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Will win the nomination. the most important thing is for the president to lead, to ensure the economy will continue to roll and to reach out to independents, that's the key to winning in 2012. >> what is the president's problem right now politically. >> the jobs thing is good. doesn't settle it. there are other issues on the horizon. price of gas, inflation, other things that can happen. this business around the world in the middle east, precarious, and our commitments and what else will happen. he's not doing badly. those numbers aren't terrible. republicans can win if we get the right candid...

Doesn't settle it. there are other issues on the horizon. price of gas, inflation, other things that can happen. this business around the world in the middle east, precarious, and our commitments and what else will happen. he's not doing badly. those numbers aren't terrible. republicans can win if we get the right candidate and message. what i most agree with donna about is for the president to lead. lead in the way your last two panelists talked about. take a lead on the all-important budget matter. step in and say he's in with what the gang of six is recommending. in my lifetime, i have not ...

Development that i've seen in a while happened in portugal at the nato summit. that president karzai would be in full control of his country and that means a dramatically reduced international presence, hopefully it means a presence mostly based on economic assistance and governance and rule of law and the afghans will be responsible for their own security. so we are embarked on a strategy as i understand it, at least when i left the white house, to make a -- a reduction in forces, and the so-called surge in afghanistan has actually been reasonably successful on the ground. am pell evidence th...

Chances are when we roll out our ideas, we'll get grief from the left and right. if we don't find a way as we started this conversation to link arms, democrats and republicans and take a giant leap together, these questions around debt and deficit will continue to haunt us. not a question of whether we do deficit reduction, only a question of when. i think you'll see something very shortly. >> this month? >> very shortly. >> we have a whole month. it sounds to me like are you quite willing for democrats to go ahead and vote to lift the debt ceiling, which is necessary. but you kind of -- you r...

In doing those things that affect the outcome in certain countries. economic development. government rule of law, and security. i think proactive engagement is much more economical than waiting until it metastasizes and you have another afghanistan or something like that. the good news, we know a lot about where these organizations are going. the question is, what do we do about it, and when? >> you bring up afghanistan. you wantsaid if we don't succee afghanistan, a bad message to the rest of the world. coming up against the time where the president said we're going to start the drawdown in a...