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About his fleet of drugs and airplanes and boats. "el chapo" wanted her help to create a biopic about his life. he was asked about images published in the mexican news media today that appear to show officials watching he and castillo before the meeting with "el chapo." penns response, quote, i got nothing to hide, unquote. authorities want to question penn but its not clear if he broke any laws. "el chapo" meanwhile is back in the same prison he escaped from. officials started the process of ex...

The most important contest in the world right now, he said, is between isis and us. he is rasheed, the intellectual leader. despite winning the countrys first free elections compromised with its political foes and helped make tunisia the arab springs only success. as he sees it, the real struggle is not between islam and the west but between the isis model and the tunisian model. the only way to truly defeat isis he said is to offer a better product to the millions of young muslims in the world....

With the kurds even though they present its a multi-ethnic force. the kurds dont want to go into raqqah, defeat isis, take control of syria. they just want their enclave. so its sort of a defensive strategy to create a safe haven for the kurds. its almost like a humanitarian intervention rather than a political/military one to take control of syria. >> exactly right. this is not an all syria strategy. its not wildly ambitious. i dont mean to diminish what it is. its not the beginning of restorin...

Which forbade many chinese couples from having multiple children. from now on, all couples in china will be allowed to have two children. their greatest obstacle was its demographics. it was going to have too few young workers and too many old retirees. this new policy aims to change the countrys fate. i remember when the policy was adaopted in the late 1970s. i was growing up in india. and people there were envious. the mentality that produced china and indias family planning policies was under...

Of their country. they have to decide that that future depends on them actually working together and not -- and not cross-purposes. >> its not an an know investigation of americas historic role, a fatalism that says the united states cant affect these regions or the future? >> the question is not whether we can affect them. i think we can affect them. the question is whether what we do can truly be dispositive in shaping their futures. and i think its our belief fundamentally that the answer is ...

Space within the political system, according to him. we are building the alternative model in tunisia, he told me proudly. tunisias success story is quite fragile. not quite the fairy tale version thats recounted. they were reluctant to compromise. they left power only because they thought the country would explode if they didnt. key elements of the old guard have returned in force and the place remains fragile with the economy under severe pressure. but most transitions to democracy are marked ...

Was our firm belief from the experience of the last decade that the most effective and sustainable way to deal with this problem was to have people who were willing to fight for their own country, do the work on the ground with our air support, intelligence, weapons, advice. but people taking back their own country. so in the past year, as a result of these efforts and as a result of much greater coherence among the iraqis special the coalition, the territory that isil controls is down 35% from ...

Huge numbers of evangelicals, totally unprrepresentative of ts country. why do they go first? >> you can make the argument that iowa is the worst place to start the process except for every place else. the benefit that iowa has is that you can conquer the state. you cant conquer texas. iowa, you can drive up to souix county and meet the people and learn it. youve got to organize people to show up. it really is a test of a campaigns ability to get things done in a way that isnt as true in other s...

Warmest march ever. in fact, 15,000 temperature records were broken the entire first quarter of 2012 was also the warmest on record. and that early march tornado outbreak is being called the years first billion dollar disaster. a special prosecutor could present her findings to a grand jury tomorrow in the case of trayvon martin. lawyers for george zimmerman say he will tell his side of the story once charges are dismissed but if he is charged do not expect to hear anything until the trial. >>...

There are going to be a lot of sporting booths, a healthy eating booth here today, and also a yoga station so kids are going to get to try all of that out. also, arts and crafts. its going to be a really neat chance for a lot of kids to get out, play with some professional athletes, take lessons from some of the grates. and also have fun. and, of course, the big easter egg roll will be at the center of all of it. >> were looking at the pichurs here. a booklet, a competition out there for the cov...