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Finally tonight, saving the animals. some of the most unusual and spectacular species on earth. our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson has the story of a man using his unique eye to help all creatures great and small and show the rest of us whats at stake here. >> reporter: joel sartore is a modern-day noah, building a portfolio instead of an ark, to preserve the worlds animals, sometimes two by two. >> this is my attempt at getting people to understand that these things hav...

Think the criticisms need to be specific, not rhetorical like they were. >> what do you think, joe? im not calling him a chicken hawk yet, but who have never been a schoolyard fight and they want to go to war in iran. they always have one war in the on deck circle. they are one war away from being happy. these guys have their lists. what is it? how does he get to be curtis lamay? >> i dont know. i cant speak to that. i can speak to the fact -- >> you have to by november because this guy is runni...

How committed the u.s. is going to be in afghanistan? >> i think it is an awfully sensitive moment and we will see if general allen two weeks from now, when testifies can convince people that in the big picture we are on a reasonable path and that president obama hasnt weakened us with the announced drawdown and the little incidents are just incidents and dont reflect the broader pattern. >> chris: little incidents. >> even for me who has been a hawk and i do think it would be disasterrous if we...

Hawk and i do think it would be disasterrous if we pulled out precipitously and lead to bad things and all that. the last killing of the the soldiers we were there i think at the actual navy forward operating base or outpost where the two soldiers were killed by the afghans right near omars hometown and at the time they had taken casualties clearing the caria, the third brigade, extremely impres impressive. it was a good news story when we were there. very impressive. to think the idea that a co...

The policy in the middle-east. want to turn to afghanistan and the continuing fallout from the burning of the koran and the tragic killing of six u.s. soldiers by afghans in uniform, by our supposed partners. as i discussed with the senators, there is a growing movement -- not a groundswell, but you can see newt gingrich and rush limbaugh talking about rushing to the exits. bill, how sensitive a moment is this now for the question of how committed the u.s. is going to be in afghanistan? >> i t...

Converge with that. >> two things. theyre old girlfriends and $11 million he gave to keep gingrich going is nothing. >> for a millionaire its the equivalent of spending two nights in one offed aelsons hotels. its $400. to the average american its filling up his gas tank. thats what he did. its big to political people and toed aelson, its just pocket change. theyre old friends and hes an israeli hawk. he likes gingrichs support of israel. also he thinks america has turned to socialism. hes self m...

The insensitivity of the republican party to palestinian, romney gave a hard-line harsh answers that ive seen him give as a candidate, i wonder if the sub text was that he knew sheldon adelson was watching. >> the hard liner. >> he doesnt like rick santorum his issue is israel. he may know if i can make sheldon adelson comfortable im with him on this issue and more comfortable to win maybe it brings about what were seeing now. >> supports newt gingrich, nothing dishonest about support but if it ...

The obama white house is trying make sure its not surprised by an israel strike against iran. meanwhile today national security adviser is in washington. he met with the prime minister and today he is meeting with the leading hawk on the iran threat. joining me now is our guest. you have a lead story today, front page story that details how challenging it would be for iran to go in. because we have gotten used to the whole idea that for israel to go to iran rather. we have gotten used to the fac...

Lot. >> i mean, he takes a lot of anger and temper away. makes it easier to cope in here because when i do feel like im about ready to go and do something stupid, i just hold him on my lap, pat him, stroke him a few times, and you look at those big bette davis eyes and you think, hey, this guy depends on me. i got to take care of him. >> stones cats have even eased tensions with old adversaries. >> whats up? >> thought id bring big boy over here for you to see. >> geez, i cant believe how fat he...

Revenue by raising the amount the federal employees contribute to their pension. the washington area democrats dont like it. >> i have concern about using the federal workforce. >> with the payroll adding to the deficit, fiscal hawk balk at $560 billion transportation and energy bill even though it included provision to speed up construction of keystone pipeline. they were forced to delay action on the bill until the end of the month. some conservatives are worried about cost related to the bill...