afghanistan. and this morning, may have been involved in the hit on cia headquarters in kabul. but also protected by the government of pakistan, right? isn t that more significant? trained and paid for by the isi in pakistan. which is why in these difficult budget times, we need to reduce military assistance to pakistan. i m proud of our government right now. admiral mullen, ambassador in islamabad. they ve said pakistan is backing a major terrorist organization that s killed america. what would you do about it? we ve got to cut off military aid to pakistan. and the senate appropriations committee on which i sit, we reduced it from the requested $3 billion to $1 billion and then we conditioned any counterterrorism assistance on cooperation against the haqqani network. i define that as a dramatic reduction in haqqani attacks on
relations with the military and the government in general. i think that we have to be careful to remember that there is this fifth dimensional chess game going on since 9/11. the past two years if you look at the history, huh a spy kill two people in pakistan. some reports say they are agents that he killed. the pakistani s outing of cia station chief in islamabad. the head of the isi being denied entry because of a lawsuit against him for involvement in the attacks in mumbai. this is a dangerous game. that s the problem. that s the fifth dimension. to americans we see $2 billion a year, countless training resources for the military and services and what does america get in return? a nation that joins up with a bunch of terrorists and attacks a u.s. embassy in kabul. that are is increasingly the u.s. position from capitol hill,
their fair share. that brings me to what s being called the buffett rule, named for billionaire who says the super rich are undertaxed. the president is insisting people who earn is million a year or more pay as much in taxes or more as ordinary wage earners do. republicans are up in arms but the president says it is not class warfare it is math. gloria, does the president s math actually add up? well, what he did today really was lay down a political marker. this is a president who s been accused by his base of not participating enough in his own health care reform plan or of negotiating with himself too early. what he did this time he said, look, if this were a perfect world for me, this is what i would do, and you ll notice in here that there aren t real entitlement cuts to beneficiaries. there are some to providers in medicare. so he largely left social security untouched. medicare cut-backs to providers. so what he s saying is, i m leaving that off the table, let s
it s got to be stopped and i know better than most. and that s it, the south carolina republican forum hosted by senator jim demint. we want to welcome our viewers. i wolf blitzer in the situation room. donna brazill is with us. let s get immediate reaction to what we heard from the five republican candidates over the past two hours. donna, let me start with you. you re a good democrat. you heard from the five republicans. they re pretty much on most of the issues on the same page. a page being very different than the page that the president of the united states is on. south carolina will hold the first primary in the deep south next february. it s a very important state for the republicans. what you saw today is michelle bachmann, mitt romney, newt gingrich, ron paul, of course, and her main cain present the ideas to jim demint. he s a heavyweight, he s a tea party favorite, and what they were running today for was not president of theite, but president of the tea part
raid inside pakistan s borders. they all do that and they care a lot about it. the targets in pakistan have caused friction. live for us in islamabad, let s start with any reaction you can gather to a pretty dramatic state. the defense secretary saying he has no evidence anyone high in the government was involved. in fact has seen some evidence to the contrary. yes, john. this appears to be a line developing. senator john kerry said the same thing when he was here just the other day in his words, trying to reset this relationship. they want to draw a line in the sand and say there is no evidence to link the military or intelligence or government to bin laden and they want to move on and try to write this