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Pretty shot of capitol hill. welcome back to "morning joe." time now for a quick look at the news at 32 minutes after the hour. npr is saying that general petraeus whos expected to leave that job by this fall is being seriously considering for director of the cia. now, thats according to several npr sources including government officials who say petraeus would take the job if he was offered it. the current spy chief leon panetta is being seen as the defense secretary to replace robert gates who ...

Tweaking it, to come out and say, no families, then they would be throwing away a lot of money. even in the summer we see oundan tousandf ds trelg erdauscted anth have to pay an extra -- up to $100 more each way. so a flight attendant can keep airline. >> i have to say, even parents, as we were talking about this in our team yesterday, even parents were saying, if it was an extra $25, id pay that. if their kids are going to bother somebody, their baby cries and cant stop them, they dont like tha...

Coalition aircraft in the air and off the seas, but it really passes to the diplomats now to figure out how to move forward on this. >> but the no-fly zone is in place. it just needs tweaking, correct? >> thats the indication to us. normally there are mobile radars, radars on mobile anti-aircraft systems. we know libya has some of these. when they come up, theyre a nuisance, theyre a threat as admiral courtney said. prefer to fly around them rather than against them. so unless they make a nuisan...

Other kinds of things enormously. i think that the bottom line is that we are moving in the right direction in afghanistan to shift it to the afghans. that is the presidents plan. i believe it can be done and it can be maybe done faster than we anticipated. >> i would say that 2014 does seem a long way off, and that is the agreement, but should it be accelerated and is this a losing proposition considering the challenges that we face at home? >> i think that the key to the strategy is not to hav...

Companies that really have a knack for understanding search engine optimization. those companies are often referred to as content farms. you click on them, you know, you get something thats remotely related to what youre looking for, but potentially isnt very helpful, might even be factually inaccurate, and is probably covered with ads so that the company that created the content can reap the benefits there. >> so, how is google tweaking things? i mean, for all of us, is it, i guess the concept,...

>> shep: and google announcing its tweaking the way it ranks search results what it considers higher quality websites come up first. that means sites that produce more original content as opposed to content farms like certain things. dont adjust your television sets a computer on top of a penny. scientists in michigan building the wireless device, to help monitor glaucoma from inside a patients eye. this computer is reportedly the smallest computer ever. >> a surprise audience member showing up ...

Him to do something decent, but this is the grand wizard of the kkk, and hes tweaking them saying no, you dont matter and you cant make that claim on me. hes doing it to a cheering section thats out there, and he node it and its worked for him. >> what would be the message for african-americans and people who care about these things? you put up nathan bedford forrest. he was a courageous general, i know his role, but later on he went back home and was one of the founders of the kkk. >> the messa...

Is that trance in addition what will that transition look like, and thats the question? are you going to have some interim government? are you going to abide by the constitution which says if the president steps down the speaker of the parliament takes over, and then who do you involve in the discussions? you dont have organized opposition groups yet. its a very complicated thing. i was talking to a couple of military officers in egypt yesterday. they said that mubarak could end up going if thin...

Republicans say theyre making good on a promise from the campaign season to repeal this. theyre talking much more now about what they would do to replace it, which is a new piece we had not heard quite as much about. plans to come up with their own version that would keep some of the best ideas and change some things. of course, democrats say that is not the way to go. and so it has been passionate and its the kind of thing that while it may not go forward as you indicated in the senate, its goi...

>> a lot of experts thought it was weird arizona would simultaneously try to appeal their law to the 9th circuit court of appeals then change the law to pass muster in a lower court. the governor came up with the idea of tweaking the law as soon as the federal judge blocked key provisions but many state legislators in arizona are saying lets just see how it plays out in the 9th circuit court of appeals. theyre already fast tracked it. it would be heard in november. if the 9th circuit upholds the...