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
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
from now on, we re going to look for a brighter fuehrer. we re going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, what happened today in the helmand province? we re told the soldier was part of a coalition force working on stability in the helmand province. they were going to meet some of their local afghan contacts when they were shot and killed. right now the isaf, the u.s. military is looking for the gunman, the man who shot and killed these troops. the taliban claims that the troops were lured in by an afghan police commander under the ruse of having dinner and being friendly when he turned on them
all right. diane, and finally, a horse in kentucky in touch with his inner artist. the horse named justin. there you see him there. throwing around the paint brush a while back, now painting are just, they cannot keep them on the shelves. selling for hundreds of dollars. all the money going to help a local museum which is really nice. he liked to draw shapes in the sand with her whip. gave her a brush and justin started painting. can we get a better name than justin for that horse? three waiting for the same cycling and it is frustrated. a lot of frustrated people coming out. frankly, just want of to get on with it. being called where they re going or what near going or where they should turn up. clearly still some confusion here but they are working very hard to shake this down. the ceo of this company got an absolute grilling yesterday in parliament about the politicians who didn t spare any block. describing this as a shamble and as astonishing $77 million management