brief observation, paul friedman?able news obviously playing much more prominent role in 2012. >> yeah. the audience is fragmented. that's one of the reasons the evening news casts are trying to develop different identities. i just hope in the process of developing those different identities they don't lose their credibility. which is the single most important thing they have. >> but of course the news not new to most people at 6:30. paul friedman, andrew tindall, thanks very much. still to come, a flood of bogus bylines. another inethical intern and a surprising name surfaces on allen sorkin's cable news drama. one is for a clean, wedomestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely and responsibly producing natural gas. it's not a dream. america's natural gas... putting us in control of our ener

tom friedman, paul wolfowitz, richard haass and marie slaughter on syria, iran, mitt romney and president obama. later in the show, two of the world's leading economists, paul krugman and ken rogoff go head to head on the most important economic matters of our time, the economy, the fiscal cliff, the euro and much more. >>> also, why in the world does the united states find itself number o on a top-ten list with yemen, iraq and serbia? i'll explain. >>> but first, here's my take. mitt romney has picked a bad time to launch an attack on barack obama's foreign policy. as he was speaking to the annual gathering of the veterans of foreign wars this week, charging obama with weakness, betrayal and mendacity, nbc news and "the wall street journal" released a new poll. it turns out on handling foreign policy, americans prefer obama to romney by a whopping 15 points. romney's principal charge against obama is that he has angered america's allies and emboldened its enemies. >> shabby treatment of one of our finest friends. >> well, it turns out again that there's some recently released data that c

tom friedman, paul wolfowitz, richard haass and marie slaughter on syria, iran, mitt romney and president. later in the show, two of the world's leading economists, paul krugman and ken rogoff go head to head on the most important economic matters of our time, the economy, the fiscal cliff, the euro and much more. >>> also, why in the world does the united states find itself number one on a top-ten list with yemen, iraq and serbia? i'll explain. >>> but first, here's my take. mitt romney has picked a bad time to launch an attack on barack obama's foreign policy. as he was speaking to the annual gathering of the veterans of foreign wars this week, charging obama with weakness, betrayal and mendacity, nbc news and "the wall street journal" released a new poll. it turns out on handling foreign policy, americans prefer obama to romney by a whopping 15 points. romney's principal charge against obama is that he has angered america's allies and emboldened its enemies. >> shabby treatment of one of our finest friends. >> well, it turns out again that there's some recently released data that contr

. >> rose: since you cite in this letter tom friedman, paul krugman, are you essentially saying that pretty much what krugman argues is what you believe in terms of economic policy? >> we certainly, i can't speak for -- you know --ment. >> we differ about -- we agree on what his analysis zero is of what happen and we agree on what we have to do to get us out of the depression. and the voters saying the issue is not getting out of this recession. it is the three decades of income decline, stagnation. >> right. >> and job loss and rising debt, you know, and actually corruption -- >> rose: decades of what now? >> three decades of stagnant incomes, job loss, you know, out of america, and rising, both public and private debt, all of that problem precedes the crash, and getting us out of this depression is not enough. we say you have got to go -- >> rose: for democrats and republicans can contribute to the circumstances of the crash? >> oh, come on. >> leading up to the crash -- >> with the exception -- >> let me be careful here with the exception of the 90s, you have one democratic presid

. >>> and we are back with paul wolfowitz, richard haass, anne-marie slaughter and tom friedman.om, let's talk about iran for a second outside of the syrian context. what do you think is going to happen? obama was able to diffuse the issue of a possible war with iran by saying, i really take this threat seriously. i'm going to press and press them as hard as possible, containment is not an option. we will not live with an iranian nuclear program that could become a weapons program. and so at this point, either the iranians have to surrender completely, i think, or president obama faces a problem. in other words, he's kicked the can down the road, but it's going to come back soon. >> i think the iranians are very good at reading power on the global power scene. i think they've taken the measure of the world right now. and they don't think that anyone's going to force them to give up their nuclear program. i think they realize that israel would be very, very wary of undertaking a military action before the american election or at a time that it could tip the global economy into a d

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