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Our national security interests? >> i think there is. i think with regard to the 9/11 attacks, yes, there was planning that occurred in afghanistan, but plan also oning also occurr germany and american flight schools were involved in training the 9/11 hijackers. terrorism is not just limited to places like afghanistan. the planning and preparation can be conducted else where. were not invading those places. so, applying the scalpel needs to be done in the right places and avoiding the use of sle...

Takes a sledgehammer to things that make a difference. >>neil: but democrats participated in the cut. >>guest: not this democrat. >>neil: with that fast, how long will you continue, this is signed, sealed and done. >>guest: each of us participating have made a commitment to a day a week to draw attention to this and i have been an advocate for school nutrition programs in my state and through my congressional district and i feel strongly about them because when a child goes to school hungry they...

Seems alls fair in war and politics, because yesterday the president certainly turned those tables saying, hey, it would end medicare as we know it. you could debate whether or not thats a factual statement. isnt that part of the problem in washington? any time anyone wants to propose something to get those things out of medicare, that everybody agrees we need to do, they get hit over the head with a sledgehammer over it. >> the stakes are high, as tom said. there is a lot of emotion attached to...

>> no, but what i am saying is that congress dont have a great track record of being sensitive about these things. they are thinking about going into it with a sledgehammer and make things worse. >> do you think toyota should go to gitmo? >> yes. >> i thought so. matt, isnt it weird a crowd is going after peter king instead of the terrorists in their midst? shouldnt they be more worried about the terrorism rather than a guy trying to help the community get involved? >> i was there. i was walki...

The republicans are taking a sledgehammer to spend in an indiscriminate way. the president could own this issue. he made a decision to be much more cautious. the politics rewards caution. look at what happened in the bush years. the fiscal policy were the cheney doctrine. deficits dont matter. and i think it obama modification to that is deficits dont matter that much right now. and i think you will see over time hes going to have to come to the middle and cut a deal with the republicans. but th...

Any kind of opening unless he does that with a sledgehammer and a lot of pressure from the united states and unless he feels the heat from the streets. >> lets do what we do on this program which is keep it real. is the u.s. secretly a little happy about this, like, look at that. we pressured mubarak to leave and suleiman, the reformer came in. we know what the deal with suleiman is, right? >> the concern now is that the united states is sending mixed signals. the united states now is backtracki...

Im tempted to try that. any truth to that? >> no. cascade and hard drives dont mix, randi. dont want to do that. if you really are wanting to, you know -- the sure fire way to destroy a hard drive, beyond cleaning it, is to take a sledgehammer to it. do it the old department of defense style way of taking a sledgehammer to it if you really want to destroy the data on there. none of those myths are good myths, no. >> you might not want to destroy it actually. some stores like target and radio sha...

You. >> if we spend $1 billion a year on egypt -- >> its a bargain. >> a country that has kept the middle east stable, a country thats given us the framework for an egypt/israeli peace that has taken warfare off the table, at least widespread warfare off the table, thats been one of our closest allies in the middle east? a billion dollars, steve rattner, thats a bargain. >> also, i think the administration to the earlier comments has done quite a good job of walking this incredible fine line. >>...

Please give eric applebacke, a big round of applause. ceo of zbb. it is great to be here. i justify had a chance to see some of the batteries that youre manufacturing, and talked to a few of the men and women who are building them. and the reason im here today is because at this plant, youre doing more than just making high-tech batteries. youre pointing the country towards a brighter economic future. now, thats not easy. weve been through a terrible recession. the worst that we have seen since ...

Whoever might be the google of 2020 is safe, correct? >> i think that has really gotten the critics unnerved about this is the fact that google always positioned itself as the innovator-in-chief, as this company that was going to do away with all of the bureaucratic structures that older and staujyer telecommunications companies and other technology companies had in place. google would change things. google had been very much in favor of net neutrality before. they still are on the wired front, ...