violence that threatened to engulf the country and it was predicted as soon as we left it would start to rear itself again and it s beginning. yup. sort of reminded me of when tito left the balkans, and you now w u.s. spent nearly nine years doing the best it could. it s now up to the iraqis and wi see what s going on and as you point out, jack, it s not pretty. they got to solve their own problems, i guess. yup. when we got word that bill daley was leaving as white house chief of staff we started thinking about the new book called the obamas. it reveals tensions between the first lady michelle obama and some past administration officials. let s bring in our white house correspondent briana. we asked her to take a closer look at the book and what s going on. what are you learning, briana? wolf, this is the book. it will be out tomorrow. we got an advanced copy. and from what i ve been able to
is spending millions of dollars to flood the airwaves with anti-romney attack ads. is this payback time for newt gingrich? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. president obama dropped a bit of a bombshell a little while ago in an unscheduled appearance announcing bill daily is stepping down after just a year. he ll. replaced by the budget director, jack lou. here s jessica yellin. she s working the story for us. jessica, what s going on over here? well, wolf, first of all the president actually said that bill daley wants to spend more time with his family. let s listen to part of what the president had to say and then we ll talk about it a little bit on the back end. here s the president. obviously, this was not easy news to hear. and i didn t accept bill s decision right away. in fact, i asked him to take a couple of days to make sure that he was sure about this. but in the end, the pull of the hometown, we both love. a city that s been synonymous with