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Will win the nomination. the most important thing is for the president to lead, to ensure the economy will continue to roll and to reach out to independents, thats the key to winning in 2012. >> what is the presidents problem right now politically. >> the jobs thing is good. doesnt settle it. there are other issues on the horizon. price of gas, inflation, other things that can happen. this business around the world in the middle east, precarious, and our commitments and what else will happen. he...

Doesnt settle it. there are other issues on the horizon. price of gas, inflation, other things that can happen. this business around the world in the middle east, precarious, and our commitments and what else will happen. hes not doing badly. those numbers arent terrible. republicans can win if we get the right candidate and message. what i most agree with donna about is for the president to lead. lead in the way your last two panelists talked about. take a lead on the all-important budget matte...

Development that ive seen in a while happened in portugal at the nato summit. that president karzai would be in full control of his country and that means a dramatically reduced international presence, hopefully it means a presence mostly based on economic assistance and governance and rule of law and the afghans will be responsible for their own security. so we are embarked on a strategy as i understand it, at least when i left the white house, to make a -- a reduction in forces, and the so-cal...

Chances are when we roll out our ideas, well get grief from the left and right. if we dont find a way as we started this conversation to link arms, democrats and republicans and take a giant leap together, these questions around debt and deficit will continue to haunt us. not a question of whether we do deficit reduction, only a question of when. i think youll see something very shortly. >> this month? >> very shortly. >> we have a whole month. it sounds to me like are you quite willing for demo...

In doing those things that affect the outcome in certain countries. economic development. government rule of law, and security. i think proactive engagement is much more economical than waiting until it metastasizes and you have another afghanistan or something like that. the good news, we know a lot about where these organizations are going. the question is, what do we do about it, and when? >> you bring up afghanistan. you wantsaid if we dont succee afghanistan, a bad message to the rest of th...

Watch these three. haley barbour, tim pawlenty, and who was the third one? not newt. no. interestingly wasnt in it. if you had to pick your top three -- >> well, you know, conventional wisdom, what i would say mitt romney, tim pawlenty and who did you say the first one was? whatever. >> haley barbour. >> yeah, i dont know. see, i think -- im not saying him be a candidate. literary critic said -- i think next week change as lot. paul ryan will emerge, i think, as the single most important republi...

It. and its like every two weeks, okay, lets cut another -- this is no way to run a railroad as i think both of you will admit. and the real problem here i think is that you havent even started dealing with the big problem this year. >> absolutely. because when were talking about, you know, $70 billion, $73 billion, $75 billion in cuts, versus $1.6 trillion deficit, were really only playing at the margins. and all of this debate so far has been on one small part of the budget. the domestic discr...

Ju yan is many more ambitious than anything even ronald reagan even proposed. thats going to shape, i think, a lot of the 2012 race. >> how so? >> who walks away from it? does everyone endorse it and think it is serious or not? thats going to have an awful lot -- >> the republicans will run away from it. they ran away from it last year. and they will run away because they wont support the drastic cuts and medicare about to rise in the system and the severe cuts in medicaid that will kriple the e...

Continue to haunt us. not a question of whether we do deficit reduction, only a question of when. i think youll see something very shortly. >> this month? >> very shortly. >> we have a whole month. it sounds to me like are you quite willing for democrats to go ahead and vote to lift the debt ceiling, which is necessary. but you kind of -- you republicans are going to stay away from it, and let him do it and take the heat. thats what it sounds like to me. >> we cant con business as usual in washi...

Which they are we have destroyed about a third of the tanks in libya as i understand it. we do have a -- an adequate set of rules of engagement to go after these -- these heavy weapons that would inflict harm on civilians. we have some 40 ships, some allied ships of about ten are u.s. the command and control that nato has is operating -- >> but it didnt seem to you weird to have gadhafi on the move and us saying, okay, were done with the front seat stuff? >> we have a big alliance. air power -- ...