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Cities. and so the threshold for the statutes is very, very low. this has nothing to do with malfeasance or corruption. it has to do when you have toa to the ballot, then you can be turned around and be recalled. and so yesterday we had omaha. we had chattanooga. 59 in 2010. its not going to stop. you know what we need to do? ask the president and the congress to come out and sit with us. we know how to balance budgets. its hurting us. >> i want to show you a map of all the recalls since 2008....

The police and fire? >> that is a good -- [all talking at once]. >> did it so they could pick and choose. >> now you say collective bargaining has an impact on salary. >> no, i did not say that. that is not what i said. >> the corruption issue you mentioned, is the number one point -- >> wait the corruption issue is when the governor agrees to exempt unions that supported him from doing what he wanted to do to destroy the issues. >> the issue is over corruption, and you and the media missed that...

Collective bargaining the first day in office. lets not forget 24 states have outright banned collective bargaining so this isnt something thats a new problem. governors have realized look, this is a corruption issue. its not a tax issue, its not an issue of unions, its corruption. bill: ive got to leave it there. >> thats what democrats dont want to admit. >> and tommy thompson, when he signed those deals, that was corruption? >> see you later in the week, thanks to both of you. martha: this is...

Y begin with the approach to how we do the geopolitics to make sure our interest is serve and thats why we are there and the corruption issue which is overwhelming. all of these have to be addressed and have been. lets see what progress we are making and people will make their own decision we havent asked people to vote. people have their views on the subject. they are clear about it. we dont have to say vote for the president on this. we gave him a chance when we came in to say give him a chanc...

The leader of afghanistan is in so much disregard and so untrusted even by the american officials? >> well, i think hes well aware theres a feeling theres got to be some cutoff print for president karzai. is he a partner or isnt he a partner? general eikenberry, ambassador eikenberry has been outspoken in opposition, saying he didnt think karzai was a partner. you talk to the military and the civilian side there are huge questions surrounding karzai. this is still everything in afghanistan. we c...

>> sean: one more corruption issue. what do you think charlie rangel does? do you agree that right now theres smoke filled room in washington and a deal is being cut so they dont go through the humiliation of a trial tomorrow? >> last thing they want, the last thing they can afford is a protracted public display of what charlie rangels personal financials and ethical problems are. you is a deal -- you bet there is a deal going on. i dont know if he is going to cave or what they are going to slip...

Had done anything like this, we would never have heard the end of it. "the new york times" and newsweek would have been busting him every time they had a publication, wasting taxpayer money and insensitive. i think president bush tried to be very sensitive after 9/11, not even playing golf any more. just because he didnt want the appearance he was out doing something frivolous. i dont be grudge the president playing an occasional round of golf. i begrudge him playing all the time and not being a...

Really unfortunate. >> they, of course, trying to discount the accusations that peter galbreth made. at the same time, you can sense a turn here. the administration at the white house is trying to get over it. they think they went too far on karzai. the allegations may be true, but hes their only -- >> but that doesnt make the frustration, that u.s. officials, on the ground, in kabul, really feel over this issue because they know the corruption issue is not just coming from the u.s. you have a g...

White house press secretary robert gibbs. whats one big issue lurking behind this, we write about this today is the corruption issue. ambassador eikenberry and others have been really hammering karzai to live up to his commitments, to crack down on corruption. there are a number of big cases in the pipeline right now and karzai is balking. hes getting a lot of political pressure not to move and as one u.s. official said, is caught in a vice on this issue. >> yet, over the weekend in a series of ...

Afghanistan, so far this year, in the first two months of this year, january, february, 381. compared to the first two months of 2009, 85. michael ohanlon of the brookings institution says this year could be very tough indeed. lets take a quick listen. >> the general notion that afghanistan in 2010 could be twice as deadly as it was in 2009 is not unreasonable. we could lose 500 or 600 people this year. we lost 300 last year. >> while he was at ball gram air field the president said the stakes a...