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Figurehead. all of this has been proven wrong. now the question that experts are debating: are the protests the instigation of the muslim brotherhood or of the even more radical forces inside egypt? i think the fact that we have so poorly understood what really motivates many of these people has led to this problem. i think the guide for american foreign policy has been not some abstraction, but what is in american national interest? for 3 1/2 years, we have seen the sacrifice against an ideolog...

Four who make $29,000 a year and they would get -- the federal government would pick up the tab basically through 2022. >> youre still talking about sm small story, though. compelling but small. the problem for health care vis a vis the democrats is the story is complex and also an abstraction. it doesnt exist yet. the benefits are not ones people know about, that theyre receiving, so i think what it really does for the republicans, it fits very nicely into an economic message which is like this...

Future, as it records the names of the past. memorials are built for the living and are to instruct our destiny, as they honor and remember those who fell in the service of our country. memorials further instruct us of the powerful responsibility of our nations stewards to make policy worthy of the sacrifices of those who serve and die. war is not an abstraction. it is brutal. it is always accompanied by the haunting portends of dangerous unintended consequences. uncontrollables and unpredictabl...

women this memorial day. the president laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns and he speaks later this hour at the vietnam veterans memorial. romney taking part in a tribute at the veterans museum and memorial center in san diego. senator john mccain is also appearing with him. i want to bring in dana bash who has more on this live. we expect to hear from mitt romney at this event thats getting under way. what do we think the message is going to be today? >> reporter: well, accordin...

The issue is we can harness it as a surface fuel. the president is anti-carbon. thats totally understandable. the country is anti-carbon. if we want to bust opec, create jobs, being energy independent, we have to embrace natural gas ahead of nuclear power, which by the way the president said there will never be another nuclear power plant built in this country after fukushima. clean coal turned out to be an abstraction, they cant do it. its time to say listen to it. >> what the president has sai...

Particularly in the case of egypt where there are a lot of concerns that the muslim brotherhood may have too much power after mubaraks ouster. what do you think of president bushs comments? >> well what hes say something obviously a further elaboration of the principles that he set out in his second inaugural address and i think as a matter of high level abstraction it is hard to debate with that. the united states will not come out in favor of forms of government other than representative gover...

Spontaneous, thats the famous line where he basically says, i am going to raise the rate, even if it decreases the amount of revenue. this is insane. the purpose of taxation is to raise rev new and to pay for stuff that the government has to do. thats the only reason that the government swipes your money. he is saying i will raise the rates even if it decreases the amount because of this abstraction i have, which means i want to take the money from the rich and distribute it elsewhere and think ...

>> dana: all right. were going to talk now nonpolitics which is gad for the next four minutes. the question posed by the atlantic monthly, the cover story is facebook making more lonely as americans? its kind of an interesting discussion. a lot of us do facebook or twitter or something. is loneliness just a state of mind? or if you dont feel as lonely if you have social media friends? what do you think? >> kimberly: are you lonely in >> greg: you know what blows my mind. with this game is farmvi...

>> dana: all right. were going to talk now nonpolitics which is gad for the next four minutes. the question posed by the atlantic monthly, the cover story is facebook making more lonely as americans? its kind of an interesting discussion. a lot of us do facebook or twitter or something. is loneliness just a state of mind? or if you dont feel as lonely if you have social media friends? what do you think? >> kimberly: are you lonely in >> greg: you know what blows my mind. with this game is farmvi...

With their kids, that would be the effect of the ryan budget. but on medicare hes played a more skillful version of defense. because he, he recently endorsed this ron widen/ryan plan which gives people a choice, even future seniors to stay in medicare conventional medicare, if they want. so hes going to be able to say no, im not gutting medicare. if you want to stay in in medicare, you can. the problem is that people assume that somebody else is going to get cut, not them. them getting cut is an...