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this is t.j. back in atlanta. you hearing me okay? arwa damon is not hearing me right now. arwa damon one of a number of cnn correspondents who spent a lot of time in iraq over the last several years reporting there literally from the very beginning of that war and throughout. we ll try to get her back in a moment. a historic day we saw even though a few thousand american service members in iraq. they will make their way out, many of them this weekend and, again, formally, it is over. let me turn to our zain verjee. the whole world, zain, she s joining me from london. the whole world watched this event today. what is the world saying now that it s over? well, there s been a lot of reaction today, as you can imagine. it s been eight years, eight months and 26 days. and a lot of blood, sweat and tears on both the sides of the american people, as well as the iraqi people. let me give you an idea. the guardian. has this headline. the u.s. troops are pulling out, but what have
big move in washington in a major concession the president and leading democrats will drop a surtax on millionaires as the way to pay for the payroll tax cut extension. this is a huge step in breaking the impasse that threatened the tax cut and may have shut the government down again. here is the bottom line. the ds and rs each fought for one big thing in this payroll tax battle and that is a nonstarter for the other side. the surtax for the democrats and the keystone pipeline for the republicans. now whether you love or hate either one of those ideas, the fact was this, both were deal breakers. we ve been saying this all week. and compromise really isn t that hard. here s the decent proposal we ve been putting out there as an example. extend the tax cut for those making less than $75,000. that costs about $48 billion. but you can pay for it by charging more to mortgage lenders and more to millionaires for medicare. it actually comes out even. and there s a lot of different p
from another time. tom brokaw for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. tom brokaw is one of my heroes. he afrnchored the nbc nightly news for 20 years. he has also become awe celebrated author. his book the time of our lives and i m thrilled to say that tom brokaw moijoins me now. welcome. that business about being me be your hero, you ll get over that about it end of the hour, i promise. i doubt that very much. you re actually the perfect guy to ask this question. i read your book with great fascinati fascination. also with an eye to how this year 2011 is going to rate in the news pantheon. me, a new boy to this news anchoring game, it seems like it is the most incredible year in news that i can remember. what do you i it s been a chaotic year. i think part of the reason that we see it in the way that we do is that it never stops coming at us because of the new instrumentation. it s not just on cable television or broadcast television or talk radio. it s now