nicholas sarkozy at the white house.e's giving speeches, including one on workplace flexibility. then he'll attend a democratic fund-raiser in boston. then on friday the president will talk jobs in charlotte, north carolina. >> we've been talking anltd the weather that could get interesting, dangerous for folks trying to travel. serious stuff. hail, flash flooding and tornadoes this morning, reynolds. >> we have a storm system in the southeast that could be a jackhammer in places like alabama, back into part of georgia, even the koocarolinas. we'll give you an idea of what to expect. it's all moments away. >> all right, thank you. >>> and she thought she won a bunch of money at the slot machine. but guess what? there was a glitch. we'll explain. rear propelled mower. easy to start. easy to walk. ♪ and with the industry's largest bag... easy to unload. moving lawn care forward. more innovation. more great values. craftsman. trust. in your hands. hey bets, can i borrow a quarter? sure, still not dry? i'm trying to shrink t

nicholas sarkozy said he thought he could get all of europe on board for tougher sanctions against tehran but the question has been what moscow and beijing would sign up for. late last week moscow and beijing said they were stripping out some of the toughest aspects of proposed new sanctions so the question is as we get reports that moscow and beijing are on board for new sanctions precisely what is in them? do they have any teeth in them? that's something we'll be working in the hours ahead as we try to determine exactly what the russians and ci chinese are on board for megyn. megyn: adding to that mike as you're speak of it a reuters report hits the wire saying six world powers including russia and china did agree on wednesday to start drawing up new sanctions on iran over its nuclear program. that would be very significant, would it not mike? those two russia and china have been the holdouts all along. >> reporter: absolutely and i asked secretary gates here at the pentagon last week about the idea of whether russia and china were stripping out the toughest part and he said important t

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. >> let me take a quotation from president nicholas sarkozy who says we live in the real world, not a virtual world. in the real world we have opponents who seek global zero as a trick on the part of the u.s. to get them to give up their nuclear capabilities, putting them at a disadvantage because of the u.s. conventional superiority. if you think that is an unfair interpretation, you have to understand the u.s. administration officials have said just that. global zero is to be an advantage for the u.s. because it gives the u.s. conventional superiority in a world where it could accomplish its military goals because it has conventional superiority. if you're sitting in beijing or moscow, that probably does not look too attractive. our foes have this dilemma. they see the u.s. on the one hand saying that nuclear zero is the way to go, and the u.s. can go in that direction because we have such great conventional superiority. we have potential foes and foes is say, given that, the last thing we want to do is give up nuclear weapons which are the great equalizer of these of the u.s. con

as he hosts french president nicholas sarkozy and his wife, carla bruni sarkozy and they'll be meetingws conference planned for later this afternoon which we'll be watching closely, expected to talk about the war in afghanistan, president obama wants sarkozy to send additional troops to the country, and he spoke in new york city at columbia university and said france, quote, remains by your side in afghanistan, but he didn't indicate whether or not he'd be willing to send more troops to do that. later tonight the president and first lady will host a private dinner for the sarkozies at the white house and last time they got together in paris, there was a scuttlebutt over how they got along and we'll see how things go tonight. bill: they were like... little kissing birds over the weekend, and tabloids, were out with the pictures. martha: out to prove -- >> and that wasn't an accident. martha: together and happily married, right. bill: three of the big employers in america asking congress and the president to repeal a provision of the health care overhaul and saying it could cost business

president obama spoke today by video teleconference with gordon brown and angela merckle and nicholas sarkozy. the president and his counterparts discussed the international communities' next steps on iran, international peace process and global economic issues. the president will be hosting president sarkozy and to continue collaboration with the three close colleagues. i should mention he congratulated him on the passage and signing of comprehensive health care reform. >> two points, on the star treaty, can you just give a good assessment of where that stands. is a deal done? >> i have said on many occasions that we are making strong progress toward getting an agreement. wer i think, very close to having an agreement on a star treaty. and won't have one until president obama and his counterpart, mr. medvedev have a chance to speak again. >> is that scheduled? >> they will likely speak in the next few days. >> so we were hearing friday as a possible -- as the most likely day. how would you assess that? >> again, i would categorize this as having made strong progress. the president spoke pers

returns this morning from his visit to afghanistan and will meet with the french president mike nicholas sarkozy. sarkozy and carla bruni, his wife, will have at dinner and the white house quarters. we will show you a picture of the french president and his wife in central park yesterday. to stockton, california caller: no, i'm not particularly optimistic concerning the afghanistan conflict. that has been the place where nations have gone historically to die. i do support the obama presidency. i wish that he would have been given some better decisions to be able to make regarding afghanistan, but that was part of the bush failure. i do briefly want to address -- if you do not hang up on me, one gentleman read like a 400-word manifesto. i like to touch on the racism shown this morning on c-span, especially by the gentleman calling and labeling the african-american scholars unable to be a republican, independent, as if they are all democrats. i would like to invite that gentleman to listen to fox news. america is a melting pot, sir. it is a place where you can be whoever or whatever you want to be

yesterday president obama and french president nicholas car ko nicolas sarkozy said they hope to haventernational sanctions against iran, quote, within weeks. >> the long-term consequences of a nuclear armed iran are unacceptable. so nicoli, myself and others have engaged that the door is open if iranians choose to walk through it. they understand what the terms of a diplomatic solution would be. in the interim we're going to move forcefully on a u.n. sanctions regime. >>> and this is an incredible story. outrage is building for a fallen marine's father who received a court order to pay legal costs racked up by anti-gay protesters that picketed his son's funeral. what's going on? when the case was first heard, albert snyder was awarded $5 million in damages for the protests organized by the westboro baptist church of kansas whose demonstrators carried signs with provocative messages such, thank god for dead soldiers. i mean -- but the church claimed its free speech was violated and won an appeal. so now the dead soldier's father is being held responsible for the protesters' $16,000 in