two months to go in the campaign, there was a story that contradicted that. they were active and well in north africa. of course it s important. i think she is really good. i have to confess that. by actually going on the attack. she disarms her opponent. as brit hume pointed out earlier,be when you are facing the committees where there is no sequential followups, where half of the members are just making speeches, you can get away with a lot. she was able time and again, to do that time honored trick of saying well, there is still the f.b.i. looking in to this. as long as an inquiry is out there, i can t answer x, y, z. perfect out and the way of appointing the inquiries and commissions is always a way to cover. bret: by the way, juan, the a.r.v., the report that looked in to it, with ambassador pickerring and former chairman of the joint
get that group in the middle that s been trying to change the system and use that, use those cuts in targeted manner. bill: is that your resolution for you? yes, sir. use it as a targeted method to go after specific programs. in other words, cut this program. keep that one alive. cut this one. keep, cut. instead of coming across the top and mindlessly, as, former chairman of joint chiefs mullen said, mindlessly cutting everything from the top. bill: could you make the calls before december? or would you need an extension to do it right? you would need an extension and what i would also do is put in legislation that the department has one year to come back and give them a bogey. give them a bill they have to cut. do it in one year. so, yeah, you re going to eat it again for another year but at the end of that year, if you don t do it then, you re too stupid to survive and we ll take the money anyway. bill: wow! you watch the events in the middle east and arab world.
about criminology. i ll explain. first, here s my take. america s job crisis persists, and there seems to be little we can do about it. but actually there is one area where government can create jobs even if consumers aren t spending and businesses aren t hiring. and in a way that is productive for long-term growth. rebuilding america. the american society of civil engineers estimates that america s crumbling infrastructure needs $2 trillion worth of repairs, upgrades, and expansions. with needs on that scale, president obama s infrastructure proposals are at 120th the size of the problem. we need a big plan and a ground bargain between left and right to get it. the first element of the bargain would be funding. already there are several good proposals for infrastructure banks. relatively small public investments can be leveraged to attract much larger sums of private capital. compared with other countries, the u.s. still has an astonishingly low amount of private sector in
and finally, the bold truth about criminology. i ll explain. first, here s my take. america s job crisis persists, and there seems to be little we can do about it. but actually there is one area where government can create jobs even if consumers aren t spending and businesses aren t hiring. and in a way that is productive for long-term growth. rebuilding america. the american society of civil engineers estimates that america s crumbling infrastructure needs $2 trillion worth of repairs, upgrades, and expansions. with needs on that scale, president obama s infrastructure proposals are at one twentieth the size of the problem. we need a big plan and a ground bargain between left and right to get it. the first element of the bargain would be funding. already there are several good proposals for infrastructure banks. relatively small public investments can be leveraged to attract much larger sums of private capital. compared with other countries, the u.s. still has an astonis
move up general james cart wright a marine corps general vice chairman of the joint chiefs but he torpedoed the candidate by asking him to offer an alternative to a plan in afghanistan that was proposed by the pentagon and supported by secretary gates and chairman of the joint chiefs mullen, and general petraeus to add another 40,000 troops in afghanistan. general cartwright does what the president asked and came up with a different plan but they kept it from the other leaders of the pentagon and the ill will from that poisoned the well and the pentagon poisoned the nomination so the president backed off and gave today cartwright a farewell nod. i will be personally grateful for his prepare and partnership as he concludes four decades of marine corps he can do so