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
but first a new warning for iran s supreme leader today. he said israel is a cancerous tumor and world nations will cut it out. the islamic republic is firing back against escalating tensions with key western nations over the secretive nuclear program. recently president obama signed off on penalties designed to cripple their oil industry, one of the largest not world and yesterday the washington post newspaper reports that comments from the secretary of defense pa net that israel is possibly planning an attack against the rogue in addition. he was so specific to say in april, may, or june. and jennifer is from the pentagon has the secretary back tripped? it was all over the place yesterday. reporter: he woulded in comment when asked by the press. his remarks came on the same data israel s defense minister telegraphed he thinks the time to strike iran militarily is now, not later.
it, have a real problem with what this country stands for. more on hard ball. thank you very much. and chuck, i ll see you later. up next, pa net why to tnet pentagon, petraeus to the cia. paul ryan gets a taste of the town hall fever. 100 ways to. 100 crisps, 100 ways. everything pops with pringles.
panetta, correct? at the pa net that is the top goif. panetta himself did not testify, correct? not before this panel. he testified before the senate armed services committee last year. here is the point of this testimony, bill. let s say on panetta. yes, please. what did he say to panetta in the senate committee? basically i got the word from the general something called afri-con. libya. 15 minutes of the attack starting, the head of afri-con notifies the chairman of the joint chiefs, the chairman of the joint chiefs and the other guy go to panetta. all three of them know within 20 minutes of the attack it s a terrorist attack. panetta and dempsey go to the oval office to see president obama. they had a previously scheduled meeting. again, we are now within an hour and a half of the attack. panetta told the senate armed services committee.