he said, we are going toucans -- to cannes. you have a huge yacht.ou get there, and you have 50 people waiting for you. you are smoking havana cigars, drinking champagne, eating caviar, and you are talking about sad and star for and never mind -- that does not work -- talking about shad and now are for region -- talking about chad and darfur, and that does not work. now i said, we will have the first night for charity. he said, do you think we can raise a couple hundred thousand dollars? i started to put together a foundation called "not on our watch" foundation. it is brad pitt, matt damon, don siegel, and myself. a good lineup and -- don cheadle, and myself. i got caught up. i raised $10 million the first night in kansacannes, and all oa sudden we had a foundation, but it happened because clooney said to me, you cannot go there and beat jerry weintraub. you have to go there and be the other -- and beat jerry weintraub. you have to go and be the other. -- and be jerry weintraub. you have to go and be the other, but good came out of it at the end of

they will say, you cann-h spenda certain amount for spine surgery. if he spent over it, we will cut 5% and call you a bad name in the newspaper. patients coming to the doctors will not be able to trust the doctors, because they will get more if they spend less on their patients. why should we ration care that way using government power? host: stay on the line in case she has questions for you. we did not invite her to be an advocate for an opponent. she is an analyst. that is what we are doing today. talking about the immediate effect. what immediately goes into effect for you as a doctor? caller: i am a brain and spine surgeons. they say some programs save money. but they hurt people. people that get circuit aborted by their doctors because they are afraid of getting a bad report card. guest: some of these things are occurring through insurance companies doing different things in trying to determine which are the most efficient doctors and practices. they are kind to steer patients to use high-quality doctors and whatever they want to label them or

and you said your focus was not likely to be on iran in a month's cannes. what are we missing? is there a way to switch focus to iran, or do we have to see a lot of meetings against the united states? in order to catch everyone on camera and in the network, i am going to us you to respond and these microphones. >> it is always nice to reminisce about opportunities for gone. i think the last administration pursued a dual strategy, and one truck was to offer opportunities to produce of it, to have dialogue and other issues if they suspended their uranium enrichment. the other was international isolation. i think part of the problem was each track was too little, too late. the inducements for week. it is conceivable if loan strategy had operated -- if the strategy had operated at a higher level, if we were able to threaten sanctions a number of years ago, and if we have more serious inducements, maybe we could have changed the approach by day iranian leadership, but maybe not. >> on the question of the non- proliferation treaty review process in may, i think there are a number of

in fact i've met various economists, eloquent ones, adam smith or david ricardo were cannes and all that apply have never heard a more eloquent statement that succinctly summed up the economic world than george bush made in september of 2008 when he said in a memorable ten words of money doesn't loosen up this soccer can go down. [laughter] that really hits -- it was like the gettysburg address, short but to the point. [laughter] as i read the book i gained appreciation for the fact that he understood what was going on and he understood what needed to be done. was there every time he went to in with proposals that he shot you down on? >> no, because he was only surprise when i was surprised and i was surprised more than once. [laughter] >> what was the biggest surprise when we get into that. >> i spoke to him -- one of the things i learned from my previous career is no matter what you negotiate i could have all kind of understandings about the relationship we would have but if i didn't have the right relationship with the president it wasn't going to be his fault, it was going to be my

if you've seen the movie that won the cannes award, it is about and d.o.d. team. a typical tour, and even the team will go out on just about 600 bomb calls. that is to be asked to diffuse about two bombs every day. a number that may be the better indicator of their fight to the war effort though is the fact that the insurgents reported 50,000-dollar bought on the head of and d.o.d. are prepared to kill one of these soldiers and get $50,000. unfortunately, this particular bomb calls wouldn't end well. by the time the soldier got close enough to the device to see that it wasn't a piece of trash that was a bomb, it exploded. you have to be as far away as a football field to escape death or injury from the blast frankly, at you at both the that even if you're not hit, the sheer force of the explosion itself can break your limbs that the soldier though had been right on top of that bomb would have exploded. so when the dust settled, and smoke cleared, the rest of team advance and they found little left of them. so the night the commander of the unit wrote a condolence