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Final stand at tora bora in december 2001 before escaping into pakistan. he had lived in iran since 2002 mostly under house arrived and said to have arrived in ankara early last month traveling on a forged saudi passport. he checked into a luxury hotel and was detained. iran refused to take him back, according to turkish sources. after several weeks in limbo turkey decided to deport him to the country of his birth, kuwait, but kuwait didn't want him back either. eventually abu ghaith was transferred to u.s. custody and secretly flown to new york to face trial. some republicans argue that makes...

The note. i meant to say obviously his position on containment. we don't have a position on containment, so i recognize i had more attention paid to my words the last eight weeks than i ever thought possible. what i thought was interesting here is containment was the framework for 50 years of american foreign policy and the cold war. >> containment is our policy on iran. we've been containing iran. that's exactly what we've been doing and it's exactly what we would do if they got nuclear weapons. hagel has been consistent. since 2001, he has advocated direct talks with iran. the thing that dis...

Macro-economic problem as it was for the financial banks. >> let's talk about principle reductions. you've got a mortgage. it's more than you can afford, let's say. there's two ways to go about deal with that. more than it's worth, your house is under water. you can refinance. say you had it at 7%. brick it down to say 4%. you know, master financing, but that doesn't get rid of the principal problem which is you owe more than it's worth. you're in favor of principal reductions. i think this is something glen hubbard has written about. >> marty feldstein. >> yeah. principal reductions have not ...

Decision to go to war with ir iran -- >> iraq. >> in iraq. wholly illogical. when you consider the fact that things might have been alterably changed, pursuing osama bin laden in the tora bora mountains in december 2001, who knows what would have happened? that's past history. he has to live with that history. we have to live with that history. one of the things that george w. bush does not get enough credit for, though, i think is that in the fall of 2008 when the economy was collapsing, it was his treasury secretary, and he, as president, and his fed chief, ben bernanke, who saved the americ...

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