role at the republican national convention? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with mitt romney s preparations for what may be the most crucial week of his presidential campaign. with several new polls out including our own showing him losing ground to president obama, romney begins a bus tour on saturday through four swing states he absolutely needs to win. but he s still traveling without a running mate. dana bash is here in the situation room taking a closer look. these are going to be huge days the next week. look, the day is young traveling without a running mate as we speak. you never know what s going to happen. regardless, mitt romney is going to have several vp-buzz generating news with him. but the campaign knows it first has to do some refining about the man on the top of the ticket, romney himself. oh beautiful, for spacious skies. reporter: if you turned on your television last month, there s a good chance you saw this brutal att
that you give, tens of millions of dollars in some cases, end up paying for candies and other useless knickknacks instead of making a difference in the lives of people who have made incredible sacrifices for us all. tonight they have found another one of these organizations. i got to ask you about the money though. i mean, that doesn t answer any of the questions about the money that they re that s it? that s all you re you re going to say? that s drew trying to get answers from the president of a group called help hospitalized veterans. remember that name. help hospitalized veterans. you ll hear more on that shortly. hhv s mission is claims is helping sick and injured war veterans. sounds very good, reputable, right? the state of california, however, says the men behind this so called charity have been helping themselves to excessive salaries and lavish lifestyles while using accounting gimmicks to tck the public into giving more money. drew griffin s in california w
it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. we begin this morning with breaking news. a deadly past 48 hours in afghanistan. new details of two attacks. an effort to derail the transition of power there. the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack wednesday that left four americans dead, including senior members of an army brigade after an in-ssurgent detonated a suice vest. thomas kennedy and kevin griffin and walter gray were killed along with an american aid worker and afghan interpreter. and nato confirms that three u.s. service members were killed when a sgun man wearing an afghan forces uniform opened fire in the southern helmand province this morning. no claim of responsibility there yet. new details are expected and well be live at the pentagon at the bottom of the hour with more information for you. and now let s take you inside the wisconsin temple where six peoe were killed, three others wounded by a gunman on sunday. this video shot exclusively by cnn showing
killing three soldiers in the country s southern helmand province. cnn s chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to kill them for some time. u.s. military officials are now confirming that part of the detail. but again, it speaks to a larger issue, which is trust in the fact that if this is a so-called green on blue attack, where afghan troops turn on their american allies, it would be the third time just this week. in fact, in the big picture, there have been more attacks already this year of that kind than all of last year, john. all right, chris lawrence at the pentagon. the story developing at this momen
outfront tonight, american loophole. today, we got this e-mail. i printed it out, from the u.s. state department. it announces u.s. sanctions against an oil company based in syria for doing business with iran. now, at first we thought, hey, this is proof of how tough sanctions really are. they re going after everybody. after all, here s the president and the secretary of state talking about how tough american sanctions on iran are. this resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the iranian government. the sanctions will be tough and clearly aimed at the iranian economy. the sanctions have enormous bite and enormous scope. but when we took a second look, buried deep in the state department release, was this quote on page two of my printout. any, my emphasis, business that continues to irresponsibly support iran s energy sector or helps evade u.s. sanctions will face serious consequences. certainly tough talk. but does it add up? no. just this