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ties to the terrorist group in afghanistan. top officials have indicated this week that there is evidence that pakistan's intelligence agency is supporting what is called the haqqani network and now going one step further saying they believe that the support is coming from the agencies' highest ranks. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is standing by with the latest. barbara, a lot at stake right now, and what are the officials saying? >> well, wolf, pakistan is supposed to be one of the u.s.'s closest allies in the war of terror and the united states gives them billions of dol...

The attention of political cartoonists. take a look. here is running with scissors, that version. ouch if you're watching at home and thinking the same thing i am and even more topical than gop medicare debacle meets the hangover part two. look at the tatoo there. all right. so let's turn to msnbc contributor e.j. dionne, also a "the washington post" columnist and senior fellow at the brookings institution. e.j., good to have you on tonight. we want to get straight to it because we mentioned paul ryan, john cornyn, but they are not the only ones who have blamed the medicare debacle on the mess...

>> as to congressman ryan's plan overall, i think that in general the direction of it is positive, but i will have my own plan. and so we are going to have some differences. the medicare plan which will have out shortly and not too distant future will have some difference, and we will be speaking about payment reform, and paying providers and not just for volume, but for quality and results as part of the compensation. we will be offering a variety of choices to people who can choose to stay in the current program or select from other options, and we will be talking about incentivizing consume...

Have to start, and get this out there and get this thing moving. >> we will talk about it. >> yes, i will give you a call. great. thanks. >> gene, 2that is the eaves dropped sound bite of total defeat, and now he is saying that you know you have to put something out there and do something to get it started. and whenever they start to talk about going wobbly, and this is not the time to go wobbly, you know that everyone is going wobbly. >> yes, and he is saying to hold the line, and meanwhile, tim pawlenty is doing the michael jackson impersonation of moon walking away from it. and this is a do...

Listen to what president clinton said, don't misread the election in new york as a reason not to do anything on medicare. that would be negligent. the other thing democrats need to keep in mind is you had a third party tea party candidate, democrat himself but he ran under a tea party who spent $3 million of his own money and siphoned off 9% of the conservative vote which would have tipped the election in the other direction. i don't don't believe the new york race was on the ryan proposal. >> well, getting 47% for a d in that district is till pretty good. let me ask you about the ryan plan. w...