a huge change in his inner circle, now that rahm emanuel is officially out, can a new white house chief of staff help the president get his mojo back. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. but up first this hour, brand-new information coming into the situation room about osama bin laden s contacts and his long term plan of attack. let s go straight to our homeland security correspondent jean meserve, jean, what are we learning? reporter: wolf, a new audiotape believed to be from osama bin laden does not contain a call for terrorism, but u.s. officials say he has been urging al qaeda affiliates to act. one official tells cnn that bin laden has been in communication with al qaeda affiliates within pakistan and elsewhere but would not say what form those communications took. another source cautions against linking bin laden to recent reports of a mumbai style attack against targets in britain, france and germany. officials say there are other intelligence threa