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Retribution for a recent pakistani military offense against the taliban in their country. "the times" reports, the military says that the offensive has resulted in the death of 1,800 militants and cleared much of the regions most notorious hub of militant activity. michael, given todays attack, is the military offensive having any impact? >> thats a great question. its a really complicated situation. you mentioned the region. the region is waziristan, on the border of pakistan and afghanistan. d...

Hardest blow against that country. there have never been sanctions like this on russia since the end of the cold war. george w. bush didnt do anything like this when russia insladed georgia for example while he was president. whats being done against russia is unprecedented and it seems like its going to keep going. if its not going to be a military war, its going to be an economic war. how do we expect russia to react, given todays fresh evidence that even as they try to laugh off the sanctions...

Came down. the president issuing a statement saying, quote: i now call on the egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically-elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of president morsi and his supporters, end quote there from the president. senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler is live with the latest and, wendell, what does the remo...

The line here. the line that the president says we are deeply concerned by the decision of the egyptian armed forces to remove president morsy and suspend the egyptian constitution. that line alone is going to anger a lot of the supporters of the military. those who oppose morsy in jipt. the president goes further. i call to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of presiden...

Hard to do? >> its a lot easier than most things. its certainly a lot easier than anthrax, which takes having to get the toxic form of anthrax and process that and get it down to a very granule level so it can be inhaled. ricins easier, but again, easy to take a caster beam, mash it up, get some remnants of it. its a bit harder to really grind it up, get an element that would be ingested or inhaled and be toxic. so, people with no training can do it, its just not clear whether this individual wh...

You know it is not going to be easy but you dont give up. thats the spirit we need right now. because here in america, we dont give up. here in america, we look out for one another. here in america, we help each other get ahead. here in america, we have a sense of common purpose. here in america, we can meet any challenge. here in america, we can seize any moment. we can make this century another great american century. thank you, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> that wa...

Back to you. >> trace: what else did we hear today from the police interview with dr. murray? >> well, that audio tape, of course, offering conrad murray a chance to tell his side of the story without exposing himself to cross-examination. but it also offers a very heartbreaking glimpse into how members of jacksons family reacted to the news of his death. take a listen to murray recounting for police a very somber exchange at the hospital with the singers then 11-year-old daughter paris. >> give...

And pop operations that really are not located anywhere else. most of the -- the only change we have here is walmart and target that have -- everything else is owned by local families, even the chain hotels are locally franchised and owned. so they dont have -- we dont have the diversity of having -- renting units or selling t-shirts or having restaurants in other communities. so if we fail here, we fail. >> and given todays concert is, mine the concert is going to swell about 35,000. businesses...

Inevitably of this, that given todays society, that dont ask, dont tell is going to have to be repealed. but there are some very serious questions about how you do that. and so the military, i think were going to hear from gates and from joint chiefs chairman mullen, asking for a time period of about 9 to 12 months, so that the military can study these issues, such as training, sensitivity training, for example, housing, and whether there should be separate housing. of course, i talked to some s...

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