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The morning papers. a big story this morning in the dallas morning news. barton backs off bp apology. joe barton retracts his apology to bp chief executive tony hayward. >> the guardian. the congressional hearings also making news in england. in "the guardian." america's most hated man faces accusers and says, it wasn't me. >> oh, all right. "arizona daily star." this is interesting. virtual fence gets a flogging. >> the "usa today" war zone corruption allegations up sharply and causes of fraud by -- afghanistan and iraq way up. >> will the house decide daniels' future.

Guthrie. big picture. the white house clearly under siege from especially republicans in terms of the response to this. giuliani coming on our show yesterday saying things that the white house flatly denies. so joe barton must have been like a gift. >> christmas. >> for the white house. >> it was christmas yesterday. >> yeah. >> tell us what happened. >> well, look. you read the comments and it didn't take hardly any time at all before we get a written white house statement through e-mail which is not that common for things that happen on the hill. i mean, people are saying stuff all day long....

He's traveled to louisiana again. traveled to mississippi, alabama, florida. a $20 billion fund and a speech i guarantee you middle america wasn't offended by as were pundits. you take the collection of all these over the week and a half -- >> it is your fault, joe. >> why is that? >> because you -- ♪ hey... why don't we use our points from chase sapphire and take a break? we can't. sure, we can. the points don't expire... ♪ there is nothing... there's no travel restrictions... we could leave tomorrow. we can't use them for a vacation. you can use the points r just about anything. i know.....

Triples the number of troops in afghanistan after we've already been there almost a decade and is dragging his feet on getting out of out of there. yet the left seems to be fine with that. >> part of this, joe, this is what he said during the campaign he was going to do. the afghan strategy is pursued more or less what he promised. >> did he promise not to triple the number of troops in afghanistan? >> he said afghanistan is the good war and what you need to do to combat terrorism. i think he bought himself time with the left until next summer. and this is why i think it's a political problem ...

Cup. the ron artest. argentina looked great yet. >> they looked fantastic. hard to imagine that anybody could stop them right now. messy is the best player i think in the world and looking really good. >> their coach can't get in the way, can he? >> he's a big guy. you got to keep him off the field. >> he is crazy, too. >> he is crazy but they are still in it. he picked up every one of his players and gave them a hug and press and told the world press he likes women and is going out with a young woman that is blond. >> he is out of his mind. >> let's talk about the game this morning. usa and s...