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pass constitutional muster and won t become law. what today s votes are all about is showing the people who sent us here where we stand. okay. so if you thought even for a minute that the senate was actually doing something today, well, poppycock. there s mcconnell to remind you it was all just posturing. thank you, mitch mcconnell. meanwhile, what was happening in the house today? i would ask the gentleman from virginia if he would be willing or let me rephrase that he would not object to a unanimous consent in the house to correct what was clearly a typographical error made by non-partisan professional staff at the office. madam chairman, this member will reserve the right to object at the appropriate time. reclaiming my time gentleman from california. nothing could be more insincere than to pick on professional staff on a typographical error. well, you just saw house democrats and house republicans fighting over whether a typo, a typo in a bill coul ....
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and addresses including top military leaders like david petraeus. we ll tell you about the new terror threat early this friday morning, june 17th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs welcome to the early show here on a friday month. i m chris wragge. i m erica hill. all we hear about this morning is anthony weiner. it was wished by some lawmakers for some time. a bizarre, bizarre press conference only adding to the fiasco. we ll get the latest on the fallout from this prolonged anthony weiner scandal, the democratic ko iic congressman f brooklyn announced he will resign, ten days after it was announced he sent lewd messages and photos to women. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. reporter: he acknowledged the scandal was not going to blow over. there were too many e-mails, too many photos and too many women. today i am announcing my resignation from congress. reporter: congressman weiner attempts to weather his storm of his own making came to an end thursday t ....
republicans who say it violates u.s. law. we will take you to libertyya s capital early this friday morning, june 17th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good friday morning. welcome to a live west coast update of the early show it. i m erica hill. i m chris wragge. a security alert outside the pentagon today. one person is under arrest. police are searching the area. after finding a suspicious vehicle. cbs news national security correspondent david martin is at the pentagon with the very latest for us this morning. david, good morning. reporter: good morning. a spokesman for the fbi has just said that no explosive devices were found after this incident this morning here at the pentagon, which shut down morning rush hour traffic for hours. here is what happened. a man carrying a backpack was spotted overnight in arlington national cemetery which is closed after dark. when police approached him, he fled. he was arrested and both his backpack and his vehicle have n ....
and color and the one right below love the crazy twitter cnn segment with rick sanchs and perez hilton and one more here says where the hell is rick? on the birthday of his own show. gotta love that guy. we do love the guy and we also love wolf blitzer who we ll hand it over to in the situation room right now. thanks very much. happening now. a security scare on this the day marking the worst ever attacks in the united states. what happened in waters near president obama sparked confusion and now calls for a full-scale investigation. should more u.s. troops go to afghanistan? the powerful chairman of the senate armed services committee is lukewarm. he s a democrat. and wait until you hear what republican john mccain says, you may wonder if he ll end up siding with president obama. and if, if doomsday struck the u.s. capital, critics say congress does not have a plan to keep the government immediately up and running. i m wolf blitzer in cnn s command center for b ....