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Is doing is not siding on the side of bringing out as a democracy. that will be another question for americans to wrestle with going forward. >> i want to move on to some domestic concerns dana seeing as the president just finished up a rebuttal to the budgets. there were committee hearings on their budget today. their plan would offer a voucher system to replace medicare. it would cut medicaid. it would rely on another trillion dollars of unspecified cuts to programs like head start and food st...

Months ago is going to be closely watched by iran, has its own nuclear weapons program, a new president thats been making overtures about negotiation. >> the audience is bigger than assad and syria if you take military action. the audience i iran, north korea, it is potential users of wmd. this is a key moment for the president. i think there are calls now from congress as we saw that they want some form of consultation, possibly even a vote. i think it would be in the presidents self interest t...

The church, made that the center of their lives and since we know, from all of the sociological studies, the sexual abuse of the young is a societal wide plague and is very hard for anyone to say that a married clergy helped solve that problem. >> well, frank bruney the other day in the new york times, tom, i want to ask you, he said the problem is unreasonable. that very few men are willing to give up sex for life whether theyre heterosexual or gay or whatever. thats why you had situations wher...

Of their lives, and since we know from all of the sociological studies that the sexual abuse of the young is a societal-wide plague and happens most prominently and most disturbingly within families, its very hard for anyone to say that a married clergy helps solve that problem. >> well, frank bruney the other day in "the new york times," i know hes a liberal, but, tom, i want to ask you, he said the problem is the very nature of the sell brat priesthood is unreasonable, that very few men are wi...

Searching for a clear and credible response. >> plus there is the usual problem of trying to get china and russia on board, shep. >> shepard: are they indicating whether they believe the administrations policy of engaging nations in this way, i dont know, not worked? >> senior u.s. officials tried to say today that that policy has worked in some places like burma, but not in others. they recounted spending the last year making overtures to kim jong-un, who succeeded his father last year, but has...

The uranium enrichment activities and they say they have cracked the coats for the one-time super secret stealth drone that crashed in iran last year. and catherine has this news. iran lowers are making all kinds of claims. >>guest: fox has learned that the iranians are making overtures to the chinese to give them access to the c.i.a. drone. now, this drone is part of the aggressive convert campaign to gather intelligence from targets including iran and the drone coding which makes it invisible ...

Primary and caw kiucus states b not dramatically more. i think they would feel more comfortable if theyre dramatically more enthused. >> if mitt romney turns out to be the nominee, you think ron paul could need some help with the enthusiasm gap. >> ron paul could be help. look at new hampshire, the young voters, 18 to 29d, he got 47% of those. he also got down income voters $37,000 and lower, not a historically reliable republican constituency. when ron paul doubles his turnout from 2008 to 2012...

Much richer these days, much more aggressive in asia than it has been for 30, 40 years. and this is in response to that. its an area that the u.s. can be active in, the people want the u.s. involved in. if you look at europe, for example, the u.s. is almost like a bystander in the present crisis. theres not much they can do. look at president obama in asia, hes putting troops in australia, making overtures to burma, attending the east asia summit for the first time as a u.s. president. its excit...

The so-called cover story then was his recovery from an extended illness, but the real story according to diplomatic sources telling us that the saudis are simply furious with the united states from their view, that we abandoned support for hosni mubarak. tom brokaw reported here this week that the saudis are so angry at the u.s., they have been making overtures for trade deals and diplomatic deals with both moscow and beijing. but those pictures today in riyadh trying to get things back on trac...

Watching this from around the world. >> it looks like mubarak is making overtures to his people. hes hired a vice president for the first time. a lot has been written about his openness to the united states. hes hired new cabinet members. will that be enough to appease these demonstrators who say enough is enough, this guy has been in pow for three decades and we dont like the country that we live in, we dont like the country that he rules? >> i think its unlikely to be enough and that more refo...