these candlesticks were presents from ronald reagan to margaret thatcher. so there we are.was churchill's favorite armchair. >> couric: and there's a little bit of churchill everywhere. do you ever sit in this chair? >> i don't. i'm so worried i might break it or something like that. >> couric: i understand there are marks in here because he used to dig his fingernails into the arms when he was nervous. >> i didn't know that. there's a famous... the dispatch box in the house of lords where he used to make his speeches during the war, you can see the mark where he banged his hand on it with the signet ring and you can see the chips in the wood. this is prime ministers all the way up. >> reporter: the walls contain the portraits of every prime minister but one: cameron's won't be there until he's left office. that's the rule. >> this is margaret thatcher. and blair, major blair. this one just appeared. this is the latest. >> couric: since taking gordon brown's place david cameron has encountered the history but also the enormous responsibility of the office he holds. his gove

margaret thatcher, center of freedom. ms. mcnamara joined in 2006 and focuses on particular i go i can issues and the war on terrorism. she also -- that would be forthcoming in 2004, a member of the european parliament in brussels. with that you can ask questions. >> if i can begin by offering, eat the mussels in brussels. very poetic. i don't eat the musserks ls. the question i really can't focus on is the threat of isringhausen laum i can terrorism. this is a broad topic, so i'm more than happy, after sally and i finish up the talk with more detailed topics, as you wish. ly last summer i tiled. there were two reasons i conducted the study. first i wanted to see if there were other lessons to be learned and how other dmok raesz, especially those who dealt with terrorism in the past, were handling the new threat. my second goal was to make sure america's response tartism good for the plate. on the first, much to my surprise, the value of comparing our respect active approachesiv the allies brought together few lessons learned

in fact, at my bachelor party a margaret thatcher impersonator in a pant suit clubbed an eye followa khomeni look alike to death. so don't tell my wife. she thinks i was at a strip club. so the tzitung only had two options. either take her out of the photo or hide the fact that she's a woman. principles, by making her hand bigger. of course. of tzitung's policy of removing women from photographs is not without its complications. back in the 70s when golda meir was prime minister of israel the readers assumed the country was being run by a headstrong podium. and think how hard this is on teenage hasidic boys. any empty spot in a photo could be a woman. most boys hide the victoria secret catalog under their beds but i'm sure teenager tzitung readers prefer architectural digest. those sumpuous interiors leave everything to the imagination. folks. folks, last thursday was the first republican presidential debate it had all the big hitters from t-paul to r-paul and every other three candidates. now how important was this debate, folks? we are less than a year away from being more than thr

the question is, i mean, was england post-gender with margaret thatcher? indira gandhi, was in the a post-gender when bolivia elected its first working class president, where the post-class? i mean, it is a reflection of the dichotomy. the movement -- you cannot deny the accomplishments of the movement. the human rights movement, which we need to begin talking about more, and malcolm x began to increasingly before he was assassinated, but the thing is, these smokescreens get thrown at us, and we fall over and over again. happen with clarence thomas in a certain way, right, you know? in a more evil way, many of us have gotten comfortable because rock is in the white house, but he cannot be most effective unless we are on his ass, right? we voted, so i will go home now, and see you in four years. the republicans, the tea party, all these folks, they are on his ass, so if you believe that all that there is power in that position, and there are folks that make convincing arguments about a black face on white supremacy, so there is complications, but can progre

when margaret thatcher leashed this model upon us and one of the very first assets transferred from the public domain to the private banking class was the public transport system and i want to know one thing about the public transport system in these inflation numbers public transport fares rose by five point three percent on the month of april and by twenty two point three per cent on the year so remember we're told that we have to transfer this to the private sector because they're so much more efficient and lower prices for us on the services that we'll hand to them no that was a scam government is good at running stuff like transportation and co-operative networks that's what they're good at economies of scale they get the best price private sector is good for introducing stuff like apple computers and computer gadgets and stuff like that but you can't want the same people who are competing selling sort of running the transportation sector already end up with exactly this problem rampant inflation high prices they walk away from it look at happened to fukushima there's a private con

ronald reagan and margaret thatcher were soul mates and bush and blair are are with less likely alliest pushed on over iraq, but obama and brown, they didn't get on and the new man in the white house describes himself as a specific president who turns his attention to india and china. >> his heart is not in these relationships with other leaders and other countries, but i think he does it and sometimes quite skillfully, but everyone can kind of sense this is not number one on the agenda. >> but you wouldn't know it from the president's progress around town with the prime minister, the white house does realize it made a mistake in the early days. they point at needlessly offending allies. if these two men have not just a special relationship but an essential one, then of course it underlines its importance to make britain feel better about itself, but it doesn't just do that, and it implies a sense of duty and obligation and that's exactly what the president wants. >> the attacks on libya are the prime example. obama hesitated about the operation because he doesn't think it is a vital a

president we were hearing all the time that this was absolutely critical we looked at people like margaret thatcher with the falklands islands and we looked at reagan with grenada and my father with panama and we saw boy do those poll ratings go up and we need to do that to. that's an absolute credible so arguably what bin laden did on nine eleven was the very best thing that could happen to bush's his credibility was down people questioning the legitimacy of his presidency they were still counting the ballots actually in florida the newspaper consortium was his poll ratings were in the toilet it's it seems to have helped him tremendously i'm curious two trillion dollars later doesn't this now prove that or at least indicate that what bin laden did was the crime of the century rather than an act of war and the bush miss reacted to it in order to get us into a war well you know i mean i think the whole as you pointed out in the preamble that the whole question of who osama bin laden is and what al qaida is and so forth is enormously more complicated i think the press of this country has done a terri

government to rescue them that is terry unfortunate but they never talk about successful women margaret thatcher condoleezza rice what about the wonderful women that were elected last november outside and 2010? it turned out they were all republicans am pro-life and that is not what the fan and is planned at all is simply do not recognize success. one of the reason is to do the right equal rights amendment they did not believe i was doing well was due they conjured a conspiracies like the insurance company word financing me or some other $0.9. with the ideology of telling young women you are victims of the oppressive society is so unfortunate if you wake up in the morning and believe that you probably will not accomplish anything whether you are a man or a woman. many of the real feminists, most of them think abortion is the litmus test the one and then new-line feminists just wrote a few weeks ago that the definition of feminism is that we are under the oppressive patriarch and they have to work to overturn that and stop it. that is what feminism is. it is not true working for e quality. they a

rather than just making it clear that it was in their own national interest of these so they had margaret thatcher standing by reagan side saying this is in the interest of democracy and the free world so the case by the very useful role for the us to lead its legitimacy to give it give a sense that there's a broader global interest in the us taking action rather than just something that the us is doing support its own interests the u.k. has interests been very different because since world war two billion both an economic and political decline a terminal decline i would say is use this special relationship with america to very much manage that decline so i think the perception that it's still a strong world power by cozying up to the us and keeping a kind of ticket to the top table as it were well obviously diminishing in significance both politically and economically behind the scenes but what about nel many accuse britain of being a lapdog to the us but what we're seeing in libya for example the us taking more of a back seat and letting allies such as britain take a front seat and being far mor

joining me is the director of the heritage foundations margaret thatcher center for freedom.s. >> thank you. >> and clearly the last couple nights, colonel gadhafi has been the target. my recollection of the outset that it was a humanitarian mission, and political leaders, including our president, saying he must go. >> the revolution is very wide ranging, and it gives a great latitude for the alliance to take whatever action is necessary to prevent the regime from killing civilians. certainly, nato commanders have taken that interpretation to justify strikes directly against gadhafi himself. and gadhafi's family controls the regime, and gadhafi's six sons are intracutally involved in the killing of members of libyan civilians. nato is taking action against gadhafi and the control of the infrastructure in order to save large numbers of libyan lives. >> understanding all of that, there seems to be a mixed message being sent, then. nato takes the steps to put out a statement which says we do not target individuals. there's a conflict if you look at what you said, and understanda

margaret thatcher, center of freedom. ms. mcnamara joined in 2006 and focuses on particular i go i can issues and the war on terrorism. she also -- that would be forthcoming in 2004, a member of the european parliament in brussels. with that you can ask questions. >> if i can begin by offering, eat the mussels in brussels. very poetic. i don't eat the musserks ls. the question i really can't focus on is the threat of isringhausen laum i can terrorism. this is a broad topic, so i'm more than happy, after sally and i finish up the talk with more detailed topics, as you wish. ly last summer i tiled. there were two reasons i conducted the study. first i wanted to see if there were other lessons to be learned and how other dmok raesz, especially those who dealt with terrorism in the past, were handling the new threat. my second goal was to make sure america's response tartism good for the plate. on the first, much to my surprise, the value of comparing our respect active approachesiv the allies brought together few lessons learned

but between president reagan and margaret thatcher, it was at its zenith.hstand thatch ever's withering tirade over the u.s. invasion of grenada. >> apparently reagan as thatcher was really whacking him down the line, reagan picked up the phone, held it up in the air like that, so people around him marvelous. and even the cameron cool relationship is still underpinned by a bedrock of intelligence-sharing and military ties. >> i don't think the british-american relationship crucially depends on the chemistry between the leaders. because the real relationship takes place between the peoples of the united states and britain. between the intelligence services that are very, very much in sync. >> we fight to prevail. >> president clinton and tony blair also enjoyed a shared ideological vision. but again, it wasn't always buddy-buddy. as shown by clinton's temper over 10 downing street press briefings that the u.s. was reluctant to commit ground troops to kosovo. >> it taught blair a few lessons of how you handle the white house and how you handle in particular,

ira said famously in the 1980s after they tried to blow up the then british prime minister, margaret thatcherou have to be lucky every time, we only have to be lucky once." >> you know, richard, that's exactly right. and bin laden said the same thing. he saw what happened to the soviet empire in afghanistan, said, i can do that to the west. elsewhere, whether it's afghanistan, pakistan. richard, always great to have you on the show and always great to have you on this side of the pond here in new york. >> thank you. >>> coming up, how did intelligence officers get that key detail that led to osama bin laden? did they use enhanced interrogation? that's spy speak for what some call torture. ♪ the new blackberry playbook. it runs all this at the same time. ♪ why can't every tablet do that? until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips' colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation. ...and? it helped balance her colon. oh, now that's the best part. i love your work. [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. better than any other luxury brand. ♪ intellichoice

margaret thatcher, condoleezza rice, what about all of the wonderful women who were elected last november 2nd, 2010 ? well, it turned out they were all republicans. in fact they were all pro-life, and that wasn't what the feminists planned at all. they simply do not recognize success. i think one of the reasons i was able to beat the equal rights amendment is because they did not believe i was doing what i did. they conjured up conspiracies like the insurance companies were financing me or some other nonsense like that. now, this ideology of telling young women that you are victims of an oppressive society is so unfortunate. if you wake up in the morning and believe that, you're probably not going to accomplish anything whether you are a man or a woman, and many of the feminists in fact most of them think that abortion is a litmus test for being a feminist. one of the new feminists, jessica valenti wrote in "the washington post" just a few weeks ago that the definition of feminism that we are under an oppressive patriarchy and we have to work to overturn it and stop at. it's not true they

. >> now, you're with the margaret thatcher -- >> have not f-- center for free. >> boy, they picked the right one for that. i was mesmerized by what you said. first of all, you think if the eu was more cooperative in trying to cut off funds to hezbollah that we could have that organization dry up because they have said so themselves. >> i don't think we could end hezbollah, but we could make things incredibly difficult for them. they use europe as a base, they use it as a staging point and the united states has passed legislation requesting time and again the european union to lift hezbollah as a formal terrorist organization. that needs to happen and it needs to happen sooner rather than later. we have seen no fruits of any sort of engagement except for e fact that europe is nothing more than, as they say themselves, a political, moral and fund-raising base. >> wow. i want to you make notes of everything this young lady said, because when i go to brussels, i'm certainly going to utilize that. i have a couple other questions and that is, across the northern tier of africa and the gulf a

reminds me of what margaret thatcher once responded to a student when she was in iowa, asked her the question, what have you changed your mind on since you left snoffs she thought a little bit and said, goodness, i was in office 11 1/2 years. my principles were very soundly based, i saw no reason to change them. well, the principle that i've laid out for border security as far as infrastructure on the border is this, we've got 2,000 miles on the southern border through which comes 90% of the illegal drugs consumed in america and i don't suggest that we have to build 2,000 miles of triple fencing, i want to build a fence a wall and a fence, that's effective, it's cost effective as well. i only suggest that we build that, build that fence until they quit going around the end, mr. speaker. that will be the measure. that's how we'll know if it's effective, if they're going around the end, we'll extend a few more miles. if they keep going around the end, we keep building. if the illegals are still entering the united states, then we'll build it from brownsville all the way up to san diego

margaret thatcher used to always say first you win the argument, then you win the vote.i believe president obama is giving us the finest opportunity to set up an argument to replace the left in 80 years. and i believe we should take advantage of the opportunity he is giving us to paint two futures for america, to win the argument over those two futures, and as a consequence to win what i think will be a historic majority. [applause] >> mr. gingrich, my question for you is, so, how do you intend to beat mr. obama, a man who has the potential to amass millions, possibly billions of dollars as we sit here today? and he has the media behind him? how are you going to beat that? >> by pelling the -- telling the truth. that's why two plus two equals four matters. [laughter] i believe he can outspend us by about four or five to one and still lose. if you go back to 2006, every republican senator who lost spent more money than the democrats. if you look at california, jerry brown was outspent, i think, three to one. and the fact is in the end, particularly running for president,

margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. our character is among the worst in the world. the new deal deals with things in a different way. when i was going to school, california school's were the best. now they are among the worst with the new budget cuts. of course, my university is being privatized. all of the higher education is being privatized. all through the uc system. how do you run a modern state with tax cuts? we resort to desperate, back last november, we were asked to vote to make four indian casinos in san diego county pony up money. i thought this was a joke. they voted to do it. now, the governor proposes to borrow against future revenues. how did they deal with these social problems when the economic probl