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>> major general dana pitard was the major general who posted to a blog that i have now come to the conclusion, suicide is an absolutely selfish act. i'm personally fed up with soldiers choosing to take their own lives that others can clean up their mess, be an adult and act like an adult and deal with their problems like the rest of us. >> that was taken off the website. this is something that i think a lot of people hear about and it strikes me that you get it exactly the core point. which is they're being a cultural shift that needs to happen in terms of recognizing this as a threat to sold...

>> no one, yet. the infrastructure's not been rebuilt. as much as the oil companies would like to go in there and develop what's in there, because there's a tremendous amount of opportunity there, security problems are still? >> senator, can i ask you a question? this gets to a core point here, which is, one of the problems i think about the debate about high gas prices is the fact that actually, in the future, because of -- if we want to have any chance of curtailing real catastrophic climate change is that all fossil fuels need to get more expensive. we immediate to price in that expense, th...

"superstition." you knew that, though. >> i know all that, soledad. >> he lives it, yes, he does. >> superstitious dude. >> we begin this northemorning iran. defense secretary leon panetta says there is a growing likelihood, quote, that israel will attack iran this spring and try to destroy its suspected nuclear program. israeli defense minister ehud barak said this, quoek, iran must be prevent fred becoming nuclear and no option should be taken off the table. let's get right to barbara starr this morning at the pentagon. good morning, barbara. >> good morning, soledad. a lot of chat...

They do improve efficiency. there's also the argument the private equity guys will tell you they revolutionized management across the land because mitt romney came in and taught people about how to look at a cost curve and project cash flow and do all sorts of analysis that had been cordoned away in the ivy league -- this is a huge knowledge transfer into the boardrooms of america. if that was the case, why -- why don't these deals work out? incentives misaligned? intentions of people running the private equity firms? what's the problem? >> i think the main problem is when you buy a company an...

Which regulations can become means by which incumbent firms rig the rules in their favor and create barriers for entrepreneurs and people that want to get in the field. both of you had responses. you wanted to say something. >> i think they are absolutely right. you can have good regulation and bad regulation. when you have regulators, part of the point is that the existing lobbies are going to capture regulators and do what you are talking about. the core question is, do you believe in self-regulation by market participants, which was the prevailing view ahead of 2008. that was allen greenspa...