one of the reason he is got elected, he s a stable, measured presence. it s important that he do that, but also be present. michael before we let you go, there s demand for answers, a lot of pressure on naming a suspect. but in the end, i mean this could take a considerable amount of time. you think about the anthrax attack, post 9/11. the answers around that remain sort of hazy to this day. as an expert had has dealt with these issues before, i m sure you would caution us that the solutions may not be forthcoming in any sort of short timeframe. i would be and i think that messaging has been coming out loud and clear from the white house and the task force and the mayor and governor of massachusetts, i think that s very good. the other thing i m very happy hasn t happened yet and i hope it doesn t, is that we don t engage in political fingerpointing about why this happened. we ve got to grieve for the victims, take care, make sure we have things secure. figure out who did this. and
agreement that allowed us to get through tough times, 9/11, the anthrax attack in my office and decision to go to war in afghanistan and iraq and that drew us together. you don t have the same element of crazies like you do today but as you look at the challenges we face, you could call them that. listening to senator daschle talk about socialization part of the problem in the senate and fund-raising part of the problem in the senate. you look back at recent history last 25, 30, 40 years, this country faced larger problems than today, war in vietnam, the end of the nixon presidency yet people got along in the congress much less the senate. this reflects what s going on with the american people. there was a culture war that started in my generation when i came of age in the 60s. what you ve seen since 1994 is the rear guard action to stop it. it failed.
mohammed was told after they captured him when he started to talk, he said what s next? he goes, you ll find out. so if you re a c.i.a. agent and you re questioning khali shaikh mohammed, what s next? you ll find out and there s an anthrax attack at home, we have the buildings burning and all the other guys captured. what do you do? time for the good cop, bad cop or say we have to turn it up a notch, mr. president, i need your permission to get that. that s what happened. i m talking about jose rodriguez who took over in counter intelligence in charge of capturing al-qaida and getting the most information possible to prevent the next attack. what he watched was america forget about 9/11 and then all of a sudden condemn people like him for telling khali shaikh mohammed you re not going to sleep you re not going to sleep for a while. you only get to sleep two hours a night. you re going to be standing up and you re going to be waterboarded. this all happened over 2 1/2 week period as i
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karl, what do you make of the strategy, the race to be the most solid conserve of them all? look, a smart move on speaker gingrich s part. if you want to become the not romney candidate, you want as many not romney people in your camp as possible particularly when other candidates like rick perry and herman cain don t seem to be getting off the ground or seem to be declining. it is not without its risks. there are three risks with this. it is ad odds what speaker gingrich has been saying in debates. he won a lot of applause saying let s not attack each other. let s attack obama. it will necessarily raise questions about two things. what about his conservative bonefides? he started by attacking congressman ryan s road map to prosperity. saying it was right-wing social engineering. that plan was endorsed by mitt romney. who is the most conservative there? we have this kerr if you have fell where speaker gingrich tried to allow those who have been here