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Invited? >> reporter: no. absolutely not. the white house is not released a list as of yet in terms of who was invited. and theyve not indicated why some of those who were invited, decisionmaking process behind it. >> the white house keeps saying -- jay carney at the white house press conference kept saying this is a private matter between the president and these families. >> people didnt think it was that private. thanks very much. well stay with you all day. they lost 15 firefighters on 9/11...

I hope nato takes it over and maybe we can help them but we dont spend a lot of money, time, or lose any lives. >>neil: very good point. in corporate-type decisionmaking process, and i know you have boards and that sort of thing, and you are accountable and answerable to the board but you call the shots and it is clear, it is -- if company direction is set by you, great, you stay in the job and if it doesnt, i guess you dont stay in the job. if the board ruled by fiat, it is not quite so direct,...

Elections are held. mr. suleiman will be the head of government. will that stop the writing? will that stop -- i should say the protesting? >> yeah, i think it will stop the rioting. the most committed rioters. there has to be some guarantees in there. people are fed up with the provinces of government in egypt. they want to have concrete steps taken. such as changing the constitution so that -- political process can take place. opening the door for all parties to have discussions and be a part ...

We want to show you some live picture of the former british prime minister tony blair. he is testifying for round two on the iraq war inquiry. many people say that hes braced himself for a really tough grilling here. main themes here that people want to get a real specific sense of is how intelligence was misused, what kind of promises he made to george w. bush of the united states. what was the decisionmaking process? and why was there no real preparation for the aftermath of the war? they want...

This and it caused people to revisit, particularly british press to revisit the decisionmaking process and bp did acknowledge last week that it lobbied the british government on a prisoner transfer agreement that would have applied to megrahi and the british government did, in fact, respond. they took a position that was different than the united states government took, which came down and said megrahi the convicted terrorist bomber of the lockerbie bombing could be released under the prisoner o...

Majority. >> the court does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insiddious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. but what about abortion? in 2007 the court upheld a law that banned a type of late-term abortion. again, the lone woman on the court at the time justice ginsburg spoke out calling the ruling alarming. but keep in mind, three male justices sided with ginsburg. so does gender necessarily color every decision? >> whats so good about having men and women as part of ...

That he was going to go ahead and fight the war in afghanistan. he has. i think hes signalled that the july 2011 timetable as a way of shifting responsibility over to the afghans and not making it an open-ended commitment by america. and i think thats the purpose of that policy. i think as karen says only the president is ultimately going to make these decisions. i think hes consistently said this is important, well fight it. i think the fact hes appointed general petraeus now also signals an in...

To become the commander of the nato and u.s. forces in afghanistan. one of the key questions, president obama said in july 2011 he will begin to bring u.s. troops home. many republicans dont like that. they say it sends the wrong message to the enemy. kes is one the troops should come home. john mccain making that point. >> thats the problem here in whether we are going to prevail and convince the people of afghanistan to come over to our side and to stand up against the taliban rather than as t...

Ago, i was part of the process that helped formulate the presidents strategy for afghanistan. and i support and agree with his new policy. during this development, i offered my forthright military advice and i assure the president i will do the same as we conduct assessment over the course of the months ahead. he, in turn, assured me that he expects and wants me to provide that character of advice. as i also explained to this committee two weeks ago y specifically agree would the messages of gre...

Government tried to argue in that case was that congress umpiled a very extensive record about the effects of these independent expenditures by corprations generally and by unions generally on the political process. and that what the congress had found was that these corporations and unions had a kind of access to congressmen, had a kind of influence over congressmen that changed outcomes that was a corrupting influence on congress. and that was what was the many, many thousand page record that ...