they want a tony blair. they want -- as you mentioned before, they want someone who can beat a president they think can be easily beaten. and i think they feel it slipping away with romney. >> do you think that this is a year in which retail campaigning has finally slipped away in terms of its importance? i mean, part of the reason that rick perry was expected to do well is that he's good with people in person. it doesn't always translate on camera, and it definitely doesn't translate to the debates. but i know i've never seen him in person, i know from good reporters who have seen him in person he really is impressive in person eye toto eye. jon huntsman's strategy in new hampshire has been to meet voters eye to eye, to shake everybody's hands, to kiss the babies. is this a year that stopped being important and it just became a tv show? >> i think that's exactly right, and i think it's been happening for several years.{ think of, for instance, in the other party chris dodd going and sitting in iowa in the l

united states tony blair alone to george w. bush for his first term in office until two thousand and four loaned him a bust of of winston churchill that had sat in the british embassy here in washington d.c. in two thousand and four when bush was reelected tony blair said well you can keep it until the end of your term your second term and so it's very clear that you know the first week of january when george w. bush left office the bust was going to leave with the fact the british embassy announced to the press quote it was lunch for the first term of office of president bush when the president was elected for a second and final term alone was extended till january two thousand and nine so when the british took back their bust obama replaced it with a bust of abraham lincoln you know one of his heroes but glenn beck and a bunch are right wing radio guys went nuts on this they said that obama had first of all sent back the churchill bust as as i just point out not the case is not the case at all this is the bus was gone before

against president bashir in sudan they used the key word humanitarian concern and this doctrine of tony blair the responsibility to protect and says ok now we will move in we will decide with our military capability of nato backed up by the u.s. now with the british pulling the strings behind the scenes we were moving in and this i would is good for a country and this is completely opposite of what the real interest of the united states are and the russians and the chinese are seen as being played out again and they are beginning to respond especially the russians are responding militarily by sending. because nasser of aircraft carriers into the syrian border is is a risky game but the russians are aware of the danger if they don't do it what could happen certainly major implications there you're talking about is very interesting to hear your thoughts lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine live there in baltimore in the usa thank you for your thoughts. the person essential in charge of europe's purse strings says there is no easy fix to the euro zone's debt crisis and fi

july's as a result of tony blair's association with george bush is that you got even if you're in a position because the labor party is much further left or not democratic used to be called the socialist yeah exactly and tony blair getting so might this be the beginning of the of the renewal the revival of labor and if so is there a leader to bring that back is there a charismatic socialist out there well miller found this quite good he's quite quite charismatic does very well from self in the house of commons particular during prime minister question time really went off to cameron yesterday after that damp squib comment which way he's corrected today of missing when pressed by john list but it was a big strike as a basic that if it's nicer guy drives with exactly went off if he can get his that act together miliband if labor can really coalesce around him they are a bit like democrats in that they've got not very good at coalescing around a leader and all following the same mantra if they can do that people that take tough enough it could make a real big difference in the next election wou

press and talked about his relationship while serving under tony blair. the inquirey was established by david cameron followed by questions of cell phone hacking working for rupert murdoch. this is a little over two hours. >> please sit down and make yourself comfortable. >> your full name. >> alice stair john campbell. >> now, you're hear today to provide testimony. since then, four things have happened. first of all, i believe you've signed the statement is that right? and therefore it is evidence. you've made three minor changes on the version that was provided. may i just identify for their benefit. >> yep. >> i'm working from the pagination of the right and giving the last five numbers. page 21094. right in the middle of the page after the news of the world in italics a name has been redacted. >> yep. >> that's in line with mr. hears' evidence. final paragraph. >> a manuscript from the version which is going to be on the screen. in substitution for on the fowcation. >> yep. >> and then page 211019, mr. campbell, the last two lines. sorry. the final s

we believe tony blair. >> i've got a couple things that would sound really great to say way british accent. would you be willing to say them. >> i'll help you out. >> stephen: just try one of these. just look into the camera there, and with your most steelly gaze would you say one or two of those, please, really, really sell it. british, forceful, all right, all right, all right. >> into this one here. >> stephen: yeah, sure, right there. >> i hand wash my sweater vests. >> stephen: i believe that, i believe that. daniel craig, it is a delight to lose to you. daniel craig, the girl with the dragon tattoo. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: we'll be right

we believe tony blair. >> i've got a couple things that would sound really great to say way british accent. would you be willing to say them. >> i'll help you out. >> stephen: just try one of these. just look into the camera there, and with your most steelly gaze would you say one or two of those, please, really, really sell it. british, forceful, all right, all right, all right. >> into this one here. >> stephen: yeah, sure, right there. >> i hand wash my sweater vests. >> stephen: i believe that, i believe that. daniel craig, it is a delight to lose to you. daniel craig, the girl with the dragon tattoo. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: we'll be right [crowd noises] [♪music plays] ♪ ♪ mom? dad? guys? [ engine turns over ] [ engine revs ] ♪ he'll be fine. [ male announcer ] more people are leaving bmw, mercedes, and lexus for audi than ever before. take advantage of exceptional values during the season of audi event. >> stephen: oh, hi, i didn't see threw. i have been huffing egg nothing. nation this is the last show, of 2011. a year that has been tough on everybody. according to

. >> in debate with tony blair, he told him that believers were slaves to celestial dictatorship. >> christopher was a unique character, he was often a contrarian. he was an incredible inspirational writer and thinker. >> christopher hitchens reveled in many fights. he called bill clinton a self- serving flood. he said that mother teresa was part of a cult based on the nomination and blood. >> i knew him in the 60's and 70's. i knew him better before. the new christopher that emerged after 9/11 as an apologist for the united states and its imperial wars, i have very little sympathy. >> christopher hichens embrace of america and his support for george bush ended some french ships. when he was diagnosed, he was thinking about dying and death. >> do you fear death? >> no, i'm not afraid of being dead. alive in anyt i'm way at all, it would be a pleasant surprise. i quite like surprises. christopher hitchens died yesterday at the age of 62. a controversial but unique talent that will be missed. that brings the show to a close. you can find more information on our website. to see what we'

organization or a profession or people on strike today or anybody that had anything to do with tony blair, once they decide they are one of his targets, you will never read anything about negativity in that newspaper. to my mind, the code says you must distinguish between facts, comments, and conjectures. they only take the facts in the agenda and infuse them with comments and drive their agenda through every single headline, and it is the whole thing. >> aren't you talking about balance rather than distinguishing between fact and conjectured? aren't you saying that they are making a strategic decision about what stories they want to put in the paper and that is what it is all about? >> i would except that is a legitimate thing to do, but newspapers have been strong positions and using their position to promote them i do not have a problem at all, but when they are taking a fact and using that to promote an agenda when it turns out the fact is inaccurate, which is routinely the case and a lot of these newspapers. i talked about the issue of europe. i am not a europhile. i am somewhat of a

in 2007 tony blair went to libya and met with moammar gadhafi. that meeting restored gadhafi's international standing. but when gadhafi's people turned on gadhafi, britain followed suit and kissed him off. turn coat of the year. >> the americans did the same thing. >> okay. most boring, pat? >> collective award, the super committee, john. good-bye, good luck. >> not only that, but they were ineffectual. >> why did that happen? >> who was on it now, john? >> i could probably name who was on it and tell you what went wrong. i agree that most americans don't share that obsession. my most boring is rick santorum, who does nothing but complain that he is not getting enough air time in the republican debates. >> did you see the automatic mechanism that took over in the absence of a super committee vote? you saw that? >> the absence of a super committee vote? that was a sequester. john, we don't want to get into a sequester. >> it's a holiday show, john. no sequesters. the most boring politician -- >> is the legislation devised that way? >> the whole th

tony blair try to persuade him to back the un all -- the un resolution authorizing a war in iraq. he said he would be a that no matter what. >> it does not represent a threat which represents immediate war. once the americans were furious, but in his heart, he believed in france as a vital continent's to american power. jacques chirac charmed his way through french politics. even his critics like him. they cannot help themselves. >> he was the man the french left used to love to hate. he was a very enduring figure. everybody liked him. everyone who approached him loved him. >> the charge of corruption has followed him for years. the french have always known it but he remains a hero whose charm they could not resist. >> 40 years ago today, pakistan suffered a humiliating defeat out of what had been east pakistan. the new country of bangladesh was created. many believed it had little chance of surviving. despite national disasters and military dictatorships, bangladesh has indeed survive. it is experiencing strong economic growth. we report from the capital. >> a young mother of two

lawyer to land a book deal, the same lawyer that handled book deals for the last three presidents, tony blair and sarah palin. >>> the chargers suddenly awake. the bruins keep winning. the finalist for college football's biggest trophy. professional hockey is a tough sport but this is ridiculous. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> we have all the cold air in the middle of the country, wet weather in the east. the two are going to meet up for possibly some snow. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." you disgust me. 3q prove it. enough's enough. d-con baits are specially formulated to kill in one feeding, guaranteed. d-con. get out. >>> good morning. if you're just waking up this is "early today." in sports, the san diego chargers who had lost six games in a row headed into last night's match-up with the jaguars, suddenly looking like world beaters. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. it has been a long time since the chargers won a game. early october, to be exact. last night they ended their

lawyer to land a book deal, the same lawyer that handled book deals for the last three presidents, tony blair and sarah palin. >>> the chargers suddenly awake. the bruins keep winning. the finalist for college football's biggest trophy. professional hockey is a tough sport but this is ridiculous. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> we have all the cold air in the middle of the country, wet weather in the east. the two are going to meet up for possibly some snow. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." [ female announcer ] at verizonfios.com, you can choose your channel package. ♪ you can choose your own internet speeds. ♪ you can even choose to chat with a live person. ♪ now you can choose to save $35 a month for fios tv, internet and phone for just $79.99 a month, plus get a $300 verizon visa prepaid card with a 2 year agreement. but hurry, offer ends soon only at verizonfios.com. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. >>> good morning. if you're just waking up this is "early today." in sports, the san dieg

. >> in debate with tony blair, christopher hitchens told him that believers were slaves to a celestial dictatorship. a kind of divine north korea. >> he was a unique character. he was a contrarian, often. and yet, he was an incredible inspirational writer and thinker. >> christopher hitchens reveled in battles and chose many targets. he called bill clinton a cynical, self seeking thug. he accused mother teresa of withholding proper medical care in favor of a cold based on subjection. he called 9/11 the work of islamic fascists them. -- fascism. >> i knew him better in the 90's. we worked together on a lot of documentary. the new christopher that emerged after 9/11, as an apologist for the u.s. and its policies, i had very little sympathy. >> christopher hitchens' embrace of america and support for george bush ended some friendships but won him new admirers. as cancer too cold, he started thinking about dying, death, and the certainty it would be final. >> do you fear death? >> no, i'm not afraid of being dead. if i find that i am alive in any way at all, that would be rather surprising

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tony blair tried to get him to back a u.n. resolution authorizing war against iraq. he declared he would veto that resolution no matter what. >> iraq does not represent today a present threat which justifies an immediate war. the americans were furious, but in his heart, chirac believed that france was a counterbalance to american power and chirac charmed his way to the top of french politics. even his critics liked him. they couldn't help themselves. >> chirac was the man that the french left used to love to hate but he was also a very endearing figure. everybody loved him. everybody who approached him loved him because he was genuine. >> the charge of corruption has followed him for years. the french have always known it, but he remains, even now, the rogue whose charm they couldn't resist. bbc news. >> and staying in france, a court there has convicted the venezuela-born terrorist known as karloff the jackal for organizing four deadly car bombings. 11 people died and 140 others were injured in those attacks. you're watching bbc world news america. still to come on

morgan goldman sachs citibank wall street bank of england the rep tilly george bush and tony blair my local police force scumbags david cameron before i run out of space max just finished the mission you were assigned to. baby the maxim nater there should be a film on my film but there does seem one organization in the employ of the max and mater and that's fitch fitch goes on major bank downgrade rampage fits just cut the viability ratings of eight major banks that downgraded bank of america barclays b.m.p. perry goldman sachs credit suisse deutsche bank society general and it affirmed the viability rating of u.b.s. failed to take down j.p. morgan. well they're kind of like the french based outfit and i think this is in response to some p. and moody's which are more u.s. based so now the rating agencies have got involved in the ratings war and oh. the currency war but what's remarkable to me is that two years ago or three years ago when it would have been valuable to downgrade those banks at that time when their balance sheets were exploding in the shadow banking system and off balan

what's happening is the labor government which left it pretty much in distress disrepute after tony blair and gordon brown is getting a shot in the arm and the public is starting to be very unhappy with the coalition government there i think i think a lot of the opposition labor came out of blair's going along with bush on iraq and that that tarnished his never went away but back to the united states since obama took office and labor has taken a right future we'll see in the u.k. but since obama took office here in the united states austerity in this country has killed over a half million public sector jobs so why is austerity still on the table when all the economic indicators show it doesn't work and no country in the history of the world has ever successfully cut its way to prosperity. yeah so i wrote a big article about this for the nation called how the austerity class rules washington and i think there's a few different factors here i mean one is the debate is so dominated by advocates of austerity and both parties you have all this can these configuration of think tanks and policy