wolf blitzer will join us also.y with us. >>> we begin this hour with breaking news from capitol hill. our dana bash breaking the news for us. disgraced congressman anthony weiner has decided to resign. we're told an announcement could come anytime. as you know, he's been embroiled in this sexting scandal. remember when he actually came forward and shocked us all with this personal mountains take that he talked about. >> it's just not something that can be treated away. this is my own personal mistake. >> a mistake, wolf blitzer, that just got more and more dramatic. it was several photos. as we saw mary snow report yesterday, now it's turned into thinks conversations, one even involving a porn actress. wolf, what do you think will happen today? >> i think it's going to be official. dana's sources are good. it's unclean whether it will be made personally or the form or speaker, nancy pelosi. she has a news conference this hour, maybe she'll make the announcement on his behave. but clearly he made the decision togeth

wolf blitzer, rush order, 9 x 12 giant glossy of a [bleep]. omer name blitzer, first initial w, wolf blitzer. i won't have the posters until the weekend. (laughter) i can tell you something, man, this whole story is a drag. i really, i like this guy, i respect this guy. i don't want to give this the full daily show treatment. >> then don't do it, jon. >> jon: who's that? >> it's me, your friend tom brokaw. nbc nightly news. >> jon: yeah. >> don't be distracted by juveniles gossip. stick to the romney story. (laughter) >> jon: you're right news angel tom brokaw. >> hey, snoopy, don't listen to that knuckle head. you're a comic. it's a story about a guy name add weiner's weener. once in a lifetime. >> jon: dammit comedy rickems true. but he is my friend. >> comedians don't have friends. they have ex-wifes and irritable bowel syndrome. >> remember the core, facts, truth and -- >> weiner's weaner. >> fact, true, just. >> weiner's weaner. >> facts-- truth, justice. >> weiner's weaner. >> jon: let's do this. all right, fine. ♪ oh yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ i

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wolf blitzer, thank you so much.t a quick note, tomorrow i will be joined by a lawmaker pushing legislation, in all of places, new york, that will change the law for teenagers who get in trouble for sexting. now, top of the hour, watch this. are you safe in the hospital? one surgeon is blowing the whistle on his claims about supplies and infections are disturbing. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >> barack obama has failed americans. >> a new poll suggests mitt romney is now beating the president. why the race in 2012 could come down to one issue. >> this is it right here on our left. >> a marine is dead after a s.w.a.t. team puts 22 bullets inside of him. officers call it a drug raid. some in the community call it suspicious. and now brand-new pictures inside this crime scene are raising more questions than answers. we have the photos. >>> plus, revelations from the courtroom. witnesses take the stand in the casey anthony murder trial to talk about what was found in her car. >> when you first opened it, what was

i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." for our international viewers, "world report" is next. in north america, "john king usa" starts right now. >> thanks, wolf. tonight, al qaeda picks a new leader and vows to avenge osama bin laden's death. but first, weiner bowed to intense pressure from democratic leaders who complained his sexting scandal was hurting the entire party. >> i'm here today to again apologize for the person mistake, i have made and the embarrassment i have caused. i make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents but i make it particularly to my wife huma. i'd hoped to be able to continue the work the citizens of my district elected me to do, to fight for the middle class. unfortunately, the distraction i have created has made that impossible. so today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. >> that fall from grace came 19 days after the congressman initially blamed a hacker for sending a lewd photograph on his twitter account. and it came ten days after weiner acknowledged he did send that photo, as well as engage in inappropriate online relationsh

wolf blitzer, i am sure you have been watching this thing right along with me, right along with many,ople who have been watching. wolf, it was with you with whom he spoke last wednesday. you to whom he said, this wasn't me. >> yeah. he was clearly lying. not just to his friends and his family but lying to all of us because i asked them several questions and he now admits he didn't tell us the truth when i asked specifically, did you send that picture to that woman in washington state, that young college student. he said no, absolutely no. and now he's acknowledging that it was a lie. when i said, what about other pictures, did you send other pictures, you knew if they were your underpants, he came up with an explanation that photos can be doctored, sometimes you send stuff from one account and it looks like it's coming from another twitter account. all of that was now sceeen as a lie. he should have been honest last week because, as you know n. washington it's always the cover up which is very often so much worse than the initial sin or crime or if there was a crime, of a wrongdoing,

listen to what he told cnn's wolf blitzer. >> sometimes a prank is a prank.i am trying to treat it that way. hopefully, my marriage survives, my first anniversary. >> this whole scandal is the first many americans are learning about congressman wiener. let's take a look at his career outside of twitter gate. cnn's suzanne malveaux explains how the guy from brooklyn became a liberal fire brand in washington. >> reporter: anthony wiener is new york to the core, born in brooklyn to a lawyer and a school teacher. he went to a state university aiming to be a tv weatherman. when that didn't work, he turned to politics working for then congressman charles schumer and hanging out with good friend, comedian, jon stewart. six years after college, he mounted a long shot bit for new york city council. he turned his scrappy nature into votes and at age 27, became, at the time, the youngest person elected to the council. quickly becoming a thorn in the side of fellow counselman and new york may yoer, david dinkens. he jumped in and ran to replace him in the house. on capit

let's check in with wolf blitzer in washington with a look at what's coming up on "the situation room panneta was officially approved. >> no. he's been around a long time and i covered him since he was on the house budget committee and then president clinton in 1993 brought him to the office of management and made hum budget director and shortly thereafter he brought him to the white house to become his chief of staff and now he's about to become defense secretary of the united states. he's highly regarded here in washington, not just by democrats, but by republicans as well and that's why he got the speedy confirmation as the next secretary of defense. he will head over to the pentagon and we'll see if general petraeus has been nominated to become the next cia director replacing pan ate and gets that lopsided vote in his confirmation. i assume he will. he's pretty popular as well. so things are moving on the national security front at least as the personnel situation is concerned, pretty smoothly for the president. he does have a huge problem with afghanistan right now. a lot of folk

home stories. >>> now, coming up in a couple of minutes, "the situation room" with my colleague wolf blitzeritzer, what do you have coming up? >> i love those stories, too, i don't have a tissue, you watch that for a little while, you appreciate the sacrifices those men and women do for all of us them go spend six months, a year and then they do it repeatedly overseas in a dangerous environment whether in iraq, whether or not weather in afghanistan. they finally come home they see their little kids, it's always, always so nice to see that reunion. we are going to have all the important news, including the breaking news on newt gingrich's presidential campaign. you have been reporting it. we are going in depth on what's going on. is his campaign imploding right now with the mass exodus of all of his top aids? what is going on with new england? a lot on that also taking a look at leon panetta's confirmation hearings as the next secretary of defense. what's he saying about u.s. troop withdrawals potentially from afghanistan? what about who's going to pay for all of this especially if libya? got

i'm wolf blitzer.w, john is getting ready to moderate tonight's first new hampshire presidential debate which you will see only here on cnn. before we focus in exclusively on the political story, there are more important developments unfolding right now that you need to know about from the middle east. >>> tonight, both the united states and syria are pointing to a hoax in order to build international support. the hoax is that a u.s.-born man who's been studying at university in scotland is behind the "gay girl of damascus gts blog. there is no such woman even though it was widely reported, including here on cnn, she was taken into custody last week. syria's government says it proves much of the international reporting about conditions in syria are lies. the u.s. government disagrees. >> i think it speaks to the appalling human rights situation in syria that so many people saw this story, heard about this story, took it to be credible. >> tonight syria's military says it has restored security and tranq

i think people should treat it that way. >> wolf blitzer join us now. wolf, it was a riveting interview. the rest of it can be seen online, i should point out. he was so frank with you. yesterday, he seemed to be obfuscating. would you take us into the room? what happened before and after the sit-down? >> he wanted to give us the story. he did one interview with each the networks. it was basically one after the other. everybody had a little time to set up their own crews, their lights. we told them we would do it live. he said fine. originally supposed to be five or six minutes. we went closer to 20 minutes. he didn't complain at all. he wanted to get his story out. we asked him all the tough questions. not easy, as you know, jessica, for a reporter to ask those kinds of questions. but, you know, he's a congressman. it comes with the territory. he answered the questions. left some of the answers vague i should say. but he did the best he could. >> but he really did reveal more to you and answered more directly than he had in the past -- >> he denied fran

i'll ask the man who broke the story, andrew bright bart, plus wolf blitzer and christiane amanpour on the political fallout and dr. drew pins ky on anthony weiner's challenges and then tatum o'neal as she talks about her battle with addiction. she tells an incredible true life story. drugs, her marriage to bad boy john mcenroe, and most of all, her troubled relationship with her father. tatum o'neal talking about ryan. >>> your brother said your father gave him drugs when he was, i think, 11. did he do that to you? >> you'll to have ask him. >> why do i have to ask that? >> because we have a show that we're doing and it just -- i don't want to say any incriminating things that will kind of make it harder to kind of make peace. i know for sure my dad made a lot of mistakes. i'm sure that he is living with them today. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. an extraordinary moment just a few hours ago. congressman anthony weiner announcing his resignation amidst shouts from hecklers. listen to this. >> unfortunately the distract that i have created has made that impossible. so

you have wolf blitzer in "the situation room." wolf, take it away. >> this hour, mitt romney and sarah palin on his turf and on his back about health care. stand by. congressman anthony weiner says he won't talk about the lewd photo controversy anymore but a day after he spoke to me and other reporters, a lot of people are not satisfied with the explanation that weiner has given. >>> and another break with online hackers. it compromises hundreds of personal e-mail accounts and leaves some top u.s. officials feeling vulnerable. internet analysts are warning that the bad guys are winning. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." supporters and rivals always knew this day would come, when he kicked off his second presidential campaign. after all, he's pretty much been running since he lost back in 2008. today romney declared that he's ready to take on president obama. >> when barack obama came to office, we wished him well and hoped for the best. now in the third year of his fourth year term or his four-year term, we have mor

i'm wolf blitzer in chicago. you're in "the situation room." >> i'm the president of the united states and i want to make sure that i am not engaging in scare tactics. >>> one month and three days before the deadline, the president held a rare white house news conference today, his first since march. there's a lot for us to dissect today about the economy, the wars that are ongoing, the politics, the tone of the president's remarks. let's go straight to our white house correspondent. she's standing by with more. >> hi there, wolf. if you were listening to this press conference, i know certainly i was struck by one moment. and i know a lot of other people were as well. perhaps the most colorful part of this press conference, an analogy the president made talking about his daughters. >> a press conference? more like a shove. president obama schooled conference on how to get their work done on time. >> malia and sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time. malia is 13, sasha is 10. they don't wait unti

candy crowley, cnn, washington. >> and now to wolf blitzer with a look at what you and the sit room team you have coming up? >>> we've got a lot more coming up on jon huntsman, who's going to announce tomorrow. from the statue of liberty behind him, that he wants to be president of the united states. the pros and cons, what he brings to the equation. we're going in depth on that. and a lot more coming up on what's going on in libya, syria right now. we're getting a lot more information about syria and iran, what iran's up to. barbara starr is here. norm coleman, former republican senator from minnesota, he knows a lot about these two guys from minnesota who want to be president of the united states. a woman, michelle bachmann, who's the congressman from minnesota, and tim pawlenty, the former governor of minnesota. we've got a lot to talk about. >> wolf, we'll see you in a couple minutes. thank you so much, sir. >>> and he's not president obama but apparently plays one on television. did you see what happened when this impersonator spoke to the crowd of republicans in new orleans? they y

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i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation. up first, the growing controversy swirling around newt gingrich. just one day after the stunning revelations that most of the senior staff and the potential viability of the candidate. gingrich now insists that he's in it for a long hall and explaining the campaign breakup this way. >> there's a fundamental strategic difference between the traditional community and the kind of campaign i want to run. now, we'll find out over the next engineer who is right. >> let's bring in gloria borger who has been working the story for us. what are these fundamental differences that newt gingrich is talking about? >> well, it's very clear, in trying to piece this together over the last couple of days, that this is a campaign staff that felt they had completely lost control of their candidate, that there was a candidate who had no discipline, who wouldn't adhere to the schedule they wanted. it was very difficult in terms of getting him to focus on a particular vision or a pa

i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." john king usa starts right now. >> thanks, wolf and good evening. a stunning admission from democratic congressman anthony wiener of new york. hours after new embarrassing photographs of wiener were posted by a conservative website, he said he lied when he said a hacker sent a suggestive photo on his twitter account to a young woman in washington state. >> it's clear the picture was of me and i sent it. i am deeply sorry for the pain this caused my wife and our family and my constituents and friends, supporters and staff. in addition over the past few years, i have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over twitter, facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women i met online. i exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with six women over three years. for the most part these communications to place before my marriage though some sadly took place after. to be clear, i never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time. >> the c

pictures from his twitter account to women, and then he lied about it, he even lied to our own wolf blitzerm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> al qaeda introduces its new number one. [ speaking foreign language ] >> find out why ayman al zawahiri's hatred for the u.s. is personal. >>> we've heard the accusations of widespread rape in libya. now there may be proof. >> after weeks of hearing of these cell phone rape videos, we for the first time have a copy of one. >> horrifying moments of one woman being assaulted. this is a cnn exclusive. >>> some of the weapons u.s. troops use are being made with counterfeit parts, and they're coming from china. i'll speak live with one senator about why the chinese are refusing to help investigate. >>> and -- the moments that really matter. >> i was hoping that we would make it home in time for father's day. welcome back. the feds have sent out a warning that terrorists could be targeting specific americans, including people from the government, people within business, members of the media even. we're gathering the facts right now. more on the potentia

let's go to wolf blitzer live in new hampshire. take it away. >>> just three hours from now, cnn's first republican presidential debate. should anthony weiner be forced to resign? and billions and billions of dollars air lifted by u.s. officials to iraq go missing. just ahead -- the disturbing details of what authorities now believe happened to all that money. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're live here in manchester, new hampshire where last-minute preparations are now under way for cnn's first republican presidential debate. less than three hours from now, six run candidates and one potential white house hopeful will formally square off. here are the contenders, the former massachusetts governor mitt romney. he's considered the early front runner this race. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty who's expected to hit romney hard on his controversial health care plan. newt gingri newt gingrich whose stunning campaign implosion threw his entire candidacy into question. ron paul, making his third presidentialed

. >> here's what he told wolf blitzer today. >> did you send that picture to that college student in washington state? >> i did not. this seems like it was a prank to make fun of my name. this seems like a prank that has gotten an enormous amount of picture. >> this is the picture, is this you? >> i can tell you this, we have a firm that we hired -- i've seen it. we have a firm we've hired to get to the bottom of it. i can tell you this, that photos can be manipulated and one thing changed to look like something else. we're going to try to get to the bottom of this. maybe jon stewart last night had it right unfortunately, but we're going to get it right. this is turned into a who done it. what it is i think is a prank. i'm treating it as a prank. i understand you want to pursue the story and we're going to try to help you as best we can. >> we want to resolve it once and for all. you would know if this is your underpants, correct? >> i appreciate you continuing to flash that at me. i've said we're going to try to get to the bottom of what happened here. i want to caution you, and you

for that, we turn to wolf blitzer. he joins me now from washington.l hopefuls speaking in new orleans. newt gingrich, one of them, said he was going to shock us or had some aggressive words. just how aggressive were they? >> they were pretty aggressive against the mainstream national news media, t.j. he's at that gop conference in new orleans. a lot of the presidential republican candidates are there and he really blasted the mainstream media for the criticism that he's been hearing lately, involving not only some of his business dealings, but also his wife, callista, and he really went after the president of the united states. once again, saying this. he said, i got criticized a little bit in the elite media because i said obama's the most successful food stamp president in american history. then gingrich said, well, guess what, obama is the most successful food stamp president in american history. not backing away at all. he was really tough on the president, tough on the mainstream media. we'll see how that plays out in his quest for the republican

i want to bring in wolf blitzer, who's pretty much seen it all, and who interviewed congressman weiner, sat right here, and told him a complete pack of lies. have you ever seen anything quite like this? >> usually when they lie, they sort of hedge it and they dissemble and find an element that maybe you can quibble over, what that word really meant or what it didn't mean, but he flat-out lied. he looked at us right in the face, me, but all of our viewers out there, not just me, but did a whole series of interviews. >> let's watch a clip, because it's fascinating now to look back on just how brazen this was. >> you would know if this is your underpants, for example. >> i appreciate you continuing to flash that at me. look, i've said the best i can that we're going to try to get to the bottom of what happened here. but i just want to caution you, and you understand this, you're a pro, that photographs can be manipulated, photographs can be taken from one place and put in another place, photos can be doctored. and i want to make sure that we know for sure what happened here. it certainly

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> there's some unsuspected is suspense as republican hopefuls get ready for the cnn presidential debate. you'll see them monday night when they gather to size one another up and hash out the issues. in a stunning twist, newt gingrich is scrambling to rebuild his campaign staff after his top adviser suddenly quit and his campaign co-chairman defects to the pawlenty campaign. .gingrich says still intends to attend the debate. you can't tell the players without a scorecard and that's certainly the case with the crowded field of republican candidates. there are some familiar faces but no one has emerged as an all-star, at least not yet. our chief political correspondent candy crowley gives us a look at the line-up. >> no arguing the field has breadth. >> who's the chili guy? >> there is mitt romney, the former republican governor of liberal massachusetts who needs to convince primary doubters of his core conservativism. >> we're going to return the author

i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >>> the gop race to the white house plowing full speed ahead. seven candidates taking the stage this week for the first time together to square off on the issues only here on cnn here is our national political correspondent, jessica yellin. >> reporter: at the first major debate of the primary season. >> say hello to your seven candidates. >> reporter: there were seven different voices but one common message. >> this president has failed. he has failed at a time when the american people counted on him to create jobs and get the economy going. this president is a declineist. he views american as one of equals around the world. >> reporter: no surprise shall the candidates drew a bull's eye on the president's economic stewardship. >> has he done one thing right when it comes to the economy in this country? >> boy, that's a tough question. no, no, i can't think of anything. >> reporter: what did surprise some, minnesota governor, tim pawlenty, passed up a

"the situation room" begins with wolf blitzer. wolf, to you. >>> happening now, a formal request for an ethics investigation of congressman anthony weiner. stand by for new details about his raunchy online contacts with women and whether he broke any house rules or laws. also, president obama insists he isn't worried that the koumpbt tree may be sliding back into a recession. but there's no evidence that the economy is a serious drag on his re-election campaign. one rival saying he needs economic rehab. and a glaring gap in the securities situation around the world. why millions of bogus or stolen passports are not being checked, documents that could be used by terrorists. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." all that can'ting up. first, the war of words over libya as nato bombs fell around tripoli, moammar gadhafi sounded as defiant as ever. president obama stood his ground against ga ddhafi with the germ chancellor at his side. brianna. >> reporter: wolf, today at the white house, president and obama and they lost ov

the next day congressman weiner lied to and stonewalled wolf blitzer. >> did you send that picture to that college student in washington state? >> i did not. she says she never got it and doesn't know me. i don't -- certainly don't know her. this seems like it was a prank to make fun of my name. you know, when you're named weiner, that happens a lot. i've got 45,000-some-odd twitter followers, hundreds of people that i follow. this seems like a prank that has gotten an enormous amount of attention. >> this is the picture. i'm sure you've seen it by now. is this you? >> i can tell you this. we have a firm that we've hired to -- i've seen it. it's -- i've seen it. a firm that we've hired to try to get to the bottom of it. i can tell you this, that photos can be manipulated. photos can be of one thing, changed to look like something else. we're going to try to get to the bottom of what happened. maybe jon stewart last night had it right, unfortunately. but we're going to find out. look, this has turned into this kind of international whodunit. what it really is was i think a prank. i'm t

>> where are you going to be tomorrow and thursday, wolf blitzer?o know. >> i'm going to be in chicago. ask me why. >> why are you going to chicago? >> i'm going to interview the new mayor and on thursday i'll interview the former president of the united states, bill clinton in chicago, the cgi global initiative conference issic thatting place in chicago. it's the first time the cgi is looking at strictly a domestic economic issues here in the united states. i have an issue with rahm emanuel tomorrow, bill clinton on thursday and then eventually back here in washington. >> big week for you. have fun. >> thank you. >> we'll be looking for you. thanks very much. moving along, let me bring you back to speed. at the top of the hour, breaking news here out of kabul, afghanistan. more on that in just a moment. but watch this. >>> right now, out of control flames are creeping faster and closer to one of america's most important nuclear labs. coming up, i'll speak live with tom udall about these urgent warnings and worse case scenario. i'm brooke baldwin. t

i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." first for the dramatic moment s. democrats and republicans have been waiting for since the scandal took on a life of its own. anthony weiner of new york surrender iing he did it a whil ago. >> i'm here to apologize for the personal mistakes i have made. i make this apology to my neighbors and constituents, but particularly to my wife huma. to fight for the middle class. unfortunately the distraction that i have created has made it impossible. i'm resigning so my colleagues can get back to work, and most importantly that my wife and i can continue to heal from the damage i have caused. [ yelling in the audience ] >> throw him out. he's not with us. >> to repeat, most importantly so that i can continue to heal from the damage that i have caused. i want to thank my colleagues in the house of representatives, democrats and republicans align. fundamentally we all agree they are all thank you -- i also also want to express my gratitude to members of my staff. they're young people who are not paid very much. they're people

my favorite moment of the afternoon had to belong to our good friend wolf blitzer who 30 minutes after cnn bailed on the pelosi jobs speech bitterly complained about, well, listen. >> we have covered these kinds of stories. it's not a pleasure for us. it's not something we look forward to. i would much rather be discussing economic issues, jobs, the future of medicare, national security issues. >> absolutely. >> then talking about this. (laughter) >> jon: what? wait, what's stopping you? there's nothing stopping you. what is stopping you from doing that? >> you know, suzanne, i have to tell you, the itching on my face is nairly unbearable. my vesage in a mirror is not something i look forward to seeing. i would much rather my fingers be running against a smooth and clean skin surface but, obviously i'm 23409 a faition hair god-- a facial hair god. i'm helpless to remove it. (laughter) so were economic issues discussed at all this weekend? of course they were and lucky for us our troubled job market and deficit were discussed in the most strikingly comic way possible on the golf course.