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Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin will have to overcome two congressional hurdles in his path to the Pentagon—a waiver, then confirmation—during which he’s likely to face questions from lawmakers regarding the Middle East, China and Defense Department spending.
and the future of the navy's combat fleet. >> from 1971 through 1973, president richard nixon secretly recorded his phone conversations and meetings. this weekend, hear more of the nixon tapes with conversations between the president and richard helms and fbi director j. edgar hoover. >> i ought to make a statement about freedom of the press and we're not trying to center them. >> you are right. >> i should stay out. what is your public-relations judgment on it? >> you should remain absolutely silent. >> you would. >> i would. >> listen at 91.1 fm and streaming at cspanradio.org. >> ...
any time you get to that close of all level, every single tactic, the gore campaign you can look back in retrospect. it was that close. give in her election becomes that close it will have that type of an impact. there are some larger macro issues. >> we have a bunch of questions from the audience. let me read them. will web 2.0 lead to national voting or issues on the internet? >> i love this question. i do think this is -- [unintelligible] that transformative tool. i do them on the progressive side. i am on the campaign to raise the tax on tobacco. $1. we are going to spend a coupl...
increases and we might jump the big spending cuts hand in hand to sequester of large and that is a form of insanity to do something like that. .. so it's very hard -- this is why it hmi look at tenure windows because anything beyond that is already highly, highly i'm searching. so on one hand i don't think we should necessarily be saying this will definitely happen. i think our approach should be more thoughts make sure it doesn't happen and have a contingency plan and ensure against that. but at the same time i don't think we should say this is definitely going to be the case that w...
think it is difficult to argue if you got to the point you have a democratically elected government that followed that would want to continue under this crippling yoke that's been placed on the country of sanctions. the first thing they would want to do is to prepare the economy and bring back iran into the community of nations. they would certainly want to negotiate in good faith unlike the current regime so then you could have discussions about what capabilities could be trusted and maintained given the past programs but i figure would be much easier for the united states and other...