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Them anything other than troubling. >> shepard, there is clearly some growing tension there. >> shepard: clearly. help us understand what karzai is hoping to accomplish with rhetoric like that. i mean it's for domestic consumption in afghanistan, right? >> it certainly appears that way. a lot of the people think he is pushing back against public criticism that he has gotten from some u.s. officials. we know when president obama dropped in for surprise visit on march 28th. they had discussions there was praise for karzai and his cabinet there was also admonishment that they still need to be roo...

Has changed, shep. >> shepard: this came up today at an intelligence conference. and there were also more questions about how the feds handled that underwear bomber from christmas. >> well, former cia director michael hayden has criticized the overall handling of the suspected christmas day bomber. today he questioned why the white house counter terrorism advisor john brennan, who was front and center after the incident. it was now the director of the national intelligence now the top intelligence official. blair later responded. >> the fact that director blair was not nearly as visible as joh...

Are going to live here, you will probably end up working in the mine. >> shepard: the danger a fact of life for folks like him and all of them. james rosen continues our team fox coverage from washington. tell us more about the safety record of this particular company, james. >> well, you know, shep, it's not just poor safety compliance. it's also poor government enforcement that is plaguing mining in america. massey claims its rate fell to all time low and safety record last year was stronger than the industry average. nevertheless, this particular mine has seen three previous fatalities sinc...

Sleeping. >> shepard: very active fault line. domenica davis, thank you. i'm shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. teams in west virginia desperately tunneling into a coal mine where the officials say those four miners could still be alive after an explosion killed an anow confirmed 25 others. the drill teams are making a pair of holes 12 inches diameter they tell us that will eventually be used to vent poisonous gases from the mine so the rescuers can get in there "the fox report's" chief correspondent jonathan hunt on scene. he spok...

The first drill has reached a depth of 160 feet as of about two hours ago. but, remember, it has to get to a depth of a total of 1100 feet. so there is a long way to go just with that first hole being drilled. the head of the rescue team told us today that he believed they would reach that 1100 feet sometime between noon and 2:00 p.m. tomorrow. only then, shep, will they be able to check the levels of those poisonous gases and only then will they even be able to think about sending rescue crews back underground to search for those missing four miners, shep. >> shepard: i thought the governor s...