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He seems to have the confidence of the white house. although gates really was uniquely close to this president. >> he was. >> the bond they forged. >> it is, and you don't envy anyone who would replace robert gates. they feel like unfillable shoes, but the sense is if anyone can, it would be leon panetta. i'm told it was robert gates himself who recruited pannetta, picked his successor and said this is who it should be. and as far as i can tell, there was never really any other serious candidate considered. the president called panetta monday and offered him the job on tuesday. panetta accepte...

I can't believe that anybody actually thought that coming from this president who has been spending since the moment he came into office that this is going to hold. what he was really referring to is 13% of the federal budget, part of our discretionary spending, it did not include anything no do with our entitlement spending which is, in fact, the fastest growing part of our federal budget nor did it include the stimulus spending or upcoming health care bill most of which hasn't been doled out at all. no, promise broken. >> what about the entitlement spending? that's been a big debate in the l...

What do you make of the sandra bullock breakup? >> it's interesting because my comedian friends are going are you going to go for sandy bullock? to me that's not the comedy. the comedy isn't making fun of sandra bullock, the comedy is the mistress with the swastika tattoo whose middle name is bombshell, which i don't think is her baptismal name. i think she made that up. and the nazi hat. that's the comedy. >> larry: and he is not the comedy? >> oh, he's the comedy, with this business. and then when he goes on "nightline" and says maybe it was funny at a party. you know what? bad answer. maybe...

Not have had the kind of explosion that we're now dealing with. we found five separate instances from their own documents, from their own e-mails and from interviews that we've done that indicated that something was really wrong, not just once, but over and over again. >> five questionable decisions he says bp made in the days leading up to the rig explosion. this from their own documents. congressman waxman and bart stupak laid out those decisions, putting tony hayward he's going to face tough questions thursday in capitol hill hearings. we talked to survivors of the rig just last week. liste...

Congressman waxman and bart stupak laid out those decisions if a letter to tony hayward, putting him on notice he's going to face tough questions thursday in capitol hill hearings. we talked to survivors of the rig just last week, listen to what one of them said. when it comes to bp or transocean, time and money or safety? >> time and money, honestly. they preach safety. it's like safety's only convenient for them when they need it. you're pressured and pushed to do things, and if you say hey -- because everybody has a right to call time-out for safety, but you do it, you're going to get run o...