senator bob graham. am ran for the democratic presidential nomination in 2004 but dropped out before the iowa caucus. ran for president in 2003. we know the economy is not so great now we have an earlier than usual election season. does it impact funding, raising, if so how. >> the economy is the dominant factor across the board and how people are organizing their campaigns, spending their time, how they are approaching getting other people to participate financially in their campaigns. i think it's more difficult to raise money as an individual during the poor economic times. >> tom: the yoabl administration has set a million dollar cap on its fund raising goal. how do you govern and raise money at the same time if you're president? >> if you're president of the united states, if you're a governor or senator or member of congress, fund raising clearly takes time that you otherwise would have spent doing your regular public responsibilities. >> tom: should federal election campaigns be publicly financed a

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courts have found repeatedly unfortunately that the military base that bob graham isn't under their jurisdiction and that the military basically can detain people as long as they want without charges at the air force base the u.s. has been in not so secret negotiations with the karzai government about rubber stamping continuing the mission possibly for another decade past twenty four king day there's been not really open talk in the u.s. media but open talk in the international media of the possibility of a two thousand and twenty four deadline replacing the twenty fourteen deadline and while the u.s. is saying that that last ten years would be a smaller commitment then the first ten years have been i think it really remains to be seen if even that will be the case. so i have for you this hour the opportunity of a lifetime or a dad and it's a bumpy road for my twelve posting crane are the faces questions over whether of this is the right time to stage a football tournament costing billions of dollars plus. this signer came from the united states and went on a ship and came to st petersburg and t

afghanistan it demands the handover of the notorious bob graham prison after those jailed in the american run detention center say they were severely tortured. and you are survival back on the agenda as the region's first couple meet in berlin i met concerns that cash cow in germany is on a power grab in return for its investments.

courts have found repeatedly unfortunately that the military base that bob graham isn't under their jurisdiction and that the military basically can detain people as long as they want without charges at the air force base i think it's pretty clearly related to president karzai as efforts to speed up the transfer of the base which itself seems to me a function of the ongoing talks between the u.s. and the taliban and there's been talk that there will be prisoner exchanges between the u.s. in taliban and i think president karzai is hoping to get control of some of these prisons so that he can have at least something of a seat at the negotiating table if for no other reason than that having access to trainable prisoners president karzai is concerned that he's being treated as very much a secondary partner and in negotiations with the taliban and he's trying to get some sort of bargaining chips involved in this process karzai government a very atrocious record with handling detainees as well particularly detainees accused of torture but i would like to think that. there's at least some hope that the

the military base that bob graham isn't under their jurisdiction and that the military basically can detain people as long as they want without charges at the air force base let's talk about the timing of this. these accusations are coming at a time when of course the u.s. has been using this prison for years but now we're talking about this troop withdrawal one in a couple of years time by twenty fourteen why do you think we're seeing this sort of tension and these allegations coming from the afghans now i think it's pretty clearly related to president karzai is efforts to speed up the transfer of the base which itself seems to me a function of the ongoing talks between the u.s. and the taliban there's been talk that there will be prisoner exchanges between the u.s. the taliban i think president karzai is hoping to get control of some of these prisons so that he can have at least something of a seat at the negotiating table if for no other reason than that adding access to tradeable prisoners in the u.s. and this is this came as a big surprise for the u.s. didn't it and there was ta

the american military abused detainees at the country's largest detention center and made said bob graham prison say they were tortured and held without evidence at the u.s. run facility president hamid karzai has demanded the u.s. hand over control of the prison to afghan authorities within a month the u.s. says it will investigate the claims. a grounded new zealand cargo ship has been split in two after being battered by fierce waves in a storm the craft has released timber and floating containers into the sea and cleanup teams are on standby in case of an oil leak the ship has been stripped stuck off the coast since october when it hit a reef and spewed hundreds of tons of oil into the ocean in what's been described as the country's worst environmental disaster. we have more news for you online just log on to our web site r t dot com here's what we have for you there right now . north korea's newly declared supreme leader kim jong il is marking his birthday on january eighth but his exact age still remains something of a mystery plus. the. members of the orthodox church all across russ

the military base that bob graham isn't under their jurisdiction and that the military basically can detain people as long as they want without charges at the air force base there's been talk that there will be prisoner exchanges between the u.s. in taliban and i think president karzai is hoping to get control of some of these prisons so that he can have them at least something of a seat at the negotiating table if for no other reason than that having access to trainable prisoners karzai government sky a very atrocious record with handling detainees as well particularly detainees accused of torture but i would like to think that. there's at least some hope that they would have access to the afghan court system which is of course far from perfect but it is a dramatic step up from no access to any courts at all to russia's republic of chechnya and now where for security service officers have reportedly been killed and over a dozen were wounded there in a shoot out with the illegal armed groups three militants are said to have also been killed authorities have located their main hideout

unfortunately that the military base that bob graham isn't under their jurisdiction and that the military basically can detain people as long as they want without charges at the air force base and there's been talk that there will be prisoner exchanges between the u.s. in taliban and i think president karzai is hoping to get control of some of these prisons so that he can have them at least something of a seat at the negotiating table if for no other reason than then having access to trainable prisoners it goes back to the question of the peace talks right now and president karzai is concerned that he's being. treated as very much a secondary partner and and negotiations with the taliban and he's trying to get some sort of bargaining chips involved in this process the karzai government has a particularly good record on detainee treatment either so well the prisoners there might see at least some nominal court access which they've been denied under u.s. control i don't really think you're going to see massive releases or really any serious releases other than prisoner exchanges. in russia'

prisoners as if the united states were going to do that and of course bigger than guantanamo is bob graham where the president worsened this bill with a signing statement declaring he needed no legal process whatsoever to detain people forever and ever at bagram and immediately received resistance from president karzai who said turn them all over within a month and you know when president obama signed off on this bill his good side i had some reservations regarding certain provisions on the regulators and in the ten sen of suspects and one month later those concerns are already. behind bars well there was a great deal of misunderstanding in this regard as the president himself had insisted on these powers insisted on no exclusion for u.s. citizens and wanted the freedom not to ship all prisoners into military detention but to detain them and handle them through nonmilitary cia and other means as well which he called flexibility which some people might call tyranny and so he he had the bill worsened both in congress and in the conference committee and further again through his signing state

troops can't seem to stop make singing business and sick pleasure is from bob graham photos of the newest video coming out of afghanistan showing troops urinating on dead afghans are images like these feeling anti-american sentiment in the middle east. and don't read into it the new york times the so-called icon of american journalism is getting the facts wrong again this time about iran's nuclear program scared readers into believing that the country is creating weapons of mass destruction will read between the lines percent. forty.

graham, what happened down there? did... is south carolina just too conservative for mitt romney or is there a problem here that goes deeper than that for his campaign? >> john mccain won, bob dole won. not the most conservative people in the world but good americans who impressed south carolyn i can'ts. the debate monday night in myrtle beach was probably the best explanation of conservatism in a bold fashion coming from newt gingrich i've heard in decades. newt not only won the debates. he convinced people that he could beat barack obama in electability was the issue before south carolina primary, during the primary and on voting day. newt won. he's the guy that we saw 40% of us the best to go into the nooen and beat barack obama. governor romney did fine. rick perry did very well. he had some stumbles by romney. we had 600,000 people vote. the largest republican primary in history occurred yesterday. people were energized. they were looking close. they picked newt. this was newt winning more than anybody else losing. >> schieffer: are you ready to endorse him? those were very complimentary words. >> well, here's what i am willing to say. that newt gingrich has changed a

respectfully, i don't know reverend graham, but he's certainly not from south carolina, not active in south carolina politics. look back to 2008, mitt romney got the endorsement of bobones iii, a noted evangelical in our state. didn't help very much. he finished fourth or fifth in 2008. i think religion is an issue for folks who aren't from around here. we're going to pick our candidate based upon jobs and the economy, primarily and conservative values after that. >> well, let me ask mark halperin. is there any way of looking at this objectively at this point whether religion will cut down there, whether we should even be talking about it? >> i think it's similar to what race was for president obama in some states in 2008. are there people that won't vote for mitt romney because of his religion? i appreciate the congressman's optimism about the state of his state. i suspect there are some but i don't think that will keep him from winning the primary. he might lose a primary for other reasons, but i don't think there's a large enough number of people that won't vote for him based on his faith. >> let's talk about what could be the dominant issue down there, jobs. the

graham saying gingrich is going to win this. polling showing that he may well pull off an upset. will he? >> well, i think of myself as a bob hope conservative. >> what does that mean? >> i'm here at nbc. it means middle america. middle america is not looking for an ideologue. middle america is looking for something that they can somehow relate to. it's my belief that santorum is that guy. the ranking democrats. >> even with his social views you believe rick santorum is middle america? >> it's infinitely more in keeping than the social views of the president or the people who work here at nbc or manhattan. our friends have social views that are very liberal. he's a solid man. he's a family man. >> why isn't he doing better in south carolina? >> first, it's almost funny how beginning rich, he gives the crowd, i mean, the fact that he opened up the debate attacking john king was hilarious. here was a perfectly -- >> but i don't think you're answering my question because before the debate with the hilarious opening, rick santorum was not ahead in the polls. why not? >> again, it's about winning the nomination. it's not about w

the day that i was let did majority leader bob dole, we elected our leadership team with don nickles and connie mack, bill graham mitch mcconnell as i recall. the first thing we did a site called taman said tom, can we come to your office and meet with the leaders? euratom sophistry betook the republican leadership team and went to tom's office and said a prayer together. to give his guide and to pray for our country. that was our first at what we had our leadership teams together. the next thing is i think, you know, the day of 9/11, we wind up in a conference somewhere in west virginia or virginia. i was never quite sure where we were, tom. when the helicopter together with tom and harry reid and others have gone different ways to get there. they were the rest of the day, altogether talking to our respective conferences. they were here and wherever they are in a cavern that and that was that popular 13. where are you guys? we are over here any bug her. we will fill see you later. i talked to jake cheney a couple times and then a sudden a day, we like to go back. some helicopters. he said no. i didn't appreciat

the day that i was let did majority leader bob dole we elected our leadership team with don nickles and connie mack bill grahami recall. the first thing we did a site called taman said tom can we come to your office and meet with the leaders? euratom sophistry betook the republican leadership team and went to tom's office and said a prayer together. to give his guide and to pray for our country. that was our first at what we had our leadership teams together. the next thing is i think you know, the day of 9/11 we wind up in a conference somewhere in west virginia or virginia. i was never quite sure where we were tom. when the helicopter together with tom and harry reid and others have gone different ways to get there. they were the rest of the day, altogether talking to our respective conferences. they were here and wherever they are in a cavern that and that was that popular 13. where are you guys? we are over here any bug her. we will fill see you later. i talked to jake cheney a couple times and then a sudden a day, we like to go back. some helicopters. he said no. i didn't appreciate that very much, but he

the day that i was let did majority leader bob dole, we elected our leadership team with don nickles and connie mack, bill graham, mitch mcconnell as i recall. the first thing we did a site called taman said tom, can we come to your office and meet with the leaders? euratom sophistry betook the republican leadership team and went to tom's office and said a prayer together. to give his guide and to pray for our country. that was our first at what we had our leadership teams together. the next thing is i think, you know, the day of 9/11, we wind up in a conference somewhere in west virginia or virginia. i was never quite sure where we were, tom. when the helicopter together with tom and harry reid and others have gone different ways to get there. they were the rest of the day, altogether talking to our respective conferences. they were here and wherever they are in a cavern that and that was that popular 13. where are you guys? we are over here any bug her. we will fill see you later. i talked to jake cheney a couple times and then a sudden a day, we like to go back. some helicopters. he said no. i didn't apprecia

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the day that i was let did majority leader bob dole, we elected our leadership team with don nickles and connie mack, bill grahamll as i recall. the first thing we did a site called taman said tom, can we come to your office and meet with the leaders? euratom sophistry betook the republican leadership team and went to tom's office and said a prayer together. to give his guide and to pray for our country. that was our first at what we had our leadership teams together. the next thing is i think, you know, the day of 9/11, we wind up in a conference somewhere in west virginia or virginia. i was never quite sure where we were, tom. when the helicopter together with tom and harry reid and others have gone different ways to get there. they were the rest of the day, altogether talking to our respective conferences. they were here and wherever they are in a cavern that and that was that popular 13. where are you guys? we are over here any bug her. we will fill see you later. i talked to jake cheney a couple times and then a sudden a day, we like to go back. some helicopters. he said no. i didn't appreciate that very mu