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Statue of saddam hussein went down and everybody knows what happened after that. >> right. i think general mattis is absolutely right. he's absolutely correct about the military capacities of the united states. we have, by far, the world's strongest military capacity. we can do some amazing things with our military. what happened afterwards? how do we make sure there's a stable regime that represents all of the people? that's how much more complicated, a much more complicated process. were we go in use or military, we need to know the end game. >> i also asked general mattis about iran. listen...

About where they had lived. they lived in this house, this house of horrors, they're alleging, since august of 2013. before that, they lived in catalina, arizona, and police are presuming that this sort of imprisonment went on for two years before that. one possible indication. the oldest daughter, the 17-year-old, had a satchel. they found in that satchel a journal. according to police, there is a year and a half of copious notes in there about her imprisonment. another aspect of this, they say they also heard that she had kept a picture of enrique iglesias in the journal, and it was taken aw...

candidates are today. front-runner mitt romney has two stops after arriving from new hampshire this afternoon. newt gingrich, rick perry and michele bachmann each have two events as well. rick santorum who just surged in the polls puts in the drive time with five stops throughout the state of iowa. one face missing from that map of iowa, ron paul. he says he'll ring in the new year at home in texas. two fresh faces you will see in iowa, cnn's political editor paul steinhauser and political director mark preston. they are both out at our forward operating base in des moines. paul, i...

In the meantime, the death from the quake and tsunami now over 10,000 with more than 17,000 people still missing. meanwhile the crisis in the middle east has prices near $105 a barrel today. and prices will likely be here for a while. economists expect prices to remain high, hovering around the $100 per barrel mark through at least 2013. before the revolution in egypt, oil was trading under $90 a barrel. so how much will these high oil prices drag on our economic recovery? and could it prompt americans to cut back or even rethink our approach to energy entirely? joining me now, an oil trader...

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