mike lee?> when we are talking about nuclear waste, we are talking about perhaps the most toxic substances known to man. i worked to help keep nuclear waste out of the utah desert, and we won that after fighting for years in court. there is other material called class a material, and it is nothing even close to the spent contamination in nuclear fuel. our state has made the determination to about it. that ultimately is to be decided by the state's, and i defend the states' right to do that. i think in the long run, it serves no one to make utah the world's dumping ground for any kind of material like this, including class a material, and i would support a ban. we do not want to be sending good business to foreign companies, when that business could otherwise go to u.s. companies. >> tim bridgewater, your 90- second opportunity to speak to this. >> nv was being forced to take nuclear waste. i believe the federal government should not face it -- force them -- nevada and with pablo ansante nuclear

. -- win of mike lee. that is "the washington times" today. the last -- al gore has an opinion piece in "the wall street journal," along with david blood. if you get on any political website today, you will find a story about a former vice president that he is surely not pleased. it is virtually everywhere. oregon investigated sex accusation against gore. this was broken apparently by "the national enquirer" about 24 hours ago but it is now all over the political news cycle. let us go back to calls. we are talking to you about president obama's decision yesterday to accept the resignation of general much -- general mcchrystal and put david petreaus in charge of afghanistan. harold is on our republican line. caller: how are you doing? host: what are your thoughts on this decision? caller: i am an army reservist, commissioned officer. what needs to be known here is as a commissioned officer for the united states military, we take an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the united states, which is a living document, and to obey and supp

satellite corp. 2010] [unintelligible] >> today on cnn, check -- mike mullen talks about military operations in afghanistan irian james lee witt discusses government believe efforts for disasters. and then it is "washington journal." . >> president obama is in canada for the g-8 summit. today we will have live coverage of their closing news conference which gets underway at noon eastern. tomorrow, president obama will meet with the heads of the g-20 countries, including leaders from south. -- south korea, india, and china. you can see that beginning live 5:00 p.m. sunday on c-span. c-span is now available in over 100 million homes bringing you a direct link to public affairs, politics, history, and nonfiction books all as a public service created by america's cable companies. >> on thursday, joint chiefs of staff mike mullen voiced the decision -- support to replace general the crystal -- mcchrystal with general petraeus. this event was hosted by the hill newspaper in washington. this is one hour. >> as most of you know his background, he was sworn in as the 17th chairman of the joint chiefs of staff on a sober first, two