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>> there has been too much hammering. yes there are a lot of ways this can go wrong. i am reminded that when the berlin wall came down someone i admire margaret thatcher and her counterpart friends were ringing their hands with the spector of german threat in europe and president bush said, look, lets celebrate what the germans have done lets embrace unity and then we will have a chance to steer this in the right direction. i wish he kept with that advice when he visited ukraine. he warned them ...

Restrained. >> enthusiasm is in order. theres been too much hand wringing, yes, a lot of ways this thing can go wrong, but im reminded when the berlin wall came down, someone i admire, margaret thatcher and her counterpart, francois mitt erin, and president bush said look, lets celebrate what the germans have done and then have a chance to steer this in the right direction and wished hed followed that advice in the ukraine and unfortunately they didnt pay too much attention to him. when the tide...

>> paul: shouldnt be too restrained. >> enthusiasm is in order. theres been too much hand wringing, yes, a lot of ways this thing can go wrong, but im reminded when the berlin wall came down, someone i admire, margaret thatcher and her counterpart, francois mitt erin, and president bush said look, lets celebrate what the germans have done and then have a chance to steer this in the right direction and wished hed followed that advice in the ukraine and unfortunately they didnt pay too much attent...

Intellectual property theft, but the question for the u.s. president, what is the greatest point of leverage with china? the answer to that question is very simple. the american marketplace is the market to which china sells its goods. without america, china would not have a trade surplus, it would have a trade deficit. so to the extent to which the american diplomatic corps and the american president are able to utilize the leverage of threatening effectively diminished access to the american m...

In fact, it lowers the cost. you build power plants to recycle the heat the way edison did. when edison built his first generating plant in new york, he took the heat and instead of throwing it away, heated nearby buildings. we protect them from competition. they dont have any reason to become more efficient. and its destroying the american economy. we are so wasteful. >> specifically, i want to stop you there. i cant think of a more important point than the efficiency point, which brings me to ...

Major attacks. that allows all kinds of new things to happen on this side. >> in a new interview today, secretary clinton has a pretty stern warning for pakistan. so now that it appears the justice department is making that link, what are the consequences we might see? >> yeah. pakistan is a country that receives billions of dollars in u.s. aid every day. so this is a big leverage point. we can go to the pakistanis now and say, look, this happened, you know, were not saying that pakistan knew ab...

It? clearly, the democrats are this trouble, reconciliations not the way to go, and it comes from the budget chairman who is a democrat. he himself is saying its improper, i believe thats true. megyn: kent can conrad. and one, you know, to have conrad coming out and saying that, saying you cant because the rules dont allow it which is something that robert byrd has been saying all along, hes also a democrat saying you cant use it for health care reform, so what is the white house doing? >> well,...

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