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Believes after a period of some months that there are real, significant problems with it. he's a guy who comes into afghanistan with this great 1-0 record after being seen as the victor in iraq. so if he thinks that things aren't working, i think we could expect to see him, essentially, try to define downward what it means to sort of prevail there. i just don't see him as the guy who will say, you know, look, even though everything is broken here, i'm going to rush off in the direction of continuing to do this. >> i will note that the definition of prevailing has already been defined pretty fa...

Counterinsurgency strategy if he believes after a period of some months that there are real, significant problems with it. he's a guy who comes into afghanistan with this great 1-0 record after being seen as the victor in iraq. so if he thinks that things aren't working, i think we could expect to see him, essentially, try to define downward what it means to sort of prevail there. i just don't see him as the guy who will say, you know, look, even though everything is broken here, i'm going to rush off in the direction of continuing to do this. >> i will note that the definition of prevailing h...

To the floor of the senate. >> if someone needs to spit out chewing tobacco, brass spittoons, a symbol of an era long gone. the senate continues to labor under the constraints of those earlier -- rays. in those days they were more capable of dealing with each other. it was a club. it was corrupt and cozy. because it was closed off from the world, because the cameras weren't there, lobbyists and fundraisers weren't pervasive, senators were able to create legislation. today our politics are intentionally polarized politics have broken down rules. all those have been warped by partisanship into p...

Out of massachusetts. the supreme court could take those first. >> and jonathan, let's talk about the political impact. because california has major races. >> senator, governor. >> it's a huge issue in california and across the country>> it's a huge issue in california and will be for republicans if they want to jump into sort of the social issues arena which, you know, when people are worried about jobs and the economy, the idea of taking on this issue, when it's not even a settled issue. and pete gave a very, very good synopsis of where we are and where things are going. once this decision c...

The economists can tell us that we're out of a recession for the last eight or nine months but i think most americans don't think that they're out of a recession. they're nervous, they're scared. they don't feel confident. i think really all of those are manifest and sometimes the easiest thing to do is say we have a $1.6 trillion deficit and that just shows how bad washington is. >> i think when things aren't working, the deficit does matter, because it's an added stress. you look around, i mean you talk -- we were talking to my parents last night about their trip. my father was talking on th...