pakistan may well be the most dangerous country on the earth right now. it is, of course, a nuclear armed nation, and as there is some danger the government may collapse in the next few days. as we talk about pakistan, we re also talking about afghanistan. many pakistanis are deeply angry over the military presence in the region. here to help us wade through this mess and what it may mean for u.s./pakistan relations is cnn s own foreign affairs expert, fareed zakaria. fareed, thanks for joining us. pleasure. simple question, is pakistan s government going to fall? it might, but it doesn t matter. because what you re talking about is the civilian democratically elected government, which doesn t actually run the country. the pakistani military runs the country, particularly on the crucial issues of national security, internal issues relating to terrorism. on those issues, the structural authority and command remains pretty clear.
pakistan may well be the most dangerous country on the earth right now. it is, of course, a nuclear armed nation, and as there is some danger the government may collapse in the next few days. as we talk about pakistan, we re also talking about afghanistan. many pakistanis are deeply angry over the military presence in the region. here to help us wade through this mess and what it may mean for u.s./pakistan relations is cnn s own foreign affairs expert, fareed zakaria. fareed, thanks for joining us. pleasure. simple question, is pakistan s government going to fall? it might, but it doesn t matter. because what you re talking about is the civilian democratically elected government, which doesn t actually run the country. the pakistani military runs the country, particularly on the crucial issues of national security, internal issues relating to terrorism. on those issues, the structural authority and command remains
congressman baird, you were a member, if i recall, of congress back in 2000, 2001 where the composition was 50/50 and then it changed when senator jeffers switched to independent. if it happens again, 50/50, what would that mean for legislation at this critical time in american history? gridlock? well, it might. it might, but, if you ask the average american, if you were in a group and half the people wanted one thing and half wanted another, should you go out and fight it out or try and find out where you have common ground? the trouble we have seen, recently, and it is much worse than it was ten years ago, the trouble we have seen is that there are some subset of our members of the senate who do not want to find common ground, they are absolutists and in transient and block every effort to compromise and if we do that the country is in trouble. gregg: a decade ago, tom daschle and trent lott, ther the party leaders and got along
about this. joe, i know more people can find out about your oorganization and any kid out there can logon to your website which is www.glisten.org. great to have you with us. thanks so much. thanks for doing this. right now nbc nighty news anchor brian williams is hosting in rockefeller center and you can watch it live on the web at educationnation.com. so, the guessing game that has been going on about rahm emanuel appears to be ending as early as this friday president obama s chief of staff is expected to announce that he will leave his post and he will be leaving it to run for the mayor of chicago. that leaves the president with a very key job vacancy, as you can imagine. nbc news political reporter joins me now. so, is it official that friday is going to be the day that this announcement comes out? nothing is official. if you saw some of the reporting, it might, probably and, you know, we ve known for quite some time that, you know,
locky seems more threatening. he is certainly a active recruiter, and his use of the internet and use of language d his ability to reach out to westerners and attract them into the movement, yes, he is very dangerous. i want to talk about friends, and my favorite discussion we had once. and that s the advisory systems k the orange and yellow levels have remained for years. have they not lost their effectiveness? you called for a study and will anything change? t might. an was on the study committee, so thank you for that, fran, because what we realize is the colors themselves were not exchanging or giving people information. as i said earlier, one of our chief goals is to make one of the tizens of the unit