hands. plus, an election of evil and a major change of course by a leading ally, france elected it s first socialist president in two decades, we re looking at what it means for the united states. i m wolf blitzer, you re still in the situation room. the vice president joe biden said over the weekend he s fine with gay marriage and arnie duncan says he believes gay and lesbians should be allowed to marry. putting him at odds with the president of the united states. jessica yellin is working the story for us. jessica, causing quite an uproar there, what s going on? reporter: this is clearly an unwelcome topic for a white house that pronounces to make all decisions based on principle not on politics. it certainly looks as if the vice president supports gay marriage. who do you love? the president sets the policy. i am absolutely comfortable that the fact that men marrying wo i and women marrying women, are entitled to all the civil rights and the civil liberties. report
uncomfortable asking it high pressu pressu pressu pressure. he said get over that. who was against you joining 60 minutes. can you give me the names? this is a wonderful story. ed bradley came in and told me himself, he said you re going to find out any way. i m the one that was against it. of all of them he was the one i was friendliest. he said he thought i was too washington. he said he didn t think i could cover all the different kinds of stories. he didn t know you like i ve gotten to know you. you were tough. let s take a look at a memorable moment when mike wallace interviewed nancy reagan. let s watch. what was your husband s role? nothing. he was president of the united states.
if gas is $4, he s going to lose. that s been the case in american presidential elections. they are referendums on the incumbent. the inckucumbent is always give referendum on the economy. i was to go back to mitt romney, he s really going after the unions. he tries to separate the rank and file against the union leaderships in the very state where he did not back the auto bailout. he s tried to massage that language, but he s on tape and his words are clear high pressu pressu pressure. how did he get in this situation in his home state. the how did he get in this hot mess? people have taken a long hard look and the base is uncomfortable and has always been uncomfortable. despite the length of time he s been running, the amount of resources he s committed to the race and the arguments about him
these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there s a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don t see a lot of people coming right out and saying this man is innocent. speaking of those who do think he should be set free or at least the case looked at, some names might surprise you. the former fbi director william sessions who wrote an op-ed in the newspaper in atlanta yesterday saying, the evidence in this case consisting almost entirely of conflicting stories, testimonies an statements is inadequate to the task of co
pressu pressure. we found that out in time and locked the valve shut and had the valves failed for any particular reason that might have caused hydrocarbons to go into the environment and that s not good. in the course of the checks done to leading up to the injection tests, twa located and they were able to deal were it over night. it s been stopped? it s been stopped. as soon as we get the injection test completed, which we hope to start very, very soon. we are on a minute-to-minute basis. we will do the injection test and they ll probably need a couple of hours just to look at the data, the pressure curves to tell them whether or not they need to adjust the volume and the pressures they can expect when they put in mud. admiral thad allen talking about the next step for plugging that oil well. david mattingly joining us live from new orleans with details on