Video: Romney: "I stand by what I said, whatever it was"
Answering questions from reporters in Florida on Thursday, Mitt Romney said he couldn’t recall a past statement on President Obama and controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but stands by the comment, “whatever it was.”
Video: Romney repudiates proposal to run Rev. Wright attack ads
Mitt Romney repudiated a proposal from billionaire Joe Ricketts to run ads highlighting President Obama’s relationship with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a campaign stop in Florida on Thursday.
Video: White House details historic Camp David G8 meeting
White House national security adviser Tom Donilon discussed on Thursday the historic nature of the upcoming G8 meeting at Camp David, joking he wanted to get his facts straight with CBS News Radio correspondent, and presidential historian, Mark Knoller in the briefing.
Biden says Rev. Wright ad planners ‘act like it’s 1942′
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Republican strategists planning to use the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a summer ad campaign against President Obama “misunderstand the state of the nation,” Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday.
Budget official picked for top cybersecurity post
The White House has selected the head of the intelligence branch in its budget office to be President Obama’s top adviser on cybersecurity issues
Edwards prosecutors give closing arguments
At trial for John Edwards, prosecutors recount details of affair, say former presidential candidate flouted campaign finance laws
Iran is arming Syria, U.N. says
A confidential U.N. report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the Syrian government in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his country on the work of foreign-backed fighters.
President honors fallen Vietnam hero
President Barack Obama, in awarding a posthumous Medal of Honor to a Vietnam hero Wednesday, paid tribute to soldiers who received a cold reception when they returned home from the Southeast Asian war.
Ahead of NATO’s Chicago summit, members eye the Afghan exits
The election of French President Francois Hollande is just one factor in the fraying troop commitments in the unpopular war.
WASHINGTON — Just days before a NATO summit that leaders had hoped would present a carefully scripted display of unity on Afghanistan, the inauguration of a French president committed to an early drawdown has instead intensified a rush for the exits from an unpopular war.
Video: Medal of Honor awarded to Leslie Sabo
President Obama presented the wife of late Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo with the Medal of Honor on Wednesday for Sabo’s “conspicuous gallantry and heroic action” in combat while serving in the Vietnam War.
