in depth with john mccain. i sat down with senator mccain a while ago in the armed services committee hearing room. he was very candid. he disagrees strongly with what justice scalia said about super pacs. about michele bachmann and what he thinks about romney s record at bain. senator, thank you for finally allowing me to interview you. you finally cracked. finally gave in, there you go. looking forward to it. so have i, very much. let s start with we re three months away from the election. you ve been exactly where mitt romney is right now. what is your advice? what is the real strategy at this stage of the battle plan that you think he needs to be most aware of? i think it s very obvious, piers, and that s jobs and the economy. most people don t care when mitt romney left bain capital and went to run the olympics and save them or exactly where his tax returns are. so i think the focus obviously is what most americans are caring about now. we do have a very stumbling
we re getting new pictures and details as we speak including more from the survivors and heartbreaking stories about the victims. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re going live to the scene of the shooting in just a moment. but first a quick rundown of what happened on this horrible day. the shooting started after midnight about 12:38 a.m. in theater 9 of the century aurora 16 multiplex. aurora s a suburb of denver. about 15 minutes into the midnight showing of the new batman movie the dark knight rise rises, a lone gunman came in near the screen. when he came in, i thought he was some kind of prop or thee tri kal guy. he let off a canister of gas and it exploded. everybody thought it was a prop, but then he shot up in the air and everybody started to panic at that point. when he went straight from the air, he came down with his gun in my face. he was about three feet away from me at that point. in that instant i honestly didn t know what to do. i was
accusation that the united states that the obama administration is being hypocrite kal about syria. you re going to want to hear what she has to say. and alarming news about what the drought across much of the midwest may do to the price of milk. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. my interview with john boehner coming up this hour. you re going to want to hear what the speaker of the house has to say on a whole range of issues, the presidential campaign, how he really feels about mitt romney, what he says about the president of the united states, where he agrees with the president and many issues where he strongly, strongly disagrees. what kind of relationship do they have? that interview coming up. but i want to get right to cnn s jim acosta. he s covering mitt romney today delivering some major messages of his own in this race for the white house. jim acosta is joining us from boston right now. what s going on on this day as far as the republican presid
minutes, but first, we are getting kwoword of a u.s. milit crash in oman which happened 15 miles from the country s capital. five crew members were on board, and the condition is not clear. military officials don t know what caused this crash, but they say it was not attacked. in northern columbia, a 3-year-o missing for an entire day was finally rescued from a sewer. you have to watch this. the boy had been playing in a construction zone with his brothers when he disappeared, and now he is safe and sound. the. a suicide bomber had a michigan driver s license and that is what officials in bulgaria are saying today and we are talking about the explosion that killed five israeli tourists and a bus driver which happened yesterday outside of an airport on the bulgaria s black seacoast, and they say that the michigan driver s license was probably a phony. we have surveillae footage of the man who may have set off this bomb. this is the airport, and this is in burgas, bull gari
off of a glacier this week and scientists say it is probably because of global warming, but too early to say for sure. oh children in south africa singing to nelson mandela on today, his 94th birthday. civil rights icon and south africa africa s first black president turns 94 on what is officially mandela day in the country. and what is most important today is what sis happening in syria and the most important development there. a bomb in damascus that killed four officials who were all part of the president s circle. the first man killed is the syrian defense minister who is our equivalentf the ministry of defense and he is killed da wood rajiha, and also is the president s brother-in-law and the president s security adv and all of the men were in a meeting when the bomb went off. cnn does not have reporters or camera crews in syria right now but arwa damon is watching this unfold from beirut, and arwa we are talking about the president s closest advisers and a family