the united states has been growth for us. the united states has been clinics and schools for us. but the united states has not invested in major infrastructure projects for us like dams and electricity that we can produce for all. afghanistan has made its point of view very clear. for example, a project in kandahar for the protection of electricity where the u.s. government spent 215le million on providing generator, we disagreed with p we felt this money could be spent better by building a dam.providing genera disagreed with p we felt this money could be spent better by building a dam. in that region. that will give a lasting sustainable economic environment to the people of the region. so if the investment of the united states is done in concertation with afghanistan and based on afghan priorities, it will produce a lot better result. we are grateful to every penny that the u.s. taxpayer has given to afghanistan. afghanistan will account for that part of the taxpayer's money that the afghan government has spent. where we are in charge, we are accountable and we are grateful imme

from his campaign on, obama has clearly felt that the united states has a lopsided foreign policy with too large a military commitment to certain crisis points on the globe. he has wanted to rebalance american foreign policy to shift the focus away from the problems the focus away from the problems the focus away from the problems the focus away from the problems of the past iraq, afghanistan, and focus on the challenges of the 21st century, the rise of china and asia more generally. this week, he announced a significant drawdown of troop, effectively reversing the surge that began 18 months ago. when he came into office, the united states had almost 200,000

as to dwhy the united states ha been slower in this regard, it is hard to say. to the tobacco lobby. some say they're part of the reason. they've long stated that ads like this are violations of both first and fifth amendments. they say if you look at the ads, you look at what they're sort of designed to do, 50% of the cigarette cartons, the advertising overall now containing these images, that's basically telling consumers don't buy this product. this isn't providing a rational choice about buy or don't buy. it's just saying don't buy. the tobacco lobby for a long time has had that sort of influence. they're encouraging the cdc to get rid of these ads. that's still an ongoing legal fight. >> thanks so much for talking to us about this. i'm sure we'll be back talking about smoking again. >> you got it, joe, thank you. >>> coming up, first lady michelle obama meets with nelson mandela. ome from -- a touch, a glance -- it can come along anywhere, anytime. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis

so that is not an issue. >> smith: for more than five years, the united states has been pressing the pakistanis to launch an offensive in north waziristan. in the meantime, the cia has taken matters into its own hands. remotely piloted drones have fired more than 200 hellfire missiles and bombs at targets in the tribal areas. officially, the cia does not speak about the drone war, but an agent who once ran the campaign agreed to talk to frontline. >> the calculus is really a very simple one: it's trying to kill people before they kill you. it's as simple as that. now, it may have the knock-on and potentially intended effect- - you hope-- of discouraging further militancy. when people see others, you know, going up in a puff of smoke, you know, one hopes that will induce people to go home and sit out the fight. this is very much a "kill or be killed" situation, and that's very much the dynamic that governs this. >> smith: the drone war was initially conceived to kill only the leadership of al qaeda and the taliban, but president obama has dramatically widened the campaign. under his ad

that is one of the things the united states wants to work on over the course of the next several years. the united states has a clearer view that it is important in its consequential, if it involves the political, strategic, military issues confronting the asia pacific region and then the united states wants to see it at the table and be engaged in those conversations going forward but that process will be more challenging and take a longer period of time. most particularly is how northeast asian issues are addressed in the larger context of the asia summit and the asean regional forum. they cannot be bystanders. they have to have an active engagement in this overall process if these vehicles are to be important going forward. let me also say that despite our challenges in burma the united states remains committed to a process of dialogue. we have not changed our policy of sanctions and various policies designed to put pressure on the regime but at the same time as our policy review has underscored we are prepared to work with the new government in a positive way given the appropriate signs if there are any

. >> well, you know, the general is one of the best military commanders that the united states has seen in a long time. but the president is still the commander in chief and his boss. and as a result, he's the one who makes the calls and whether or not it's the right pace or the right thing to do. >> reporter: case in point, the president's decision to raid the compound where he believed osama bin laden to be hiding. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> reporter: president obama also comes off making a risky decision to go after osama bin laden, which proved enormously successful. so, does the president come into this tonight with more national security juice? >> as a result of the success that there's been on the ground, he's in a position where he can pull those troops out and feel confident that the gains that we made are enough to feel like our nation is secure. >> reporter: it's a very different environment from 2009, when the new president, with little national security experience, took months to craft a new strate

. >> the money where it was invested -- the united states has been -- the united states has been -- but states has not invested in major infrastructure for us like dams and electricity that we can produce. we have an argument about that. afghanistan has made its point of view very, very clear. for example, a project in kandahar for the production of electricity where the u.s. government spent $250 million on providing generators, we disagree with. we felt this money could be spent better by building a dam in this region. that will give a lasting sustainable economic environment to the people of the region. >> this week the president of the united states and france both announced troop numbers and timetables for their military withdrawals from afghanistan. that makes a refugee group working there even more worried about the fate of thousands of afghan people too afraid to go home. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr reports. >> reporter: so many afghan children still in terrible poverty. living conditions clearly show the despair. and as the u.s. military prepares to wind down its t

third round of sanctions against syria as a comic and imposing them on companies meanwhile the united states has discussed what action in the region with russia has condemned the violence calling on both sides to engage in talks and says it will not support any u.n. resolution that may result in intervention but anti-war activist brian becker says that sanctions are only the first step towards a wider action. the you if it adopts these new sanctions the third wave of sanctions there incrementally ask a lady in the u.s. and western european intervention into syria i think that we're going down the road as we went in libya where one step leads to another step they're climbing the escalation letter they have a very sort of selective concern for the lives of protesters and democracy movements are movements that call themselves do not receive. you take bahrain they're they're they're condoning the crackdown on peaceful protesters i think what's really happening is that syria syria has been targeted by the united states and also in principally by. france and the u.k. for regime change and i think they

united states is undertaking and its success will have global implications. we cannot fail. we will do this model of the cost it requires the american people to bear. the united states has sacrificed much to reach this critical moment. now is not the time to hesitate or change course. we must maintain our determination to secure our footing. the transition we are implementing is critical that we follow through. the strategy will continue to pursue is the best balance between what is necessary to achieve our interest and what we can honestly call upon the american people to support. because of the tremendous sacrifice that americans have made that we must continue our critical mission there. we find our two countries who used to clashes adversaries now share a common goal, a sovereign and prosperous iraq that is a strong ally of the united states and is committed to security and providing services and addressing the will of the iraqi people. now's the time to work together to achieve that goal. i would like to thank my colleagues. and many of causes and cures throughout the department of state and other agencies involved in this transition. planning and implementing this

but the president of the united states has unfortunately put american energy resources off limits. d to open those up so we can bring down the price of gasoline at the pumps. the president has it exactly wrong when it comes to energy. >> schieffer: quickly though, the original question i asked you is all of these statements that you have made that have later proven to be sort of true or totally false in some cases, what is your answer when people say that to you? do you feel you have misled people? >> no, i haven't misled people at all. i think the question would be asked of president obama. when you told the american people that if we borrow a trillion dollars from other countries and spend it on a stimulus that we won't have unemployment go above 8% and today as we are sitting here it's 9.1% and the economy is tanking, that is what's serious. that's a very serious statement that the president made. did he mislead the american people? not only did he mislead the american people, he's caused our economy to go down to depths that we haven't seen. that's what's serious. >> schieffer:

while the united states could walk away from vietnam, bruised but with its world status unaffected, the same could not be said for afghanistan and pakistan where the united states has long-term interests in oil and gas pipelines, long-term strategies for dealing with russia, iran and india and preventing the renal from once again -- the region from once again becoming base for al-qaeda terrorism. so what does the united states do now that it's faced with an irreconcilable contradiction, where its use of force actually undermines the security it was meant to insure? the significance of this moment in time is not lost on the rers o the world -- on the rest of the world as eded by protesters demanding democracy and representation. u.s. military thinkers are more than aware of the crossover in global consciousness as well as their own growing powerlessness in the face of it. in the cfr's speech on may 14, 2001, president jimmy carter's national security adviser, trilateral commission cofounder and eurasia strategist spoke of the reality occurring worldwide in which for the first time in human history mankind has become politically awakened and is stirring. the people o

that said, the united states has a declared policy. is in favor and will support reformers after an estimated 1100 that spirit we have a policy that is untenable. it is unimaginable at this point that assad will be able to lead the transition in syria. >> do you think the administration needs to say enough in order to put the right amount of pressure? >> looking back at the situation in libya, it was the president of united states who said first that gaddafi had lost his legitimacy. from that, a strong statement from the region, united nations security council resolution and the current intervention. those options do not exist in the context of syria. there is no military solution, and i doubt there will be a security council solution that mirrors 1973, but at a point in time, the president of united states has to stand up and say we identify with the people of syria. we are getting killed. we are standing up and demanding more, and that should be able to catalyze whatever support can be brought to bear against assad. >> let's move on

has openly promoted through their surrogates and spokespeople world government so they're very authoritarian and that's why they've gone to great lengths to have a media blackout especially in the united states and europe and it's only the last few years with the rise of the alternative media that mainstream news our corporate news here in the united states has been forced to even admit it existed just three years ago three hundred years ago the new york times came out and basically said that i was insane when i was in chantilly covering it and that no one was there and it didn't exist so they still sometimes say it doesn't exist but more and more they're having to admit that it does in the bulk of our group has a lot of top media people there and openly has them sign agreements not to ever speak about it and then the has the washington post and others all right. i've been caught up in going and telling their chain of newspapers not to report on it and so that's the big issue that's a problem with the builder birdbrain it really is very close to the chip top of the shadow government capstone and there are of course people who say and a lot of evidence has in fact existed since the one nine h

the things that is a real issue and a sticking point also between countries like china and the united states has been the u.s. policy the federal reserve policy i should really say of quantitative easing they had the second round of bond buybacks which is now scheduled to end at the end of this month ben bernanke you spoke earlier this week made it sound like there wouldn't be another quantitative easing program i want to know what you think is going to happen and also what will be the effects if there isn't more quantitative easing on the financial system globally. or and yes they will stuck to it too because they've said it so many times they have to but then when things start getting worse again you're going to see them come back with q e three they may not call it that but it may discuss it they may call it cupcakes who knows what they'll call it for this coming back so keep your eyes out for cut cakes that was renowned investor jim rogers now this is something that brings together public and private leaders from the united states and all other not all other but other world democracies but i

that's one of the things i think the united states wants to work on over the course the next several years. i will say i think the united states has a very clear view that if it's important inconsequential, if it involves the political, the strategic, the military issues confronting the asia and pacific region than the united states wants a seat to the table and we want to be engaged in those conversations going forward but i think that process is going to be more challenging and taking longer period of time when forward. most particularly is how northeast asia issues are addressed within the larger context of the senate and the regional forum. they cannot be bystanders, they have to have an active engagement in this overall process if these vehicles are to be important going forward. let me also say that despite the challenges in burma the united states remains committed to a process of dialogue. we haven't changed our policy sanctions and various policies designed to put pressure on the regime but at the same time i think it is our policy review has underscored we are prepared to work with the new government in a positive way gi

the things that is real issue and a sticking point also between countries like china and the united states has been the u.s. its policy and the federal reserve policy i should really say of quantitative easing they had the second round of bond buybacks which is now scheduled to end at the end of this month and then bernanke you spoke earlier this week made it sound like there wouldn't be another quantitative easing program and i want to know what you think of that out then and also what will be the effect if there isn't more quantitative easing on the financial system globally lorand yes they will stop q.e. two because they've said it so many times they have to but then when things start getting worse again you're going to see them come back with q e three they may not call it that they may disguise it they may call it cupcakes who knows what they'll call it but it's coming back what is the expense of that on the global financial system and the u.s. economy. we learned we have serious inflation in many parts of the world most of the world already and we're going to have more inflation througho

i made in my opening remarks was that the process is just a first bite at the apple that the united states has. and once we have decided there is no classic national security threat to the united states from a foreign firm, be it tangen steel, there are other threats to the american economy which are governed under u.s. law. one of them is anti-competitive practices, predatory intent on the behalf of a firm, using its superior access to capital or resources or something else to drive other companies out of business. so if there is any evidence of that, driving competitors out, there is a good chance that the justice department would invoke u.s. competition law, anti-monopoly law to address that behavior in the sector. as they would against an american steel company that was doing the same thing, such as in the one that gave birth to competition law 120 years ago. also there is the anti-subsidies code under the wto that allows us to look at the capital structure behind chinese firms and if it is being provided to those firms in a discriminatory way back home, it is clearly designed to help them

take on more credit cards the quicker companies won't let you do that but for whatever reason united states has set a precedent where we can raise our debt ceiling and definitely keep on borrowing or making money and that's just not good fiscal policy and the reality is are the foundation of our economy can only sustain so much we already have cracks and the ceiling is going to start falling on us whether you agree or disagree with you how is the government going to pay the twenty four point eight trillion dollars it goes for medicare or the twenty one point four trillion dollars that is for sure. security if it doesn't raise the debt ceiling sure well that's why we have these negotiations going on right now we have a medicare plan from representative paul ryan that we are debating right now the republicans in the house have come behind it and we're having a debate on that right now and those are good solutions and the democrats voted yes you know but it's not a popular solution with the american people i want to switch over to you professor help me to ask you what do you see as the solution to

neighbors or the united states, what their ideological bent is, what their commitment is to domestic diversity. are we going to have atrocities? the outcome of a post-gaddafi libya hasot been discussed or what involvement the united states or what other countries of the united nations might have if gaddafi falls. >> the opposition says it has drawn up what it claims are detailed plans to rebuild the nation. our correspondent reports from benghazi >> all ordinary life is on hold in this city, even for the children. schools are closed. so instead they march and wait for the fall of gaddafi. but the question is how might he fall, and with how much violence? on benghazi's street corners and coffee shops, people are wonder what awaits them. for the first time the rebels have confirmed to the bbc their link to an underground network in tripoli. this member of the once-banned libyan muslim brotherhood is part of the rebel leadership. every day he talks by skype and satellite phone to 100 people across tripoli if and when the gaddafi regime collapses. >> we are 100% sure it will happen. the only thing is the timing. >> what will be the trigger? >> no one can tell exactly th

there's no doubt, jill, that so many afghans right now are not grateful at all for what the united states has done in pre treasurer and lives lost. in fact, president karzai often suggesting that maybe the united states is military occupiers. there seems to be little gratitude from the afghan kni people for what the u.s. has done. and that's causing a lot of people in congress to rethink and say, it's time to get out of it. >> they are. wolf, let me show you the package that we just did. it starts with a place that i was in afghanistan. it's a good example of what they are trying to do. sometimes it doesn't quite work. >> u.s. taxpayers giving local jobs in hopes of weaning them away from the taliban. that's how it's supposed to work. but a new report from the democratic staff of the senate foreign relations committee warns, many u.s. aid programs are unsustainable once the u.s. forces withdraw and they can even backfire, fueling corruption and raising serious questions about a key element of the obama counter insurgency strategy. >> from 2009 to 2010 we have spent $19 billion in assistance.

. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> narrator: behind last week's successful mission... ( explosion ) ...lies a much wider military campaign... >> all right, stand up, stand up! let's go, let's go, let's go! >> narrator: ...an extraordinary expansion of manhunt missions that have taken out thousands of al qaeda and taliban fighters. >> we're trying to take down an insurgency, take away its safe havens, take away its leaders. >> hit the guy on the road. >> the joint special operation command is almost an industrial- scale counterterrorism killing machine. >> narrator: frontline investigates the latest us strategy... >> bludgeon your opponent. kill and capture as many as you can. make them ask for peace. >> narrator: ...its impact and its risks. >> by launching those attacks, are we creating more militants than in fact we are killing? >> narrator: can this campaign of killing and capturing make the difference? >> it could take years. i mean, i don't think anybody knows. >> bin laden's gone. that creates the kind of space in which diplomacy migh

has beset your young child. fortunately, here in the united states and other developed countries progress has been made and our efforts to detect and treat those with the disorders, however, we still have a long way to go as you mentioned in yo your, mrs. kobenan. >> kobenan. >> kobenan. i never would have said it so nicely, kobenan. but as you testified ace read in your remarks about how you had to leave this region of the country where you would think that in washington, d.c. and in this environment in m.d. and virginia where we would have the appropriate resources but you chose to move to arizona because you knew that there were better services. and so we can just imagine how in a developing country where many, many needs are, that autism is certainly an issue that seems to be -- and mental health in general tends to be put on the back burner than the other diseases that we hear so much about. in the u.s., there are public and private resources available for impacted families to better cope with the disease. sadly, the same support structures provided in developing world often do not exist in low and middle incomed

bombed our military and the united states rightly recognized that as an act of war and likewise nato doesn't change things either nato is a defense treaty which the united states has with our allies in europe and by ratifying the treaty the united states senate affirmed that if say west germany or at the time or any of our other nato allies are ever attacked in their european territories we have the legal obligation to immediately defend them but the nato treaty does not authorize or commit the united states to non european non north american interventions we certainly have the option to do that and likewise even if the united states were the fact that we are sending unmanned drones to attack and bomb the libyan military doesn't change things what do you attack with robots or with life pilots what war is still a war we are engaged in a war with libya and then how can i say i mean there is actually the concept of francisco no one second humanitarian intervention is is a noble motive and that's one of the reasons i support the substance of this but that doesn't change the fact that it's a war whether we're taking that if there are to take the oil or to protect the p

you're a dictator who tends to repress his people it's a good thought which is being ally to the united states has a down side which is in the end the united states is very uncomfortable supporting dictatorships. i don't think this is such a bad thing for the world. >> the economy continues to collapse and is that not a backdrop and can we resuscitate it in a way that al qaeda is gaining more turf in a country like yemen. >> no. yemen is a basket case. it is the basket case. it had a civil war of south yemen and north yemen and they unified. just remembering how much of this problem is man made. yemen's economy is not destined to be the kind of basket case it is. when the british ruled and when they had an empire there were two british trading posts. one was aden which was in yemen and the other is singapore. fast forward 40 years later and singapore has higher per capita gdp and yemen has turned into a hell hole. >> i think the gdp of yemen is something approaching $25 billion. this is a pittance of an economy. 34% of the nation, i believe, lives below the poverty line on $2 a day, just numbers t

t in my view, the president of the united states has got to stand c tall, he's got to take the cased to the american people and he has got to hold the republicans responsible if in fact the debt ceiling is not raised and all of the repercussions that will occur if that happens. mr. president, i've given youn just equally what is going on in the real world and all of this o americans,enary working class people have a loti more to say about what is goings on in their life. people are fighting desperately to keep their homes from fallini into foreclosure, they're struggling with 29, 30% interest rates on estheir credit card whh they are never able to pay off. people don't have the money to settle down. of lives have been deerfield, ce retirement savings have beenp be raised to pay for college tuition but to keep the the businesses afloat simply put gas in the car at $3.80 a gallon in order to get to work. that is what is going on in the real wor mld.hen we that is what it means when welld talk about the middle class collapsing and poverty isreside, increasing. mr. president, while all of

state come september why are you so sure of this i did not say the united states is not going to veto what they said is the united states has their own considerations in we should not act as if the vehicle is in our pocket which you can it is not we must do our best to avoid the resolution to come. in the security council nor to the. general assembly in the i think we should not trust the united states to ripple but we should trust ourselves if obama was not to veto the declaration of a palestinian state would he not face political pressure at home i mean after all there is an exception and he wants to win you know if the problem. is the interest the continuing give way but i i think obama really wants peace in the world especially in this region which affects the way in the middle east in the wall of the world in a way so i believe from the obama's first of i'm concerned with the wind being and we're doing of his own people but he's also interested in continuing the mission in the vision and the it took it on him so when it took off what is your reading of the relationship between a barman israeli prime minister benjamin n

new united states initially or and perhaps still now to some degree or nato has a right to attack of. libya hundred international it's not the first time i want to be in one nine hundred eighty six after president reagan because the attack on tripoli and benghazi killing hundreds of civilians there at that time and first the first target was the compound were current but i feel of it that they hit the office wearing the same one you see in the pictures today they hit a can't help in the compound their way on. in the middle of a grassy field they hit a home killed a small child a daughter of of the head of state the time of government and here we go again it's a war of aggression going to be condemned as the supreme international crime that it is if it's the supreme international crime or are you saying the president of united states is a criminal and if so what consequences should he face. well the united states is the principal instigator and president is. the chief executive officer of the united states and one of our constitution so there's no declared war that congress is upset ab

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september why are you so sure of this i did not say that the united states is not going to recall what they said this is the united states has there on considerations in the we should not act as if the victoria is in our pocket i think we should not trust the united states to report but we should trust ourselves if obama was not to veto the declaration of a palestinian state would he not face political pressure at home i mean after all there is an election that he wants to win you know every politician is interested in continuing the way but i i think obama really wants. peace in the world and especially in this region which affects the way is the middle east and the wall of the world in a way so i believe that obama's first of all concerned with the wind being and we're doing of his own people but he's also on interests of the continuing there in the vision and the it took upon him so when he would you say that the relationship between the united states and israel is colder than it's ever been before. i think so without the united states we would be in a much more difficult position not only because of the veto but because

has become. the citizens in the world, and the united states. the greater share than any country of the world, except el salvador and ecuador which are very small countries. as i said, a million americans live in mexico. 300 million crossed the border back and forth every year. why do we want to dwell on the past when we are so open and it is so beneficial to the country to be so open. we are obsessed. we have a very strange situation. it's one of the anecdotes are right about. we have laws that foreclose a series of government jobs and elected positions to naturalized mexicans. naturalized mexican cannot be an ambassador, our consul, a member of the cabinet, governor, mayor, police chief, a member of the board of the central bank. you can have none of those. no congressman or senator. we are in this absurd situation. we demand rights for mexicans in the u.s., whether they came to the u.s. legally or illegally. we demand rights. we denied minimum rights to naturalize mexicans. american, spanish, brazilian, chinese, whatever. it is an absurd situ

while the west coast of the united states has had a cool spring, you've had a mild spring and pretty dry in some places. today showers from fair banks t anchorage. as far as the forecast for the west coast, mild weather if not hot conditions for much of california down to the desert southwest. cool up around seattle and portland as that front went through. it will linger with clouds. 70 in seattle. if you're watching us on king 5 news, seattle, washington, see the classic comedy "abbott & costello meet the mummy" at the nonprofit grand illusion cinema. that's your who's on first event of the day list. >>> bill, thanks so much. here is an early look at this morning's headlines and entertainment. arnold schwarzenegger's one-time housekeeper and mistress has given her first and only interview. she said she did it to set the record straight. mildred baena tells "hello magazine" that when her son was told about a year ago that schwarzenegger was his father, he just said cool. baena said she cried together with maria shriver when she confessed the boy was arnold's. she says she sympathizes

come september why are you so sure of this i did not say the united states is not going to veto it but they said this is the united states has their own considerations. we should not act as if the veto is in our pocket but you can it is not we must do our best to avoid the resolution to come near the the security council nor will the. general assembly in the i think we should not trust the united states but we should. if the bomber was not to veto the declaration of a palestinian state would he not face political pressure at home i mean after all there is an election that he wants to win you know if. it was the continuing. i think obama really wants. peace in the world especially in this region which affects the way in the middle east and the wall in the world in a way so i believe that clearly obama's first from concern with the wind being unwilling of his own people but he's also interested in continuing the missions and vision and the it took upon him so when it took all of what is your reading of the relationship between obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu they would need to state their netanyahu is a rec

the united nations security council has now the reference from the atomic energy agency. it has the resolution britain and the united states pushing. listen here to secretary of state clinton, who was in the united arab emirates this morning saying the united states and its partners will keep up the pressure. >> we are working with our partners in the international community to bring an end to the violence and to support political and economic reforms. president assad may try to delay the changes under way in syria, but he cannot reverse them. >> cannot reverse them, secretary clinton says. but the administration, while getting increasingly critical, has not, as it did in egypt, as it has done in libya, as it has said about yemen, it has not said assad must go. i talked earlier today to dianne feinstein, who's the chair of the senate intelligence committee. she says he should go. now, she didn't say that the administration should go that far. but she said in her opinion, yes, he must go. >> well, you spoke of the united nations and britain and france sponsoring this u.n. resolution text that's been circulating. it does not

remove a substantial number of troops from afghanistan this summer, president obama now says the united states has accomplished, quote, a big chunk of its mission in afghanistan. the question is how many troops will the president announce are coming home this summer? >>> meanwhile, new york congressman anthony weiner admits at a press conference that he's been sending creep y photographs and messages to women through twitter. and facebook. the question is, should his constituents give him his job back next

you're a dictator who tends to repress his people it's a good thought which is being ally to the united states hasn side which is in the end the united states is very uncomfortable supporting dictatorships. i don't think this is such a bad thing for the world. >> the economy continues to collapse and is that not a backdrop and can we resuscitate it in a way that al qaeda is gaining more turf in a country like yemen. >> no. yemen is a banket case. it is the banket case. it had a civil war of south yemen and north yemen and they unified. just remembering how much of this problem is man made. yemen's economy is not destined to be the kind of banket case it is. when the british ruled and when they had an empire there were two british trading posts. one was aden which was in yemen and the other is singapore. fast forward 40 years later and singapore has higher per capita gdp and yemen has turned into a hell hole. >> i think the gdp of yemen is something approaching $25 billion. this is a pittance of an economy. 34% of the nation, i believe, lives below the poverty line on $2 a day, just numbers that we

the korean conflict but really the place you see it most is in the last twenty years the united states president has not over the last twenty years come to congress to speak authorization for the war they've been very poorly defined statements brought before congress the same thing in the punished if the united states had probably gone to war but it's done then it may not have been so i feel about the legality for instance of killing osama bin laden so you know better a great deal of ambiguity over the last fifteen years in most of the what the united states is going to need to do so i thought this is the obama problem i see this is a problem that the united states has gotten into over the last few decades i think that's an important point but i got it seems to me you know what's kind of happening here is that the administration is bringing up this historical precedent and using it almost as an argument well you know you want to crack down on me well look busted look what reagan did. i think that's what's going on a lot of the time and the more it goes on the more it's going to be used as well he's

it's been two years since the united states senate has had a budget. no one in the united states of america or anywhere around the world can operate with that sort of recklessness and irresponsibility. everybody has to have a budget. my family has a budget. every business has a budget. only by having a budget can you determine what are your priorities, what are the things you have to have or do, what are the things that you can put off until tomorrow, what are the things that maybe would be nice to have but you can't afford. every family, every business has to go through that process, but not the united states senate. and not apparently the president of the united states. the proposal he made, which is double the debt in five years, triple it in ten years, calls for huge new tax increases. but yet, when it came up for a vote, and only because republicans forced a vote on that, it didn't get any support -- i think it was 97-0. not even our friends across the aisle could support the president's outrageous proposal back then. why didn't he come back with a