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Incentive to negotiate, but, it will not cause them to capitulate. and the way -- wave a white flag and that is what the west is doing now, inside of iran there seems to be... mahmoud ahmadinejad wants to negotiate and hard-liners opposed to mahmoud ahmadinejad, two different of different hard-liners dont want to negotiate and there are also divisions within the government, about what to do. gregg: now the iranians say, it is for peaceful purposes only and one of the reasons we are enriching ura...

Level because they disagree with their approach and of course politically, lets face it, republicans feel like they are very much winning opposing the presidents plans, especially on health care. and, you know, to be real here, we know that the reason why the president is even calling for this summit is because of simple math, because in the senate he no longer has that 60-vote super majority among democrats and also because of the message that he and democrats got from voters in massachusetts t...

Money, but its only one tenth of our external debt and the total amount of dollars that the chinese are holding it s. a large amount. 800 billion. but it is less than the amount that we strangled on our economy and gave away in the stimulus package alone last year. it is not the end of the road and it doesnt give it a stranglehold on our economy. yes, we are dependent on the chinese, but the chinese are dependent on us. if they order us around, you call the bluff and you will see, as you said, t...

Program. >> you have to wonder, can the u.s., along with the international community, really stop irans nuclear program if theyve made up their mind about what they want to do, what kind of influence could the u.s. and international community really have? >> yeah, its really the question thats been bugging them for months now. you have a lot of contradictory statements coming out very quickly from the iranian government and u.s. officials have been chalking that up to dissension within the irani...

>> 51 votes to pass rather than getting 60. i think everything is on the table for the democrats. i think obama is going into this meeting on february 25. saying look, im trying every possible thing to get the republicans on board. meanwhile, he has in serious intention of listening to the republicans or incorporating any of their ideas. the big point is this. obama saying he wants to do this because he suddenly found jesus on transparency. right? im going to do transparency now. if he is really...

The country to make sure that how and health care and lying about the health care summit too, or well go if he throws away the whole bill. were interesting in starting over and reforming health care. and the sum total of the proposals that would get insurance to 3 or 4 million americans and its the same old page from the same old playbook. they want to destroy obama. they hope the economy is going bad and playing politics with national security z bob shrum, thank you. eric cantor folded and no...

Received a formal invitation nor my details. until they heard it from reporters. they have lots of unanswered questions about the format and discussion, but privately republican orders are saying that they are concerned that they understand the president is trying to call their bluff, and theyre worried about, as one source put it, walking into a potential trap. the format is one problem potentially. theyre looking back to last month when they had an open q&a session, and physically the presiden...

I think if the president wants to find a way to get the money, saves about $115 billion. if you want to make sure that you have coverage, theres ideas to expand medicare to people not over 55 but over 45. i dont have any problem with having my conservative friends in the room but i hope the president realize that the people who want him to succeed are not on the republican side of the aisle but on the democratic side of the aisle. >> isnt it critical for the vetting process, for the american peo...

Accompli by the president. what does it mean? >> reporter: certainly it appears health care is on life support if you will but the president in sort of a dramatic development is trying to breathe new life into it. i think if you think back to the scott brown election the other thing some analysts were saying is, well, especially a line being pushed by the white house is now the republicans have 41 votes in the senate. they can either block things or try to help pass things. the white house has b...

Not just health care you about jobs bill in other, broader discussions. i think thats now going to set the table for what we see later this month. the bottom line, as you noted, health care is still in deep trouble. this doesnt mean that its going to pass. i think that the president can call all the meetings he wants but until he gets specific, until he tells these leaders what does he want and what is he going to do to get it done, this is still just going to be an important development but it ...