why lyndon baines johnson could get things done in washington and the lessons for today. and is china changing from a company into a country? i ll explain. first, here s my take. whatever you thought of president obama s speech on afghanistan this week, it is now increasingly clear that the united states is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. we are out of iraq and we will soon largely be out of afghanistan. osama bin laden is dead, al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. threats remain, but they are being handled using special forces and intelligence. so finally, after a decade, we seem to be right-sizing the threat from terrorist groups. or are we? while we leave the battlefields of the greater middle east, and we are firmly committed to the war on terror at home. what do i mean by that? well, look at the expansion of federal bureaucracies to tackle this war. since september 11th, 2001, the u.s. government has created or re
i commend jose rodriguez and all of this is colleagues, nameless, faceless colleagues that we will never know. i believe that americans are alive and possibly westerners elsewhere in the world and our own troop because of this waterboarding, mainly because of the enhanced interrogation program. only three people were waterboarded? well, more people were waterboarded in this room than we waterboarded in the whole time the one time only one who liked it was colonel north. i m sorry. we are good friends. all right. thank you for being with us. coming up next, although president obama wants to pat himself on the back of the killing of the al qaeda mastermind, the navy seals deserve all the credit. i will be joined by three former members of that group, three hero, coming up next. for a hot dog cart. my mother said, well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace. so my parents went to bank of america.
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outfront tonight, crackdown in china. just as a breakthrough appears possible in the case of blind activist chen guangcheng, the chinese government clamping down, perhaps harder than ever on other voice of descent. communists parties authoritarian rule. we spoke to several on the inside today. the organization human rights in china told us they haven t heard anything from activist and chen confidant zeng chengdang for days. latest tweet two days ago when she announced she was under house arrest. human rights lawyer was also reportedly detained and beaten. he tried to visit chen in the hospital thursday evening. then there s this woman also known by her english name pearl pup see her there. she s the woman we told you about that helped chen escape his house arrest in the dead of night. she was detained herself. we are told by human rights groups she was released yesterday. take a look at this man. an unnamed supporter of chen s who actually would not allow cnn to identify hi
other suspects facing arraignment today in guantanamo bay. it seems like these men are doing whatever they can to drag this thing out. you said it, don. the 9/11 terror suspects have turned the arraignment into a chaotic court appearance. one of the detainees, one of the accused refused to come to court. he had to be hauled in, shackled to a chair. another shocked the courtroom when he shouted out, comparing some of the camp guards here in guantanamo bay to dead libyan leafer, moammar gudoadhafi and suggesting they may try to kill them and make it look like suicide. and khalid sheikh mohammed, who boeshed he was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack, has kept completely sile nlt. he has ignored the judge and refused to participate, because as his attorney has said, he feels these hearings, these military commissions, are not fair, and this is a choice not to acknowledge them. don? and chris, i understand there was an outburst during the proceedings. what happened? yeah,