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Its math. dana millbank is an opinion writer for "the washington post." good to see you, good morning. >> hi, chris. >> your piece, obama launches a revolution, talks about how the presidents plan is, quote, unrealistic, highly partisan and a nonstarter and thats good. whats good about it? >> well, i was writing about it, not in terms of the policy but in terms of as a negotiating tactic. the president has been, lets face it, a fairly poor negotiator so far. he comes into these things saying exa...

Ramallah, the palestinian capital and tel-aviv and israel. they have made it clear they will not support this. the united states also does not want to be left in the position of standing with israel, perhaps against much of the rest of the outside world, vetoing a measure that favors the palestinians, particularly in the context of the arab spring. so the u.s. is trying to jump-start negotiations, which seem to be happening. the israeli prime minister netanyahu offered to talk to ma m mud abbas....

Going to help you be competitive in a global economy, you better believe we will. >> you were a governor with a republican-controlled legislature. there were some pretty tough fights as i recall. pretty tough fights. >> yeah. >> are there any lessons in that? how do you negotiate from a position of intractability? frankly, it seems on both sides in this particular case over the last 24 hours. >> well, its the multitril-dollar question, how to do that. i think what the president has done is very ...

Secretary of defense robert gates, this was possible. and what was different this time was that the president of the united states had a plan to bring the military leadership along, and together they did this. it was the senior military leadership buying in, certifying to the congress with the president that they were wiread for this important and historic change. >> well, it is an amazing day. mike, are you either going to go down and re-enlist you think soon? >> im going to try to. im in the p...

Book, a governors story a fight for jobs and americas economic future. both are here to talk about it. nice to see you. good to meet you. you talk in this book -- i have to tell you theres something right at the beginning, im going to drive the camera people crazy its a fantastic graphic called seven months of a free fall. as i read about it, honestly it was -- i cant imagine being in the middle of it. it was difficult to read. you look at the presidents job plan, you know what your experience w...

That appropriate precautions are being taken. now, there has been a report from the public affairs office in kabul that alarms had been sounded but they could not confirm that. so well continue to follow that developing situation in afghanistan. meantime, what a pressure cooker at the u.n. today. the united nations general assembly is now in session with world leaders facing a showdown over palestinian statehood. palestinian president mahmoud abbas wants of the u.n. to vote on palestinian member...

Middle on the discretionary spending thats already occurred, but i think what obama did may not be advancing the policy at all but at least as a political matter hes giving people in his political base something that says, look, the president has planted this pole and now we have something to rally around. the complaint against him has been he shifts so much nobody really knows what his bottom line is. so hes helped his base out in that sense. >> but do you think well see a new president obama? ...

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