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w. bushs press secretary ari fleischer is here. >> after labor day hell reveal a jobs proposal that will have specifics in the way his critics have been calling for. according to my sources it will be actual legislation. thats real detail. im told the package will be new initiatives and not a rehash of the policies weve been hearing him promoting recently like patent reform or infrastructure bank. my sources say there will be proposals in three main categories. targeted tax cuts. anoth...

proposal that my sources tell me will have specifics in a way his critics have been calling for. so according to my sources it will be actual legislation. that is real detail. until the package will be new initiatives not a rehash of the policies weve been hearing him promoting recently like patent reform or an infrastructure bank. my sources say therell be proposals in three main categories, targeted tax cuts, another big one for the white house is new infrastructure investment, and t...

overhaul of the entire tax system. heres the catch, though. other sources are shooting down the idea that this is even happening as fast and hard as they can. listen to boehner himself earlier today on rush limbaughs radio show. >> rush, there is no deal. no deal publicly, no deal privately. there is absolutely no deal. >> no deal, no deal, no deal. now, heres the white house spokesman jay carney. >> there is no deal. we are not close to a deal. we are -- obviously, the president is in...

Security. point two, have systems in place to respond if a failure happens. for example, you are selling a shoe online. if amazon were to fail you, can you e-mail your customers. amazon will say, sorry, we are down now, be back up in four to eight hours. at least you are failed but have told your customers. point three, having systems in place, that may have a minimal form of redundancy, maybe amazon is down. maybe you can switch to another site for your technology there. >> have some of your sy...

Office he decided to intensify efforts against al-qaedaed including globally. we intense fitded the efforts and had a tremendous amount of success in pressuring the organization and we have institutions like apap. >> chris: libya where the war between quaddafi and the rebels seem to be at a stalemate. they defended the presidents decision to turn over the lead of this operation to nato. here was the comment. obdz may be moving towards -- obama may be moving towards something resembling a dock st...

The president visited with the special operation forces at fort campbell and received a minute-by-minute briefing from the operators yesterday on every minute of the operation from the point they left afghanistan to the point that they returned to afghanistan after the assault on the compound and the killing of osama bin laden. as i look at it now, though, even though i have worked for three presidents, my eyes go to the president who made this decision. and we ask a lot of our presidents. and t...

100 members of al-qaeda in afghanistan and given the fact that you have had more threats, more attacks or attempted attacks on the u.s. homeland yemen in the last year than from afghanistan, does it make sense to keep 100,000 troops on the ground in afghanistan. >> brainal foal of our he for the is the strategic beneat at al-qaeda an and we took a big p towards that on sunday night. first point. second point is we also have ss a goal not to have afghanistan come again a safe haven or place where...

Rectitude. donald rumsfeld said this this week. water boarding, lets be blunt, did not produce an enormous amount of intelligence, to say that they just arent facing the truth. how do you respond? >> first of all, im not going to comment on specific pieces of intelligence in the source. point two, i can tell you this. that the intelligence achievement here, the intelligence assessment that was brought before president obama beginning in the summer of last year which resulted in hundreds of piece...

Men all devoted, capable oh o fixeofficials shouldnt have to look over their shoulder and worry if they follow the orders of this president to carry out this interrogation program that at some point down the road it there is a change in policy and that they can expect to be prosecuted. >> chris: i want to change subjects with you. is it conceivable to you that no one in the pakistani government knew that bin laden was in that compound in that very sensitive area 30 miles from the capital and wha...

That it leads directly to the murder of osama bin laden seems petty and seems an attempt to diminish president obama -- >> let me finish this point. you know what, so what if we got information by means of torturing people. as president obama and we heard this morning from tom donilon it is not in our values to pull out peoples teeth and eye balls and secondly, you know what, we could get that information in other ways. >> chris: you mat made that po, bill, go ahead. >> eric holder suggested for...