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Corporate. is greece a different structure that accelerated their decline? >> the same problem in greece that we dont have is that the voluntary tax payment system there doesnt work well. a lot of people there dont pay their taxes but the government kept spending. here is where we are right now. this year our national debt is expected to go up to $15.5 trillion, all right. that is about our gdp. at 100% of debt to gdp you start to see the slowing economic growth if you look at other countries th...

Prime minister, has been much more enthusiastic about a major military operation in libya than president obama himself was. >> yeah. he certainly seems to be very keen to be in the front of this, at least politically, along with the french, of course. they very much have taken the french and british, the lead in this in terms of the politics of it. i think its not clear though how much real military contributions theyre making. of course there are british and french assets at play here but the s...

>> it seems to me -- and, matthew, correct me if im wrong -- david cameron, the prime minister, has been much more enthusiastic about a major military operation in libya than president obama himself was. >> yeah, he certainly seems to be very keen to be in the front of this, at least politically, along with the french, of course. they very much have taken the french and the british, the lead in this in terms of the politics of it. i think its not clear though how much real military contributions...

Hawks fired from the mediterranean from a british submarine. i have spoken to a senior defense official today who raised his eyebrows when i asked whether the french could be targeting gaddafi and he said the french are doing their own thing over there. while the u.s. may not be targeting gaddafi, other coalition members may have. >> harris: you know, its interesting, jennifer and youve been reporting this today, that of the 124 reported missiles, tomahawk missiles that were fired. 122 of them c...

Populations they are going after. well find ourselves engaged sending a lot of money along with constitutional partners trying to reestablish infrastructure and what have you. meanwhile, muammar khadafy will be in tripoli with a powerful force around him biding his time. moments ago one of our journalists were talking about 122 of the 124 missiles have come from u.s. ships. it sounds like we are doing the heavy lifting here. >> we are pretty far ahead of technology and capability. we have our ...

122 of those tomahawks were fired from u.s. forces. two were fired by a british submarine. we expect in the coming hours and even very shortly we could expect more tomahawks going back to those initial 20 sites that were targeted yesterday. the u.s. officials that we have spoken to say they have had a chance to look at the satellite imagery coming. in the bomb damage assessment and they are not going to do this partway. they will go back and they will make sure that those air defense systems hav...

Congress on how to reorganize the administrative branch of government. i think thats a good idea and im awaiting his report. >> greta: when is his plan coming? >> i dont think he said when. but he made it clear in the state of the union that he wants to deal with this. >> greta: i think we hear this all the time from everybody. since i was in college i heard about waste and fraud in congress -- >> in congress? >> greta: throughout the government is what i meant. theres criticism about waste and ...

Would submit a plan to congress on how to reorganize the administrative branch of government. i think thats a good idea and im awaiting his report. >> greta: when is his plan coming? >> i dont think he said when. but he made it clear in the state of the union that he wants to deal with this. >> greta: i think we hear this all the time from everybody. since i was in college i heard about waste and fraud in congress -- >> in congress? >> greta: throughout the government is what i meant. theres cri...

Moments and your time with them, i noticed i went out to smoke a cigar with a bunch of guys i bought a bunch of cigars for them. i came back in and you had only 3 hours to get time and sleep and you were up hanging out with them. you didnt really sleep. >> it was so inspirational. we were fortunate to have an all volunteer military. all of those people were there because they wanted to be there they wanted to serve their country. it was a privilege to work with them. >> what was the one thing yo...

Patriot act. they failed. here it is 277-148. the president wanted this passed and he wanted three years. he wanted a three year extension. what happened? whats the back story? >> well, the story that were talking about earlier was that the -- some tea party people and republicans voted against extending it. thats not that significant because once they need a simple majority to pass it which they will next time, theyll pass it. whats fascinating to me is that the democrats voted 2-1 against exte...