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Korea, syria, iraq, yemen, somalia, south china sea. these are real powder kegs with a short fuse burning. before we make decisions on being, quote, presidential, we need to see how it plays out. >> do journalists have a tendency, a natural tendency to rally around the flag in moments of crisis and military action? is that detrimental? >> they do have that tendency and we should fight it. rallying around the flag doesn't mean rallying around a military strike. rallying around the flag is what's best for the country. what's best for the country is for journalists to be skeptical, not cynical, b...

Social media, satellite tv, the internet. people -- saudis know what's going on in the world in a way they never did. and the more the king has tried to inch things in the direction of progress, the more the conservatives pull in the opposite direction. so i think the divisions in society are greater, number one. number two, the information is greater. and number three, the royal family, the band of brothers, is running out and they are going to have to make a generational change. and a lot of saudis who watch this kind of cartoon time bomb with the fuse burning, you know, they have nothing to...

Accommodation. >> john: jonah you said in break you thought different outcome of greece's elections over the weekend might have been better. why? >> i think angela merkel was secretly disappointed by the results in greece. if the left wing party had won and rejected the bail-out greece could say well, we're done with you. go away now. now there will be a long contentious negotiation about renegotiating the terms that puts her on the hot seat. greek is in economic freefall, economic catastrophe. the gdp dropped 16% in last three years and scheduled to drop 7% this year. he cannot pay for what t...

Thud. i don't know if you can tell that was governor haley offering season's greetings before she gets on that elevator and the door slams shut. but just in case it was, merry christmas to you too, governor. we are understandably fixated this year on the presidential race, on 2012 politics, on who the republican nominee will be to run against president obama, and a lot depends on the answer to that question. that sort of politics is one of the ways we figure out where we are as a nation, what at least one of the parties in our two-party system is thinking about the important issues that our co...