joining us now, reihan salam. why do you think pawlenty didn't do better? >> i think romney is occupying this establishment moderate side, then you have a bunch of people, including michele bachmann and rick perry competing for a more tea party, anti-establishment populous side. tim pawlenty wanted to be a gentle tick to the right of mitt romney but not so far off he'd scare off establishment republicans, that was an awkward spot to be in and didn't take. >> you wrote a book and it's called "sam's club conservatives." >> brand new party. >> so in the beginning you wrote an essay about this quote from tim pawlenty about being not the party of the country club but also sam's club and you identified a kind of vision of the republican party that's very different than the tea party vision that's been articulated. do you see this as -- what judgment does this render on that thesis? >> i think there are a lot of different ways to interpret it. we were saying a lot of the republican party is non-college educated, working class, buffeted by economic change, so the q

take the pain out of arthritis. >>> we are back with arianna huffington, nicholas wapshott, reihan salam and joe klein. i want to ask you, you wrote a book about keynes and hayek. you think the tea party has taken the lead. it strikes me as fascinating. this is a time for keynesianism if there ever was one. you are in a liquidity trap, a period of deflation, call it what you will. you're in a situation where it does seem as though there isn't much demand in the economy. for whatever reason, mostly because i think everyone has lots of debt. that's when government steps in, but you're saying that that's the moment in which keynes has been discredited? >> absolutely. the tea party, they may not know, i suppose they haven't read any frederick hiatt. but he wrote about it at great length. he was talking mostly about politics. his economics weren't as reliable. but what politically he said is there should be small government. there's no doubt the tea party has put small government or smaller government on the table and that's now the thing that dominates politically. >> arianna, how do you exp

president bush was asking berlusconi our first minister to stop the prime and in afghanistan when the time salam gone first published of some allegation all of the ten out of these all the members of the government of the defense minister. in the blue mosque only person won't deny that they said that the was not by meant why we can exclude the boers now give us the evidence that the young government was paying some tribes on the taliban's in afghanistan ok so let's talk a bit more about what happened in two thousand and nine when these allegations first came out the response from the italian government are truly there was no response you have to feel that everything about afghanistan you need telly is a very particular question because of the we never say that italian troops are in afghanistan for war we always said to the parliament that the. the peace mission and so everything about afghanistan is covered by a deep secret state secret the military secret and most of all this information all the evidence about what italian troops do every day in afghanistan fighting. or what all the troops do i

one martyr salam, and the victim hameed and others. i represent civil cases from the eight martyrs. we bring the civil case for reparation, 40,000 pounds to each one of the eight martyrs. someone give me the motion. lawyer representing the civil case, and i request from the court to exert its powers to include in the accusation, number four that is pressed against accused number one, president mubarak in view of the transfer ruling and based on the investigation that would also as a witness. i represent the martyrs and injured in the revolution. we request from the court to include our demands first to annul the ruling of the first tribunal that transferred the case to here for infringing the article 102 which says that when the first case has to stop. please, your honor, you need to send something else, something else. what else? what else? we ask requests from the court to include the final report of the fact finding mission that the prime ministery formed and included in the file of this case. sir, the motion in regarding the destruction of evidence of voice recording that has th

call the number on >>> this just into cnn, reuters is saying ab dal salam jalud has defected to rebel-heldins. and this story out of pittsburgh, you're looking at aerial pictures of a flash flood which has killed at least three people tonight according to our cnn affiliate, wtae. we will keep track of both of these breaking stories tonight. >>> the texas governor rick perry visited a florence, south carolina, hospital and he promised to make big changes in the new obama administration health care reform law. >> on day one, when i walk into the oval office, there will be an executive order on that desk that eliminates as much of obama care as i can have done. >> also in south carolina today, michele bachmann, the minnesota congresswoman in a radio interview, bachmann says people recognize the united states in what she called, quote, an unstoppable decline. listen carefully to the list of countries she says are doing better. >> the rise of china, the rise of india, the rise of the soviet union, and our loss militarily going forward. >> the soviet union, most of you probably remember, ceased

of construction on a new $34 million west bank housing development is celebrated by prime minister salam of palestinian readiness for an independent state. >> that state is on the ground. the reality is on the ground. what we need now is actually to ensure that that state is sovereign. >> reporter: it is to that end that the palestinian authority is seeking international recognition of an independent palestinian state in lou of resuming more talks with israel. for palestinians it is a strategy been of frustration and one fraught with risk. the frustration, what is seen as israel's refusal to halt unilateral action such as continued settlement construction in the occupied west bank. among the many risks, falsely raising the hopes of palestinians and alienating deep-pocketed donors like the u.s. and some european union countries who want to see an immediate return to negotiations. seeking un recognition does not inspire confidence for some palestinians who have lost faith in the process of peace. >> they're trying to get membership or recognition in order to enhance their hand at negotiate

there's the ntc headed by salam and mahmoud jabril. it's really chaotic at this point. we really need to wait and see how all of this turns out. >> tony, some folks are raising concerns already about the different weapon stockpiles that gadhafi and his forces have had, including portable anti-aircraft missiles that if they got into the wrong hands, could obviously be a disaster for the u.s. or other -- other of our allies. what's the right way to think about that? >> well, we have to look at it again by experience. iraq, something similar happened when they disbanded the iraqi army. that's where a lot of weapons went, to the insurgency. same thing here. we've got to look at that realistically. plus one of the things i heard secretary of state hillary clinton say over the past day is that we may well be sending people in. that is both on the ground, both state department and military to help pull the weapons away from folks. boy, i don't know of any easy way to do that. once you give something to someone and they have power, the question becomes why would they relinquish

i have a guest with me today, his name is salam ali, you're from tripoli, are you not?> yes, i'm from tripoli. >> can you tell me what that building is they're blowing apart? what does that say? >> they are the government departments. now, i don't know what's happening there. but -- >> is that a government building? >> yes, this is government department. the government is gone now. >> okay. so what he's saying is that there's a government building there, and they're blowing it apart. it may be just -- he says there's nobody over there, no snipers, they're blowing it apart out of frustration and to get rid of that sign, basically, that green sign there. and so the situation here obviously one where people are trying to show the regime, again. especially after hearing from gadhafi on the phone, trying to show the regime who is really in control. and if they can blow apart buildings like that, then certainly, and there's no one there to stop them, certainly the rebels seem to have it in the city. >> explain to us the significance of that, if you would, blowing up -- blowin

salam alaikum. it seems to me that libya is part of all hold citistat area. -- hold middle east area. it does not seem to be much of a population that is a further in the 20th century. we try to have some diplomacy related to where we might be, and at the same time, there are so many factions, so many tribes still fighting for whatever dominance or regional security or strikes -- or strength guest what we reall want is to bring these people together. we want to have some uniformity. guest: the united states is enormously important strategic interest in the region. -- as it enormously important strategic interests in the region. the vast majority of arabs in these countries is under the age of 25. many of these young people have access to technology information they never had before, everything from social media to realizing that globalization has passed to the arab world by. i have always said that arab states should be looking to compete with each other, but they want to become the next south korea

the compassion yet removed hero because he's alone, salam terrie. by the time he's 15 he's found perhaps the perfect job for him and he calls it the best job he ever had. it was a lifeguard in the park north of dixon illinois with a father moved by that time. for devotee and lifeguard clauses of the local ymca and distinguished himself as a phenomenally talented swimmer and studied artificial respiration so he knew he would be a lifeguard and he went on to the park to talk to the park and the concession stand and the data driven down and the he completed his sophomore year in high school and lots of people come, hundreds of people in the summer would be there and look at him and say i don't know. he may have taken classes at the y. but he's going to have to die even there and saved people and he said give aa a chance. he can do it and he did. 70 years, 77 people pulled out of the river. as i did the math correctly that would come to 11 which would work out to about one person say one life saved for ten days or so on that river. imagine being a 15-ye

the compassion yet removed hero because he's alone, salam terrie. by the time he's 15 he's found perhaps the perfect job for him and he calls it the best job he ever had. it was a lifeguard in the park north of dixon illinois with a father moved by that time. for devotee and lifeguard clauses of the local ymca and distinguished himself as a phenomenally talented swimmer and studied artificial respiration so he knew he would be a lifeguard and he went on to the park to talk to the park and the concession stand and the data driven down and the he completed his sophomore year in high school and lots of people come, hundreds of people in the summer would be there and look at him and say i don't know. he may have taken classes at the y. but he's going to have to die even there and saved people and he said give aa a chance. he can do it and he did. 70 years, 77 people pulled out of the river. as i did the math correctly that would come to 11 which would work out to about one person say one life saved for ten days or so on that river. imagine being a 15-ye