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The world populace in general say saying this is a protection mission, not necessarily a removal operation. >> of course, especially to some of those liberals who arent necessarily happy about the u.s. getting engaged militarily in another country. yes, the president was talking to the american people and also giving them a reason for why the u.s. believes that they should be involved and engaged in libya, why libya matters, the president pointing out that if left unchecked that gadhafi could co...

Hostility to fiscal zv actives who always nag the proipgs committee about spending too much. he was the prince of pork in 2005, a long time ago. now hes sitting atop this committee, pin nacle of his career. what does he do? cutting discretionary spending six times as much as newt gingrich ever tried to cut. its a radical, stupefying change. >> it was giving out goodies. >> democrat, republican, and appropriations. >> now people dont want to be on it. they dont want to be tagged as the spender. >...

Friday. even as there is no progress on a long-term budget deal. house republicans want deep cuts and the key advocate there, chair of the appropriations committee, hal rogers. once called the prince of pork. thats the cover story by national journal correspondent. preview of this weeks story. such a change. >> yes. >> here, youve got a budget cutter who was the prince of pork, the top appropriator. >> the central question, andrea, is can washington change and are washington cultures so deeply e...

>> as we know, there are known knowns. there are things we know we know. we also know there are known unknowns, that is to say, we know theres some things we do not know. >> reporter: the 69-year-old secretary had been at the pentagon nine months on september 11, 2001. he was in his office when suddenly it seemed to shake. he raced toward the smoke. >> i came around that corner down there. and it was -- it was just in flames and smoke. >> reporter: you can see him there, helping carry the wounde...

Are looking at the very same television pictures were looking at. today, they see tanks on the move and see egyptian army troops trying to restore security in central cairo and they are not sure what at all means but its the central question. who is controlling the egyptian army? did mubarak send them out there? probably not likely, we are told. is the egyptian army doing this on its own? trying to restore security, or some of the new egyptian leaders like the vice president trying to take contr...

This. if you are talking about getting rid of settlements, remember what it took to remove 8,000 settlers from gaza to 50,000 israeli soldiers, imagine that situation on the west bank. >> it is an article of faith that it is nearly impossible to pull off, so a lot of folks sits at home are wondering why the president took this on. can you articulate why the americans feel this is so important to americas interests? >> thats the central question right now. president obama has been saying in the a...

Desperate scene as people literally piled up on top of each other or scrambled over others who had fallen. hundreds gathered outside paris to mark ten years since the disastrous concorde air crash. shortly after taking off the supersonic jet plowed into a hotel. all 109 on board were killed, along with four people on the ground. the cause of this crash is still unresolved and widely debated. the concorde was taken out of service in 2003. in washington, a raging debate is shaping up over tax ...

Lets get started. and joining me now from london, richard holbrooke, the united statess special representative for afghanistan and pakistan. richard, thanks for doing this. >> my pleasure, fareed. good to be with you. >> first lets talk about pakistan. i know youve been everywhere in the region in the last week. but many people believe the central question is is pakistan finally cooperating? the cia director, leon panettas own estimate is there are three times as many al qaeda members in pakis...

Understand after that, kids are off-limits of public figures. >> friends at foxnews.com. is that kathy griffin being kathy griffin? isnt that her persona and shes kidding? you think thats out of bounds? >> listen, if -- >> theyre in their 20s, both of them. >> if kathy griffin goes on cnn and wants to talk about prostitutes, why doesnt she say hey, elliot spitzer will host a new show here, right? hes the king of the prostitutes. is on he at 7:00, 8:00, 9:00? thats a great prostitute question for...

Because it all depends on the size of the economy. so really, the central question, were talking about stimulus versus deficits. do you want to tax more, do you want to spend more? the real central issue is how do you get the economy to grow? a half percent or extra percent a year of economic growth solves a heck of a lot of problems, and that really, i think, needs to be the central question. >> but not all of them. you can have the economy growing robustly, steven, and suddenly you can turn th...