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Structure. there's no real central command and control to the taliban. so even if you could cut a deal with the taliban, the taliban, the idea that the leadership could actually enforce an agreement with all the spinoff groups, is, you know, based on the folks that i've spoken to in the intelligence community that have been following this closely believes that they are highly dubious. >> mika, while we have a $16 trillion debt, we're spending $2 billion a week propping up hamid karzai, while we are cutting education, rnd, transportation, infrastructure, we're spending $2 billion a week proppin...

Question, why the hatred against oil companies? if we didn't have -- >> what hatred? >> go to any democratic party event, without them, we would be living in the dark, freezing to death. >> here's -- let me just say again, the oil companies have done very, very well in this administration. >> right. they are rich. is that bad? >> they are fine. but they want their tax breaks. you want the tax breaks to continue, making record profits while the rest of us are gouged. >> their tax rate is well over 40%. they pay more than any other corporation in this country -- >> tracy -- wait a second! >> tha...

Question, why the hatred against oil companies? if we didn't have -- >> what hatred? >> go to any democratic party event, without them, we would be living in the dark, freezing to death. >> here's -- let me just say again, the oil companies have done very, very well in this administration. >> right. they are rich. is that bad? >> they are fine. but they want their tax breaks. you want the tax breaks to continue, making record profits while the rest of us are gouged. >> their tax rate is well over 40%. they pay more than any other corporation in this country -- >> tracy -- wait a second! >> tha...

Question, why the hatred against oil companies? if we didn't have -- >> what hatred? >> go to any democratic party event, without them, we would be living in the dark, freezing to death. >> here's -- let me just say again, the oil companies have done very, very well in this administration. >> right. they are rich. is that bad? >> they are fine. but they want their tax breaks. you want the tax breaks to continue, making record profits while the rest of us are gouged. >> their tax rate is well over 40%. they pay more than any other corporation in this country -- >> tracy -- wait a second! >> tha...

Retirees and you don't pay for them, this is the problem that you're going to run into. >> mike, you think these cuts will go through, bottom line? >> i do. i think that the roughly $400 hundred billion, $450 billion over ten years in cuts make good sense. the harder question is, can you really increase them much beyond that? here larry and i disagree a bit. in a sense, here the obama administration has internal discord within its own thinking because on the one hand they're proposing this $400 hundred billion package which has become a moderate package. on the other hand, obama has no way out...