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Reform. will the house now move to get a bill passed first out of the house before the midterms? >> i think youll find the house ready and willing to do any big lift that the president believes is essential for the country. and we will succeed. but the problem is not the house. its the senate. there are 350 bills some extremely big important bills like the energy reform, like the jobs bills that are sitting in the senate. were waiting for a few kurnlgious republicans to stand up to help it the a...

All local. if youre creating a half and half situation by securing five provinces, you have the rest of the country largely overrun by the taliban. in many ways were creating more of a problem being have the troops where theyre at. i would argue we need to cut back to 2003 levels. >> and i want to bring john rob into the conversation. when you look at the modern day insurgency and your perceptions of how it works, where do you come down in terms of our resource allocation to deal with it? are we...

Of setting up 16 joint u.s.-afghan checkpoints around the city of kandahar. the goal is to create a security bubble around the city, ultimately dividing the insurgency from the population. the afghan government controls parts of kandahar and taliban are strong in the area. despite media reports, u.s. commanders say there was never going to be an allout military push to remove insurgents. the plan instead is to slowly build up security, changing the perception of the afghan government and police....

>> brian: tell us about where the president stands right now and how much of that do you think is being impacted by whats happened in the gulf and efforts by the administration to try to get this under control? >> last week we had an nbc "wall street journal" poll of all adults that had the president upside down in his approval rating, 45 approve, 48 disapprove. those are bad numbers for the president. any time you see the disapprove go above the approve number, its not good. i think a lot of th...

They had been given a gift by a little old lady who lived in their building who they befriended who left them a chunk of money when she died. and they said, what do we do? our dream is to start a family. its a price tag frankly that is way its , its way out reach fr many people. >> were looking forward to it. soledads one-hour documentary premieres tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m., on cnn, "gary and tony have a baby." "larry king live" starts in just a few minutes time. coming up next, the punch line. ...

Most -- the gravest scenarios of the last time will not repeat. please? >> translator: good day, my question to you. i must admit that and state that the promises to facilitate russias entry has been heard before. could you specifically name the time frame when you are referring to finalizing the process in the near future. and a question to medvedev. yesterday you visited the silicon valley. how did your perceptions on future cooperation between russia and the u.s. in high-teches sphere change,...

Golf course. there are some signs of worsening relations between the united states and its longtime ally, great britain, chris. they call it the special relationship going back a couple of centuries now with the united kingdom. an outfit called ugov and asked britain, since obama took office are relations better or worse than they were before he took office? 45% now say relations are worse. back in may, only 25% said relations were worse. theres also, they asked them, residents of the uk, if the...

At least in my mind. its so that members of congress can grandstand about how they feel about cap and trade and green energy policies and so they know right now that the sensitivity of the american public is that were all worried about this oil spill so its a way of trying to pass on their perceptions to the american public, too. >> thats what harry reid was doing yesterday, trying to put together a meeting with members of the other democratic leaders about an energy bill, some kind cap and trad...

Leader of the senate, its not even close. the fact youve got a black guy running the state senate ought to satisfy people who are in the know. the fact you dont have somebody in the relatively meaningless and powerless position of lieutenant governor, okay, i can live with that. im not sure how other people feel about it. >> the country outside of new york. let me ask you about, congressman, what do you think? how is the community doing in terms of pushing that ceiling? >> i think a lot of peopl...

Emphasize this is not a cap. the people of the goal have my commitment that b.p. will meet the obligation to that. >> hes frustrated because he cares about the small people and we care about the small people. i hear sometimes that the large oil companies are greedy companies or dont care. but that is not the case in b.p., we care about the small people. >> bret: perhaps lost in translation there, the chairman of b.p. trying to address the perceptions about greed and indifference on the issue but...