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From general mccrystals new book. he writes the beginning of president obamas first term saw the emergence of an unfortunate deficit of trust between the white house and the department of defense largely arising from the decision-making process on afghanistan. the effects were costly. big difference between having different opinions about what is needed to succeed in the mission and having a deficit of trust. is it fair to say the decision making has hurt the war effort? >> i think you have to r...

Doesnt do over, lets say, the next 9 to 12 months, is that going to be the best indication as to whether shes running or not? >> i do think so. i think if shes considering running there are limitations on the type of things she can do. she might want to wait for a couple years before she announces. just given the nature of our political cycle and news cycle i think she will have to make a decision maybe more sooner than she is comfortable doing. >> david, there are a lot of other people who are ...

We have a lot of new members that are going to be seated after the first of the year. so, if they come up with some partial solution, lets say, whats the impact, angela, of us having new members of congress seating into this di decision making process. is it hurtful or beneficial? >> its always beneficial, i always think that new minds are great to come to the table to give new ideas. what we have have to stop down is putting a bandaid on it and kicking it down the road. we need true me form or ...

That anything that comes over to his side is going to be dead on arrival? you think this is going to affect anybodys decision-making process here now when theyre talking about doing this in the senate? >> i certainly hope not. first off, john boehner ought to worry about his own chamber. were supposed to have separation of powers even within the congress. the senate does its rules. the house does its. first off, he ought to keep his nose where it belongs which is in his own chamber. secondly, he...

Good one. theyre not only brokers, theyre also participants in the process. one of the things that hamas is calling for is that the border that hamas has with egypt be opened up. in the past, egypt has resisted that and now it appears that is one of the issues being negotiated. to what extent israel wants to seem like theyve resolved this crisis could depend very much on their willingness to open at least some of that border crossing for goods and supplies. so in the past they played a very diff...

Laden determining to strike the united states. condoleezza rice was national security adviser. condoleezza rice should have received tough questions in the confirmation hearing for secretary of state in 2005. >> governor rendell, i cant remember which show it was on. someone brought up the point that you have senator mccain questioning the intellect or the ability of susan rice to carry out a job when the quote was he brought the world sarah palin. >> thats true, too. the fundamental point that ...

Workplace, there is that comment about binders full of women. is that a common phrase that the governor uses? >> well, i think he was trying to explain the process by which he has brought women into his administration. a process by which was actually praised and put massachusetts among the first states that had the highest degree of women at senior positions. so governor romney was explaining the process by which he ensures that women of what they bring to the overall decision making process are...

This and a movie and a book about this. it written before no easy day. what do you bring new to the table? >> i learnned a lot of things. certainlyy the story of how bin laden was found is told in a more detailed way. in this book than any of the previous ones. the only person i had to talk to the president about the decision making process . the book really testimonies a bigger story and a wider story of how bin laden was found and how the decision was made to go after him. >> brian: option 2 w...

Um, once it became clear that mitt romney was going to be the republican partys nominee this year, the obama campaign had a choice to make, a choice to make how they were going to run against mitt romney. how to define mr. romney before they got a chance to define himself. and all of the campaign reporting from this year about the obama campaign tells us that the decision-making process in the obama campaign pretty early on was that they were going to not run against mitt romney has a flip-flopp...

Justice mary beth kelly has seen too many teens like daisy. >> being safe is something that these young people really dont have a sense of. theres no sense of boundaries when a relationship could be dangerous, could introduce them to a dangerous set of circumstances, and so the decision making process that even a healthy adolescent could make in terms of what would be a good choice, a bad choice, is really not -- its not even present in these young people. >> trapped in a downward spiral and est...