i m mitt romney. i believe in america. and i m running for president. romney made his big announcement on a sunny farm but his speech was heavy on the gloom and doom, a long series of attacks on president obama whom romney repeatedly accused of thinking like a european. we re joined now by long time new hampshire conservative activist lafontaine and romney media adviser russ reefer. i m going to start with you. you are one of his top campaign strategists. i was interested in the tone of his message. let s listen and we can talk about it. when barack obama came to office we wished him well and hoped for the best. now in the third year of his four-year term we have more than slogans and promises to judge him by. barack obama has failed america. he went on to rip the president s foreign and domestic policies, fairly negative. can you explain why your candidate is launching his campaign with an attack on the president rather than focusing on a positive vision of what he wou
vital news to anyone who uses a cell phone. today, world health organization panel took a fresh look at the medical research and concluded that cell phones are possibly carcinogenic. days after dr. sanjay gupta investigated serious questions about the current research on cell phones and cancer. here s a portion of sanjay s report, which aired as recently as last night, foreshadowing today s stunning 180 from the w.h.o. on cell phone safety. if you ve ever put a cell phone to your ear, you should listen to what neurosurgeon dr. keith black has to say. there s no way to say cell phone use is safe. i think that the public has a right to know that there could be a potential risk. the public generally assumes if one is selling something on the market that we have had assurances that that device is safe. to be clear, dr. black s message is at odds with headlines from the largest international study on cell phones in cancer. their conclusion, little or no evidence cell phones
campaign. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. but, first, breaking news this hour. congressman anthony weiner flatly denying that he posted a lewd photo on his twitter account but tells me he can t say for sure if the image of a man s underwear is him or not. weiner sat down with me a short while ago up on capitol hill in his office as part of his attempt to move beyond the controversy and his testy exchange with reporters yesterday. here s part one of the interview. thank you for joining us. thank you. 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 certainly don t know her. this seems like it was a prank to make fun of my name. when you re named weiner, that happens a lot. got 45,000 some odd followers. 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
secure. the knowledge no american government will ever do this to its children. to our children. what the syrian government allegedly did to this child. you ll see him right here. his name was hamza ali alkhateeb. just 13 years old. he disappeared from an anti-government rally on the 29th of april. now look away if you need to. these next photos get very, very hard to take. this is what he looked like when his body came home. his kneecaps had been smashed. his head was swollen. his body covered in cigarette burns. he had been embassy claited. according to family accounts on arabic news channels, syrian government officials came to their home last wednesday asking them to sign a waiver accepting hamza s body but only if they wouldn t show the body or say anything about the circumstances of his death. they signed but were so horrified by the condition of his body they could not keep quiet. so they consented to a video of their son s body. it later turned up on al jazeera. almos
columbia. that s why we are reporting from outside. there are major developments involving cell phones, information that you need to know from the world health organization about the possible danger of cell phone use and cancer. stand by. elizabeth cohen has a full report. we re also watching bin laden and the black money trail. new information coming in on money and bin laden. stand by for that as well. we ll have the latest on anthony weiner, the congressman from new york. our own dana bash is following up on this story. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. but we begin with major developments involving cell phone use and you. information that you need to know right now. the world health organization for the first time has raised a serious possibility of a link between cell phone use and cancer. here s our report. what did this world health organization report conclude? the who concluded that cell phone are a possible carcinogen for humans. this is a really