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Meanwhile, afghan president hamid karzai is not favoring general petraeus' plan to recruit villagers into local defense programs as part of the u.s. military strategy in afghanistan. karzai fears the plans could make the country more vulnerable to out of control militias. still no official confirmation of a second body pulled from the delaware river is that of a missing hungarian male tourist that surfaced while crews worked on removing a sunken duck boat in philadelphia. meanwhile, the first body recovered has been identified as 16-year-old dora shwenter. the two were on the boat when it coll...

On with us tomorrow. we'll have a group of fishermen on with us and the attorney representing 500 of these fishermen to say what's going on down there with the money. >> coming up, small businesses say they're being devastated. the small businesses in the gulf about this drilling moratorium. how bad they're getting hurt and what their message is to the president coming up. >> in the meantime, we have the rest of your headlines and we start with the fox news alert. we're awaiting video out of afghanistan where a large explosion has torn through kandahar earlier this morning. at least one person...

Nuclear summit. what he was really doing was making fun of our president saying that our defense programs are just a joke. jon: this is a president who was elected, though, on a promise to sit down with the iranians. >> right. and, you know, one of the undiscussed reasons of why iran really wants a bomb is if you want to sup rest internal dissent, be a nuclear power. the first reason ahmadinejad wants a bomb is they can crush all internal dissent forever, and they get a get out of jail free card from the entire international community, and then they can turn and aim at the rest of the world. t...

Again, there was a pre-existing deficit that was there when the president stepped into office. we think that this is the best way forward and we hope that members of congress will step forward with ideas just like some of the ideas we have in our budget. >> bottom line, over the past year, what mistakes do you think you have learned in the budget-making process and how are you guys trying to do things differently now? >> well, we have tried some things that didn't work so well and other things that did. for example, we put forward proposals to eliminate defense programs. we were successful in ...

Exempt from the budget freeze, it's not exempt from budget common sense. it's not exempt from looking for savings. we save money by eliminating unnecessary defense programs that do nothing to keep us safe. one example is the $2.5 billion that we're spending to build c-17 transport aircraft. four years ago, the defense department decided to cease production because it had acquired the number requested. 180. yet every year since, congress has provided unrequested money for more c-17s that the pentagon doesn't want or need. it's waste. pure and simple. and there are other steps we're taking to re...