enough. dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz tells meet the press why they re asking him to resign. we re asking him to be circumspect, do the right thing, reach the conclusion that he needed to step back and step down on his own and as of yesterday when that didn t happen it was important to weigh in. nbc s mike viqueira is live at the white house for us. good sunday morning to you. good morning, alex. do you think the calls down are universally held by democrats on capitol hill? reporter: universally held and coordinated yesterday. a couple of things brought this to the fore, critical mass yesterday. first of all the allegation representative weiner in addition to everything else we ve seen and talked about over the last ten days, had inappropriate contact with the teenager in delaware. it turned up nothing, the investigation is over. yesterday the leaders including debbie wasserman schultz, the new chairwoman of the dnc, former speaker nancy pelosi, chris van hol
thousands gallons of displacer in the negative pressure test. circulation materials were still up on the reagan rig. is that correct? that is correct. that is what we have got in our report. 450 barrels. decision was it? i cannot remember the specifics of how the decision was made. i suspect that the wellside leader was involved. dino if anybody do you know if anybody had used the combination of these materials as a spacer before? i do not know. did your team to an analysis about whether these materials could be combined? we look that what that material would be cave like, yes. what was your conclusion? we did not make that conclusion. we looked at what the material be paid like when combined. it was resistant and heavy. so i think one of your conclusions or hypotheses about why there was zero pressure in the fuel line was perhaps that spacer actually leaked and clogged the line? that is correct. the point of our work was, which you outline very clea
afghan president karzai calls on the u.s. to leighton troop presence and his country. our role in afghanistan. what it means in that country and also, our relations with the afghan people. 202-737-0002, our line for democrats. 202-737-0001 for republicans. if you are independent, our line to call is 202-628-0205. front page of the washington post . president karzai is at odds with general david petraeus. he says lighten up. president karzai saying saturday that the united states must reduce the visibility and intensity of its military operations in afghanistan and end the increase special forces and night raids that aggravate afghans and could exacerbate the insurgency. he wanted american troops off the roads and out of the afghan homes and a long-term presence of so many foreign soldiers would worsen the war. his comments placed him at odds with general petraeus who is made capture and kill missions essential component of his counterinsurgency strategy and who claims 30,000
chicago s bid for the 2016 olympics. we ve been watching what s playing out on the house floor with congressman wilson here. what do we know of the latest there? it s still the democrats hold the majority. i expect that resolution will pass. disapproving of the behavior by congressman joe wilson. but a lot of people have noted it s been a pretty sad day. we re seeing, obviously, democracy work, but this isn t one of congress brighter chapters. and mark, there is any chance that pete stark gets in any trouble for that comment about not wanting to waste urine on somebody. if you re saying that in a town hall, anything goes? well, you know, there is a lot of bad behavior that s been going around. pete stark has been known for outbursts like that before. so i m not sure anything is going to come of it. obviously reports on that never good news for a democrat or a republican. indeed. mark murray, nbc news deputy political director thanks as always. check out first rea