to other bacteria. cre is spreading, more and more patients are the risk of serious infection and death. we don t know what the future will bring, we may have a short window of opportunity to take action. if we miss this window of opportunity, the deadly bacteria cre could spread much more widely. reporter: he says the bacteria are often spread from patient to patient by health care workers who fail to follow simple handwashing or procedures. he says hospitals can reduce transmission rates by designating rooms, staff and equipment for the exclusive care of cre patients and improving communications between facilities transferring infected persons. in fact, the cdc says hospitals in israel were able to reduce the rates by 70% by adopting these procedures. bret: jonathan, thank you. again, to show a little different tonight.
in this context, imminence must incorporate considerations of the relevant window of opportunity, the possibility of reducing collateral damage to civilians, and the likelihood of heading off future attacks. thus a decision maker presents an imminent threat must take into account they re continually plotting attacks against the united states and basically say continually plotting of it doesn t mean what we used to think of but this sort of broad sense in which you re just out there, right? the white paper expands on that and says it doesn t require clear evidence. remember, this is a high-level official. high-level official doesn t need to have clear ens of an actual plot that s about to take place and it could happen at any time in the future. now, we ve defined a way what the standard is, but i think one of the critical things to realize is what this memo, the white paper and the memo its
political editor, and senior editor of the review and colu columnist to bloomberg review. perry, let me start with you, with president obama winning a second term, is there a window now, window of opportunity, to close gitmo and squash some of the dissatisfaction from the left? there is a window. let me disagree with ari slightly here. there was a vote in the senate on president obama s plan to close gitmo in 2009, and it failed 90 to 6. 90 to 6 very resoundingly. the republicans all opposed it, but 48 of the 54 democrats opposed it too. so the white house giving up at that point was not surprising to me. it s not clear it s the political will on capitol hill to close gitmo, the problem being once you close gitmo, the detainees have to go to prisons in the united states. every senator is basically like, not my district, not my state. i m not sure until there s a real issue from the senate and
network and host of the ben ferguson show. dana perino was on the five, lamenting she thought republicans didn t do good enough job showing the fact that obama care was paid for in part by $500 billion, depending on the estimate, between 5 and 700 to medicare. she thought really more attention should have been called to that. and now, she and other republicans are rejoicing that because the democrats have gone so hard after the romney-ryan ticket on the issue of medicare it has given, opened a window of opportunity. ben, do you see it that way? absolutely because the fear-mongering is not going to be backed up by stats and figures. barack obama when he passed obamacare, remember he said, this is fiscally sound, it will not cost any extra money. this will be balanced. they did it taking half a trillion, not half a billion, half a trillion dollars from medicare which is taking away from your grandparents. the ryan plan didn t take any money away.
talking about his own presidential prospects. there s a window of opportunity, and in life for all sorts of reasons, this is probably my time. bill clinton on tuesday. i think that we need to do is find some way to avoid the fiscal cliff. i think that what it means is that they will have to extend they will have to put everything off until early next year. that rogue clinton seemingly endorsing the extension of the bush tax cuts which goes against the obama administration s opinion on the matter, and cue the reporter s and political pundits and campaign strategists in unison saying, did he say that! in nerdland when i say something off script, and counter intuitive, which is often, it is a did she say it? and it is yep, she did, and she meant it. so when bill clinton for instance speaks his mind, we do as we normally do here in nerdland instead of waving our