california for the nbc news/politico presidential debate. all eyes on rick perry. as the field s new front-runner in recent polls, perry repeatedly clashed with massachusetts governor, former massachusetts governor, mitt romney. one of the most heated exchange came regarding perry s remarks regarding social security. it is a ponzi scheme. to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you re paying into a program that s going to be there, anybody that s for the status quo was with social security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids. and it s not right. our nominee has to be someone who isn t committed to abolishing social security, but who is committed to saving social security. we have always had at the heart of our party, a recognition that we want to care for those in need. and our seniors have the need of social security. you cannot keep the status quo in place and not call it anything other than a ponzi scheme. it is. that is what it is, america
would of course be in tripoli, his last major strong hold where he has some capability. what they don t know is what would this last stand look like. they re looking at the notion it could be scud missile launches, it could be an all-out military assault on on libyan civilians. they do not know. but that is the major concern at this hour. no firm indications that gadhafi yet is ready to pack up and go, in a maybe he plans one last effort before he finally decides. so it thif that is the worry there any sense that the united states would encourage its nato allies to give him a shove before he can lash out? you bet. the question is what s the tipping point here that would make gadhafi go once and for all. they will continue to tighten the screw, continue the bombing campaign. and it s one of those cases yet again poll the money when gadhafi finally runs out of money to pay his mercenary, to pay his own troops, the thinking is they may all turn on him, refuse to fight and th
so much to talk about. saturday morning, when we talked about this later at my daughter s birthday party. both of us looked at the horrifying news of saturday morning coming out of afghanistan. coupled with the sp downgrade. as a young girl, back in 1979 when so many things were hitting at one time. it was, i really can t think of another time in my lifetime where i woke up and saw a couple things hitting like that and i don t want to say questioned america s place in the world but certainly thought we lost our way. a bleak feeling. we are going to talk about the unspeakable loss in afghanistan coming up and why, when and when it will become a central part of the political conversation when we talk about campaigns. when it will be front and center of the issue. i don t know when but i m hoping soon. you, let s talk for a second about 1979. if you said, when you read the papers that morning that you had this it almost took you back to that dark time. it was a horrible
joining us. willie is on his way in. so much to talk about. saturday morning, when we talked about this later at my daughter s birthday party. both of us looked at the horrifying news of saturday morning coming out of afghanistan. coupled with the sp downgrade. as a young girl, back in 1979 when so many things were hitting at one time. it was, i really can t think of another time in my lifetime where i woke up and saw a couple things hitting like that and i don t want to say questioned america s place in the world but certainly thought we lost our way. a bleak feeling. we are going to talk about the unspeakable loss in afghanistan coming up and why, when and when it will become a central part of the political conversation when we talk about campaigns. when it will be front and center of the issue. i don t know when but i m hoping soon. you, let s talk for a second about 1979. if you said, when you read the papers that morning that you had this it almost took you back
that s a quote. the prime minister warned that pakistan reserves the right to retaliate against any future u.s. strikes with full force. nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski joins us. you ve been working all week, around the clock, since this all happened. i know you ve been looking through the documents, talking to officials on the record, on background. the u.s. is pressing for access to bin laden s three wives. how important is that and what are the hopes that they can get something get real information from these detainees? certainly u.s. officials would like to sit down with the three wives and talk to them and get the kind of intimate detail that only they would have. not just about his personal life, obviously, but about who he was talking to, and what were the movements, who saw him and how did they communicate. they would have that kind of information, but more importantly, it may be a first step to sort of repair the tense relationship that now