no doubt they ve been shielding bin laden through their intelligence agencies? that s correct. here s the question, though, you want to eliminate this financial aid, i understand, at a visceral level, of course you want to do that. but if we do that, does that not eliminate whatever leverage we might have to bring them towards us just the opposite. explain. they think we re fools, and we are fools! we re fools for giving somebody who hates our way of life and has been doing so many things to put us in jeopardy and to give them money. they won t respect anybody like that. and we will be in worse danger by having a lack of respect from these people, than if we say, okay, you ve proven yourself, you re our enemy, we re going to make friends with india. let me add one other factor, which actually cuts in your favor. there was a meeting on april 16, we know about this from news reports that were pretty detailed between the prime minister of pakistan, president karzai of afghan
hamid karzai to toss the united states out and switch his allegiance to pakistan and china. joining me is fareed zakaria, host of fareed zakaria gps. we ve got to start the reports in the paper today of this april 16 meeting between the leaders of pakistan and afghanistan where basically these two supposed u.s. allies get together to conspire to throw throw the u.s. out and turn to china as the benefactor. ways going on here? sometimes the united states enters places like south asia, afghanistan, pakistan, and we think this is all very simple. there are good guys and bad guys coming in support of the good guys and you should all be on our side. but there s an existing set of regional dynamics at work here. we re the interloper. we re coming into this game late. they think we re going to leave. what you re watching is the
many americans, and it goes beyond the obvious afflictions like alcoholism and drug abuse. joining me now jane velez-mitchell, akajvm, host of issues. her new book called addict nation, talking about unhealthy dependencies we may not even realize we have. good to have you on my show. thank you for having me. i want to begin with my quote. i want to find this at the beginning of your book. the most exquisite aradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. how did that apply to your life? well, i have hopefully by april 16 years of recovery, and the what i realized in sobriety is that happiness is an inside job. there is nothing that you can buy, that you can eat, that you can wear, that you can drive that will make you happy. it could give you a brief hit of pleasure, but long-term happiness is an inside job.
centralizers were used to stabilize the well, not 21 recommended by halliburton which was constitutional in instrumental in the engineering, also a bp e-mail from april 16, just four days before the explosion aboard the deepwater horizon rig in which 1bp official said who cares about that early decision about the stabilizers, it s done, end of story, we ll probably be fine, end of quote. then another e-mail, six days before the explosion which martha just referenced in which 1bp engineer remarked that deepwater horizon has been, quote, a nightmare welch has everyone all over the place as an indication of the tenor of the questioning, those two democrats on house energy and commerce committee, waxmark and stupak have written saying time and time it appears that bp made decisions that increased the risk of a blowout to save the company time or expense. that s how it s going to be here today. we ll keep our eyes posted on it all day long. martha: the words in those e-mails are going to
secretary gary locke, thanks so much for being our guest. thank you. gretchen: coming up on the show, he s a christian rocker with a new hit single, toby mac and his band, divertity, here to perform their new song, tonight. let s check in with martha mccal column. good morning. coming up on america s news room, we ll talk about eric holder s controversial comments last night with senator sessions to tell us what he thinks about that and the gordon lieu nomination hearing coming up today. also, for the first time, i will speak with one of the attorneys for the six teen-agers who are accused in the death of phoebe prince. it will be coming up at the top of the hour.