it raises questions. seemed surprised when they were briefed on it. clearly he had questions on his own mind. he threw that out there that s no small thing to be done from the white house podium. the other really interesting point that came out in the briefings today in the earlier briefing by d.o.d. and c.i.a. and the question came up were pakistani officials informed ahead of time about this operation? the answer was no. think about that for a moment. a military assault operation with helicopters, special forces going into a foreign country, guns ablazing and you don t tell anybody in that foreign country s government, this is supposed to be a u.s. ally. i think that tells a lot about the state of the u.s.-pakistani relationship right now. michael, what do we know about how the key information was obtained? apparently at gitmo from detainees or a detainee. there was information obtained about the courier and then there was obviously information obtained after that. the original inf
distance to pack stop sign s west point and john brennan said it raises questions. that spak stanny officials seemed surprised when they were briefed on it. clearly he had questions on his own mind. he threw that out there that s no small thing to be done from the white house podium. the other really interesting point that came out in the briefings today in the earlier briefing by d.o.d. and c.i.a. and the question came up were pakistani officials informed ahead of time about this operation? the answer was no. think about that for a moment. a military assault operation with helicopters, special forces going into a foreign country, guns ablazing and you don t tell anybody in that foreign country s government, this is supposed to be a u.s. ally. i think that tells a lot about the state of the u.s.-pakistani
under the stimulus package. we ve got double the number of agents on the board that we ever had. they ve got to tell their story better. and they ve got to stop, ed, ignoring or betraying their base. the professional left, if you want to call it. was ari fleisher tougher than robert gibbs? ari fleisher for bush, gibbs for obama, the rub there, comparison, what do you think? well, i wasn t around in ari fleisher s day but the answer i ve watched him, right, is absolutely, yes. give me one good example, ed, today, right, i went down there expecting them to come out guns ablazing, the republicans, their number one priority, they re trying to repeal obama s number one success and achievement, right? and i thought they would come out and say this is terrible, it will hurt american families, it s going to increase the deficit instead they sort of shrugged it off and said, everybody knows it s political theater. well, guess what, everybody out there doesn t know it s political theer.
deficit. proposal to pare down popular middle class tax cuts is bringing out the houses industry with guns ablazing. christine romans joins us from new york. christine, if you would, i know that there is a very popular deduction that homeowners have and that they get when they buy a home, and that is under some threat now, correct? this is the mortgage interest deduction and something that costs the deficit about more than $100 billion every year. it is probably the most popular middle class, upper middle class tax cut. that is the interest deduction on the interest you pay on your mortgage currently where law stands, where it stands is you can get this deduction on mortgages up to $1 million. on second homes. also on home equity loans up to $100,000. but the proposal would cap the deduction at $500,000, end the break for second homes. in fact, replace all those with
i m not ruling myself out as coming back because i will be vindicated in this case. we are significantly closer to vindication now than i ever was. i m ready for round two. in the second round we re going to put a defense on i m certain. laura: would it be wise for the government to take blago back to court? joining us now from chicago are attorneys jennifer meters and tamara holder whose legal practice required her to occasionally deal with the governor. tam remarks i will start with you. what do you think about this? i mean, it s. a miewdzing to see this whole thing unfold. first of all patrick fitzgerald always comes out guns ablazing, right? whether it s going after my friend conrad black and saying it s a 40-million-dollar and ends up being less. or going after blago and losing on some so many of those counts. the jury couldn t reach a verdict. is this time to say leave well enough alone here. you are absolutely right here. we had a prosecutor who had