and ambassador oakley was in california when we were doing the planning to go in.with us. general bob johnston was in fact the joint force commander but he and ambassador oakley worked very closely together on every issue, and that in my opinion is the way it has to be. you cannot -- especially today -- you cannot put a dividing line and say this is yours and this is yours, it is ours. >> in this post-9/11 security environment requires a dramatically different approach than was the ease of the cold war days. who would have thought we were pining for the good old days of the cold war, but the reality is the clab brat tiff nature of the natures, it is about disease, it is about lots of different things beyond just a simple military operation. each of them has a multi-facetted challenge to it and the multi-facets in this post-9/11 world call for contributions from experts that are other than military. >> does it mean that as we draft our operational plans, and obviously the military -- coast guard did a vast array of plans that are on the shelf, do we much earlier on

and no one knows this story better than our robin oakley, who is going to join us right now.u just start off helping our viewers understand why is it that now things are so tight in that election? >> reporter: because the british public has been yearning for change after a corrupt parliament which was dominated by mps' expenses scandals. they were look for change. they weren't quite convinced, many of them, that david cameron, the leader of the main opposition conservative party, was quite what they were looking for, and suddenly we have the first round of tv leadership debates in the british election ever between gordon brown, the prime minister, david cameron, and nick clegg, the leader of the liberal democrats and he was undoubtedly the star of the first two debates. normally he gets howled down in the house of commons because there aren't so liberal democrat mps. he came through in the first two debates and people began to say, oh, maybe this is the change we want. and it's become as you were explaining a three-horse race. >> and, robin, you know, in the united states we

i kind of feel a connection to that tough gun-toting pioneer feminism of women like annie oakley and them. [ applause ] maybe it's that i'm bringing in alaska, maybe too it's because later today i do a speech for the nra and again in the group, yeah. i'm proud to call myself a western conservative in the tradition of ronald reagan. ronald reagan -- [ applause ] -- understanding those western values too. those small town values and as an alaskan woman i'm proud to consered myself a frontier fp nis like the early women of the west. now, maybe my jumping on a national stage was a bit of a shock to some people. some people may not have considered what an independent pioneering spirit -- how i was brought up with, what that could look like. maybe there was a lot of shock out there jumping on that national stage, but i know that some left wg feminists, they sure didn't know what to make of an alaskan chick out there talking about the second amendment and talking abo raising family and kids, the more the merrier and, you know, well, some of them even refused to admit i was even a woman, gee

i kind of feel a connection to that tough gun-toting pioneer feminism of women like annie oakley and them. [ applause ] maybe it's that i'm bringing in alaskamaybe too it's because later on today i do a speech for the nra and again in the group, yeah. i'm proud to call myself a western conservative in the tradition of ronald reagan. ronald reagan -- [ applause ] -- understanding those western values too. those small town values and as an alaskan woman i'm proud to considered myself a frontier fp nis like the early women of the west. now, maybe my jumping on a national stage was a bit of a shock to some people. some people may not have considered what an independent pioneering spirit -- how i was brought up with, what that could look like. maybe there was a lot of shock out there jumping on that national stage, but i know that some left wing feminists, they sure didn't know what to make of an alaskan chick out there talking about the second amendment and talking about raising family and kids, the more the merrier and, you know, well, some of them even refused to admit i was even a wom

i kind of feel a connection to that tough gun-toting pioneer feminism of women like annie oakley andm. [ applause ] maybe it's that i'm bringing in alaska, maybe too it's because later on today i do a speech for the nra and again in the group, yeah. i'm proud to call melf a western conservative in the tradition of ronald reagan. ronald reagan -- [ applause ] -- understanding those western values too. those small town values and as an alaskan woman i'm proud to considered myself a frontier fp nis like the early women of the west. now, maybe my jumping on a national stage was a bit of a shock to some people. some people may notav an indepe pioneering spirit -- how i was brought up with, what that could look like. maybe there was a lot of shock out there jumping on that national stage, but i know that some left wing feminists, they sure didn't know what to make of an alaskan chick out there talking about theecond amendment and talking about raising family a kids, the more the merrier and, you know, well, some of them even refused to admit i was even a woman, geez. that's one of the reas