hugo chÁvez and mahmoud ahmadinejad will be popping champagne, but the consumers will rrmember the goodold days when gas was only four dollars per gallon. i asked secretary salazar to ask what went wrong on that the deepwater horizon rig. he said you believed it was preventable, that ii was the result of human error and overlooked safety regulations. [buzzer sounds] i will wait for that. we will not be satisfied until there is no danger to our environment. let us learn from this awful mistake, fix the problem, clean up the gulf, and look forward to fixing our ailing economy and creating private sector jobs. >> we recognize the chairman of the full committee, the gentleman from california, henry waxman. >> thank you for holding this hearing and for your tenacious work on this issue. you have been a true advocate for transparency and admonished traded accountability. accountability.ative%- you have kept the american people informed about the unfolding disaster in the gulf. yesterday, we released a letter excoriating the terrible decisions made by bp in the days leading up to the blowout.

iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad denounced this latest vote as valueless. he had already indicted the u.n. tuesday. >> ( translated ): the security council is the most undemocratic international organization. a few countries have the right of veto, which means they dominate the whole world. unfortunately , their wrong behavior has even raised the security council to a level above the general assembly and has enabled it to dominate the general assembly. >> suarez: iranian's u.n. ambassador insisted today no amount of pressure will make its country give up its nuclear program. we're now joined by the united states ambassador to the united nations, susan rice. welcome to the program. >> thanks, ray, good to be with you. >> suarez: this, as we reported, is the fourth set of sanctions against iran in this latest round. how does this take it further? what's new in this set of packages approved today? >> well, ray, this is actually a very tough and comprehensive resolution the security council passed by a very strong majority today. it builds very substantially on

. >> holman: iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad urged the international community to support his country's agreement brokered with turkey and brazil to swap nuclear fuel. he said it would resolve the nuclear issue. but he warned it is a one-time opportunities, and that imposing more sanctions on iran would be a mistake. the u.n. security council is scheduled to vote on a new round of sanctions tomorrow morning. in washington, a state department spokesman said iran has had more than enough time to change its course. >> iran wants to portray itself as the victim here. iran is not the victim. iran is an actor in this play. it's iran that has failed to come forward and meet its international obligations. what we are saying is that failure has consequences. we are not closing the door to any step beyond, you know, the sanctions vote tomorrow. >> holman: in london u.s. defense secretary robert gates insisted it's not too late to stop the iranians from developing a nuclear weapon. he said the clock is ticking. >> voters in 12 states headed to the polls this primary tuesday to determine the fates

let us be clear at the end of the day, mahmoud ahmadinejad is nothing more than a bully and a dictator. his regime uses every tactic they can to subdue and terrorize their own people and we need to recognize this phony regime for what it is. it's a killer of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of press. and i believe that when history is written that the record of this terrorism regime in the 21st century will%compare, sadly, to those same brutal dictatorships that we witnessed in the 20th century. i'm talking about hitler, stalin, tojo and mussolini. that is a level of despotic dictatorship that we are witnesses today in iran. so, therefore, this resolution before us confirms the support of all iranian citizens who struggle for freedom, human rights and civil liberties. it condemns the ongoing violence and human rights abuses against the people of iran by their government and urges immediate release of all political prisoners detained by this regime. house resolution 1457 also calls for the freedom and democracy for the people of iran, including fair, democratic and ind

about one year since the re- election of mahmoud ahmadinejad. new sanctions have been confirmed. david is join yes from south carolina. good morning. are you with us? we will try it one more time. ahead, please. david? caller: good morning. what is next for iran does they are on the verge of being a superpower -- is that they are on the verge of being a superpower and taking over corporate america at this time. americans can talk about sanctions all of that one. host: would you call it run a superpower? guest: i certainly -- would you call it ran a superpower? guest: i certainly would not -- wwuld you call iran a superpower? guest: i certainly would not. most of its citizens live below the poverty line. unemployment hovers around 40%. i think the caller were to set foot in a run he would be immediately disabused of his assessment as iran being a superpower. host: london, england, go ahead. we're glad that you. good afternoon. obviously there has been a lot of cautionary questioning when i really do think that turkey in the next four years, they have a strong possibility of becomi

we fill up our gas tanks that we end up sending money to some places, some people, some -- mahmoud ahmadinejad in iran and chavez in venezuela. i'm convinced some of these countriee use our money to hurt us. if it were so easy to recover oil we would have done that. a lot of of it is in hard-to-reach places as we found out. the deep water horizon spill. not just danger, but calamity and disaster. we have to be smarter than this. i realize we're going to be dependent on petroleum in this country for sometime but i hope, if nothing else, that we will use this awful experience to do what einstein encouraged when he said in adversity lies opportunity. in the midst of all of this defined the opportunity not just to stand up and meet your obligations as i think mr. willis you're able to do on behalf of b.p. but we will find a way to move away from our dependence on fossil fuels and petroleum. especially these unstable countries around the world. we'll find some opportunity in a way to move our economy in a new direction. there is that opportunity. we just have to be smart. we need to seize the day.