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Caring only about the deficit. they have to care about practical the reason you re so upset is you know it was a good speech. he went over to the aei, the number one war center, this is totally neocon. your thoughts. this is hopeless. i thought he d admit the truth here today. it was a bit jarring to hear some of that coming from eric cantor who has been a warrior. hasn t he been the guy standing behind boehner s back waiting to trip him over because he s been too moderate? no question. he s been standing off center stage waiting for his opportunity to become speaker. i thought that there was a lot of practicality in the speech but i didn t think there were really big ideas. i think it was like sundries and notions in a drugstore. little items, like telling colleges they got to tell people what employment prospects there are for english majors. what s that about? cantor let s take a look. he took a approach that the university education should be more like a vocational
spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it s just a sign of things to come. let s go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person who can distinguish between good and evil. many targets, principally foreigners, those assisting foreigners, afghan security forces and a variety of other tactics which, of course, this kind of statement is try to design fear through the afghans working with the nato campaign here. we saw this morning a suicide bomber driving a car laden with explosives into the gates of something called the greenvi
our national security. within two hours of the president s departure, a suicide bomber rocked kabul. at least seven people were killed. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. the nfl suspended four players from the new orleans saints today. anthony hargrove, scott fujita, will smith, and jonathan vilma were all named in the so-called bountygate scandal. players were allegedly offered bonuses for hurting players. the league has already suspended sean payton for the 2012 season. hillary clinton is in china there to talk economic strategy, but the name on everyone s lips is chen. that s chen guangcheng who is now we are told at a hospital in beijing. chen is the blind human rights activist who was convicted and thrown in jail for leading protests against the government. he spent six days under american embassy protection after escaping house arrest. it s not clear if he left the embassy by choice. a friend of the activist said chinese authorities threatened
That need to be pushed and turned, and all the warnings that the united states should not look like it s doing anything blatant, clearly, we re in a phase right this day, we re in a moment sitting back waiting, wanting to know how to define. military coup? it appears mubarak is out with, but where s everybody going to go and who fills the breach? and brian and richard, rachel maddow is, of course, with us as well. rachel. i heard you refer to this earlier as a berlin-type moment. we can t lose sight of the history here. we are watching tectonic change in the middle east. we are watching tectonic change. and when the berlin wall fell, we knew from the exuberance of the german people that we could see and that was being broadcast live to the west how important it was to them. we didn t yet know how big a deal the berlin wall was going