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Forces taking full responsibility for security in 2014, and as we have said, we will not number a combat role after 2014. at the same time, we will back president karzai in working towards an afghan led political settlement. second, a year on from the united security council resolution on libya, we agreed to maintain support for the people of the arab world as they seek a better future. let me say in response to what you said mr. president, barack, about libya, that im proud of the action that b...

when not if. president assad isnt listening, pressing a crackdown on the south keeping that city from south keeping that city from anti-government rebels. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com first some major international news tonight. a scary moment as the defense secretary leon panetta arrived to afghanistan. an afghan vehicle drove onto the runway area of a military base and set it afire. just as panettas plane was landing. another major security breach but pentagon officials sa...

prime minister david cameron. mostly business, anyway. after they caught a game in the ncaa basketball tournament, president obama welcomed the british prime minister and his wife in a ceremony fit for a king. right now theyre meeting in private on world issues tough to talk about. iran, syria, the debt crisis. stop me any time. they will be honored tonight at a state dinner as well. in a little over an hour from now, he and the president will be stepping into the rose garden for a new...

Minister left london, he sat down with brian williams to discuss the costs of war. >> you have lost 404 members of your military, by percentage for the uk, its a higher sacrifice than the united states. it is getting tougher for you domestically to sell this campaign. >> it is. we have a paid a very high price. we have in the been toughest part of the country and we have been there for many, many years now. and that is why i set deadlines, the end of 2014, we will not be in a combat role. let me...

four contests in all tonight. hawaii and american samoa also casting ballots. most of the attention focused on alabama and mississippi. late polls in both states showed races too close to call. our exit polls also suggest a fierce competition in both states with conservative support. early exit polling, well bring this over for you. here we are in the state of mississippi tonight. voters were asked as they went to the polls. whats the most important candidate quality. you can see more ...

Will be quite attentive to detail in making sure that everything goes off well. all right. okay. go ahead. last question. >> mr. president, just to continue on that. when the nato leaders gather in chicago in may, do you expect theyll be able to agree on a transition strategy, and are you concerned that the koran burnings and episode since then threaten your abt to negotiate? >> the transition policy was in place and established at lisbon. weve been following that strategy that calls for turning...

Detail in making sure everything goes off well. all right? okay. go ahead, last one. last question. >> when the nato leaders gather in chicago in may. do you expect that they will be able to agree on a transition strategy? and are you concerned the koran burning threaten your ability to negotiate? >> keep in mine the transition policy was established at lisbon. and we have been following that strategy that calls for turning over increasing responsibility to afghans. and a full transition so our ...

were breaking down the major races. and president obama stealing some of the spotlight from the republicans. he holds a news conference in about 15 minutes. were keeping our eye on that. the president, hes going to outline a new mortgage relief plan for the military, obviously, take questions from reporters. well bring that to you live as soon as it starts. but first, we want to bring in our political heavy hitters, wolf blitzer and chief political analyst, gloria borger, great to have...

Most dangerous places." signs are positive? >>guest: well, we are moving out of a combat role and moving into a training role so the taxpayers are putting up $43 billion to create 400,000 cops and soldiers to keep afghanistan going after we leave. when you look at number of soldiers we are training and the number of fatalities it is minor dent but this is a hot button item. so the image we get here every single protester and shooting we are not seeing the full spectrum of training and support we...

>> a high-stakes pardon showdown. could we learn today if most of those prisoners released in mississippi will have to go back to prison? along those, four convicted murderers. >> classes are resuming at that l.a. school where the entire staff was fired after two teachers were arrested on child abuse cases. investigators at this point have made yet another disgusting discovery. >> they were not fired, they were reassigned temporarily. >> should say not fired but cleared out. >> the bom...