hindsight is a wonderful thing. the end of my period, december of 1949 i couldn't write about -- i had to use hindsight. how could people not have known? we know the full horror of the experience and when you go back to the contemporary documents it is unnervingly absent. is it because they didn't care? is it because they didn't know? is it because they didn't want to know? is it because they couldn't believe it could be possible? is it because they may be new and it wasn't relevant to winning the war? a whole series of difficult kind of conclusions to be drawn from this, all of which end up with the same result. unbelievable numbers of people being killed on an industrial scale. question you asked me is the question i was asked by the son of a senior member of the service, my uncle kennethcohen whose son said to me do you think my dad knew about this? if he was equally mystified by the possibility that he might have known and done nothing or how he felt about it. i would give him the same answer i give you. on one

it is a single purpose developer that would lack hindsight, insight and foresight. i would like to briefly make a couple more comments on the infrastructure report. the project sponsor suggests to utilize the development practice in accordance with the plan such as street grid and open spaces to optimize full exposure. minimizing irrigation demands. none of the measures described for exceptional or extraordinary. all of them can be achieved without demolition of the existing housing or massive deconstruction of the open landscaping. the san francisco sustain ability plan is a policy document that has not permitted the city to perform all actions addressed in this plan. the project sponsor plan is a plan with performance goals. the deir fails to examine the effectiveness of the proposed measures in the absence of a guarantee as this sustainibility plan will be frequently updated and reevaluated. this would need to be an important requirement if this plan is to remain relevant and in place for the next 20 to 30 years. i have just discussed answers to question one and

with hindsight, your question, sir john, was it accurate?i don't think it was with the benefit of hindsight, and i visited the training compound, and i visited one in mumbai, and another extraordinary figure in baghdad as well. there was a lot going on, but part of the difficulty was then getting the police on the ground and then translating into really effective policing against the background in which the iraqi police had a poor reputation. >> thank you. i think that's a standing question as to how long it takes to create from a low port base that was there to get an effective working police system. the other question is about our own contribution. it sums itself up like this. the u.k. has had and has still an expedition military capability. they can do that, and is certainly doesn't have that kind of police capability that says something about a relative balance in the aftermath of what the military needs to provide and what the police side of the jiflian front can provide. do you accept there is a tension there? >> more than a tension if

he found time to read his book about his observations about the soviet union which in hindsight provedo be back very prescient. again, the duty called. truman asked him to take over direction of the cia, which was in foundry just after the failure to anticipate the north korean invasion. what he had the only time in his career he did was carboys, power to restructure the cia, which he achieved parity created a vertically integrated structure based on functional lines which serve as the basic foundation for the cia during the cold war. now, with eisenhower's perspective of election as president smith thought that finally he would get the big prize, chief of staff. he was disappointed. again, from the highlights, the mccarthy hearings during the not get along very well. he was also responsible for engineering to regime changes, the overthrow of elected governments in a ron and guatemala. the job that eisenhower asked him to fill was number two to undersecretary of state. playing behind lou gehrig. the relationship was very testy. dulles mostly wanted smith to trouble shoot for an adminis

he found time to write a book about his observation about the soviet union which in hindsight proved to be very pressing. he asked him to take over the direction of the cia which is the founding after the failure to anticipate the north korean invasion of the south. power to restructure the cia which he achieved. he created a vertically integrated structure based upon functional alliance and that structure served as the basic foundation for the cia throughout the cold war. quote eisenhower's person action election as president, thought that finally he would get the big prize, chief of staff. he was disappointed. again, some of the highlights during the truman period. but obviously they didn't get along very well. he was also responsible than that period for the engineering, regime changes and the elected government in iran and in guatemala. the job that eisenhower asked to fill was number two to john foster dulles. playing behind john foster dulles was like playing behind lou gehrig. the relationship was very testing. dulles mostly wanted smith to trouble for an administration. he ha

what i should have done and i see this in hindsight, michael jackson's "thriller". one song and the rest was good music. he made one song and one video and the rest of the music is fantastic. just do it that way. right to attend this again, i would do that. tavis: you put some time into trying to discern what x, y, and the means. you were saying about people accepting it. the public are starting to accept you as an actor. you have more acting projects lined up. >> i will say it is a blessing. "battle of los angeles". it is physically trying, i play a marine. we trained with the marines and gave me a new respect for the armed forces. i would never do it. you would never see me joining the air force, or army or marines. tavis: that said, we appreciate the fact that you are writing songs. the latest project is "libra scale". ne-yo, good to have you want. we will see you at the movies and a record store and anywhere you want to hang out. nice to see you. that is our show. good night from l.a. and thanks for watching. as always, keep the faith. sharp and knife, deadly ♪

i can tell you in hindsight markets may be down because of worries on escalating violence in egypt translating to higher oil prices. crude is hovering near $103 a barrel. sweet crude is above $91. motion asian markets are closed for the chinese new year. europe is a touch higher. we get all that data this morning. that could drive us. we are also looking ahead to ben bernanke speaking at the national press club this afternoon. the dow inched up one point. 12,041 is where we ended. the nasdaq composite fell to 2749. retailers also report january sales. they are expected to shed light on the impact of all the snow that fell last month. it was actually the snowiest january in six years. not for you but for the rest of the country. bargain hunting shoppers may have stayed away from stores because fewer items were actually on sale. and among the stores analysts expect sales to rise 2.4%. >>> do you need a big screen tv for the super bowl? the consumer electronics association says for the first time since '05 since lcd and hd-tvs hit the market sales are dropping. that's because 70% of u.s. househol

by the way, my hindsight is 20/20. >> schieffer: this whole question of the muslim brotherhood, do younk the muslim brotherhood should be a part of the negotiations leading toward these reforms? should they be a part of the new government? >> i think that's up to the egyptian people and government. i'm very concerned about a lot of the behavior of the muslim brotherhood, and a lot of the positions they have taken, including their failure to recognize israel's right to exist. so i'm very worried about it. the best way to ensure that no extremist element hijacks this election is to have a free and fair election that is truly transparent, that brings in all the democratic forces and factors in egypt into this process. and voter education has a lot to do with it. >> schieffer: well, how do you view the muslim brotherhood? you know, i mean i think the hit ... head of national intelligence, general clapper had, kind of caught washington's attention when he said on capitol hill he thought they were a secular organization. >> he later... his spokesperson later took back that statement. >> schi

put to bed four minutes into stoppage time when to day out signing emmanuel adebayor will blasted hindsight bring on. school and. country of the first time in three years this weekend she's part of the russian team that will face france in the first round of the fed cup in moscow the three time major winner is currently training in the capital with christmas so to say in public and in our soften hoping to win the world crying for russia for a fifth time favorites for the tie. in the standings while front and ninth in the rankings russia to place in the top twenty. is ranked twenty nine of the french team are in the top fifty. preparations are underway to see if the biggest sporting event in america super bowl forty five all the rest subzero temperatures in texas of course in green bay and pittsburgh some problems are growing by taking up residence the local high school in arlington as the snow storms right side the packers and the sunday's clash as favorites but haven't raised a lot of vince lombardi trophy since one thousand nine hundred seven and whether or not they light up the cowboys s

as it is circling now where there's a new leader over in the desert with hindsight hostler taking the advantage at the german born australian winning his second straight stage becoming the man to beat for the peloton over leader tom boonen struggling against a strong wind suffer the puncture to drop him to fourteenth over all those who successfully braved the stage three cents don't get it all to do near the finish line and it was a person who once again was the fastest in the saddle sprinting the competition in a theists finish compare to show was right on has the sails wild and open up to his second straight put him. you have to do it no more sports news from around the world for you in two hours time here not see whether it's next by foot. hungry for the full story and we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. the sea of nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild and learn. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you see. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous am

resign in protest over the afghan war now some would say that short of all the money and efforts in hindsight put into that country has been vital to winning the war on terror and actually protecting the u.s. or i would strongly disagree with that. as not present in afghanistan the exist more as a crime syndicate than as any conventional military force and what we're doing here is we're basically trying to kill the fly with a sledgehammer and this is an organization that is a very dangerous. organization a very dangerous operation around the world but that's the case it's around the world it's an axe through individuals and small cells that are loosely connected and now to follow a particular ideology so they were going about attacking al qaeda it is completely wrong and actually what it does it opens up. for attack because we're concentrating on that as existed when they did exist in the sudan and did exist in afghanistan and now as they exist today and that makes us much more drawn from them all right what about toppling a dictator what happened in iraq and understand you served as a marine

we had one offer at 295 which, you know n hindsight is fabulous, so at the time, we didn't feel it was and we rejected it. >> reporter: they listed it three times taking the price down to 279,000. it is the kind of decline many didn't think possible. since he is at el had avoid much of the secretaries ses-- excess of the housing bubble there didn't seem to be much to burst. >> it definitely was quite surprising, particularly once the rest of the country went into housing recession and seattle was seeing quite robust growth. >> but it turns out seattle was not an exception, just behind the curve. while prices in las vegas and phoenix dropped almost 60% in the last five years, and now seem to have reached bottom, prices are still going down in cities where the slide started later. last year prices dropped by at least 12% in minneapolis and portland, oregon, as well as seattle. in a big way, housing prices have dropped a whopping 31% in seattle since the peak. experts say prices will continue to drop for at least a year. in the meantime, more people are adjusting their expectations. megan

the continued political turmoil in libya japan's nikkei is losing just under one percent this hour hindsight is down under half a percent. and russian railways' the biggest corporate issue of rebel born say is turning to the sterling market for the first time to access new investors as the country increases spending before the soccer world cup the company which sold one point five billion dollars bond in the us currency last year upon us one billion dollars of domestic debt to raise at least one billion pounds this year russia which won the right to hold the world cup in twenty eighteen needs to spend as much as one hundred.

which, you know, in hindsight is fabulous. the time we didn't feel it was enough and we rejected it. >> reporter: they've listed it three times taking the price down to $279,000. it's the kind of decline many didn't think possible. since seattle had avoided much of the excess of the housing bubble, there didn't seem to be much to burst. >> it definitely was quite surprising. particularly once the rest of the country went into housing recession and seattle still was seeing quite robust growth. >> reporter: but it turns out seattle was not an exception. just behind the curve. while prices in las vegas and phoenix dropped almost 60% in the last five years, and now seem to have reached bottom, prices are still going down in cities where the slide started later. last year prices dropped by at least 12% in minneapolis and portland, oregon. as well as seattle. in a big way, housing prices have dropped a whopping 31% in seattle since. experts say the prices will continue to drop for at least a year. in the meantime more people are adj

stay tastes a high that will have significant inflation pressures on on europe and the world again hindsight so is a great thing isn't it but what measures if indeed any could have been taken by the world to counter the problem now at this point to stop it getting any worse and is there anything more that could be done to safeguard the world from financial ramifications of regional crisis like this in the future should any reforms be brought in. well i think that's a very big question i think that when it comes to the middle east traditionally over the last few decades stability has has come from. but nine in many cases benign dictatorships in some cases not so but nine dictatorships and that has created stability in many of these dictatorships have been supported by by the west and if you like it's a it's a hangover from from the cold war long term stability can be created by by democracy but democracy can't be created overnight it takes years and decades maybe longer to to actually establish the proper institutions in all these countries which is separate which can't be taken over by. one

and in hindsight i do wonder if perhaps we were fooling ourselves that this could last as long as itdid, and maybe 20 years was the natural lifecycle for such a thing. so we'll see especially as digital sales keep going, perhaps we'll see a greater propriety of smaller stores. a number of them have open. certainly they face many of the pressures that have been debated and bandied about over the last decade. but the ones that have open and have a certain business acumen, we tried to engage their committees and also develop even a small e-book strategy, they seen of the best chance for survival. i think hopefully we will see more of those. so the ecosystem is going to change. it will certainly impact how publishers perhaps sign-up offers and what advances they are paying and what books would be most visible. by to say that the shrinking of the chain bookstore business is dead is a connection i would be deeply uncomfortable in making because there are too many signs that are pointing towards more optimistic waters. >> who are some of borders biggest creditors? and what have they said si

i feel with the benefit of hindsight things it was worth attempting the second resolution, and we werebasically close in my judgment to get the magic nine dates, but it didn't happen. it was a concern. that said, the secretary powell were very interested in building support for the second resolution, and there are records you would have seen where you report that. >> thank you. >> i think, robert, over to you now. >> just one very short question, a quick question on the statement. we had a long discussion of this last year that we don't need to repeat, but since then there's been pieces of evidence. you may or may not wish to comment on them. i'd like to just cite three of them. there were others in this sense. one is that greenstalke confirming what he said in a telegram when asked when was -- whether it was the agreed line to cast a heavy line on the french and rather he was acting on instructions to do this, said he was acting on instructions. secondly, math true ryancroft when asked if there was political presentation to pin the problem on the french when the fact was we failed to

i realized in hindsight what i should have said was when the president receives information from the fbi he will make a decision. but i did not. i think it is an example of how you have to think five moves ahead of all the time because it is not only about what is happening today, but the future. i learned to do that much better. >> some things people don't realize is in many ways the press secretary acts like a reporter as well. i don't know the answers to everything. i will call somebody at the national security council that i trust. i might also ask the chief of staff to make sure i got the same answer. then you know those two have to talk. >> the most common question is who tells you what to say? no one tells you what to say. >> or everyone tells you what to say. >> it is of to the press secretary to be a reporter. >> what is the biggest mistake? >> that was it. >> i am sure you could put a montage together and it would be horrible. [laughter] >> funny you mention that. [laughter] >> it is a burnout job because you have the press banging on you to get me everything, don't tell me

in hindsight i do wonder if perhaps we were fooling ourselves that this could last as long as it did, and maybe 20 years was the natural life cycle for such a thing. we'll see, especially as digital sales keep growing, perhaps we'll see a greater preponderance of smaller stores. many have opened and they face the pressures debated over the last decade, but the ones that opened and are really trying to engage both within the communities and develop a small e-book strategy, they seem to have the best chance for survivalment i think we'll see more of those. the ecosystem is going to change. it will certainly impact how publishers perhaps sign up browsers and what sort of advances they are paying, and what books will be most visible, but to say that the shrinking of of -- [no audio] >> guest: there's too much with what happened with services when they went into chapter 11 administration. eventually, they went into chapter 7. numerous reports indicated publishers are not happy with what borders has in mind. top priority, for example, seems to be highlighting the borders rewards plus card,

i feel with the benefit of hindsight things it was worth attempting the second resolutio and we were basically close in my judgment to get the magic nine dates, but it didn't happen. it was a concern. that said, the secretary powell were very interested in building support for the second solution, and the are records you would have seen where you report that. >> thank you. >> i think, robert, over to you now. >> just one very short question, a quick question on the statement. we had a long discussion of this last year that we don't need to repeat, but since then there's been pieces of evidence. you may or may not wish to comment on them. i'd like to just cite three of them. there were others inhis sense. one is that greenstalke confirming what he said in a telegram when asked when was -- whether it was the agreed line to cast a heavy line on the french and rather he was acting on instructions to do this, said he was acting on instructions. secondly, math true rncroft when asked if there was political presentation to pin the problem on the french when the fact was weailed to get the c

my family through a difficult situation and, you know, it's very easy to look at these things in hindsight and say okay why didn't you stay? they didn't deport you. the circumstances had fundamentally shifted when they turned us out on to the street if 4:00 in the afternoon to 8:00 in the morning. that's a long, long, long night. so there was no question after we were we were subjected to. and one of the most dangerous accusations you can have leveled at you is that you're a spy or an agent for a foreign government and that's the kind of accusation against which you have no defense and which can very easily get you killed and you better take it seriously. and you better take a step back from that and think about how you're going to do this so that you don't subject people... one thing that i do want to say though. this is the first time... your program is the first time i have spoken publicly about this because i'm very conscious of the fact that our egyptian driver was extremely badly beaten in the same interrogation cells where we were held and those people are still there. it's t egypti

oh, there will be people afterwards who will look back at events with the benefit of hindsight, which as we all know is 20/20 vision and we will say we should have been able to see this or that. but the truth is, when you look at the world prospectively, these things are simply not that easy to foresee. >> this letter was written today. here is the teal, keep your pumps open, the prices low, don't bother the israelis much. as far as we're concerned you can do whatever you want out back. you can deprive your people in deception and preach intolerance from your mosque or whatever conspiracy thy theories about us as you like. you can keep your women as illiterate as you like without any capacity that you like. you can under educate your youth. just keep your pumps come and prices low and don't has el the jews too much. whatever you want out back. that attitude has held the country back and history is back, the social networks helping the youth engage against their leaders has released the fear that kept those in power in power. >> i think that's a bit of a caricature of what our posture

in hindsight, i wonder if we were perhaps fooling ourself that is this could last as long as it did. maybe 20 years was the natural life cycle for such a thing. we'll see as digital sales keep growing, perhaps we'll see a great preponderance of smaller independent stores. a number of them had opened. they face many of the pressures that have been debated over the last, i'd say, decade. but the ones that have opened and have a certain business askment, and are trying to engage, and develop even a small ebook strategy, they seem to have the best chance for survival. i think we'll hopefully see more of those. the ecosystem is going to change. it will certainly impact how publishers perhaps sign up authors and what sort of advances they are paying and what books will be most visible. but to say that the shrinking of the chain bookstore business means that the book industry is dead is a connection that i would be deeply uncomfortable in making. because there are too many sign that is are pointing towards more optimistic waters. >> host: who are some of borders biggest creditors and what h

he found time to write a book about his observations about the submarine and which in hindsight could be very president. again, duty called. truman asked him to take over the direction of the cia which was in founder, just after the failure of the anticipation of the north korea of the south. what he had in his own time of his career he had that was carte blanche. our to restructure the cia, which he achieved. so he created a vertically integrated structure based upon functional lines. and that structure serves as the basic foundation for the cia throughout the cold war. now, with eisenhower's perspective election as president, smith thought that finally he would get the big prize, chief of staff. he was disappointed. mccarthy hearings during the truman. no, obviously beetle smith and tailgater joe didn't get along well. is also responsible to regime change, the overthrow of governments, the job and that eisner asked him to fill was number two to john does, undersecretary of state. line behind john foster dulles was kind of like playing behind lou gehrig. the relationship was very tes

it really does, i think, change his legacy as a lawyer and a public servant in a way that he in hindsighthappened. - we discussed earlier the starr report, how it overreached-- not only in some of the things it said, but how it was presented to congress and then disseminated over the internet. the whole thing was an overreach, but wasn't the biggest overreach of all the fatal one earlier than that-- the sting on monica lewinsky at the ritz-carlton hotel in virginia? wasn't that the key mistake that dogged starr and his people throughout? and you have a lot to say about that. - yes, well, that's one of the new revelations in the book, and i can tell you that's a piece of it that the starr prosecutors were clearly unhappy that i uncovered, but i determined that there was an investigation of the investigators, if you will, that was conducted by jo ann harris, the former head of the criminal division, at the request of robert ray, who replaced ken starr as special prosecutor, to look into their handling. there were many allegations of abuses by ken starr, but the most significant was their st

and in hindsight i do wonder if, perhaps, we were fooling ourselves that this could last as long as it did. maybe 20 years was the natural life cycle. we will see, especially of digital's sales keep going, perhaps a greater preponderant its of smaller independent stores. a number of them have opened. certainly they think many of the debates that have been talked about, but the ones that have opened and had a certain business acumen or really try to engage with in their communities and also a small the-book strategy seemed to have the best chance for survival. we will hopefully see more of those. the system is going to change. it will certainly impact how publishers, perhaps, the authors and what advances their pain and what books will be visible. but to send that the shrinking of the chain bookstore business means that book industry is dead is a cut like -- connection i would be deeply uncomfortable in making. there are too many signs that are pointing toward more optimistic waters. >> you are some of borders biggest creditors? what have they said since their filing. >> well, on the un

. >> get your perspective, crazy horse was a great warrior, a great leader, but in hindsight when you look at sitting bull, crazy horse and red cloud, red cloud had recognized in 1868 when he signed the fort laramie treaty that he couldn't win, he couldn't beat the army. the other two went on and fought for nine years with thousands of their own people being killed. he was impetuous but was a really red cloud the wiser of the chiefs? >> that's a reasonable question, and i would say you're missing some parts of history here that are important. under the treaty of 1868, all sioux indians were allowed to inhabit any part of the great sioux reservation which included all of south dakota from the

in hindsight i do wonder or haps we were perhaps fooling ourselves that this could last as long as itd. and maybe 20 years was the natural lifecycle for such a thing. so we will see, specially of digital sales keep growing. perhaps he will say a greater preponderance of smaller independent stores. a number of them have opened. certainly they think many of the postures that have been debated and bandied about in the past decade but the one set of open have us cert -- certain business acumen and engage with senate committees and also develop a small e-book strategy, they seem to have the best chance for survival. i think we'll hopefully see more of those. >> legal system is going to change. it will certainly impact how publishers perhaps sign-up authors and what sort of advances they are paying and what books will be most visible. but to say that the shrinking of the chain bookstore business means that the book industry is dead is a connection i would be deeply uncomfortable and making because there are too many signs that are pointing towards more optimistic waters. >> host: who are so

[applause] again, it is always eh the it's always easy with the hindsight of history in terms of the tax bill, the first tax bill, the 25% cut across the board over three years. that was hugely controversial at the time because from a static anlitches that would seem to have increased the deficit. how, from your vantage point again as one of the most constoif members of congress, how did you approach analyzing that bill? did you have any concerns or had you become a supply side advocate by that point? >> by then i was a supply side advocate. i had spent too many hours with jack camp and finally. >> did you get a word in edge-wise? >> eventually. i was a great believer in the tax policy and still do today that it was vital to remember that the private sector is what creates jobs and wealth and opportunity in the united states. it's the strength of our private economy. it's not make work projects out on the local highway spur or whatever it might be. it was i thought a very important piece of legislation. and the president partly what he did, one of the secrets to his success was that

in hindsight, i do wonder if perhaps we were fooling ourselves that this could last as long as it di

i realized in hindsight that what i should have said was, "when the president receives the informatione fbi, he will make the decision. until then i have nothing to say." but i did not. you got to think ahead all the time not only about what is happening today, but what is happening in the future. it was a painful experience. >> i would add one thing to that. what some people do not realize is that in many ways the press secretary acts like a reporter as well. i do not know the answer to everything. i did a question. i do not know. i will call somebody at the national security council. i may also ask the chief of staff to make sure i had the same answer. if i do not have the same answer, i note these two have to talk. >> no one tells you what to say. you go out there with the information. it is up to the press secretary to go and be a reporter. >> what is the biggest mistake you have made? >> that was it. >> anymore big mistakes? >> i could put a montage together. it would be horrible. [laughter] >> it is a burnout job. you have the press on you. after 911, i was at a live briefing tha

wasn't intending to exaggerate the situation with hindsight which was your question. was it accurate? i don't think it was. i visited the training compound in better. an extraordinary kodak figure in baghdad as well. there was a lot going on. part of the difficulty was getting those police on the ground and translating into effective policeing against the background in which the iraqi police had a poor reputation. >> there is a standing question as to how long it actually takes from the base that was there, the effective working police system but the other question is about our own contribution. is built up like this. the uk has had and has still an expeditionary military capability. it can do that. it certainly doesn't have an expeditionary police capability which says something about the relative balance between what the military needs to be able to provide and the police side of civilian can provide from the u.k. to except that there's a tension. >> more than tension if i may say so. it is a big gap in terms of our capability and it goes back to the very unusual st

[laughter] [applause] again, it is always easy with the hindsight of history because, in terms of the tax bill, the 25% across the bill over three years, that was hugely controversial. that would have increased the deficit. from your vantage point as one of the most conservative members of congress, how did you approach analyzing that bill? did you have any concerns or had you become a supply-side advocate by that point? >> of by then, i was the supply- side advocate. i spent too many hours with jack kemp. >> to get a word in edgewise? >> eventually. i was a great believer in the tax law and it was vital for us to remember that the private sector benefited. these are not projects on your local highway. it was, i thought, a very important piece of legislation. the president, what he did, one of the secrets to his success was that the democratic caucus looked different in those days there were a significant number of boll weevil democrats, guys like phil gramm. he had been elected the same year i was in 1978 and came to town and believed in a lot of the principles that president reagan

now of course now it is absolutely understandable when we have against the benefit of hindsight how we could lose to that extent. the second issue which is also very important and we made the point, very soon in the course of these formidable endeavors which is the single currency, and ever, we had the idea that it was necessary to follow very carefully competitive indicators uniquely because the imbalances, national and balances in order to be sure that we would have appropriate coherence within the u.n.. now it is work in progress, our debate between the parliament and the council, the governments on the best way to improve governance. we are prepared for a quantum leap in governance and we are descent that even the first proposal of the commission were considered by us too timid, too shy to the extent that the governments have been weakened a proposal of the commission. we are shipping our messages to both government and parliament because really, as was said by the previous speakers, reinforcing government is absolutely of the essence. it is in our case the bigger lesson to be told

hindsight is cheap. it is hard to predict what will happen in the future. we would call for a general protocol. absent error, no removal, and then the commutative process to move forward. -- and then a consultation process to move forward. it depends on the issue. some issues, you have the luxury of a lot of time. there has to be consultation with the leadership of the regents. when has already agreed to consultation with the leadership of the advisory boards. that usually means the whole board. then the leader can consult. a big part of what we were saying is that the museum director and the curator or the first lines of consultation and consideration for shaping a response for consideration of what the objections are and for determining the path forward. >> obviously, we just got the report ourselves. our next step is to think about how we actually implement some of the findings and some of the recommendations. they are very sound recommendations that we can implement that makes sense. if we look back, we can see that these recommendations would have help

sitting on your side of the table i would be drawling that yes that is sensible is the benefit of hindsight of course. what i am trying to do is tell you how it felt at that time which was that that further look wouldn't have been necessary if it had been necessary it wouldn't have been used in a different a result because a lot of times the inspectors had said anything about this offered a native -- authority it was a 98 cullom 99 and what they said was alarming. sorry to repeat this point but people think that we made up the idea that there was a wmd in iraq and that it was all sort of a confection to justify the military action and this wasn't around the world. but just looking at the , 1441, sorry, free, recognizing the threat iraq long compliance and the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles poses to the national peace and secure that's not saying we think this might pose a threat, but it does pose it. >> the issue isn't whether or not it was made up, it just goes back to the issue that we will certainly be coming back to which is challenging and t

[laughter] [applause] >> again, it is always easy with the hindsight of history. the first tax bill, the 25% cut across the board over three years, that was a hugely controversial at the time because from a static analysis that would seem to increase the deficit. how, from your vantage point, again, as one of the most conservative members of congress, how did you approach to analyzing the bill? did you have any concerns, or did you become a supply-side advocate by that point? >> by then i was a supply-side advocate. i spent too many hours with jack kemp. >> did you get a word in edgewise? >> eventually. [laughter] i was a great believer in the tax dollars -- the tax bill. the private-sector creates jobs and wealth and opportunity in the united states. and it's not vote projects on the local highway or whatever it may be -- and it's not the local projects on the highway or whatever it may be. it was a very important piece of legislation. one of the secrets to the president's success was that the democratic caucus looks different in those days, too. there were a sig

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that was -- i mean, i guess -- hindsight, when i'm much, much, much -- like 100 years old, i'll be ableey had a hair cut about a character i played. like the dorothy hamill or something. >> i wanted that. the wedge. >> did you? >> my mom said i had a fro, so i couldn't get it. >> what? >> yeah. well, you can have it now. >> thank you. i'm going to tell momma you said that. >> i'll tell your momma. >> i saw in the paper, you're thinking of relocating here to new york city? >> i'm thinking about it. i've been looking. i grew up here. and i miss it. there's nothing like being in the city that just is the city of every man. it's all walks. and i love that. >> we'd love to have you. and happy birthday tomorrow. jennifer, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> if you want to spend her birthday with her, "just go with it" in theaters this friday. >> it will be a great birthday. . tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 without having to pay to access your own money. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 it'd be like every atm in the world was your atm. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 the schwab bank high yield investor checking® account. tdd#

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