Security council as the first step and see if it is a resolution and it will depend on this. This will take not based but weeks to sort out. It comes to serious the goshen at the united nations. Neil so he would have time to hide that stuff or move it at the very least . Obviously you are going to want to have an effective inspection regime which allows inspectors to go anywhere in the country. We will not give up our National Means of intelligence, which allows us to collect information about what is going on there so that it we were other countries have information of that and we will make that available to the united nations. To my way of thinking, to get the process going, you have a good basic u. N. Resolution in place, i think you have a chance to make this thing work. But there is no doubt that there are uncertainties and risks. Neil not the least of which is liabilities liabilities. Now russia is brokering a deal that tries to get all of them compensated under the international watch. That would mean that the International Players and whose boots with a be. It is not armed soldiers, these are civilian inspectors with presumably some kind of guarantee for their security. Neil do you really believe that . Two i do not think you should underestimate the importance of the sheer matte saying that he is really number 12 assigned the chemical convention. I think were missing the point which is that he wants to get something out of this and wants to sort of getting the system, he wont be able to try to get some guarantee from us and from others that we were stopped pursuing the regime change because in exchange for opening the country to inspections, he wants political durability and perhaps the russians would like to see that as well. Neil lets say that we get a lot of these weapons and he is still in power. Vladimir putin looked good. The upshot would be that we didnt have to strike it, but he is still there, that stuff is still going on. It seems to me the measure of success will have two parts to it. Especially without obliging some kind of political change in syria. I think that that is the challenge. Neil sir, it is a pleasure to have you. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Coming up, we have talked about how onn of this is working out. At some point it is not a strike after the use of chemical weapons. But the Congress Says that we are not going to go to war. I think it is part of that the president of the country were more journalists have been killed and more countries and i expect to see Bashar Alassad get an award for that or something. I mean, thats terrible. He wasnt trying to talk americans into it, he was talking to talk them out of it. He mentioned iraq and afghanistan like 10 or 12 times per that wont get anyone in a good mood. The regime change is the objective. And we have been very slow to respond, and as i said, you may say that theres not much they can be done about it, but i think there is. A substantial amount of moderate Syrian Opposition that will confront islamic radicalism if they come to power and they have the capability to do so. The president made this all about chemical weapons and in my mind yes, it was terrible and in violation of the international norms, but the big problem is Bashar Alassad to kill people and use all chiller rate to kill others. And so now we have 100,000 people dead. Particularly the opposition, al qaeda, will wonder whether or not we do something. So i think its a very disturbing scene right now. And i very much worry about what the impact will be on national security. Neil you never want to stir up the hornets nast, right . You think getting involved will start up . We are going to not just or not, we are going to destroy the nast. They did all the way during the 1990s. And we kept that final because maybe they can do this or that. The next thing you know they attacked the pentagon and they were horrified. Neil no matter what we do whether we when we get involved in these things or not. You can wish about this, why cant we all get along or be agreeable. That some people have chosen to be disagreeable and wage war against the United States on what you make of the prompting of this tentative approach . Americans are tired of war its like we are tired of it all. Harry truman. Run out of office for standing up to the communists in north korea. Does anyone think that that was a waste of money and the lives and it wasnt important for us to draw a line in the sand and drive the North Koreans out . Today it was popular and back then it was fairly unpopular. We get tired of going to war. In the cold war many people wanted to get out of bed. Neil it is the middle east. What about the interest . Well, its the middle east, so theres a lot of interest. Neil neil do we hook up to the wrong team . We dont always talk about the wrong team. We know who has declared war on us. Iran is on the side of Bashar Alassad. Vladimir putin is on the side of Bashar Alassad. We know who the opposition days. There is no difficulty deciding if theres an enemy. The question is do we have the will and the resolve and i understand the. Neil if we topple this regime, dont we now know whos coming behind them . That is true, but we learned a lot from iraq and libya and we have learned in these things. This is a substantial revolution on and it is coming from people who said that we preferred this. We prefer to see it as a whole. Neil thank you for your insight. You know i dont quite know where youre coming from. [laughter] neil you are a very articulate individual in this whole situation. Anyway, i dont know what we will end up doing, but i do know that we are doing nothing nothing on transferred and you should see how much it affects alan simpson. 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One thing about it is that the deficit is reduced and i would say thats a great thing. Erskine bowles would say thats a great thing. But that is not the point. The point is what are you going to do with these two great drivers of the system. Forget all the negatives of obamacare. Just call it health care. It is impossible that we spend this. Neil you are saying with or without this Health Care Law, we are still facing big budgetary constraints. Yes, and the solvency of Social Security when the trustees are telling us in 2033, but we will get a check for 25 less. Then to think all during august when they have a recessed, nobody even talk to anybody about this. And now they have syria on their minds and it will stay on their minds because they are so suspicious with the russians. So here we are. Neil congress appropriated the funds and i understand that. One of the arguments in this backandforth is what they should worry about. The deficit funds are coming down, revenues are coming in. You know, the deficits are half of what they were. I dont worry about a thing, i maybe two years old. I just worry about my grandchildren and my children. These guys are going to be with something that will drive them right to the ground. You cant tax your way out of this baby and you cant grow your way out. Neil radically changing if anything, syria the best it does with this situation is prevent a Government Shutdown because in the midst of what could be threatening hostilities, why would anyone want to shut the government down, why would anyone want to cut military spending and we are getting into serious fights on these fiscal matters. I think it can shut down the government and ive never seen such a nasty bunch of people in my life. The Social Security checks and the veterans tax and shutting down the government but i think its doubled as the little guy. Neil is not something that we always are able to avoid. So youre saying we should avoid this. Yes, what a task he has with at least 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 guys that, well, i am a republican, but they think im a commie. Neil well, you are come unto . [applause] well, i dropped that. I was once at the aclu, but nobody knows that. Neil now with the aarp. Thats right, now im an honorary member. [laughter] neil thank you so much, alan simpson. Its such a pleasure to talk to you. The president s plan to negotiate a deal with democrats, we will be getting into that. Coming up next, something scary about this Health Care Law um. Wheres mrs. Davis . She took an early spring break thanks to her double miles from the capital one venture card. Now what was mrs. Davis teaching . Spelling. Thats not a subject, right . I mean, spell check. Thats a program. Algebra. Okay. Persons a and b are flying to the bahamas. How fast will they get there . Dont you need distance, rate and. No, all it takes is double miles. [ all ] whoa. Yeah. 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Pulling out of the state health care and for lots of folks in the garden garden state, not a lot of time to switch insurance. Adding to that, more hospital layouts because one big employer says that it doesnt have the cash on access as we have a Health Care Disaster unfolding and Adam Lashinsky says we have another bump in the road. What do you make of this . Cigna and united are dropping out of markets. It is very similar to what happened with Financial Markets and they were dropping these practices and you see this come out of the market. You are losing competition because people are starting to drop out out of the business and the fallacy that you will get to keep your insurance is not going to be true. Because certain entrances is dropping out of markets and i think that this is bad for the insurance and obamacare overall. Anything is a concern. They are purchasing in the new jersey exchange, aetna is not pulling out of new jersey. They are ensuring people in new jersey, not just through these random strangers. Probably know, maybe a year from now they will come back when its up and running and successful. Neil maybe so. Hope springs eternal. That has been raised in california in regards to the same. But im wondering if theres something more sinister going on here. There were so much ill will created that so many things need to be fixed and now you are turning to the guys at the moment to begin with, saying please help us fix the system and the system is not in place. You will get these factors that will become worse. A couple of observations. The Insurance Companies were more supportive than most and they saw this as an opportunity. Many see it as an opportunity. To your specific point, you know, i understand the point youre making. Many people and democrats wanted a singlepayer system. I think that that was the goal and they shelved it. But i wonder if they would keep this going and that in that this would be the foldout of events. And that we would go with this. We are saying that the whole thing has to completely filtered that we should be clear that this is not what is on the table right now in the government doesnt have this exchanges. The government is authorizing these exchanges and it is private Insurance Companies in exchanges. Okay, for now. Adam, always a pleasure, my friend. It is good to see you here in the United States. I came all the way to see you. Neil meanwhile, do you see these two guys . One of them is going to be new yorks next mayor and i know what you folks outside new york are saying. Talk to a pnc investments Financial Advisor today. Neil you know, i have heard a lot of experts say that Republican Mayoral candidate is dreaming. Then again, they said the same thing about Michael Bloomberg when he was a republican. Before him, there was rudy giuliani. So republicans to win in this overwhelmingly democratic town and he is trying to prove his opponents progressive and that the plans of bill de blasio are very much there. And he is speaking with us. Thats right, my opponent on the republican side and primary side spent probably 10 million bashing me all over the place. Neil what happens now, mayor . I mean, we are kind of used to rui giuliani and Michael Bloomberg and others and some work war conservatives were conservatives that you have to be very pragmatic way. But that is a tough battle because you have to overcome a huge democratic base. Howd he do that . You do that by talking to the people and i, too, am a fiscal conservative and i am quite progressive when it comes to issues. Im a little bit different in what is really important is to talk to the people of the city and make them understand what your vision is. I would really like to change many aspects of the city and we have to be prepared for the 21st century. It comes to core questions. Whoever my opponent and his and who i am. Neil we have all of these open union contracts. And the present mayor has said that we should more or less subtle. Are you trying to be tough on the unions . Theyre going to say that im tough. I represent the city of new york. They want to be paid for the work that they did five years ago, we heard that it would cost between seven and 8 billion. Neil thats not going to have been. That is not going to happen, i will not raise taxes for that. And prices are going up for everything and they havent had an increase in their base pay. I have no problem with that so it is that dire. It could be that dire. All elections have consequences. We have seen some that are detroit like in many ways, the desire to pick up the Police Department with stop, question, and frist. Neil he also wants to go back to the brokerage houses and banks. Is using the word that its a tale of two cities. There are different ways of saying it. They are dividing and conquering. They started class warfare in the city and the most recent commercial said that those people who live on park avenue there is no reason so how are you going to diversify the economy and our education is in severe need of reform. It was the budget that Mike Bloomberg inherited with 36 billion that is now 70 billion and it is 56 over the rate of inflation. We have a spending problem in our expenses are out of control. Neil on the 9 11 anniversary, it really stuck. Is it true that you didnt seek out the council . Two i have known commissioner kelly for a long time and we work very closely together. And he said mostly because hes concerned about the future of the city of new york. I used to be brief and i assume that once the nominees, the nominees would go in and everything. And that was the standard operating procedure. They want to reduce crime rates on 10 over the last several years, they want to applaud them. If they were in the private sector they would be getting great bonuses. Neil they dont get retroactive pay. Im not going to make them out to be the enemy. My father was a cop. My brother was a cop as well here in new york. Neil joe lhota, it is great to see you. Thank you for coming on the show. We are on the watch and we will see where it goes. Well, if this were a corporate crisis, then barack obama would already be gone. Shareholders are really big on furthering, so why should we be. Neil and buzz for teaching us that you cant create the future. By clinging to the past. And with that youre history. Instead of looking behind. Delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions. In everything from the best experiences below. To the finest comforts above. Were not simply saluting history. Were making it. The pursuit of a better tomorrow is something we all share. But who can help y find your own path . Who can build you a plan, not just a pie chart . 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