to take action about this was the guy with the amazing hair who just got confirmed to be our new energy secretary. he at the time was an undersecretary in the department of energy under bill clinton and he and bill clinton and the energy department and the defense department and in the senate, sam nunn and dick lugar, all of these somewhat low-profile but concerned americans looked at this situation, at what used to be the biggest nuclear testing site in russia and they said, we realize this is not in our country, but we ve got to do something here. we can help. we feel a responsibility to help. we can help, so let s get this stuff locked down. and thus started an american-funded, joint american/russian secret mission to lock down that site. to lock down all that plutonium, to make it unscavengeable. not to make everything all right by all of kazakhstan, or even by this whole big polluted terrifying cold war leftover site, but at least to secure the plutonium.
outfront tonight, mitt makes a bold promise. 12 million jobs. take a look at this ad in the wall street journal. written my romney s top economic advisor. first of all i want to draw your attention to the cartoon. there is obama on a tortoise with a whip. and romney on a horse going so fast that his tie and horse tail are flying in the wind. what was it supposed to be the tortoise and the hare? the newspaper denied the catchy cartoon but every word was written by glen hubbard. here in the second to last paragraph is the claim. president romney would create about 12 million new jobs in his first term and millions more after that. which means, just to get to 12 million the first term, 250,000 jobs each and every single one of his 48 months in office. he says he will do that by cutting regulations and cutting taxes. does it add up? first the good news. there have been a few times in american history where this has happened. the chief economists of jp morgan notes it happened i
for example so they know how to get away and the attacks won t take place. we can at least mitigate the degree of killing even if we can t forestall it completely. one final question before i let you go and it s a tough one. if the u.s. were to find out where gadhafi were hiding out right now, would it be appropriate to kill him, to drop a hell fire missile from a drone let s say and kill him once and for all? that is a pretty tough question. boy. you know, i m really tempted to say yes. i am a little bit nervous that if you had unilateral action by the u.s., that that would res na resonate among libyans as an imperialist power intervening. i would have to think about that. i would be worried about other casualties and want too know how sure we are we could take out gadhafi. it would work bet fer it was a joint american/tunisia and egyptian operation in some form.
that is a pretty tough question, boy. i m really tempted to say yes. i am a little bit nervous that if you had unilateral action by the u.s., that that would resonate among nationalists as a poor and imperialist power intervening and so i would have to think about that a lot. i would be worried about other casualties. i would want to know how sure we are we would be able to take out gadhafi. it would work better if it were a joint american-tunisian and egyptian operation in some form. ivan watson is standing by with live report. stay with us. you re in the situation room. when the economy tumbled, y
he s being described as the most significant taliban leader to be detained since the war began eight years ago. they think this is the biggest fish they ve ever got in afghanistan. his influence among taliban leader is considered only to mullah mohammad omar. he s believed to have been close to bin laden before 9/11. both pakistani and american intelligence officials are taking part in the sbler interrogation. the new york times reporting that a joint american/pakistani intelligence operation has captured the taliban s top military commander. we will be assessing and reporting on this news in coming days. stay with us on this one. we ll be right back. rogaine? i m just a skeptic so i don t necessarily believe that anything is going to work but i was like, hey, this actually works. (announcer) only rogaine foam