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Fall guy or fall woman scenario, whatever you want to call it, the singling out of bridget kelly. thats why the question is so interesting. but the other thing there is in terms of the news you just had from jonathan about the federal investigation, about the u.s. attorney from new jersey, its just interesting that that u.s. attorney just put it out there, a frank lautenberg protege, very close to frank lautenberg and one of the people at the center of this, the port authority guy testified befo...

Committee. and at the same time governor christie has a very complicated life. lost two key advisers and all of the investigations to deal with and does have to continue to try to reach out to donors, et cetera. theres still going to be skept skepticism. as chris said, its clear, hes now made it unambiguous, no knowledge of it in advance. he is going to face skepticism on that as the investigations play out. ize a talented guy but this adds a big burden in both his time and psychic energy, losin...

Get more in a moment. lets talk about chris christie and new jersey politics and how plays on the national stage. he has gotten past this with the performance today. but what about the sort of residual doubts about the rough and tumble politics of new jersey in a republican primary? >> well, i mean, i think thats the important thing to keep in mind as we talk about his performance today. lets be honest, politically if you wanted to survive anywhere after this, there is nothing he could say today...

Bush-cheney company. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we have to assume, as any normal person, the former vice president was very aware of his health concerns and frailties. let skip to the more central question. how did he deal with it? when you were around with him, he knew he was weak. it i had to be a ken for him politically and life lines, what hid did he project to you? >> i think that was about the interview how engageing he was and how enformed he was about his own condition. b...

Something of a set of priorities, maybe not rising to the level of doctrine. but we live in a very complicated world, a world in which u.s. power is relatively declining in relation to other countries. >> and it will continue to decline in the middle east. president obama defined his doctrine in 2009 in june. remember when he spoke to the university of cairo and said we reach out to you with open hands and we think democracy is a universal right? the arab spring heard that. >> and acted on it. >...

I wanted to ask you if you thought john kerry was mad after all this. at some point well have to talk about that. up next, our changing look at terrorism and what makes a terrorist. ive saved $75 in checked bag fees. [ delavane ] priority boarding is really important to us. you can just get on the plane and relax. [ julian ] having a card that doesnt charge you foreign transaction fees saves me a ton of money. [ delavane ] we can go to any country and spend money the way we would in the u.s. whe...

They themselves would want to live to be 128 years old. 56% said no. but when asked do you think other people would want to, a large majority, 68%, said, yep, i think other people would likely want to tlaif long. christine, were talk about having the conversation about planning for death, but when aca try dodd that it was labeled death panels, stripped out, and now were not having the conversation. >> its a difficult conversation to have in politics anyway. think about the dr. kevorkian argument...

Informed consent and often ask family member, we think its time now to refocus the goals of care, keep your loved one comfortable, stop the aggressive attempt to cure. okay? >> right. >> and now youre in the position where you have to say, okay, let my parent go. >> and its better for you know what your parent wanted. katy butler, steven latham and dr. diane meier thanks for being here. tough question. one we want to continue on this this show. coming up, were going to shift gears because were...

Blessings to their children, and all of these are sacred tasks for the end of life which we are totally truncating by fighting it till the last minute. >> its interesting. this question of the sacred is certainly part of it, our emotional, personal connections to it. the other pieces include the secular questions of just sort of what are we doing and how effective is it and how much does it cost? how should we be sort of balancing the questions of cost, medical effectiveness, and this sort of em...

Certainly in afghanistan and pakistan, maybe not completely but a lot, it shifts over to horn of africa, it shifts over the these other place where is the cells are metastasizing and changing and morphing. one of the things im really interested in is are we effectively really taking care of the idea of al qaeda. and i would say two things. one is democracy is the greatest retardant foam that you can spray on the fire of al qaeda. and when we are in egypt and we fail to embrace democracy or we fa...