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Really important debate because the first amendment is absolutely critical to the future of any democracy and it straits a strong one from a weak one. the first thing parties do to take a democracy to be less democratic hugo chavez who was less democratically elected was take over the press that disagrees with him and shut them down. it's an important debate. on the other hand, you have the president of the united states who has a sworn obligation to uphold the national security. leaks coming out of the military being published in the press about sensitive negotiations with the cia is doing in...

Mismanagement and bad decisions, detroit has a cash crisis on its hands and a staggering long-term debt problem and as "the new york times" reports, by pushing costs into the future while its population is shrinking, detroit has left the people least able to pay with the biggest share of the bills. as one consultant put it, detroit is a microcosm of what's happening in america. expect america can still print money and borrow. the united states, we can print it, borrow it, so get ourselves out of debt on a federal level, but detroit doesn't have the liberty to do that. so we'll just send people...

Population is shrinking, detroit has left the people least able to pay with the biggest share of the bills. as one consultant put it, detroit is a microcosm of what's happening in america. expect america can still print money and borrow. the united states, we can print it, borrow it, so get ourselves out of debt on a federal level, but detroit doesn't have the liberty to do that. so we'll just send people in, circumvent local elections, take the power away from the local people and we'll just run it the way we want to. is that america? it is now. is it democracy? hell no. let's turn to james h...

Trafficking than al qaeda. >> i just want to be precise and want to make sure that i'm not hearing you correctly. are you really comparing hugo chavez to george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison? that's what i was hearing. but i want you to explain. >> well, democracy has evolved. my point is that our first 15 presidents owned slaves and called it democracy for 204 years. we've come a mighty long way. the democracy in south africa is just, what, 25 years old or thereabouts. i was just there eight years ago, white people couldn't vote, couldn't vote on campuses, democracy has evolved ...

East. is it stability or is it democracy? we've been on the side of these democratic movements in libya, egypt, but it's brought instability and it's brought more danger. >> well, that's what change is all about. and that's what we're seeing in that part of the world, is a tremendous amount of change. i mean, our hope is that change can move in the direction of providing greater democracy and greater stability. that's what you hope for for these countries. >> but less stable. >> there is instability associated with change, and that's what we're seeing in these key countries and that's what's c...