city. this is one hour and 25 minutes. thank you for joining us for what i hope will be a fun our. you know, i had intended this to be a love fest because you are a great hero of mine. but then paul said that i have to ask tough questions, so i want to make it clear whenever i see something that is supportive and warm that s me and whenever i say something that is critical that is me just channelling paul. [laughter] so, to get that of the way. i wanted to start by you are in a very unusual position. you re going to have this big conference in washington this coming weekend were there will be 10,000 people. you have this enormous falling and you are a kind of figure and i was trying to figure out is there any recent historical figure that you think you are analogous to? [laughter] people for what the restaurants of modesty. just like you. to be clear the 10,000 people are coming together because they want to i mean because they are drawn to t
and wave the government may not anticipate. he talks with the executive editor of foreign-policy magazine, susan glasser. host: george, thank you so much for joining us today. i m thrilled to have the chance to talk to you in some depth about your new book, the next decade. i see it represents a little bit of what is the right word, narrowing of the frame of ambition from u.s. book on the next 100 years so you have now taken on perhaps a slightly more manageable next 10 years or perhaps that is actually more undoable the next 10 years. i think we can talk about that a little bit over the next hour and some of your very counterintuitive views i think about what direction you see the world headed and in particular the u.s. encounters with that world, whether it is on israel or china interview of its rise or russia. i think you have some interesting things to say that are not exactly what you are going to pick up from reading the papers every day so let s go ahead and jump r
we have got cabinet ministers, international sigars, local politicians coming. i tell you this because britain has got the home of the english-speaking community. i m going to give you some facts that might worry you. two years ago the bbc s research showed that there was a 26 year low in american owned media covering foreign affairs. there was a corresponding 58% growth in elite households from alaska to tennessee choosing british on line media sources. the biggest market for the bbc, the guardian, financial times, the economist and now on line the daily mail followed by the telegraph is your market, america. and the biggest newsgathering monopoly in the world is the bbc and within me make way the media market is going that is only going to continue. now, i am the biggest and for all intensive purposes the only organization dealing with the media in london. guess what my budget is? 1.6 million pounds. and i get asked consistently from friends across the pond what are you d
people want to recall their senators. and as for what the wisconsin voters supported in november, they never once advocated their rights. they never once supported having the people having these folks take away our rights. that s not what we voted for. and i think their agenda i thin becoming much more evident. bryan kennedy, thank you very much. thank you. reporter: bryan kennedy with the american federation of teachers in wisconsin. back to you. ed, thank you, we ll keep in touch. let s continue the conversation. with me is joel kline, veteran political correspondent for time. we ve known each other a long time, i ll say this on national television. you wrote a remarkably reasonable column about this a couple of weeks okay. reasonably, no. i m joking. but this is a we talk a lot about wisconsin because it s an amazing battle that s going on there. but this is playing out across the country. and democratic governors need concessions from the unions, republican govern
to the opposition. i want those armed groups to listen to me real well, and i want the people in the east to hear this as well. we are coming! and lirch sten to this. a blunt assessment from america s top officiant. this is kind of a stealemate back and forth, but i think this is a long return that the regime will prevail. because of that, the opposition says it desperately needs help from the united states and nato. but the native allies made clear that no military options are imminent. if there were to be a need for enforcement, there would need to be a new u.n. security council resolution. another nato meeting is scheduled in five days, but the bottom line tonight for now, the anti-gadhafi forces, well, they re largely on their own. let s begin our up-close look in the balance of power tonight with our senior international correspondent nick robinson. he s in the capital of tripoli. nick, if you listen to the battles and you listen to the words of gadhafi, on