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-- >> does it surprise you a case like this, here we have suspect who's an afric coming -- >> yeah, rht. >> -- and so it looks though al-qaeda is branchinout away from loc concerns. >> well, think this is the most troubling aspect ofhe nigerian attempt, they've be an al-qaeda presence in yemen for at least5 years, but it's always been the warehousing of fairly low-level -qaeda operatives. if these stories a true, the stories thate went to yemen, that he got the techlogy ere, and then was sent to th stat, this would be the first ti that there's been a nonal-qaa central attack on the u.s. and that is a qualitive ange, even if it was successful. >>nd professor gerg, do you see thisce bumpup of al-qaeda in the araan peninsula? anwhat should be done? >> i don't think we ve really eviden. i an the weight of evidence, the jury is still ou the big point to highlight - and here i wanto say a few words about the internal i mean, the uths is that al-qaeda is a byoduct of the epening social and economic crisis in yemeitself. i meanlet's take what the south habeen trying to do in thlast one year or

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, use some people to be unhay, but we know we have to sh forward on those decision because they are rht for schooland kids. >> reporter: rhee remains confident that, in the lonrun, results will prove her right >> warner: that ory was filed just a few weeks ago. rlier this week, gwen ifill spoke with jn to get an upon wherthings stand now. she began by asking him ether there is still standoff betwn chancellor rhee and the unions over ntract negotiations and herecision to lay off teachers >> reporter: thas where we are no the union appealed that cision and the judge lookedver the factof the case and threw out the appeal, sohe won there, but there is not any mement on the contract. that's been gog on -- those negoations have been off and on for the entire time basicall and they're basically off righnow. >> ifill: both of us havbeen watching reports with inrest, wanto know the bottom-line aner to the question abo what improvement -- how u measure improvent. do wknow if what a school chcellor like michelle rhee is doin-- do we know if it's working? >> reporter: there ione piece ofolid eviden

as it stands rht now, this eslation is beginning. congress reallhas no role. we're ju sitting here tching this. we'll be asked to fu this war kind of in ae facto way come march or apri i don't think that's theight way to do th. >>ehrer: congressman pence, would you agree to that ki of debate? do you think that's a go thing? >> i thinkt would be a very good thing. i think the end of the day you would see congress, mae not jim and a few of his collgues but i think you would see a jority in congress support this effort to respond to geral mcchryst's request for reforcements. i do think as we werable to do in the last congre, i think you uld see a majority vote to oppose the impositn of any artificiatime lines. you know, jim mcgorn knows and jim you should kw, i'm somebody that ally believes in deliberation the ople's house. we would certainly welcome that. but there can be no staking here that an american success in afghastan is the impetive that must be the objective of this nation a in my judgme the president has madehe right decision in deciding to ploy reinfo