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Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin will have to overcome two congressional hurdles in his path to the Pentagon—a waiver, then confirmation—during which he’s likely to face questions from lawmakers regarding the Middle East, China and Defense Department spending.

and the future of the navys combat fleet. >> from 1971 through 1973, president richard nixon secretly recorded his phone conversations and meetings. this weekend, hear more of the nixon tapes with conversations between the president and richard helms and fbi director j. edgar hoover. >> i ought to make a statement about freedom of the press and were not trying to center them. >> you are right. >> i should stay out. what is your public-relations judgment on it? >> you should remain abso...

any time you get to that close of all level, every single tactic, the gore campaign you can look back in retrospect. it was that close. give in her election becomes that close it will have that type of an impact. there are some larger macro issues. >> we have a bunch of questions from the audience. let me read them. will web 2.0 lead to national voting or issues on the internet? >> i love this question. i do think this is -- [unintelligible] that transformative tool. i do them on the p...

increases and we might jump the big spending cuts hand in hand to sequester of large and that is a form of insanity to do something like that. .. so its very hard -- this is why it hmi look at tenure windows because anything beyond that is already highly, highly im searching. so on one hand i dont think we should necessarily be saying this will definitely happen. i think our approach should be more thoughts make sure it doesnt happen and have a contingency plan and ensure against that....

think it is difficult to argue if you got to the point you have a democratically elected government that followed that would want to continue under this crippling yoke thats been placed on the country of sanctions. the first thing they would want to do is to prepare the economy and bring back iran into the community of nations. they would certainly want to negotiate in good faith unlike the current regime so then you could have discussions about what capabilities could be trusted and m...

space shom the u.s. russian nuclear cooperation efforts. well hear from the chief u.s. negotiator on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty and other arms control analysts. from the council on foreign relations, this is 55 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> okay we can get started, please. >> my name is cliff, the directorate the eurasia group and i would like to welcome everyone to todays council on foreign relations committee. first, just a few housekeeping items. please come completely turn off n...

negotiating. in other words, these are the kinds of things that we would involve in a negotiation rather than unilateral action. that is a very important mark to look at and i refer all of you to them if you are not familiar to them. it lays out a policy very succinctly in my view. very interesting proposal. there are a number of proposals in and out of government. i am not at this stage in my own deliberation or with my interagency colleagues ready to endorse the -- my colleagues may ...

interest would mythologize it. >> i will add my thanks to the other two panelists who have spoken and i would say also i am very honored to be included in this panel. i come at this set of issues from a rather different perspective. the work that the organization, aye direct focuses on other things such as the impact of fear of public thinking about terrorism or public thinking about the appropriate responses to terrorism, and on the opportunities available to political and other opini...