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We slid into very sort of simplistic black and white view of the world. we against the bad guys and we against the jihadism and we against the world of islam as a whole and look where we are ten plus or minus years later. when 9/11 happened, there were two things i recommended. and i was very marginally involved in the discussions that led to the decision to go into afghanistan. i said, absolutely, we have to go into afghanistan. and we have to smash al qaeda but immediately after the meeting in...

Under the $40,000 mark there. information scientist is up more than 5%. economics majors are getting a little bit more, too. thats kind of a hint on where you should kind of look if youre looking for a new job, tony. >> that makes sense. all right, alison, thank you. well get a quick break in but i think were just minutes away from having an opportunity to talk to the chief operating officer for bp, doug suttles. lets work in a quick break. back in a moment. youre in the "cnn newsroom."

Lets work with them. we had to make some tough decisions, work with the right people, build the institutions even if it does cost us gains in the very short term. >> if the combat missions stops, the dutch are on their way out, the canadians are leaving. if a combat mission ends and it becomes purely a developmental mission in afghanistan will it be possible to look long term and do better in the way we spend our money here? i. i think you can. i think the afghan institutions are taking shape. t...

Afghani if they were ruling. there are a lot of not nice people ruling a lot of countries, and its not our job or capability to set every country right. we have to invest our resources where its important to defend us and our allies, and right now, i dont afghanistan as being one of those places. >> okay. thank you very much, congressman jim mcgovern and congressman gerald -- jerrold nadler from new york, congressman mcgovern from massachusetts. and "meet the press" coming up this sunday will ...

The -- >> the new way of american politics, to try to destroy anything that comes out of the white house? >> it certainly works. >> i like the guy -- >> its worse now mostly because most of the moderates that used to live inside the republican party that lived up in the northeast were purged out of the party over the last three or four elections. so theres very few moderates per se left. there might be three or four left in the senate. and those are the ones that democrats are working over to ma...

Bipartisan solution. harry reid wants to move this to the floor next week to try to reform financial regulation. there is a lot of concern about is this pushing it through too quickly. republicans say slow it down. lets work on it, make it right. >> where have you heard that will before? >> sound familiar? republicans are saying they want a chance to have dick shelby and chris dodd, the two people who have been point men on this to work some more to, not rush it too much. susan collins has not y...

Principal. let the schools do some curriculum and work with the kids. not put their name out there so it could be on the internet. jane: i guess, doctor, one of the questions that was raised by a lot of parents was why would you ask the sixth graders who the bullies are, because if they wanted to, they could all get together and somebody they wanted to pick on, they could put on the list. how do you trust theyre giving you the accurate representation of whats going on at the school? >> when you ...

Helped finalize the decisions of the election. that meant that he was a controversial president when he took the oath of office. he overcame that. he met the responsibilities of the office very, very well. he passed his most important initiatives in terms of cutting attacks. he patched the initiative to bring -- to leave no child behind in education. then we have the attack on september 11 #th. but it took discipline on the part of the white house staff and resolve on the part of the president t...

Martha: whoever gets the job. better succeed! and there is this, this morning, the word reverberating across capitol hill, reconciliation, and what does it really mean, folks, the senate process that allows bills to pass with 51 votes, a simple majority is what the white house calls it now and will the president go this route as so many people are saying, this morning? when he announces the new way forward on health care overhaul, one senator, is warning democrats, to quote, think twice about us...

Responsibility to propose ideas for making it better. so if you have a better plan for making health insurance more affordable, lets hear it. if you have a better plan for making health insurance companies more accountable, lets face it. lets work on it. if you have a better plan for doing this while cutting the defic deficit, as our bill did. our bill cuts the deficit by $132 billion. the second ten years up to $1.3 trillion. those arent my numbers, theyre the congressional budget office. so we...