to his day job. he would have to make a choice to fill up the gas tank to get to work or do i give up my entrepreneurial dream. $40, he wrote, means a heck of a lot. it means a heck of a lot. that s what this debate is all about. this is what s at stake for millions of americans. this is why it matters to people. it matters a heck of a lot. i m asking the american people to keep their stories coming. tell us what $40 means to you. if you tweet it, use the hash tag $40. call, tweet, write your congressman, write your senators. tell them, do not let up until this thing gets done. don t let taxes go up on 160 million working americans. don t let americans out there looking for work and the economy is starting to improve but they don t have a job yet, don t leave them without a lifeline in terms of cutting off their unemployment insurance. when a plane is lifting off the ground, you don t ease up on the throttle. you keep going. our plane is up there, but we re not at cruising al
fractionablizing of the opposition in a way that i think leaves them very vulnerable. you had a call from gaddafi defense minister in two days saying that anybody who fled the army, defected from the army is welcome to come back and we will not punish you. you will be hardened. it will be interesting to see over the next week how many people come back and say you know the opposition isn t making the progress we thought it was. this was a really good idea. but not working out. even some excuse me, some in the opposition suggest well gaddafi could stay in the country if he leaves power. i think that is a sipe of weakness. the worst sign is what happened last week where there was an assassination among the leadership in benghazi of the military command. chief military commanderer was killed. obviously, their fractions, rather serious ones within the opposition. it all comes down to the strategic decision at the beginning. obama decided he would lead from behind. started a war and le
the prospects for closing guantanamo, as best i can tell, are very, very low, given very broad opposition to doing that here in the congress. shepard: but lawmakers opposition isn t the only obstacle to emptying out gitmo. the defense secretary said it s also gotten harder to just release detainees. jennifer griffin at the pentagon tonight. why is the process of releasing detainees more difficult? mostly because the pentagon is finding that 25% of those that they release are returning to the battlefield. some of those that we have considered the most dangerous and who have been released or who we considered dangerous and potentially going back into the pipe have not. and some that we evaluated as not being much of a danger or much of a risk, we have discovered in the fight.
a lot of arabs identify with egypt for their culture, for their religion and politics. so there s an indication here everyone seems to think if mubarak were to fall, if egypt were to descend into chaos, then you might see a domino effect throughout the whole region. this is what is very concerning to the u.s. because it s one thing for president ben ali to fall in tunisia. but if mubarak were to go, there s a real uncertainty now about who comes next. as we ve talked about all day the opposition isn t really organized. there isn t one rallying figure you can rally around. so the uncertainty for u.s. policy in the region, egypt a real critical ally, is really what s scaring u.s. officials. yet if you look around the region, to yemen, for example, if the government of president saleh were to fall we ve talked many weeks about al qaeda in the arab peninsula having a strong hold in yemen, this is really concerning for the united states right now. looking at egypt really hoping
did you see this? america is worse than al-qae al-qaeda. it sounds like he kind of agrees with his wife, doesn t it? so it should come as no surprise that opposition to the ground zero mosque has risen from 54% to 62% in the last couple of days. the opposition isn t growing because americans hate muslims. it s because we re using common sense. it is growing because this particular muslim seems to be connected to people who hate america. regular people are look at this issue with common sense. you get it. you get that muslims have a right to build a mosque next to ground zero or anyplace they want to. you just question the wisdom of it. more importantly you realize that the building of this mosque isn t location. it is about what this mosque may stand for. whose building this mossk? where are they getting the money? what is their motive for building it by ground zero? you get it.