our live interview with robert gibbs coming up.hile, stunning news about the so-called gay blogger said to have been kidnapped in syria. lisa sylvester is monitoring that and some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what's going on here, lisa? >> reporter: hi, wolf. well, a blog that drew worldwide attention has now been revealed as a hoax. perpetrated by this man, an american scholar living in scotland. tom mcmaster led readers to believe that the blog belonged to a young lesbian in syria and entries claiming she was abducted sparked an online campaign demanding her release. mcmaster said he was trying to draw attention to the dire situation in syria. cnn was among the many organizations reporting on the blog, and cnn has not been allowed into syria to comfort unrest. >>> fire crews are making some progress on that huge wildfire in arizona, the second largest on record in that state. they have stopped the northward advance and are now focusing on the eastern flank, building fire lines in new mexico. the so-

lot to talk about with our political panel and we'll have congressman ron paul will join us and robert gibbs, former spokesman for president obama. and john king, wolf blitzer, david gergen and chief of staff and 2008 obama pollster, political crib on the cornell belcher. and dana lash. as i said, joining us also, congressman ron paul and obama campaign surrogate, robert good. wolf, as you watched tonight what was the key moment or key exchange or one of them that stuck out? >> i thought that tim pawlenty had a real chance to differentiate himself between the frontrunner mitt romney on the issue of health care reform. yesterday tim pawlenty took a swipe at mitt romney because mitt romney supported mandates and massachusetts when he was governor for universal health care in that state. and, yesterday, took a swipe at him and today, he had an opportunity to really go further on that and he backed off and he was very polite. a missed opportunity for him. >> i know a number of our analysts point out moments -- i want to play that moment for the viewers in case you missed it. watch. >> you don't

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. >> the democrats are saying they put out a long memo and i spoke to robert gibbs the former white housempshire. they make the point. if you like the way president bush left the economy back in the end of 2008, re-elect these republicans right now. you'll get that in spades. >> i'm not sure that's going to get a lot of traction, wolf. i think in the first year or two, you could hang the economy around bush. i think that was a legitimate argument. now i think a growing number of americans feel this is the obama economy, and what they were looking forward from robert gibbs and other democrats, what are your plans to get us out of this. how do we move forward? >> what you hear from the democrats is looking at governors like mitt romney, pawlenty, they're going to say, what was the economy like in your state when you were running things? tim pawlenty left with a large deficit, right? >> let me play that little clip. the new mitt romney video going after the president. what he said a little while ago. listen to this. >> there's always bumps on the road to recovery. >> i'm an american, not a b

this is when ethan gibbs, robert gibbs son, joined the president and team on stage.s it going to fit? is it going to fit? no. auburn native, a huge auburn fan, robert gibbs, obviously he was in attendance. >>> an 18-year-old kid accused of hacking into the security system of fbi. police raided his home in greece and more than 120 credit cards and thousands of euros in cash. he got new credit cards in the names of computers that he allegedly hacked. the computers found in his apartment, police confiscated flares and shotgun cartridges and a homemade bomb. >>> and this is the first time we have seen this perspective of the international space station. kind of cool. the photos were taken 220 miles above earth by the crew on the spacecraft after it undocked from the iss. space shuttle "atlantis" is launching july 8th. i will be there. >>> a growing number of americans are worried that the u.s. is going to slip into a great depression over the course of the next 12 months. alison, here's the poll. let's take a look. it finds that 48% think we are headed into another great

and former white house press secretary robert gibbs. >>> plus the remarkable story of an 8-year-old girl who got rabies and against all odds survived. >>> plus top republicans will answer your questions on the economy during our special town hall on, of course, the economy. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching, everyone. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. ,,,,,,,,

cover every step of the way as we always do. >> did you see that -- i think it was last week, robert gibbs was trying to put cam newton's hat on, wouldn't quite fit him. did you see that video? >> it was adorable. he went to auburn. he's an alum. he's not objective when it comes to that issue. >> just curious if his son would be there. we'll look for you in a couple of minutes. the big debate tonight on cnn. for today's installment of political pop, i want to remind just a couple of weeks. >> i do the weiner jokes around here, guys. and really, who is boehner fooling. who am i? i'm serious, brother, just embrace it. >> it's the sounds of tables turning when john boehner got his chance to fire back on the new york congressman with the funny name. don't miss this if you haven't seen it. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you'

locked in battle robert gibbs and the press corps.es called him thick headed. >> you'll need a bigger helmet. >> more tweets, more chats, an explicit photo. it's even getting worse for anthony weiner. now reports that his wife huma is pregnant. >> if it took place during marriage i'd see a divorce lawyer. this stand by your man crap makes women look like idiots. >> simone na says they should try to work it out. too many divorces in this decade. >> donna moody on facebook, i would be at my attorney's office the day he told me. pregnant or not, she's accomplished in her own right and doesn't need a man to support her. she'll probably divorce him at some point anyway. why prolong the marriage? >> many said like many other wronged wives, what she chooses to do is up to her, not the media or public opinion. please leave the poor woman alone. >>> a tweet or tell us on facebook and we'll read your thoughts later in the hour. [ manager ] you know... i've been looking at the numbers, and i think our campus is spending too much money on printin

robert gibbs is in manchester to go on the defense morning. good morning. how are you? >> good morning, how are you guys? >> let's start with the debate, republican candidates on the offensive. uniformly attacking president obama. were you surprised they didn't put their hands on one another? they krael kind of stayed nice and easy breezy last night and they had opportunities, including governor pawlenty. >> well, look. i think from the political perspective like that, i think they are trying as much as anything to introduce themselves to the american people but i think you guys just touched on it in the past, the last interview with governor pawlenty. he has a record that left minnesota with a budget deficit. mitt romney's record on the economy, when he was governor, massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 states in creating jobs. so i can understand why these guys would want to attack somebody else. and not talk about their own records. >> let's talk about the economy here and president obama. when he ran for the job he was critical of president bush's efforts. two and a

his former press secretary, robert gibbs, is i guess a big fan of the tigers.ought his son to the ceremony. you can see here, obama had a very hard time getting the helmet onto the kid's head. you'd think with those ears, he would be more sensitive to something like that, but -- it's like bp trying to cap the oil spill. if i said it once, i said it 100,000 times. first, you dip the child's head in butter. then you squeeze the helmet on to his head. there's a heat wave settling on about half of the country right now. much of the southeast and midwest had temperatures over 100 degrees today. it got so hot in new york, a congressman there took off his pants and tweeted a picture of it. [ laughter ] anthony weiner is still in the news for the worst possible reason. is it too late for him to tell people it's pronounced "wine-er"? as i'm sure you're aware, earlier this week, congressman weiner admitted to having tweeted a picture of his crotch to a college student in seattle and to having inappropriate relationships with other women online. today, a fifth woman from

brotherhood and the obama administration, i'll never forget is a quo a few days after mubarak fell, robert gibbsformer press secretary said we want all parties in egypt involved in the political process including, and he specifically mentioned this, non-secular parties. hello, the muslim brotherhood. this is madness. >> host: yeah, i don't see the christians involved. i want to get into more thoughts on the arab spring in a moment, but i don't want to miss the opportunity to find out how a young 25-year-old freelance reporter in phillie became so involved in domestic terrorism, the pursuit thereof, and stealth or civilization jihad. this is your book of business, pretty much all you do now. how did you get from here to there? what got you? was it 9/11? >> guest: it was. it was a water shed moment in our lives and mine as well, fred. i started out, and first of all, i dedicate the book to my fare who was a para trooper for the 101st airborne, a patriot, loved the military and this country, and for a kid in northeast philadelphia working class, very interesting dinner table conversations about the

now former white house spokesman robert gibbs is making the rounds on tv this morning saying last night's same old same old and the candidates were aspousing the views that got the country in this economic mess. more from the candidates during my next update in about an hour. for now live in washington d.c., allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> so far the united nations security council has not been able to come to an agreement on sanctions on syria to push for an end of the government crack down there. human rights groups say more than 1400 syrians have died and 10,000 have been detained since the popular uprising began in march. four european countries on the u.n. security council are pushing for sanctions, but china and russia are against it. >> the security council react on syria which i think is extraordinary and disappointing. >> now in the last week more than 5,000 syrians have fled over the board tore turkey to escape the violence. a string of tent cities has now been set up along the border. >>> time now 6:17. joran scheduled to be in courtroom in peru today. he's accused of k

and he sent his former press secretary robert gibbs up to new hampshire to start pushing back on all the republican attacks that are coming their way tonight. >> woodruff: if we didn't know better we would think it was farther along in the election cycle. >> the campaign season is officially here, judy, have no doubt. >> woodruff: david chalian reporting from manchester, new hampshire. we will be talking to you tomorrow night. you will be back here about how this debate went. >> looking forward to it. >> woodruff: thank you. >> thank you. >> brown: still to come on the newshour, a top al qaeda operative dead; strains in the u.s.-pakistan alliance; the pentagon papers, 40 years on; and justice john paul stevens. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: continuing government crackdown on protesters in syria forced more people to flee across the border into turkey today. on sunday, the military reined in protesters in a northern border town using elite ground forces, helicopters, and tanks. we have a report from john ray of independent television ne

you also have to look at the polls and listen to david axelrod and robert gibbs and see who is leading in the republican primary. they don't want anyone to come out of the gates strong. >> we'll see if she starts hitting up on michele bachman, to see if they start taking her seriously. another conference in minnesota with conservative activists. she brought down the house. she's starting to pick up steam, i think. >> she could win in iowa. the thing to watch this week this is the last week they can raise money for this quarter. it will be interesting to see who comes out of this quarter with the most money. it's really the big tell. let's watch that at the end of the week. >> and how newt gingrich does if any of those donors stick with him too. there's a lot to talk about here in politics. a lot going on this week. >> a discussion that will continue for quite some time. jan crawford and ron fournier we appreciate your time this morning. thank you from washington. >> thanks. >> interesting how it c thanks so. . that's your latest weather. erica and jeff coming up flooding, arizona wildf

again, robert gibbs was obviously there. he is an auburn native and huge auburn fan. >>> so that is it for me here in atlanta. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for watching. now "the situation room" with wolf blitzer starts right now. >>> brooke, thank you very much. happening now a. cold hard look at american bloodshed and money spent in afghanistan. a new report suggests that the united states has been wasting bui billions of dollars. stand by. >>> congressman anthony weiner reaches out to the master of a sex scandal. the pressure for weiner to resign possibly getting pushed out of the way. >>> was a man behind a police shooting video telling the truth? officers are fighting back claims that they tried to prevent the video release through intimidation and harassment. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >>> president obama and afghan president karzai had a lot to talk about during their telephone conference today. talking about whether withdrawing the troops sooner rather than later. also the white hou

robert gibbs, something you knew well when covering the white house.n "american morning" and he's base lick a surrogate for the obama campaign. take a listen to what he had to say. >> i think you saw republicans were trying to spend more time trying to bash the president than talking about their own records. if you're mitt romney and you ranked 47th out of 50 in terms of state job creation when you were a governor, or tim pawlenty who left minnesota with a $6.2 billion deficit. no wonder you want to talk about somebody else. >> i think what the democrats are ready for, they're ready for a fight. bring it on. >> all right. bring it on. >> a lot of folks were not on stage that could be game changer, what do we know about folks jumping in? >> let's talk about rick perry, longtime governor of texas, where is he today? new york city. he's going to meet with adviser, fund-raisers. he'll be a headline speaker at a republican party dinner. >> later in the week, he's going to be in new orleans where a lot of these contenders will be. perry is seriously thinking

. >> last question -- david axelrod and robert gibbs were here today. >> we're focusing a football --e are focusing on a football team this year as well. i do not know particular beyond robert's presence here to celebrate the national championship of his beloved football team. beyond that, i did not know specifically what those meetings might be, but obviously, there is ample reason. again, i do not know that there are any meetings. for all i know, ax was here having lunch with somebody. >> the president said he does not expect another recession. the chairman of the federal reserve yesterday discouraged the notion of a qe3 or any further monetary easing. there is a perception today that there is sort of a stand back attitude on the economy coming from washington. do you dispute that perception? >> i would. again, whether it is free trade agreements or making permanent the r&d tax credit the president supports, and then taking the serious approach the president has taken towards deficit reduction in these very important meetings and negotiations being led by the vice president, which r

meanwhile, former presidential press secretary robert gibbs is also traveling to new hampshire today.ll be in manchester tonight giving network interviews on the president's agenda. today marks 40 years since the leak of the pentagon papers that was just mentioned. a secret government study and conduct in vietnam war. that report set to be released in its entirety today. we will talk about it coming up on "washington journal." an international update this hour. jordanian security official says the motorcade of king of the law has been attacked with empty bottles and stones during a visit to a southern town. the king escaped unharmed. the attack earlier today comes hours after he agreed to popular demands for electing a prime minister from our parliamentary majority. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. host: connect with c-span on line. the continuing conversations on facebook, political places in washington and beyond with four square. c-span and social media, connect today. innext month, dr. anall other activists, linda hogan. her latest, rounding the human corner

. >> they vote -- david axelrod, robert gibbs, they are all here today. anita doug is here. >> i do not know beyond robert's presence, specifically what those means might be. obviously, -- meetings might be. >> obviously there is ample reason. >> you are not involved? >> i was not involved. >> the president says he does not expect a double dip recession. the chairman of the federal reserve yesterday discouraged the notion of qe 3, or any other further monetary easing. there is a perception today that there is a stand pat attitude on the economy coming from washington. would you disagree with that? >> i would. again, whether it is free trade agreements, or making permanent the research and development tax credit the president supports, and then taking a serious support -- approached the president has taken toward deficit reduction in these meetings been led by the vice- president which resumes tomorrow, there is a lot of activity driven by the desire to continue to grow the economy, and continue to create jobs. again, the president is focused on this as his