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Signs of optimism this morning that the congressional super committee can reach an agreement on cuts to reduce the national debt. the lawmakers on that committee have only about 17 days to find a way to eliminate at least $1.2 trillion from the deficit. 100 lawmakers from both parties signed a letter this week saying they are ready to make compromises and suggested going for bigger cuts. one of them connecticut congressman jim heinz gave us his take yesterday. >> i'm optimistic that they can get at least a 1.2 trillion done. i'm not sure to use optimistic around the $4 trillion deal. joining...

Clinton very, very clearly saying yesterday to congress that the no-fly zone is just -- carries too many risks unilaterally. we won't do anything on our own. chris matthews, interestingly last night former president clinton at the newsweek daily beast delineates a much more muscular policy and reflects his own background and felt regret we did not in the clinton years, the united states did not act more quickly on rwandrwanda, on koso kosovo. >> they did on somalia and it was a disaster. we have these road maps. omission and comission. pick your poison here. we all know that the arab world is ...

Hide behind the skirts of the first amendment. what's happened like with the wanted posters which you have covered extensively and so well, these are road maps and they help show and point out and by using the rhetoric that they use in saying this is where a doctor is, this is a murderer, these people are killing children, showing them where they live, pointing out where their church is, pointing out who they are and drilling this information forward over and over again, plus the stalking, plus the, you know, following them and the threats, that is not protected by the first amendment. also, p...

Consider the two sides of that? >> i think the difference is when you have criminal conduct coupled with expression, i mean, no longer can these extremists hide behind the skirts of the first amendment. what's happened like with the wanted posters which you have covered extensively and so well, these are road maps and they help show and point out and by using the rhetoric that they use in saying this is where a doctor is, this is a murderer, these people are killing children, showing them where they live, pointing out where their church is, pointing out who they are and drilling this informati...

Coming from this regime have been communicated to the people over the last 30 years. the big difference action of course is the satellite news channel in egypt. these didn't exist 30 years ago. the egyptian people through the internet, through al jazeera, other satellite news channel have been opened to the world. they know there is an alternative. more recently, over the last two months, they've followed event in tunisia, a great inspiration to the pro-democracy activists. i was struck as the vice president spoke of road maps, constitutional amendments, sort of a timetable to transition into ...