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New business because of things directly attributable to this president and his administration. >> chris: lets turn to the other big story and that is the case of the chinese dissident cheng who the government there now says can apply for a travel permit to go to the united states to study. before, secretary of state clinton worked out this apparent deal with the beijing government mitt romney weighed in and here is what he had to say about the cheng case and what at that point seemed to be the f...

good evening upon. im ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett tonight. out in front, campaign is kicking into high gear. candidates are criss-crossing the state, trying to pick up last-minute support for the first contest in the race for the gop nomination. lets go straight to the political correspondt. jim acosta is on the ground in iowa. good to see you. lots of campaign events and everybody is back in the game. a recent poll shows 12% of voters in iowa, still undecided. you spoke wit...

The other countries in the region have their territorial claims and the u.s. has broad interests there as well. so i think he did a nice job. >> let me slip into raw domestic politics. many people of the former bush administrations particularly george h.w. bush have expressed some concern about the republican field, the gaffes mccain has made, allegations against herman cain, rick perrys gaffes. do you share that level of concern that people like the former chief of staff have voiced publicly? >...

Happen. the way you avoid them going to al qaeda is precisely to have a more open system where they have to run for elections and they cant just use guns. so -- you know, the vast majority of people who have announced their opposition to goif like misrata, and theyre just the youth of libya. theyve put 0u9communiqu. the language they use is that of secular nationalism. this fear is just fearmongering. >> professor cole from michigan, we appreciate it. thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks f...

We can influence events but in a certain limited way in bahrain, the problem is this. we have an interest in seeing some stability the maintenance of our ankrage fleet. but there is a question of the values here. and that is you always have to ask yourself when there is a revolutionary situation what comes next? if its not as in egypt, the chance of a better life, decent life, open system and democracy, there is a reasonable chance of it happening in egypt. then you go with the people in the str...

We acted decisively early. we can influence events but in a certain limited way in bahrain, the problem is this. we have an interest in seeing some stability the maintenance of our ankrage fleet. but there is a question of the values here. and that is you always have to ask yourself when there is a revolutionary situation what comes next? if its not as in egypt, the chance of a better life, decent life, open system and democracy, there is a reasonable chance of it happening in egypt. then you go...

Nuclear facility. what does meltdown mean? chad myers has a breakdown. >> meltdown means the melting down of a nuclear reactor and after that, a large displacement of radiation. how does it work? it works by a series of closed systems. this -- when youre sitting in your car and you have the heater on in your car, youre not warmed because the fluid thats in your radiator is spraying on you. that would be an open system, because youre spraying hot stuff on you. youre warming in your car, because t...

Large displacement of radiation throughout the entire atmosphere somewhere. how does it work? it works by a series of closed systems. this -- when youre sitting in your car and you have the heater on in your car, youre not warmed because the fluid thats in your raid adiator is sprayin you. that would be an open system. youre warmed because theyre a small radiator under your dash blowing a fan, thats warming the air and youre being warmed by that air. if all of these closed systems in a nuclear r...

Concern that the egyptian government as it exists today is really walking a very fine line. on one hand it wants to do as much as possible that the americans are asking under intense american pressure theyre asking them to have somehow a transparent transition to some sort of more open system. on the other hand, they realize if they open it up too much domestically, this protest movement, that its worth pointing out, its not just cairo. were hearing reports from many places around the country wh...

And -- >> but if they dont have the incentive to make that change, if the politicians benefit from not changing -- why would they change? >> well this is the, the incentive. people coming together, collectively, to tell congress, we need that change. >> you believe the most fundamental thing in terms of change is transparency? >> i believe transparency -- >> why? >> because thats how we make things run. thats how we respect our communities. thats how we respect working people. is by having an op...