the fills on forresponsible for getting france and perhaps the world to intervene there. he s just back from tripoli. then as another baseball season comes to a close in america, we sit down with michael lewis, the author of moneyball, to talk about baseball and its lessons for business and life. first, here s my take. regular gps watchers will know that i was in tehran last week to interview president mahmoud ahmadinejad. you can go to our web site and watch excerpts of the interview. being in iran made me think it our policy toward that country which strikes me as being stuck in a time warp. you will remember that early in the 2008 presidential campaign, barack obama signaleded that he was going to have a different foreign policy than george bush, less black and white. and he chose as his example, iran. he argued that simply pressuring the country was not a policy, and obama offered to talk to iran s leaders to try to establish a dialogue and reduce tensions. well,
of trade with them and the only way we have any real credibility is if we convince the europeans to impose those sanctions and that is where syria exports 95% of its oil to europe and gets a quarter of its government revenues from europe and the real key. martha: c a lot of this went n yesterday, with assad and telling him basically he needs to step down and sarah palin had an interesting take on this, last night and spoke with greta van susteren and, greta said, why do you think it came out looking like hillary clinton looked presidential in this situation and she s the one making the huge statement about another leader, leaving his own country. and, a suggestion maybe it should have come from the top at the white house. listen to this: i ll bet you, greta, going out on a limb and i can t speak for liberal democrats but i just think, after a day like this,
the fiscal year. the treasury says the change is due to higher government revenues. this comes as a new reuters poll, this number caught a lot of people s attention yesterday. 73% of americans now think the country is headed in the wrong direction. 7 3% on the wrong track. while 21% say we re headed in the right direction. according to the a washington post poll, 78% say they re dissatisfied with the u.s. political system. the post points out that 73% of americans say they re not confident in the government s ability to handle the economy. in 2012 politics, some of the republicans hoping to take president obama s job getting together in iowa. the ames straw poll just a couple of days away now. republican presidential hopefuls participating in a fox news debate tonight. participants include mitt romney, michele bachmann, tim pawlenty, rick santorum and newt gingrich. speaking on fox last night, santorum and gingrich explained how they plan to stand out in
but when you re joe deadbeat dad is entirely something else. this debt ceiling battle is about the fact if we don t raise the debt ceiling, america will be unable to meet her financial obligations. joe walsh doesn t believe it will happen. at least not anywhere or on or near tuesday. we are so obsessed with august 2nd. i think what s important is that we get this right. the administration has been trying to scare folks into this notion of default. you re okay with a potential default on august 2nd? you would let that date pass? default is not an option. the administration knows more people in your profession should know that. we ve got plenty of government revenues in the month of august to service our debt. default isn t even on the table. i m not obsessed with august 2nd. truthfully. joe walsh is not so obsessed with august 2nd. earlier tonight he was one of 22
but when you re joe deadbeat dad is entirely something else. this debt ceiling battle is about the fact if we don t raise the debt ceiling, america will be unable to meet her financial obligations. joe walsh doesn t believe it will happen. at least not anywhere or on or near tuesday. we are so obsessed with august 2nd. i think what s important is that we get this right. the administration has been trying to scare folks into this notion of default. you re okay with a potential default on august 2nd? you would let that date pass? default is not an option. the administration knows more people in your profession should know that. we ve got plenty of government revenues in the month of august to service our debt. default isn t even on the table. i m not obsessed with august 2nd. truthfully. joe walsh is not so obsessed with august 2nd. earlier tonight he was one of 22