well for a quick history lesson operation ajax is the cia name for the one nine hundred fifty three iranian crude a top u.s. tax dollars had a direct hand in with the assistance of kermit roosevelt yeah i know kermit but what he did was worse than a with a heavy amount of u.s. fueled subterfuge the democratically elected leader prime minister mohammad mosaddegh was overthrown along with his secular government this is where we talk about the concept of blowback our foreign policy saw a clandestine u.s. forces opposing iran's getting democracy then installing an unpopular authoritarian monarch. well as you can imagine they didn't much like the cia reinstalling the dictator they just ousted prior to having a democratic government so as a result serious damage was done to our collective american reputation amongst the iranian people and we defectively provided a contemporary political reason for islamist radicals to go to the west with a anti western iran revolution came to pass in one thousand nine hundred nine memories of american intervention were seared into the minds of the persian

>> what difference does and ajax they were upset much as the political process. -- just as much as they were upset of the political process. i think we might have passed for another six months or six years. >> i am a student at dartmouth college. do you ever think we could go back to the oppression in 1990's. >> it is one of the few budget that have tried to work for us. >> republicans brought back their own version of the takeover. this is exactly right. we had take out. it was in force. they worked because the cold war was winding down. the economy was booming by the mid-90's. there is success that depends on this. everyone would agree with this. it had a good reputation. i think the congress would use it again. if congress wants to change something, they are going to do it. they will overcome anything. but good to the back. back.'s go to the >> it seems to me that there are a couple of balls letter bouncing around in the court. if he can help us go through it. there is an upcoming decision. we have the expiration of a tax cut at the end of 2012. it was passing this year. could you co