About his election loss blaming what he calls gifts thats a quote, gifts, the president people gave to people who voted for him. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Mitd romney speaking out about his election loss for the tempers flaring on capitol first time and blaming it in part on gifts that the hill. Senator john mccain lashing out president gave to supporters. At one of our cnn producers who lets talk about that and more questioned why he was missing a with the republican governor bobby jindal of louisiana. Key hearing on the attack on the hes the new chairman of the republican governors u. S. Consulate in benghazi, association. Libya. Mccain has been a sharp critic congratulations by the way. I guess i got to say of the president and his congratulations on getting that job, governor. Thanks very much for joining us. Administration complaining lawmakers are not getting enough information. Thank you, wolf. And when asked why he missed great to be back on the air with tha
The argument over susan rice. If senator graham and senator mccain want to go after somebody, they should go after me, and im happy to have that discussion, but for them to gof a u. N. Ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi and simply making a prez sentation information she had receive and to besmirch her reputation is outrageo outrageous. If the president thinks that we are pick on people, he really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. The benghazi battle turning into a hot issue. I will talk to one of the senators taking the president to task, kelly ayotte. But we will begin with the latest on the petraeus investigation. We are joined by suzanne, welcome back. Thank you, piers. Always nice to be here. Here is my overview on the key characters. We now know who the fbi agent was who began this whole investigation, fredrick w. Hu hmm fri who is a glorous name and he is through friends and colleagues of clearing himself of anything wrong, is that right . Yes, a co
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Palestinians. The death toll in eight days there up to 137. The secretary of state Hillary Clinton is finishing up those direct talks this morning with the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. Thats happening in ramallah on the west bank. And netanyahu, the Prime Minister, in jerusalem, another conversation shes having. Now she goes to cairo where shes meeting with the egyptian president mursi. Mrs. Clinton making it clear that she is not interested in a quick fix in gaza. The goal must be a durable outcome that promotes regional stability, and advances the security and legitimate aspirations of israelis and palestinians alike. Cnn reporters flanking the middle east today to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of the crisis in gaza and in jerusalem and in israel. Ben wedeman is in gaza city. Frederick pleitgen is in ashkelon city. We begin with sara sidner at the scene of that bus explosion that happened just a little while ago in tel aviv. Sara first of all describe fo
Morning, welcome, everybody, our starting point this morning, israel mobilizing thousands of troops for a possible fullscale ground war with hamas. Violence in the region intensifying overnight. The Palestinian Militants launched hundreds of rockets into israeli territory. Air raid sirens sounding in tel aviv. Thats the very first time thats happened since the gulf war. Israelis responded by pounding hundreds of terror sites as they call them in gaza with artillery fire. Ben wedeman reporting live now from jerusalem. We know, ben, that the israelis have called up 16,000 reservists. What exactly are they going to be doing . Well, what theyll be doing is heading down into the area around gaza. Very similar to what we saw in 2008, 2009, when they had a similar outbreak of violence between the two sides. We also know that theres a lot of heavy armor, lots of tanks being transported to the area around gaza, as well, for a possible ground incursion. But what we saw back in 20082009, was that