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corporations view is, the ability to deduct from taxable u.s. income payments that result from civil claims. could you provide that for the record for us? >> i will definitely thank that action, sir. >> so obviously, even though this is 57th or 58th day, you still havent sorted out the reliability issue to have various entities who were associated with the rig. is that a correct statement? >> what i can tell you is that what we have been focused on over the last 50-plus days is making ...

Washington in march. he insists on staying on course in afghanistan. president obama spelled out his war strategy last december focusing on counter insurgency, and if you will recall, it included the deployment of an additional 30,000 troops to the war zone. by the end of august, some 100,000 troops are expected in afghanist afghanistan. withdrawal of u.s. troops is scheduled to begin in july of 2011. heres file pictures of taliban fighters, very good of pulling out of a fight when outnumbered a...

eight weeks into the disaster. >> ifill: then margaret warner has an afghanistan update as general petraeus, head of u.s. central command, testified about the war. >> woodruff: and paul zoll monorevisits two economists who remain pessimistic about the prospect for recovery. >> things should be happening once every hundred years are becoming much more frequent, much more virulent and the economic cost, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing o...

naval air station. listen to this. >> yes, this is an unprecedented environmental disaster, the worst in our nations history. but were going to continue to meet it with an unprecedented federal response and recovery effort, the largest in our nations history. this is an assault on our shores, and were going to fight back with everything that weve got. >> you consider that a preview of our live coverage to be able to. the president will be speaking live. our coverage will begin at 7:00 ...

and doing things that inside of the beltway seen quite difficult because of the interest disturbe i think we will find a certain degree of support outside of the belt with because there, peoples thinking i that in major change is requed. really what we are doing is saying lets turn ourselves to providing people with options in changes that matter. >> let me take questions. >> i wanted to put something on the table that is not exactly a question. for instance when you were talking and r...

playing in games? you have said they ave thumbed their nose at the international community. should they be allowed to play in an international venue? [laughter] >> i think we recognize the valueeof sports. i would note, i think, in previous world cups in the united states actually played iran in the world cup in the not too distant past. you know, this is a tournament where countries have national teams and they compete for the right to play. and north korea has survived the qualifying...

the sixth attempt to stop the oil leak in the gulf, deployed at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. its called the top kill, and once again, here is whats happening right now. there is a giant ship right here in the gulf filled with a kind of sludge and drilling mud, enough to fill three olympic swimming pools. and that is now being piped through that pipe to what they call a special rig, and the mud will head into the rig and then down to the gulf floor, passing through a series of flexible tubes...

its called the top kill, and once again, here is whats happening right now. there is a giant ship right here in the gulf filled with a kind of sludge and drilling mud, enough to fill three olympic swimming pools. and that is now being piped through that pipe to what they call a special rig, and the mud will head into the rig and then down to the gulf floor, passing through a series of flexible tubes. and the tubes take it straight into that blowout preventer we have heard so much about...

house coverage here on c-span, senate on c-span to. -- this is the outlook section of "the washington post" from the weekend. on one side, the forces of free enterprise -- on the other, and expanded the paternalistic government, and it is time to choose. he writes that this is not the culture war of the 1990s, not a fight over guns, gays, or abortion. those old battles have been eclipsed by a struggle of two competing visions of the country plus future. in one, america will continue to...

as thick as chocolate syrup washed up on shore today. b.p. oil. the next attempt to plug the offshore gusher will involve shooting heavy mud into the well a method called top kill. but b.p. now says that wont happen until tuesday at the earliest. and the worst-case scenario, b.p. says the oil could keep leaking until august when relief wells are finished." for now, though, the spill keeps growing in the gulf threatening more and more of the coastline there. mark strassmann is on grand ...