>> i never had reason to believe president musharraf was involved in anything like that. it was a general view that bin laden was in some remote section of pakistan, not just from this, but. i think what was startling was that he was living where he was. he wasn't hiding in a cave someplace. the was a lot of the imagery that somehow he has gone underground figuratively. but even in my dealings with president musharraf, an adult and quite a bit, the question as commitment to the work he was doing with us to help us deal with the threat that had emerged in pakistan. i think that he can to believe that al qaeda threatened him personally as well as his regime as much as it did the united states and i think that is true of on his life in a matter of weeks by al qaeda and the the al qaeda affiliated organization while he was still president. another question? yes, sir. right down here in the front for >> mr. vice president and a graduate student of middle east studies at george washington university. i think that it is fair to say that no matter who is in the white house, the a

ms i doubt with presidentto q musharraf and quite a bit to. the question is commitment to the work he was doing with us to help us do with the threat to that emerges in pakistan. he came to believe that a t collided types threat 10 himhe personally and as well as his regime. that it is true with 23 attempts in a matter ofae weeks by a al qaeda at orated affiliated organizations while he was still president >> down here in the front. >> mr. -- mr. vice president i am a steady if middle east goodies and it is fair to say that no matter who is in the white house it presents a great challenge to protect our interest and uphold the hour vast -- vacuous how how they respond to arab swing in how they have responded differently of still in power? thank you. >> it is and it but having to speculate at the far end of the process, frankly, i don't have answers to a couple of key questions. i don't know who will be in charge what kind of relationships really have? they have then replace like president mubarak and in good friends and allies and we are close

>> i never had reason to believe that president musharraf was involved in anything like that. there was, i think there was a general view that, um, bin laden was in remote, some remote section of pakistan, not just short ways from islamabad. i think what was startling was to find that he was living where he was, he wasn't hiding in a cave someplace, that there was a lot of the imagery that somehow he'd gone underground figtively -- figuratively. but i had no reason in my dealings with president musharraf, and be i dealt with him quite a bit, to question his, his commitment to the work he was doing with us to help us deal with the threat that had emerged from pakistan. i think he came to believe that, um, al-qaeda types threatened him personally as well as his regime as much as they did the united states, and i think that was true. two or three attempts on his life in a matter of weeks by al-qaeda or al-qaeda-affiliated organizations while he was still president. .. >> well, it's difficult to judge the quality of the current effort without having to speculate about what's going

>> i never had reason to believe that president musharraf was involved in anything like that. i think there was a general video that bin laden was in some remote section of pakistan, a short ways from islamabad. i think what was startling was to find that he was living where he was. he wasn't hiding in a cave someplace. there is a lot of imagery that somehow he had gone underground. but in my dealings with president musharraf and i took with him quite a bit to question his commitment to the work he was doing with us to help by steel and you think you can't leave that al qaeda threatened him personally as well as his regime as much as the united states and i think that was true. in a matter of weeks, al qaeda affiliated organizations while he was still president. >> another question. yes, sir. right down here on the front. >> mr. vice president, i'm jason stern, a graduate student in middle east studies at george washington university. i think it's fair to say that no matter who is in the white house, the airport has a big challenge both to protect interest in a challenge to up

the problem with musharraf's from my point of view that he is always late he helped introduce reforms so much he had to do something and it's a little bit strange because he is a young more than ours. i'm afraid. i don't know how long he won't survive politically. everything the others and the law in the hands of our law but you know still. from my point of view right now he doesn't have many chances because he has to move more decisive. back to oppose. us said the u.s. . as he put it an enormous pressure on the palestine leadership to convince him to drop its bid for the un membership but in vain so do you think that now proposing is really punished by the israeli and by the states whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa this is what i wanted to ask you is it possible while probably. leaders of israel first of all minister of foreign affairs wants to do but what they're thinking of some punishment and he was talking about that quite openly what mr libby is especially asked for those people much more sober and who are much more pragmatic i don't think they will be thinking in this terms on the

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that you are a historian and you can go not so to say is the most shows in fact i can tell you what musharraf says you know he was willing to do or at least in the truce with israel. has said that he's willing to which reach a temporary a temporary truce with israel also this is really it is good if he is willing to accept and i know this is just going to say no that's true that's true but he says he hides in the only things that are really serious i'm sitting here you jump in here we're going to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the palestine both state party. if you can. far away. where human life is ruled by nature. the. planet earth is scarcely preserved by the power. lie hidden in the deep permafrost. and for those who do with. times. mission free could you take three months for charges free to make humans free. three stooges free. download free. video for your media projects free media. tom. welcome back to cross talk on peter lavelle we're talking about what the future holds for the palestinians. ok benny i'd like to go to you let's let's do a hypothet

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establishing relationships in pakistan with allies of ours, folks like relationships with president musharraf so if in fact something like that were to occur we can work in concert to make sure that the coup could be overturned and make sure those nuclear weapons do not fall in those hands. working with allies, we want to work in that country to make sure of the problem. >> brett: many of the questions we received had to do with the u.s. economy. russell had the top voted video question in the section of foreign policy. >> when are we going to get someone in the white house that can stand up in these other countries and say you are not getting any more of our money. you send billions of dollars in overseas that take.... >> i think there is a lot to that. i have been a strong supporter of internatial assistance but a couple of good reasons to review the program. i would virtually replace all government aid that would encourage american companies to create jobs. our bureaucrats giving their bureaucrats money is a guaranteed step toward corruption. second when you have countries voted against th

establishing relationships in pakistan with allies of ours, folks like relationships with president musharraf so if in fact something like that were to occur we can work in concert to make sure that the coup could be overturned and make sure those nuclear weapons do not fall in those hands. working with allies, we want to work in that country to make sure of the problem. >> brett: many of the questions we received had to do with the u.s. economy. russell had the top voted video question in the section of foreign policy. >> when are we going to get someone in the white house that can stand up in these other countries and say you are not getting any more of our money. you send billions of dollars in overseas that take.... >> i think there is a lot to that. i have been a strong supporter of international assistance but a couple of good reasons to review the program. i would virtually replace all government aid that would encourage american companies to create jobs. our bureaucrats giving their bureaucrats money is a guaranteed step toward corruption. second when you have countries voted against

establishing relationships in pakistan with allies of ours, folks like relationships with president musharrafhad in the past with others in that country. so if something like that would occur we could work in concert to make sure that coup could be overturned and make sure those nuclear weapon do not fall in those hands. we want to work in that country to make sure the problem is defused. >> speaker beginning rip, many of the foreign policy questions we received had directly to do with the u.s. economy it came to the topic of foreign aid. butch russell had the top voted video question in the section of foreign policy. >> when are we gonna get someone in the white house that can stand up to these other countries and say you are not getting any more of our money this is stupid. we send billions overseas to country that hate us. [ applause ] >> i think there's a lot to that. i've been a strong supporter of international assistance. there are a couple of good reasons to review the whole program. first, i would replace virtually all government to government aid with skin of investment approach tha

started meeting with the prime minister of latvia and meeting with the former president of pakistan, musharrafxactly day in the life stuff for a texas governor. at least for this texas governor. but it is the kind of thing that you do if you're a presidential contender and want to up your worldliness quotient. now that governor perry is running and trying to keep up the perception that he is grounded in international affairs, governor perry today wrote an op-ped for "the wall street journal" on a subject of israel. he's been talking art his american state seceding from the union, who has floated the idea of quite literally of breaking up the united states of america now. now as a presidential candidate lending his sage international advice to the world's most delicate tinderbox of a region. with protesters in egypt which borders israel, ransacking the israeli embassy with the palestinians saying they will ask the u.n. next week for statehood. with israel promising grave consequences if the palestinians do ask for that. one campaign for president wants you to look at the delicacy of that situat

make a decision, how can we find an ally in that region, so we decided we could turn pakistan under musharrafbin laden escaped, but here's the problem. they never were loving us. they never did like us, the pakistan government, and the isi was filled with people who are very islamic in their political attitudes. do we ever have any confidence, will we ever have confidence in the government of pakistan? >> well, absolutely. at the very beginning, we needed pakistan in order to attack afghanistan. this is probably the only -- one of the only ways we had to get into afghanistan, and the isi, at the time, we have to remember that the isi's connection with the jihadi types go back to early '80s, when the isi was entrusted to funnel the money, to funnel the support and to facilitating the training for mujahadin against the soviets. that relationship continues, and many people in pakistan and among the isi believe that the non-state actor types, the haqqani network, the taliban, can be an important card in establishing a strategic depth for pakistan and central asia and in afghanistan. >> so they're

when musharraf was there but then the pakistanies found they couldn't go ahead with it. so we have to wait for that. but in the meantime, on the terrorist side, the americans have tried to put some kind of pressure. you can d more is for you to judge. but we feel that you have a real dilemma there. and 're understanding of it. >> rose: what's the dilemma. >> if you can't, unfortunately, work against the terrorists without the collaboration of the powers that be there. >> rose: in other words, if we can't get the pakistani government to help us work against terrorism then we will not succeed. >> that's it, yeah. >> rose: i see. what is the next step in making this a road map. >> first of all, make it more widely known. i think let's be very candid. india is not a country many americans think of in terms of strategic immersion. >> rose: i think more and more americans care about america's role in the world think about india and the strategic partnership. >> well, what we have said is perhaps that sumsup the whole report. that america, i think, is finding that its great pow

>> i never had reason to believe that president musharraf was involved in anything like that.view that bin laden was in remote -- some remote section of pakistan. what was startling was to find he was living where he was. he was not hiding in a cave someplace. there was a lot of imagery of how he had gone underground figure to flee. but in my dealings with president musharraf, and i dealt with him quite a bit, i had no reason to question his commitment to the work he was doing with us to help us deal with the threat that emerge from pakistan. i think he came to believe that al qaeda-types threatened him personally as well as his regime as much as it did the united states. i think that was true. there were two or three attempts on his life in a matter of weeks by al qaeda or al qaeda affiliated organizations while he was still president. >> right down here in the front. >> my name is jason stern i am a graduate student at george washington university. i think is fair to say that no matter who is in the white house, the arab springwood present a challenge to uphold our values. h

>> i never had reason to believe that president musharraf was involved in anything like that.there was, i think there was a general view that bin laden was in remote -- some remote section of pakistan, not just a short ways from islamabad. i think what was startling was to find that he was living where he was. he wasn't hiding in a cave someplace. there was a lot of the imagery that somehow he's gone underground figuratively. i had no reason in, my dealings with president musharraf, and i dealt with him quite a bit, the question -- to question his commitment to the work he was doing with us to help us deal with the threat that had emerged from pakistan. i think he came to believe that al qaeda types threatened him personally as well as his regime as much as they did the united states and i think that was true. there were two or three attempts on his life in a matter of weeks by al qaeda, or al qaeda affiliated organizations, while he was still president. >> another question? yes, sir? right down here in the front. >> mr. vice president, my name is jason stern, a graduate stude

egypt and tunisia and we don't do much with syria beyond sanctions when we will not bring down musharraf'sthe most important country in the middle east right now in terms of what happens there, and if these people who have come out week after week after week for six months to face down one of the most brutal and well-armed governments in the region, that tells you how deep the feeling is about the need for change, but also how difficult it is for us in the outside world to play much more of a role. >> how large a problem is that for us? i mean, we are the leading actor in the world stage and yet there's a part of us, psychologically that apparently thinks we can go to damascus or cairo or tripoli and as soon as we get there, there will be a chapter, the league of women voters and common cause. we want to sort of inflict our version of democracy on people totally unprepared for democracy. >> i don't necessarily believe they're totally unprepared for democracy. you have the first generation that is connected with the outside world. it has the tools of technology and that includes women. we k

but i had no reason in my deals with president musharraf -- and dealt with him quite a bit -- to question him about his commitment to help us deal with the threat that emerged from pakistan. i think he came to believe that al qaeda types threatened him personally as well as his regime as much as they did the united states. and i think that was true. there were two or three attempts on his life in a matter of weeks by al qaeda or al qaeda affiliated organizations while he was still president. >> question? yes, sir. down in the front. >> mr. vice president, i'm jason stern i'm a graduate student of middle east studies at george washington university. i think no matter who is in the white house this presents a challenge to protect interests and challenge to uphold values. how well has the obama administration responded and how would the bush administration respond differently if they were still in power? >> well, it is difficult to jud judge. answers to a couple of key questions. i do not know who will be in charge when the dust settles and new governments are established. >> i don't know wh

musharraf is sorry, head of operations for al qaeda. how seriously do you think the core al qaeda has been damaged by these military operations? >> the core has been damaged very significantly by this operation. as i say, but probably now faces a greater diversity in terms of threat from the al qaeda affiliate elsewhere. there's no doubt that core has been significantly damaged. the >> using the core is capable of carrying out a major operation? >> i think we must assume the core is capable of testing, planning and so forth and it is wise to plan and prepare on that basis. but i think what has happened of course over the recent years in particular now would be very significant changes is that we not only have a look at that core. it's the standard problem that when you've got one substantial area of threat you can look at and prepare for some kinds of easier to do that than have to deal with the number of diverse threats. we have to accept their diverse threats around the world and increasing areas of parents. obviously we've been talki

that one of the things we ought to do in order to solidify our position there is to talk to pervez musharraf who is in excise living in london. >> i think the only thing he can do is order you up some tea. >> what about admiral mullen yesterday in pakistan? >> yeah, exactly. wow. that's a huge story. >> yeah. >> call them to the carpet basically saying that the isi was in cahoots in blowing up in the embassy. saying they were involved, pakistan is involved. >> it's rough stuff. so do we all agree around the table regarding the debate that willie, do you agree last night was a pretty big night for mitt romney? >> for romney. >> and the more debates he can have standing next to rick perry, the closer he comes to taking it all? >> i think rick perry is not getting better through each debate the way you would expect him to. he didn't look like he -- he jumps in late, maybe he has a rough first debate, figure he reads in on some of the things. i don't think he's getting better, and i think romney is. romney's been more loose than he was last time. he's responding on his feet, funny, a different c