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Weigh in. plus washington's critical relationship with the afghan government is now on the rocks. now an outrageous allegation, what if hamid karzai actually joined with the taliban? we want to welcome our viewers around the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "cnn newsroom." a major shift in u.s. strategy, president obama and dmitri medvedev signing a proclamation to slash their nuclear weapons stash by one-third. i'm joined by dennis mcdonagh, thank you for joining us. >> happy to be with you, wolf, thanks a lot for the chance. >> can you get 67 votes in the u...

Where, as he points out, most of the war was fought in many instarngs there's nothing wrong with people coming to see what took place. but to put it in the emphasis and the thesis of glorification and people should be proud and that all virginiaens should share in the contributions made by those people who fought to enslave them, there were 500,000 people of african descent living in virginia during that period of time. almost half the size of the state itself. those people weren't happy, nor do their descendants have anything to be happy about. >> mr. hines, you understand why a lot of people...

President's goal of two states, as i said, living side by side in peace and security. >> are you saying all those reports are inaccurate that the u.s. might come up with a peace plan and try to impose it on the israelis and palestinians? >> what i am saying, wolf, i've seen a lot of reports that seem to be ahead of the fact as i know them. and in some instances a lot ahead of the facts s as i know them. what we're work on here is working through, engaging this process. we have the leadership senator mitchell as our envoy in the region, working closely with our israeli friends an allies and wit...

Candid with our partner where we disagree and where we agree. but the bottom line is the president saw some good progress after his visit to kabul. >> do you still have confidence in karzai? >> you know, wolf, i do, but the more important thing is that the president does. and most importantly had he has a lot of confidence in the strategy that we're able to hammer out across the agencies of our government, from the state department to defense department to our intelligence community. and our foreign assistance efforts. so we have a comprehensive effort that underscores our interest interests, ...

>> his number one priority is the economy creating jobs, but is he going to be able to deal with some of these other issues that he's been talking about, whether energy, education, immigration reform, financial reform, does all of that sort of go to the sidelines or does he deal head on this year before the midterm elections with those issues? >> look, he's been a guy who seems to have a lot of things all at one time. i would agree with, i think there's one issue for him. that's the economy and jobs. he should focus like that on a laser like a laser, but he has been talking about an energy pol...