repuican senators, democratic senators, republan house, democratic house. metwith the leaders multiple times. at a certain point, they need to the job. and so this thing which is just not the level where we have meetings and discussions and we are working through the process and when they decide th're not happy at the fact at some point you got to make a choice they all sit back and say well you know the president needs to get this done. they need to do thr job. >> charlie: the president asked republicans to agree to end tax breaks for the wealthy. >> charlie: if everybody else is willing to take on their sacred cows and doive things in order to achieve the goals of relevant deficit reduction, then i think it would be hard for the republicans to stand there and stay that the tax break forecorporate jets is sufficiently important that we're not willing to com to the table and get a deal done. you can't reduce the deficit to the level that needs to be reduced without having some revenue in the mix. the revenue we're talking about isn't coming out of the pocke

but izona republan john mccain warned ainsmaking the military be most ofhat bden. >> defense sndings not what is sinkinthis country into fiscal crisis, and if the core and the psintct on that fwed assumption, they wl create a situati that is truly unaffordable-- the decline of u.s. mitary power. >> brown: lawmakers aeed at panetta's past role as budg direct back in the clinton administration makehim well suited to deal with ugh fiscal decisions. tho cou include new weapons systemlike the jnt strike fighter. panetta agreed day that some progms may simply pre to osy in a time of austerity. >> in t befings that i have had, it's obvus that is a area that wee got to pay a lot of tention to. we've seen ese apons system grow icost it takes an extraordinary amount of time to the time its finally developed and deplod. we have got to improve tha process. brow athe sa tim panetta uld herit a military sained tenears of nearly continus combat across seral theater some of the strain might be lessened by a draw-down of troopsn afghanistan exct begin next moh and be completed by the endf 20. with a

i don'know who my republan opposition is but i know the issue is goi to be the economy what would you tell him, mr. president, i'm so flattered you ask me. here is what i want to say. and if you do this, i think your chances of having a different unemployment picture by november 2012 are very good, what would you tell him? >> i would remove the particular barriers that create uncertainty. >> back to where we -- >> of these people, i want to you tell me who is the smartest who is the most machiavellian and, and who was the wisest. nixon, ford, carter, reagan, bush, clinton, bush, obama. smartest. >> it is a tie between clinton and nixon. >> rose: rlly? >> yes. bo had-- both had and have very high iqs. >> rose: who was the most machiavellian. >> nixon. >> rose: and who was the most-- the wisest. >> gerald r. ford. >> rose: thank you very much for being here. d i thank you, dr. alan greenspan. (applause) >> thank you. >> rose: the summer movie season sun w. there is something in it for everyone. eatres wilbe filled wit superheroes, outrageous come december and intro speckive dramas. sequ

president, there was aurprising-- at least to some people-- sense of these republican candidates for the republan nomination suggesting th they thought the war in afghanistan oughto be round down. thenou had senator john mccain say over the weekend he worried about isolationist tendencies in the republican party. where are you on that? >> well iee no isolationist tendencies and i think that senator mccain i would differ with that republicans who are talking about more reasonable courses in afghanistan are hardly isolationists. to say the lst a sense of international politics now requires an ability to think through what we are going to do in several different locations simultaneously. on a more limited fwhugt this country. so we're going to... those of us who, at least, espouse the thought of international leadership by the united states, figure out how we do all of this with a situation in which we've come to the end of our ability to borrow and we're running a trillion and a half deficit. >> rose: do these arguments suggest to you that we should be very careful about getting invoed in libya or

caller: yes, although i think all democrats and republans are critics. but considering their wreckage that was left for him to have to pick up, i know republicans do not want to go there. but we have wrecked the economy not as a country, but basically the government. tax cuts to the very rich, and i am all for tax cuts, but he had done a great job. he has a cool head and i think he is keeping his powder dry for when the nominee comes out. i do not think we will know until then. my question to you is basally when do they believe -- and i will make a prediction. the republican nominee will be there. guest: it is actually something that will make a big difference in the course of the cpaign, how long it lasts. i think we'reeeing the candidates themselves prepare for the long haul their there is a lot of talk about florida, probably going to be right after the south carolina primary. it is a huge state so you need lots of money. one of mitt romney's primary arguments is that he actually has the money and organization to go the distance, so to speak. to take