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leaders in afghanistan, the first was the senior taliban commander arrested in kandahar during an operation to clear the area of taliban militants, the second was captured another the city of host. the man is believed to be part of a network. 27 fuel tankers carrying the supplies to the u.s. and nato troops attacked in pakistan this morning. youre looking at new video of the aftermath. militants are suspected of setting fire to them after shooting at the drivers. so far, no injuries or...

the agency, which is not being named used a standard flash drive. that drive had a virus which allowed information from classified computers to be down loaded. the defense department spokesperson is not commenting on what info, if any was leaked. speaking of leaks, the c.i.a. document released by the whistle blowing web site wikileaks is not the bombshell that the intelligence community had feared. the document is a c.i.a. memo that analyzes what would happen if the u.s. was perceived ...

Yeah, there was also lehman brothers, that melt ed down. took the stock market and i i -- economy down with it. gary ackerman, the congressman from new york went off on members of the sec about why they miss sewed much of it. especially bernie madoff. this is what he said back then. >> what the heck went on? your mission, you said, was to -- was to -- protect investors and detect fraud quickly. how did that work out? what went wrong? it seems to me a private, with all of your investigators and a...

salaries some more than $200,000 a year supposed to be regulating wall street at the moment it most needed regulating what were they doing? viewing internet porn, downloading it, burning dvds, or pathetically, comically trying and failing over and over again to log into various porn sites and they were doing awful this at work at their government jobs. i mean sounds like a joke. sadly it is not. take a look. one of several reports compiled by the inspector general of the sec. it reads ...

about personal decisions. keeping them honest. government watch dogs acting like teenaged horn dogs. men and women some drawing hefty salaries some more than $200,000 a year supposed to be regulating wall street at the moment it most needed regulating what were they doing? viewing internet porn, downloading it, burning dvds, or pathetically, comically trying and failing over and over again to log into various porn sites and they were doing awful this at work at their government jobs. i...

Administration, the president singled out those members of congress to stuck through to the very end. >> its a testament to the historic leadership and uncommon courage of the men and women of the united states congress who have taken their lumps during this difficult debate. >> yes, we did. [ laughter ] >> that was new york congressman gary ackerman who took lumps because there wasnt a public option because his constituents wanted a public option. if you were a democrat on either side you took ...

Organized. who believed that people who love this country can change. >> reporter: the word from the democrats who comprised the narrow majority the first of its kind for social change of this magnitude. >> the president: testment for leadership and courage of the men and women of the united states courage who have taken their lumps during this difficult debate. [ laughing ] >> yes we did! >> reporter: laughter came from democrats in the health care crosshairs since the culprit, gary ackerman of...

He was smiling from ear to ear and he also clutched a camera. its difficult for us to imagine losing a parent. lost her health insurance, weve spoken to marcelus several times on msnbc about his lobbying effort on behalf of other children. when the president signed the bill today, it was great to see that marcelus had the best view. and finally, you could feel, sea and hear the divide between the house lawmakers and the more reserved members of the u.s. senate. app as house majority leader, st...

Children who actually grow up from this. and i want to raise my son to be a citizen of the globe. not just beverly hills. >> pete wentz, pete thanks so much for coming on today and good luck to you. >> thanks. finally, i had the opportunity here at the white house to be in the east room when president obama signed the health care legislation. and a couple of things stood out. first off, dozens of house lawmakers brought their cameras and camera phones before the president walked in. they were ...

america and jon stewart and everybody else will make fun of me, but thats fine. which wish we could have a serious conversation. how does this not make sense that we shouldnt at least have a logical conversation about this? see you tomorrow night from new york. good night america! >> bret: president obama signs the health care reform bill into law. we look at what happens now. the irs may be getting bigger thanks to the reform law. tough u.s. officials go to mexico as drug violence pea...