pat kennedy and his great m team is really helping. and as promised, we launched a foreign assistance dashboard at www.foreignassistance.gov. that lets anyone in the world with an internet connection to see where we are investing and how much. and i will be discussing this in greater details at the usaid town hall. [ applause ] it's also nice to be able to refer our own inquiries that still people think we spend, you know, 20% of the u.s. gest's budget on development to tell them to go to the foreignassistance.gov and get a little evidence-based reality going here. third, because we recognize that it's more important than ever to address the problems of fragile states, we are strengthening our capacity to prevent and respond to crisis. we rolled out our new conflict and stabilization operations bureau, and in the past year, cso has deployed more than 175 civilian response core members to hot spots in more than 30 countries around the world. they come from nine different agencies and bureaus, including usaid, which has expanded its own

pat kennedy and his great m team is really helping. and as promised, we launched a foreign assistance dashboard at www.foreignassistance dot above. .gov. that lets anyone in the world with an internet connection to see where we are investing and how much. and i will be discussing this in greater details at the usaid town hall. prison. [applause] it's also nice to be able to refer our own inquiries that people think we spend, you know, 20% of the u.s. government's budget on development to tell them to go to the foreign assistance.gov and actually get a little evidence-based reality going here. third -- [laughter] because we recognize that it's more important than ever to address the problems of fragile states, we are strengthening our capacity to prevent and respond to crisis. we rolled out our new conflict and stabilization operations bureau, and in the past year cso has deployed more than 175 civilian response corps members to hot spots in more than 30 countries around the world. they come from nine different agencies and bureaus incl

kennedy caught up with of andersen's former co- workers today. news got the this weekend that their former colleague had been killed. pat took place during the weekend. happened as anderson in a roadipating block to make sure people hadring the national park thepment to deal with winter weather. just a joy to work with there. >> friends and colleagues of anderson are wearing a their badges as of mourning and remembrance. sunday, the 34-year-old was a road block in washington state. the highly skilled ranger worked parke national historical in maryland from 2004 to 2008. -- leftthough she has ago, she for years made a tremendous impact. it is like losing your friend. >> authorities said anderson was by 24-year-old barnes. his car was found containing weapons and body armor. his body was later found in a snowdrift. those who worked with anderson peaceful park say they by her death. >> at the end of the day, everybody comes on to their families. when someone does not, it really and think about -- >> she was the wife and mother of two little girls. had been with the park for 11 years. benjamin barnes was suffering from post

kennedy back in 1994. and president obama's campaign issued several tactics. we have a gop strategist and a former communication director for pats in nato hoot and -- 1992 and 1996 and democratic strategist. john has worked on more than 400 political campaigns for democrats in 46 different states. what do you make of this, i won't beat the heck out of you and keep it personal. >>guest: south carolina is the area for dirty tricks and we see it today, wonderland, where you have romney, rather, they are taking on mitt romney on economic issues but using the message of economic populism of the occupy wall street movement. so, who would think that the republican candidates would co-op the occupy wall street message in a primary and i am confident the right wing of the republican party is not happy. >>shepard: greg, your thoughts? it is surprising to see republicans doing this. >>guest: it is a demonstration in political martial arts. the strategy for newt gingrich and governor perry is tomorrow merge as a conservative challenger to mitt romney coming out of south carolina and into florida and it is hard to do that when you draw ire

ted kennedy in 1980 outshining jimmy carter, never good news. >> also in '92 where pat buchanan was not going to win. he was a huge presence against president h.w. bush. when you look at it on paper. for a long time, both newt gingrich and ron paul also are going to be mathematically viable, which is going to give them a lot of cards to play when it comes to getting speaking spots at the convention and getting other stuff out of romney. >> can i ask you a question about that? it seems to me that newt gingrich is a unique candidate in that he depends on oxygen and sunlight to survive. the oxygen of a campaign or debate, sunlight and exposure off of that campaign. he's going to go dark literally speaking for the next three weeks. >> right. >> he's going to be on the disabled list. how does he survive after that? with no exposure? >> well, i mean -- if i'm newt gingrich, the first thing i do is -- i say today i know i'm going to get beaten pretty badly tomorrow. i'm going to write my speech for tomorrow night, and it's not going to be bitter like iowa was and i'm not going to be angry like