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that manhunt and look, a lot of pictures from the newsroom, our team is watching all the e stories developing for you and harris is working -- there she is -- working on the situation off the coast of louisiana and jenna has an eye on gm, they say they'll be paying taxpayers back and tim at the assignment desk is in touch with our affiliates across the country and across the world as well. >> first to iraq, you might remember the gruesome killings of four american contractors back in 2004. their bodies burned and dragged through the streets. of fallujah, the suspect in the murders, t...

Press secretary. jeff, good to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> we have election results in from iraq. it looks like a split. what role now for the united states? >> we really have no role other than to be there in an over watch capacity assisting iraqi security forces. we did not have a candidate obviously in this election. our interests were in providing or helping the iraqis provide a safe, secure, free, and fair election. by all accounts they had that. 12 million iraqis went to the polls this month, 62% of the population, relatively free of violence. it's taken a while to count t...

Senate primary campaign. plus, the obama administration reached a major nuclear weapons deal today with russia. the reaction from moscow, though, makes it sound like we've been had. we will talk with pentagon spokesman jeff morrell. nasa is under fire for spending a lot of money not on the space shuttle but on coffee and bagels. hello everyone. happy friday. i'm david shuster live in washington. we're going to begin in tucson, arizona, where sarah palin and john mccain are together again for the first time since losing the presidential election. mccain is running for re-election to the senate ...

This is just an issue we have agreed to disagree with the russians on. it in no way inhibits our ability to proceed with president obama's missile defense plan, a phase-adaptive approach to missile defense, not at all aimed at the russians but aimed at rogue states like iran, and our hope is still that the russians will join us in cooperating in this effort because they are every bit at risk to this threat posed by iran and other rogue states as we are. >> do they share this view or even if they don't agree with it do they at least understand loud and clear that they can have members of the kr...

Future for our children. >> the treaty will limit both sides to 1550 warheads each, about 30% fewer than currently allowed, and the president said that by upholding their commitment to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, the u.s. and russia are committed to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and ensuring other countries meet their own responsibilities. in a controversial statement today russian officials at the kremlin said this agreement will reduce defensive weapons including the u.s. antiballistic missile shield. just ahead, we will get reaction in an exclusive interview with pentagon ...