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with tom friedman and david brooks from the "new york times." contributor editor for "time" magazine, jon meacham, former democratic congressman harold ford and msnbc's mika brzezinski. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. the final 48 hours before the key wisconsin primary. >> this was an uphill battle foç me if you look back three or four weeks ago. now we're looking like we're going to win this thing. the next three days, shake this place up. >> well, tuesday could be rick santorum's last chance to shake up the race and he joins us now from wisconsin. senator santorum, good morning and welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you, savannah, good to be with you. >> you have spent the week shuffleboarding your way through wisconsin yet our poll has romney ahead by seven points. you call yourself the candidate of the rust belt of the midwest. can you afford to lose another midwestern state and still make that argument that you are the candidate who can win these battlegrounds in this election? >> you look at the vote

because the world in which we live today is -- tom friedman talks about a flat world with technology, criminals, terrorists, cyber terrorists, cut across borders at will in seconds. and it is absolutely essential that the intelligence community, when it be domestic, but most particularly foreign, has the flexibility and capability of obtaining communications by these individuals as quickly as possible in order to prevent attacks. whether those attacks in the future be a terrorist attack on the infrastructure, on the financial structure, or attacks by al qaeda and like in cyberspace. it's absolutely essential that we have those tools. >> would you intelligence surveillance act is critical tool of counter terrorism in the country? >> yes. and also it will be a critical tool as well in the cyber arena. >> yes. thank you very much. thank you, madame chairman. >> senator, feinstein, i hope you can join us shortly as well. senator mckowski. >> thank you, chairman nice to have you here. this this morning in the case against senator ted stevens was released. it was, i guess, precipitated, tha

tom friedman, is in my mind, the main offender here. he maybe is the most inconspicuous. which is to invoke technology as an explanation for inevitable change, to which we have to adjust, whether we want to or not. this goes along with the celebration of freedom and choice that santorum and others are always referring to as well. so we have to love to do, we have to want to do what we're going to have to do anyway, which is embrace this future. self-described conservatives like jeb bush, for example, and others are in the vanguard of, you know, promoting online education in ways that will, in my view, my dinosaur-like view, undermine what is after all at the heart of the educational relationship. which is the face-to-face connection between teachers and students. it seems to me that people who call themselves conservatives, in fact, are quite willing. gingrich is another good example of this. he likes to present himself on being on the cutting edge of technological change and everything that he is proposing is, of course, dictated by the inevitability of a certain kind of

this time around, i'm up against tom friedman of the new york times and nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. according to a poll on jeopardy's facebook page, 53% of people think i'm going to win this thing. i appreciate the vote of confidence, but clearly those who voted for me must have seen the first time i was on "jeopardy." i remember it well. >> anderson? >> what is germany? >> correct. >> who is archie bunker? >> he's the one. >> that's it. >> yes, indeed. >> you're the leader and the winner today. >> yeah. i'll pretty much say it. i pretty much cleaned the floor. with maria bartiromo and kweisi mfume. oh how i revelled in being a jeopardy champion. that is, until the second time i was on jeopardy when i got chonged by cheech marin. >> cheech? >> what is camelot? >> yes. >> what is a baster? >> yes. >> cheech, what's this? yeah. good job, cheech. yeah. i got annihilated by cheech marin. so what? good times. i've been gathering tips for my third appearance. by the way, on cheech marin, i thought his synopsis would have been slow by now. i mean, i've watched those movies

. >> do you know tom friedman. >> yes. >> he's covered the middle east for a long time. and he wrote a recent column about you, mr. president, that called you, quote, a dead man walking. that was the headline in the "new york times." a dead man walking, discredited and isolated, few american israeli or arab leaders believe anymore that he will ever lead his people into a most dea peacl with israel. everyone is just waiting for mr. arafat to mas pass away. >> let's forget that -- for my peoples in a dramatic way, very international -- that i am the man who made the peace of the brave. >> back in a oslo. >> back in oslo. >> and finally. >> -- close friend, yes, he said recently at this moment, air fat is the christ -- arafat is the christ of the palestinian people. christ died for his people, correct? you've said fairly recently that you want to be a martyr for the jerusalem people. >> yes. i hope that i will die in jerusalem. i have lived there when i was a boy. so i would like and i hope that i will have the opportunity to die this. >> what are the chances. >> i believe

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this is why tom friedman could write this sentence about the u.s. prospect, project in iraq. former president george w. bush's gut instinct that this region the democracy was always right. like afghanistan iraq is largely the forgotten war and here is what has been forgotten. what friedman suggested future historians were out. that the american invasion led to hundreds of thousands of iraqi deaths. millions of iraqis fled to exile abroad and millions more turned into refugees in their own country but the capital, baghdad was ethnically cleansed and a brutal shi'ite/sunni conflict and the country was littered with killing fields that the devastating insurgency, death and terror to make it one of the more dangerous places on the planet. soaring unemployment rate and black of delivery of most basic services including electricity and potable water created nightmares conditions for impoverished iraqis. the u.s. government for all its nation-building proved remarkably incapable of reconstructing the country or the oil industry even though american private contractors profited enorm

we'll talk with pulitzer prize winning author tom friedman. >> a pundit apologizes under pressure by saying mitt romney's wife, a mother of five, never worked a day in her life. >>> new jersey mayor cory booker rushes into a burning home to save his neighbor. it happened late last night. he's here to talk with us. >>> we begin with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> this has been a tragedy in the state of new hampshire this evening. >> a sleepy new england town is rocked after an armed standoff turned deadly. >>> the city's police chief has been killed. four other officers were injured in that shootout. two are in intensive care. >> wonderful chief. eight days away from retirement. it's not fair. >> north korea's long-range missile test ends in failure. >> moments after launch the missile crashed into the ceyell sea. >> in is the new leader of north korea. i'm concerned that the fate of the world could rest in north korea's chaz bono. >>> hilary rosen apologizing after saying the wife of mitt romney had "never worked a day in her life." >> my career choice was

this is why, for instance, pundit tom friedman could write this sentence about the u.s. prospect -- project in iraq: former president george w. bush's gut instinct that this region craved and needed democracy was always right. like afghanistan before it, iraq is now largely the forgotten war -- here, that is -- and here's a little of what's been forgotten in the process of what friedman suggests he'd prefer to leave to future historians to sort out; that the american invasion led to possibly hundreds of thousands of iraqi deaths, that literally millions of iraqis had to flee into exile abroad and millions more were turned into refugees in their own country, that the capital, baghdad, was ethnically cleanse inside a brutal conflict, that the country was littered with new killing fields, that a devastating insurgency roiled the land and still brings enough death and terror to baghdad to make it one of the more dangerous places on the planet, that a soaring unemployment rate and the lack of delivery of the most basic services -- including reliable electricity and potable wa

. >> i don't know if you saw tom friedman's column. he says this about obama.on the buffett tax, obama is fumbling his best chance to win a mandate for intelligent reform, reform that ought to be the centerpiece of a second term. do you agree? >> friedman is not running this year eater. the president does argue and he knows unlike columnists and thinkers he's not, he's anchor w ed with the electorate. he has get working people that are worried about all these programs spoipts easy to say it but to get the democratic base to turn out for you is another question. >> it's the public polls, chris. what are they 70%? he knows it's going play well but that's part of the cynical view you have the election years. we should be doing things that address our ten year problem. >> here's the way i look at it. i'm working on a new book. the way it worked back with tip o'neill and ronald reagan is very simple. every deal is basically unfair. you usually favor the party that just won the the election. that way the elections matter. you respect each other's offices and you resp