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Gps tough decisions starts right now. The great french writer albert cameau said life is a sum of all your choices. Were all defined by the decisions we make every day and we make hundreds of them, paper or plastic, chicken or fish. Most require little thought but others are as niesing and then the decisions made by leaders, some of which have changed the source of history, for better and some for worse. July 1776, the american Founding Fathers decision to declare independence. January 1863, abraham lincolns decision to emancipate all persons held as slaves. June 1941, adolf hitlers decision t...

Negotiations primarily betweens those two men are going on even as we speak or between their staffs. Were hearing a new sense of optimism from some Senate Members who believe they might be able to pass some kind of minimalist package that would keep tax rates from going up on the majority of americans. I want to go to capitol hill and cnns senior Congressional Correspondent dana bash. Dana, is that the sense you get that somehow we should be optimistic about whatever it is thats going on . You know, as we talked about before, you definitely get a feeling or the atmosphere here is that there is...

I dont know. And the reason im thinking, you know, the comparison that would make that point best is saudi arabia, qatar, right . I mean, qatars a very interesting place in the sense that it has no citizens, right . I think its about 275,000 now, everybody else is an expat. All there is is money, and there has been extremely effective use of that money and qatari diplomacy. And if you compare sort of the last ten years of diplomacy, aljazeera, qatari use of money with the saudis, you would absolutely conclude they punch below their weight. But if you compare to iran, you know, iran has roughly...

We export options, theres another option which is that you give a limited benefit up front that everybody gets it. But at least the tail for the Insurance Industry to cover, and that may be less comfortable for them. But i think we need to look at these options and see what is it that the Public Sector can do in d d that creates some space for private sector innovation. Thats where id like to see us explode. The last thing ill ask, and its a question for the record, if any of the witnesses have information are on what you believe the governments present exposure to longterm care of the liabili...

Never, i think it is fair to say, since the establishment of this government have i not known whos not. Its not clear that crown prince, can take over. You have that succession at a time when they are reaching the end of the brothers are going to have to confront the question of going to the next generation. That happens at a moment when tensions with the United States is as high as it has been certainly sent 2001 and our influence at the top in saudi arabia is i think as small as it has been in a very long time. Thats an unfortunate combination of events. I should stop there. Rate, thank you,...