of trouble for the united states. >> charlie: and how do they see what might come after this and the u.s. relationship and the change in the middle east? >> not good. they don't see it as necessarily -- i don't think that there's anybody in the administration who thinks that the next government of egypt is going to be as close or cooperative with the u.s. even if it's headed by elbaradei, you won't have the kind of cooperation that egypt has provided to the united states. and the issue's specifically that they're worried about our counter storm of course and they're talking about the peace accords with israel, talking about access to the suez canal. how strong will the next egyptian government be when it comes to iran's nuclear program. there is a real concern about what comes next and no confidence about what

. >> ifill: at the white house, press secretary robert gibbs reinforced that message. he said vice president suleiman and the egyptian regime must do much more than they've done so far. >> i think it is clear that what the government has put thus far put forward has yet to meet the minimum threshold for the people of egypt. and i think unless and until that process takes hold, i think you're going to see the continued pictures that all of us are watching out of cairo and out of other cities throughout egypt. >> lehrer: amid the diplomatic exchange today, the unrest in egypt spread to more of cairo and beyond. and there was word of more protesters being killed. we have a report from lindsey hilsum of "independent television news." >> reporter: a new front in egypt's unfinished revolution. this morning, we found protestors marching up and down the streets between the parliament and the prime minister's office. others were still sleeping. they'd spent the night on the pavement. the parliament, they say, has no legitimacy anymore. the protestors have now blocked off the st

house today because this is the final day on the job for that man, white house press secretary robert gibbsnounced early last month that he would be leaving that post to become an outside political advisor to president obama and his re-election campaign. >>> the founder of wikileaks is in court for the third day. julian assange is fighting extradition to sweden in a sex crimes case. closing arguments are set for today. assange's lawyers argue that if he was sent to sweden that would put him at risk of being sent to america to face further charges related to wikileaks. >>> 5:38 on your friday help for struggling home owners. the new state program aimed at fighting off flow, coming up. >> the one question cashiers can no longer ask you at the register. ,,,, ooo whatcha got there? uh oh, sesame stir fry from lucky dynasty. oh, me too! but mine's lean cuisine, so no preservatives. [ female announcer ] lean cuisine has 90 dishes with no preservatives and quality ingredients like farm-picked broccoli and tender white meat chicken. lean cuisine. delicious, real ingredients with no artificial flavo