name fraud garuaranty came from. it s because parnas was indicted and didn t want that to be the first thing that came up in a google search. he decides to name his company fraud guaranties but that s associated with a company and not necessarily his checkered past. brilliant. i wouldn t go that far. i think the core thing to remember is the company was called fraud guaranty. you didn t mishear that at home. you have known rudy giuliani for many years, as have i. there s a dark poetic irony about the fact that this article and interview came out almost 18 years to the day after he was named time magazine s man of the year after leading the city of new york through 9/11. and there s a conversation in this interview about his legacy. and i want to read it to you. in it he says, he reads his own press and sees that his friends, these sources close to him are being weaponized by the conspirators, helping to paint a public portrait of a man
to endorse publicly. that s why you see seconds have gotten involved in the campaign. now to new hampshire where jeb bush and john kasich campaigning today but only one of them addressed the new afghanistan policy on camera. for me, i would have never done the second increase in troop levels. i would have used special forces to be able to go to be lethal and mobil, to take care of the job. i wouldn t have supported additional troops. now that the situation s deteriorated on the ground it s a wise decision to say we re not going running out of there and lose all of the things we invested over the years. you didn t mishear there, kasich one of those saying he was not in favor of that larger surge that took place. by the way, the person arguing inside the administration for that smaller special forces footprint, vice president biden. kasich unveiled new policy proposals today at a community college in new hampshire, pledging to balance the budget in eight years.
so it was clearly a signal yet again which you and i have both been reporting for moss that july 2011 was simply, in many ways, the left saw it as, yes, a date for withdrawal. the white house didn t correct them, even though they would point out to you, no, no, no, no. it is a conditions on the ground issue. by the way, fun little back and forth yesterday between the russian president and president obama. they did hamburgers together and talked about replacing the red phone. take a listen. during his visit to silicon valley this week he visited the headquarters of twitter where he opened his own account. i have one as well. so we may be able to finally throw away those red phones that have been sitting around for so long. well, of course, you didn t mishear. he said twitters and people have been having a little fun with him, since president bush one