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Karzai committed to making good governance a top priority. i want to acknowledge the progress that has been made including strengthening anti-corruption efforts, including governance and provincial levels and in elections later this year. of course president karzai and i both acknowledge that much more work needs to be done. i also welcome president karzais commitment to take additional steps that could improve the lives of the afghan people in concrete ways, especially with regard to the rule o...

Karzai committed to making good governance a top priority and i want to acknowledge the progress that has been made including strengthening anti-corruption efforts and improving governance at provincial and district levels and progress toward credible, parliamentary elections later this year. of course, president karzai and i acknowledge that much more work needs to be done. i also welcome president karzais commitment to take additional step to improve the lives of afghan people in concrete ways...

The agency that out in their denver office there was literally sex going on between the regulators and the industry. >> mm-hmm. >> and thats who these people are and i think the obama administration only now is seeing that they needed to begin the shakeup the moment obama came into office. >> theres oversight and theres oversight. so -- the bp shareholder who sued the company today claiming bp was knowingly cutting safety cost in violation of the commitments after the texas refinery blast, texas...

Years. out in their denver office there was literally sex going on between the regulators and the industry. >> mm-hmm. >> and thats who these people are and i think the obama administration only now is seeing that they needed to begin the shakeup the moment obama came into office. >> theres oversight and theres oversight. so -- the bp shareholder who sued the company today claiming bp was knowingly cutting safety cost in violation of the commitments after the texas refinery blast, texas city and...

Agriculture, key government services, critical infrastructure, and essential aspects of rule of law. were confident that were much better postured to help deliver the progress needed in the months ahead. in governance, weve seen president karzai make some very important decisions about how to carry the parliamentary elections forward. and following the commitments to the international community made in january in london, the governments chief anti-corruption body called the high office of oversi...

Kim says is he ready to resume talks on ending his countrys nuclear program. its unclear what conditions he might demand or whether he made any commitments to restarting any negotiations. word tonight of a confession of sorts, at least, from lawrence taylor. his lawyer insists the football hall of famer did not rape a teenage girl. but the feds claim he is admitting to something. the details on that next. ♪ baby, i can break you down

Economic recovery and able to implement our commitments to far-reaching reform to our political system, upon which there is a growing consensus in our country. >> welcome back to "morning joe." with us now, the president of the atlantic council, fred kempe. fred, there a hung parliament in great britain now. but there certainly is no question that labor suffered a terrible setback last night. conservatives had their best victory since, i guess, 1931. they won more seats than any time since 1931 ...

>> reporter: local fishermen will be on this boat. you mentioned they know the waters like the back of their hand. do you peel like bp is doing enough. >> we have fishermen out there deploying boom, monitoring, ready to help in the cleanup. thats the way it should be. our people device and help to implement the plan. bp is saying the right things. execution is going to be very, very important. st. bernard parish needs additional booms. they are making commitments to the people who are losing the...

The ones declaring iran as in violation of the treaty. so its going to be a tough sell for him, which is a good thing for us. >> there is a former u.s. arms control official i think from the reagan administration who said if the nonnuclear weapon states dont step up to the plate this week at this conference, it would be a blow to the obama strategy. how much is that stake and what occurs here in new york this week. >> i think what is important is president obama has made the nonproliferation, th...

The spread of nukes around the world. of course, ahmadinejad was there as well some of the mike emanuel is at the pentagon tonight. give us the number. how many warheads are in the u.s. arsenal? >> well, shep, today the pentagon officials say we have 5113 warheads in the u.s. nuclear arsenal. that is a substantial drop from the all-time high which was 1967 when the united states had 31,225 warheads at the height of the vietnam war and also in the cold war era, shep. >> shepard: why release this ...