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Is if we cut the size of the budget what well be doing is having a detrimental effect on the government sector and as a result have a detriment aleffect on economic growth. in order to believe that you have to believe the expenditures were effective in stimulate growth. since i think the evidence on that is adverse, it didnt really affect growth i dont think the cuts will have any significant effect on economic growth as well. again, i would say we have to focus on the long run. jenna: just real...

Bashar al-assad, the president of syria, is going to be subjected to sanctions by the united states for human rights abuses. this is just breaking. as we understand it, these are sanctions directed right at the leader himself, not his government, not his country but right at bashar al-assad. of course he and his father before him have killed thousands of their own people and that kinded bloodshed is still underway right now. it is considered a dramatic escalation of the u.s. pressure on his regi...

>> senator reid is the one among many who certainly dont want to see domestic mining killed off in this country. >> so, reid said in a statement he is looking out for nevada and industry looks out for reid giving him $750,000 in campaign contributions while earning billions in profits, the loser of course jenna, is the american taxpayer, about $2 billion a year. jenna: very interesting stuff, william. thank you. jon: a fox news alert. and fox news has now confirmed that the united states governm...

Who they believe the attorney general is committed to bring the people in federal court even though he had the major reversal on the part of the 9/11 case. jon: is it the feeling on the part of the senator this is is test case for the administration? >> a test case is one way to look at it. based on conversations i had this morning there seems to be a difference in interpretation on the military commissions act, on the justice departments side. they believe it only applies to al qaeda and taliba...

We are spending will help on both ends. americans need to understand that there are going to be inconveniences if we are going to try to protect trains, in searches and going through detection equipment and the like. we need to be reasonable about what we can expect out of these mode of transportation. jon: security, thank you. >> thank you very much. jenna: how were going to spend your money, our money is a big topic on capitol hill. one member of the senates gang of six dropping out after repo...

But even more impressive and even more hopeful frankly, the fact that afghans from the region are beginning to want to join the police and the army. theyre beginning to perform better when theyre in the police and the army. theyre tyke taking the fight to enemy. i had more than one or two american officers tell me these afghans in the place and security forces are starting to fight better than iraqis in fact when they were training iraqis in anbar province in other parts of that country a few ye...

Big supporter at least in terms of logistics and men and materiel for the insurgent groups. so al qaeda is still the ultimate concern. we dont want to allow a government that would return to invite al qaeda back in. but it is not really the enemy were fighting in afghanistan at the moment. jenna: what im hearing from you petraeus is working in afghanistan. a combination of years and years of work but petraeuss leadership on this seems to be working in the right direction. we do know that hes bee...

Jenna: do we try it again in a different way? >> yeah, right, because it didnt work before lets do it again. no, i think what we have to do is we have to go back to the thing that weve always done in the past when we want to make the economy grow and want jobs to grow and that is encourage the conditions that induce businesses to invest and create long term growth. jenna: let me stop you there, let me stop you for a second because thats we hear from republicans a lot. cut taxes, and cut the spen...

Pontchartrain for a while. it has to get down here to where were releasing water into the morganza river and that will flood that. it takes time. water from the spillway is only a third of the way down. it cams all the way down and back flows into the tributaries. about a week from now this entire area will be flooded anywhere from five to 20 feet of water. that will flood out a lot of these communities. what they dont want to see is more rain. theyre not getting any across the southern part of ...

But make no mistake, every time a child is kidnapped and raped, there is always extreme psychological injury. so i dont think this is going anywhere and i think it is embarrassing that the defense is even trying frankly. jenna: appearances can also be deceiving. only what we see of her. we dont know that much, i dont personally, what elizabeth smart is going through. you say this is probably unlikely that it will affect his sentence. could we see the judge, i dont know, give even a harsher sente...