http://www.clipsyndicate.com/rss/feed/3472 http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/652545 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/652545/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/25/58/351/70536572-3ea3-401e-aec2-0d11945b7146_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Speech by Barack Obama, (D) Presidential Candidate; Analysis by Sen. John McCain, (R) Presidential Candidate; Obama, McCain back Bernanke likely to avoid intruding on Fed; New President will have three nominations to make for seven-member board; Analysis by Scott Lanman of Bloomberg News</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/652545/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:46:00 +0000 Obama Speaks In Berlin; Concerns Over Bernanke's Job Safety In 2008; Outlook For US Economy Speech by Barack Obama, (D) Presidential Candidate; Analysis by Sen. John McCain, (R) Presidential Candidate; Obama, McCain back Bernanke likely to avoid intruding on Fed; New President will have three nominations to make for seven-member board; Analysis by Scott Lanman of Bloomberg News http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/652545/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip >> barack obama continuing his foreign-policy tour with a much- publicized stop in terminates today. in a speech before 200,000 people, he called on european allies to commit more resources to the war in afghanistan. >> this is what we must be out the terrorists who threaten our security. no one of wellcome's war. >> he has promised to shift the u.s. military focus from iraq to afghanistan. germany has military personnel stationed in afghanistan, but in the more peaceful northern region. angela merkel fend off calls to little bit of the spotlight from barack obama us trip. hurricane dolly disrupted plans to visit and will break in the fall of mexico. instead, he stopped by a german restaurant in ohio. >> i would love to give a speech in germany, a political speech, or a speech that may be the german people would be interested in, but i would much prefer to do it as president of the united states rather than as a candidate for the office of presidency. > they differ on the trade and health care and other issues, there may be one issue they these candidates as president regarding the bad and ben bernanke. >> basically, neither one will rock the vote as far as the fed's approach to setting interest rates. they have both expressed confidence in chairman gray, and the way they addressed bear stearns, and opening up lending to fannie mae and freddie mac. it is very likely that they are not to be very different in terms of their general approach, in terms of how the fed operates. where they could differ, however, is in the regulatory approach. the new president will right more willing to be more aggressive in the fed's regulatory and enforcement role. mccain, as a republican, would more traditionally support people who are fans off. >> three new faces would be a substantial shift, whether obama are mccain get the chance to nominate people there. does the next president have the chance to immediately remove ben bernanke, even if they wanted to? >> if they want to, and theoretically, it could happen, but it is highly unlikely. it has been 30 years since a first term as u.s. president replaced a sitting federal reserve chairman. several more times. finally, he had to retire in 2006, which is when bernanke got appointed. bernanke term will be up in january, 2010, and the new president will have to make a decision about reappointing him, but all signs point to bernanke getting another four year term. >> do we know how well these candidates no bernanke? he worked for george w. bush, but any sense of the personal contact and have had? >> we have not heard of any extensive kind -- contact between either candidate and been on a committee that gets a chance to hear pinkies testimony, the fed chairman's testimony, regularly. there is not an extensive record of remarks by either candidate regarding the fed and related issues. >> and if the fed and ben bernanke are not big issues, that is probably fine with ben bernanke. traditionally, they try to keep a low five in an election year? >> they can be carried we just heard the philadelphia fed president say this week that it, the election should not make a difference in terms -- <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=652545&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=652545&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/652218 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/652218/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/24/58/351/38d0845d-e053-49a3-8e73-7ec329caba3f_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>According to International Olympic Committee, Iraq Will Not Complete in Beijing Due to Iraqi Government Interference; Obama Discusses Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan During Visit to Berlin; South Texas Residents Still Threatened by Dolly, Now Reduced to Tropical Storm; 419K Gallons of Oil Spill Into Mississippi River After Barge Collides into Tanker; Secretary Rice Says Proposed U.S.-India Nuclear Energy Deal Good for Both Countries</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/652218/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:55:00 +0000 World and National News Update: Summer Olympics, Obama in Europe, Hurricane Dolly, Mississippi Oil Spill, U.S.-India Energy Plan According to International Olympic Committee, Iraq Will Not Complete in Beijing Due to Iraqi Government Interference; Obama Discusses Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan During Visit to Berlin; South Texas Residents Still Threatened by Dolly, Now Reduced to Tropical Storm; 419K Gallons of Oil Spill Into Mississippi River After Barge Collides into Tanker; Secretary Rice Says Proposed U.S.-India Nuclear Energy Deal Good for Both Countries http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/652218/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip ioc warned iraq of sanctions after the company disbanded its olympic committee in may, all the reports said seven iraqi athletes were still trying to compete. and analysts as the government did not accept an invitation to come to its headquarters in switzerland to try to end the dispute. senator barack obama is meeting with german officials in berlin before giving a speech this evening in front of the to your garden victory column. thousands are expected to give the senate to speak today. among the topics he discussed with chancellor merkel today with the war in iraq and in afghanistan. hurricane dolly has weakened into a tropical storm, but the dangers are not over for residents of south texas. the storm is centered near laredo with winds of 45 miles per hour. forecasters say they expect to cancel the tropical storm closed stretch of the mississippi river from new orleans to the gulf of mexico. coast guard petty officer jacqueline young says crews are using bacchants guinness to pick of the oil being contained with brooms. 400,019 gallons of heavy fuel oil spilled from a barge when it collided into a tanker on wednesday. secretary of state rice says the proposed u.s. indian nuclear energy deal is good for both countries and for global efforts to reduce the spread of atomic weapons technology and greenhouse gas emissions. speaking to reporters in a strategy today, secretary rice says the bush administration will press u.s. lawmakers to approve the agreement. <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=652218&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=652218&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Communities,Emergencies & Disasters,Government & Politics,Law & Legal Issues,News,Shopping & Commerce,Sports http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/651925 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651925/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/24/4/3/88524634-6cfb-4e28-90fd-46a218fc9a23_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Five deaths caused by rollovers and dozens of other accidents in Iraq and Afghanistan have led U.S. military leaders to warn troops to be smart behind the wheel. (July 24)</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651925/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:53:38 +0000 Fatal MRAP Accidents Prompt Warnings Five deaths caused by rollovers and dozens of other accidents in Iraq and Afghanistan have led U.S. military leaders to warn troops to be smart behind the wheel. (July 24) http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651925/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Associated Press <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=651925&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=651925&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> mrap-driving-alerts World News,News,war,accident http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/651682 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651682/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/24/58/351/3f4f19f2-2e87-495d-a8c6-dca09d8e10aa_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Economy - 44%; Energy Prices - 22%; Iraq/Foreign Affairs -15% </td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651682/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:55:00 +0000 Poll Of The Day: Voters' Top Concerns Economy - 44%; Energy Prices - 22%; Iraq/Foreign Affairs -15% http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651682/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip pressing problem followed by 22% who say it is energy prices. -- 34% say the economy is the biggest problem. and the iraq war is down to 15%. <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=651682&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=651682&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Business,News,Bloomberg Business News,Economy,Energy,International http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/651454 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651454/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/24/4/3/ac89d00f-178d-4cf6-9b44-0eeae4a6c79f_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Republican John McCain pushed back against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007. (July 23)</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651454/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:01:04 +0000 McCain Denies He Misstated Timing of Iraq Surge Republican John McCain pushed back against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007. (July 23) http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651454/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Associated Press <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=651454&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=651454&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> McCain Government & Politics,News,Politics - U.S.,mccain http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/651143 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651143/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/23/44/336/fb286caecca291de1dfcdcc567f3faf2_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>A methadone overdose kills an Iraq war veteran.</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651143/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:06:07 +0000 5i: Methadone Increasingly A Recreational Drug A methadone overdose kills an Iraq war veteran. http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/651143/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 KPHO Phoenix, Arizona <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=651143&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=651143&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Local News,Emergencies & Disasters,Crime,Drugs,Careers & Occupation,Military http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/650710 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650710/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/23/4/3/6c80e977-1789-4847-bf4b-405e1f951d3c_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>John McCain says Democrat Barack Obama is wrong about the Iraq war. Obama's campaign says McCain was wrong about the war's timeline during a CBS News interview. (July 22)</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650710/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:56:09 +0000 Obama Campaign: McCain Flubs on Iraq Timeline John McCain says Democrat Barack Obama is wrong about the Iraq war. Obama's campaign says McCain was wrong about the war's timeline during a CBS News interview. (July 22) http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650710/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Associated Press <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650710&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650710&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> McCain-Iraq Timeline Government & Politics,News,Politics - U.S.,mccain,obama http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/650457 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650457/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/23/58/351/5bad9175-0b0c-4b12-8045-c56a812f24b5_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650457/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:32:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Bob Barr Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650457/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip if ron paul is the libertarian turned republican, than bob barr has gone in the other direction. the man who led the push to impeach clinton is now leading the libertarian party. >> i'm running for the president presidency of the united states on a platform of liberty and individual freedom and smaller government, that is very clearly not senator mcain or senator obama's platform. senator mcain, open though he talks about nibling at the edges of the size of government, he talks about trying to do away legislation, the mcain-feingold act and that's control over speech and the right to petition and assembly with a vengeance. >> so you se that as impinging on political speech and others would say we're trying to get the corporate money out of here and the special interest money out of here and trying to purify this system so that, i mean, let's put it this way, if somebody came up with a new bill that would say ban al soft money, ban al pac money and even the union money and say, you know what, you can donate as an individual as much money as you want but it has to be publicly recognized as such but everything else is banned, would you support something like that? >> it's sort of -- if somebody put a gun to my head and said is this better than the status quo? obvious, it's the money that comes in from the special interest groups that keeps these parties going, that oil is up the machinery and some would say keeps the libertarian party and other potential third parties down. so why not attack the engine behind this problem which is this kind of, you know, what some would see, not eder toizing here, what some would see as a system of making sure that the two big parties get all the bucks? >> i don't know whether a lot of people know goldberg but the f.c. and this federal regulatory mechanism that overlaid on what used to be a fairly simple and straightforward process of supporting candidates has become mccain-feingold law does exactly the opposite it tells an organization such as the n.r.a. on whose board i serve or other liberal or conservative organizations, we're going to stop your ability to advocate on public policy isues on behalf of your membership in the two months before campaign. i mean, what in the world is the logic of that? you're saying we need to open up the system and then you close it. that's the hypocrisy of mccain-feingold. >> but can a third party, let's be blunt about this, these groups give money to potential winners and they're much les likely to go for a third party. n.r.a. going to give you any money? >> probably not. look, i'm a candidate for the libertarian party and i'm not going to whine about the system and the system right now is what we have. organizations that others viewed as being, shall we say, a little bit on the fringe. >> you're being charitable. >> yeah, exactly. so what others would call hate groups. you've sent some money back or rejected some of that? >> well, what we had the other day is some group gratuitously and had the apearance of being a white supremist group and they had a statement that they supported my candidacy and my campaign manager, russ bernie who used to be ros perot's, immediately we let people know and told them, you know, we don't want this. we're not interested in this kind of support and we're not interested in this kind of ideology or approach and i think you lived in tehran and you've lived in baghdad. >> i have. >> how would you characterize american foreign policy in the middle east right now? >> the foreign policy in the middle east right now is completely irresponsible and short-sighted and i think this is the main problem that will be the legacy of the bush administration. this president, this administration, has allowed itself to be captive to iraq, and the president has become almost obsessed with iraq. >> would you get the troops out of there immediately or close to it? >> close to it. i do not believe and i think that it would be irresponsible to telegraph to our adversaries exactly when and how we'd withdrawal but i think that it's irresponsible to keep 150,0 u.s. troops and the huge support mechanism that we have spending system and its own national security. >> coming up, the man who may be the democrats' harvest critic in their own party, dennis <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650457&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650457&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> News,Government & Politics,Politics - U.S. http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/650458 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650458/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/23/58/351/2fa4ae6e-c996-463c-b1f3-5b4dbedbd29f_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Republican Presidential Candidate</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650458/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:10:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Sen. John McCain Republican Presidential Candidate http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650458/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip when john mccain joined us he quickly tried to put aside the talk that he was out of money and essentially out of race. and critics claimed he didn't understand the economy. so we talked about the economy. we're coming at a very strange time in our national experience in a number of ways, the immigration debate, certainly, the markets right now, what would you like to se done at this point? some people say that the fed has to be more involved and take some action to protect markets, that this mortgage situation has just goten out of hand. where do you see the federal government's obligation in this? >> i don't pretend to be an expert, but i do have lots of advisors who are smart people and i agree with them that maybe the fed should be cutting interest rates, maybe by as much as 50 points. i think that we've got to get some confidence and liquidity back, i do not believe in a bailout. i think that would be rewarding bad behavior. i understand from an academic standpoint that sometimes there has to be a credit squeeze to get out, and get the bad players out and those who have played there's a front page story in 'the wall street journal' about a family who had a home loan mortgage and there's no way on god's green earth they'l be able to make those payments as the rates go up and so we ned to squeeze out the bad players and in the long run that will be helpful but right now it's a small consolation to people feeling this pain. >> but you wouldn't take it back to the days, remember the great controversy over the s-and-l bailouts a generation ago? >> no, i think if we could get the interest rates back down further and get some of the bad players out as quickly as possible that fundamentals of our economy i think are stil good. unemployment is still in god shape. manufacturing base could reemerge. and we have seen the flood of tainted products coming into this country recently and those who say that perhaps we ned -- on a variety of issues, in terms of safety and in terms of currency, that we may be in a position right now where we need to do something about that. what do you think? >> mike, i'm a student of history. and every time i've seen us practice protectionism we have paid a very heavy price for it. i'm a free trader. probably the most free trading politician that you'll ever have on this program. i worry about intelectual property rights and i worry about currency imbalance and i worry more than anything else, frankly, about the lack of progress in china towards buildup plus their intimidation of some of their neighbors in the region. >> do you consider them to be a threat to us, a direct threat? >> no, but i think they bear watching and i think that it's in their interest not to cause problems in asia. i find their atitude towards tehran irational, after al, the trade and economic ties between thailand and the mainland are incredible. >> would you change our relationship or recognition status with taiwan? >> no, i think that the policy that was inaugurated by richard nixon after the visit to china, and we understand that china is one country but we will not -- we believe that that the straits of thigh thigh warn and i -- taiwan and i agreed with that but we need the peaceful reunification of taiwan. and i think that it's good that we continue to have troops stationed in japan and other places and i think that it's important that we main tain that presence. i hope that -- there's every reason to believe that china will become the superpower that it's going to be peacefully and there's no reason for me to say they're not but they certainly bear watching and we should expect more progress in a number of areas, their treatment of taiwan and democracy and human rights and climate change, there's a broad range of issues that we're not seeing the necessary, to still be a credible -- not force so much, but still to be able to project our power the way we want to around the world or has the iraq situation diminished that capacity? >> the iraq situation has diminished our influence more than anything else, yes, we still have the military capability to have our influence felt in the region, etc., and none of us contemplate an armed conflict with china, but our military presence in the region i think is a stabilizing factor. >> and we were talking before and you see the iraq war taking a turn now and that our forces are actually -- some would say, i don't like to use the word winning or losing here because i don't really know what that means anymore, but the tide has turned as you said to me before. local, political side of things, there is quieter areas, the kurdish areas are quieter and having said that, look, we know that al qaeda pays attention to what happens in the united states. horrific things are going to happen like happened yesterday when as many as 500 people could have been kiled and those are the attention-getting spectacular acts. but the progress on the ground, particularly militarily, is even better than many of us expected it to be. we've got the right strategy and we mishandled it terribly for nearly four years. rumsfeld mishandled this war terribly but we've got the right strategy and we're showing great progress and we ought to let <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650458&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650458&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> News,Government & Politics,Politics - U.S.,Republican,mccain http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/650459 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650459/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/23/58/351/b2d1ea7b-041d-4391-96a6-9da3b8d82c62_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Former Democratic Presidential Candidate</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650459/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:02:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Gov. Bill Richardson Former Democratic Presidential Candidate http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650459/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip tonight the men who would be president. we had a parade of members of congress come into here, and libertarians and combinations thereof and you're about to hear from them. i'm mike schneider and this is 'night talk.' [captioning made possible by bloomberg television] . >> welcome to 'night talk.' when bill richardson was here he was still running for president and a friend of the clintons and he promoted himself as the man with the most experience in the most areas. talk to me about energy right now. we've got oil at record prices, it's been hovering near record prices now for the past week or so. >> we don't need little congressional fixes, we need to reduce dramatically our dependence on foreign oil which renewable technologies, solar, wind, and biomass, and biofuels. and i'd have fuel efficiency, the congress passed 35 miles per gallon fuel, that's pathetic, it should be 50. and i'd reduce grenhouse gas emissions by 80% with strong mandates and cap-and-trade system and i would say to the american people, i'm going to be honest with you, we have to conserve with our lighting, with our air conditioning and we need to have gren buildings and retrofit. we need to have 20% of our electricity renewable energy. >> so that has to hapen. and you'd let the americans know that sacrifices are expected? >> not going to be mandates and i would say we al need to pull together like john f. kennedy know the way americans conduct their lives and there's no sense of being committed or deprived in any way. >> well, politicians have given us wars that are not appropriateiated and they have given us a $9 trillion debt, they give us tax cuts we don't want, so you're right, a 'me' generation is created by a bunch of politicians that really are not thinking about the future. >> would you roll back those tax cuts? >> yeah, i wouldn't roll back the middle-class tax cuts. for the uper -- >> what is the upper part of middle? >> $80,000, $10,000, those would stay but i would start new tax cuts for the midle clas and i'd give tax cuts to companies that came into the united states and paid over the and i'd have a policy of progrowth and entrepreneurship and i'm not the typical political figure that thinks the way you'll make things better is to increase spending or increase taxes. >> as i said i'd cut taxes in my state but we pay for those tax cuts and we target them to the middle class and to renewable indusindustries that pay well and that create jobs and train people. >> when you look back to your days in the energy department and those years, did you do enough back then, did we do enough? >> no, i should have done more. we proposed a renewable energy picture and we proposed fuel efficiency but the congres wouldn't let us and we probably didn't push enough. it wasn't a national crisis. today it's a national crisis because you don't want the irans need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and one-third of our trade deficit, mike, is from high petroleum prices and it hit $80 a couple of weeks ago and we have to reduce this enormous debt but also reduce this huge energy dependence that we have on foreign oil, especially in unstable sources. >> also during the days at the energy department there was a controversy, and you were criticized by congress in those days. if you had to do that over again what would you have done differently? >> i would have paid more attention early on to security at the national laboratories and i think that i trusted the labs too much. and they said, oh, we're very secure. they weren't, number one. number two, the detention of >> my point, mike, is that our invasion of iraq, the fact that we spent $450 billion in iraq has detracted us from the war on terror, from dealing with international terrorism, building international support against the taliban, and bin laden, against these al qaeda forces that are out to get us. secondly, nuclear terorism, nuclear proliferation, you know, the nuclear weapons, nuclear materials of north korea, russia, crossing the border and affecting an american city, greenhouse gas emisions and i would also pay more attention to our ports, our subways and our aircraft, and an anthrax attack. i'd have a consistent strategy policymakers on a war that has no military solution. >> back with the presumptive republican nominee, john <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650459&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650459&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,Politics - U.S.,Democrat http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/650419 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650419/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/23/58/351/d6e03e11-cf69-43d0-b8cd-8b0c43cdbd5f_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Speech by Barack Obama, (D) Presidential Candidate; Analysis by John McCain, (R) Presidential Candidate; Obama's next stops: Israel, Germany, France, England; Iraqi Prime Minister says he likes Obama's plan for timetablesl; Obama says there's 'growing consensus' to withdraw from Iraq; Obama to give major speech on Transatlantic Alliance in Berlin; Reaction, insight and analysis by Fred Kempe, Bloomberg News Columnist; Reaction, insight and analysis by Janine Zacharia of Bloomberg News</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650419/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:36:00 +0000 Business & The Ballot: Obama's Overseas Diplomatic Campaign; Obama In The MidEast; MidEast Peace Process Speech by Barack Obama, (D) Presidential Candidate; Analysis by John McCain, (R) Presidential Candidate; Obama's next stops: Israel, Germany, France, England; Iraqi Prime Minister says he likes Obama's plan for timetablesl; Obama says there's 'growing consensus' to withdraw from Iraq; Obama to give major speech on Transatlantic Alliance in Berlin; Reaction, insight and analysis by Fred Kempe, Bloomberg News Columnist; Reaction, insight and analysis by Janine Zacharia of Bloomberg News http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650419/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip overseas trip with a stop in jordan before landing in jerusalem. he met with reporters after stops in iraq and afghanistan. he said he knows there is a growing consensus in both the u.s. and iraq for a timeline to withdraw forces. back here at home, mccain says obama has shown his inexperience on iraq. >> i strongly believe that what is best for u.s. national security is to initiate a withdrawal and to set a timeframe that is consistent with what the iraqis are now saying. and i think it can be accomplished. >> if he had his way we would have been out last march. we would not have done the surge. we would have not succeed and we would have defeat. then comes the european leg of his tour. he will give a speech in berlin before continue on to paris and london. we spend some time looking at the trip and some of the foreign policy issues that come with us. fred kempe is a bloomberg columnist. janine zacariah covers foreign affairs for its year unlimbered. how do you measure success for this trip? has it been a success? >> the metaphor for the trip is barack obama at the military base taking his three-point shot and sending it right through the hoop. you can imagine john mccain watching that and thinking can he not get anything wrong? that is with the trip has run so far. >> i think we even have the one of them, this is a campaign trip. this is not a foreign policy trip. so what is important is he is showing americans that they can be proud of him on the world stage. begin the commander in chief. 24% say they're confident with him as commander in chief. twice that many with john mccain. so far, so good. the the -- he also lacks experience. we know that. he is on the ground with the people he will have to deal with if he is elected. that means in a crisis or not in a crisis, should he be elected to it will not be the first time he talks to them. he will know who they are. and president in afghanistan and that the white house and state department, they have to be frustrated by what they have heard and they have had to be defensive. >> the irony is at the same time that this german magazine publishes these comments by maliki, the white house announces they are discussing a withdrawal or time frame. vague with the iraqis. time horizon was the phrase. no one is painted tension to that. maybe there is a consensus forming -- no one is paying attention to that. when you have the prime minister of iraq saying that whoever thinks we should withdraw has the right idea. certainly, this sucks the wind out of john mccain press criticism. you saw that earlier. >> what about mccain press criticism? news because you have gone there so often. there is no doubt that the europeans are favoring obama as well. the french, 84% approval ratings. the germans with 82%. what is really interesting is watching the movement on obama. we are learning what kind of president he will be. he is moving in a more hawkish direction. although democrats are not often trusted on national security by independent voters. he is sane i may not have liked what we are doing in iraq, but i would put more troops in afghanistan. he is talking to petraeus. it is an interesting thing that he is moving himself the to a more center. >> i do not know if i recall that more hawkish. given that he is sticking to this notion probably of a phased withdrawal. john mccain saying he would have gotten us out in march if he could. more into afghanistan because that is the center of the fight on terrorism. it is an interesting thing, because when we first heard him talking about iraq and the same i do not support the war, he started thinking there are two wings of the democratic party. since vietnam people had been a little bit shy. if you're a national security hock to vote for democrats. >> let me pick up on israel. his talks with the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas. your take on the risk for obama here and what we heard from him so far on this issue. >> if there is a risk, this will be it. he will go to the west bank as well as more. the palestinians were upset by comments he made in april to a pro-israel lobby saying that jerusalem will remain undivided. anything you say on this issue sets them off. he has moderated his comments. -- he has already walked back back a little. the other issue will be iran. the israelis went into your clarification from him about his openness in negotiating with iran. >> let me get your take on the european leg of this trip. he talked that the europeans would love to vote for obama if there could. are there risks there as well? >> i think he has gone the wrong way. i think the big public gathering was not the thing to do. it sends the wrong message to voters here because they're seeing he is trying to grandstand in front of europeans. >> this is the big speech in germany that attracted a lot of attention. >> yes, absolutely. but this is a campaign trip. what he does get out of that is he shows i can shift the public image in europe about america. that actually has strategic value, because you have to move -- if you want to move european politicians -- >> not only is that an image of tens of thousands of germans cheering him is going to do him well back here. >> you can see the visuals. as always, we appreciate it. <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650419&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650419&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> News,Government & Politics,Politics - U.S.,obama,Politics - International http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/650414 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650414/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/23/141/489/50199508-1c9f-462f-afb4-3b81fe8aefcf_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Many of us start every day with a steaming cup of coffee. But as you can imagine, that's often difficult for soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to do. KVUE's Clara Tuma looks at how veterans are working to get fresh coffee to the battlefield.</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650414/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:51:28 +0000 Veterans send troops steaming cups of coffee Many of us start every day with a steaming cup of coffee. But as you can imagine, that's often difficult for soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to do. KVUE's Clara Tuma looks at how veterans are working to get fresh coffee to the battlefield. http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650414/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 KVUE Austin, TX <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650414&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650414&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Careers & Occupation,Local News,Military http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/650005 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650005/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/4/3/22f65cad-7661-4697-aca7-5fe660051ea8_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Here are the top AP campaign stories for July 22nd: Obama pledges work on Israeli-Palestinian peace; McCain to announce running mate?; Obama sticks to Iraq troop withdrawal target: McCain says he'd rather lose the election than the war in Iraq.</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650005/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:05:03 +0000 AP Campaign Minute Here are the top AP campaign stories for July 22nd: Obama pledges work on Israeli-Palestinian peace; McCain to announce running mate?; Obama sticks to Iraq troop withdrawal target: McCain says he'd rather lose the election than the war in Iraq. http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/650005/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Associated Press <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650005&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=650005&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> campaign_minute News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649815 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649815/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/110/421/ebcad62dbc37bf4f40f8c0b0e6c73140_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Gordon Brown confirms the 4100 British troops in Iraq will stay for the immediate future</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649815/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:41 +0000 Brown confirms troops to stay Gordon Brown confirms the 4100 British troops in Iraq will stay for the immediate future http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649815/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Press Association UK <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649815&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649815&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> International,World News,Military/Defense http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649950 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649950/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/7d007b48-c427-4e58-b905-28558f8c937b_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>War Crimes Fugitive Radovan Karadzic Arrested After More than a Decade on the Run; Obama Calls for Troop Withdrawal, Says His Approach to Foreign Policy Has "Increasing Worldwide Support"; Senate Votes Unanimously with Democratic Plan to Curb Speculation in Oil Markets</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649950/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:54:00 +0000 World and National News Update: Karadzic Arrest, Obama in Jordan, Higher Energy Prices War Crimes Fugitive Radovan Karadzic Arrested After More than a Decade on the Run; Obama Calls for Troop Withdrawal, Says His Approach to Foreign Policy Has "Increasing Worldwide Support"; Senate Votes Unanimously with Democratic Plan to Curb Speculation in Oil Markets http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649950/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip serbian officials say that a war crimes criminal through a long white beard and changed his m.o. to evade security. >> he was arrested after more than one decade on the run. he has been transferred to the war crimes tribunal in the netherlands to face genocide charges. the 63-year-old is accused of masterminding the deadly siege of sarajevo and the executions of up to 8000 muslims during the 1992-95 war. one is untouchable. it is possible for us to say that this is the beginning of the most tragic chapter of modern history in bosnia- herzegovina. as such, we have a new, fresh impetus. >> it comes two weeks after power was changed in belgrade, with the goal of ending serbia's isolation. barack obama says that there is a growing consensus in the united states and iraq for a time line to withdraw american combat forces. the presumptive democratic presidential nominee added that spending in oil markets, government limits would need to be set by speculators. it has been blamed for the recent run-up in oil prices. >> thank you, oil prices are off $3 today. <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649950&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649950&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Emergencies & Disasters,Government & Politics,Law & Legal Issues,News,Shopping & Commerce http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649848 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649848/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/4/3/04b9a5af-eb7a-496d-9a55-f832ccbcae6f_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Republican John McCain says his Democratic rival Barack Obama is wrong on Iraq. McCain says U.S. troops will withdraw from Iraq with honor and victory. (July 22)</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649848/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:48:36 +0000 McCain: Obama Still Wrong on Iraq Republican John McCain says his Democratic rival Barack Obama is wrong on Iraq. McCain says U.S. troops will withdraw from Iraq with honor and victory. (July 22) http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649848/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Associated Press <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649848&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649848&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> McCain Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649763 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649763/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/1b569bac-fa63-4d88-8fc7-b9fca5cf6b52_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Obama Cites "Growing Consensus" to Withdraw U.S. Troops from Iraq; McCain Criticizes Obama's Opposition to Bush's Surge; New York Times Rejects McCain Essay on Iraq; Tractor Rampage in Jersalem Wounds 11 People Before Driver Shot by Police</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649763/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:54:00 +0000 World and National News: Election '08, Mideast Turmoil Obama Cites "Growing Consensus" to Withdraw U.S. Troops from Iraq; McCain Criticizes Obama's Opposition to Bush's Surge; New York Times Rejects McCain Essay on Iraq; Tractor Rampage in Jersalem Wounds 11 People Before Driver Shot by Police http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649763/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip democratic presidential candidate barack obama is now in jordan after a trip to iraq. >> senator obama is an imam, ga. - marmon, jordan, and at a news conference he said he welcomes the growing consensus in the u.s. and iraq for a timeline to redeploy the troops, repeating again that he wants a study delivered pullout from iraq. obama also got a boost yesterday when iraqi leader said he hoped u.s. combat troops would be able to leave the country by the end of 2010. meanwhile republican rival john mccain is criticizing obama for opposing president bush's surge of additional troops to iraq, saying that surge made it possible for obama to toward iraq safely and the iraqis to say they want withdrawal. >> he refuses to the state to acknowledge that it succeed. my friends, that is what judgment is all about. that is why i am qualified to > meanwhile, 'the new york times' rejected an s.c. -- as a john mccain wrote about his search policy in response to obama last week. in an e-mail to the mccain campaign, 'the new york times' opinion page editor says he could not accept the peace as written but he would be pleased to look at another draft. there has been another bulldozer terrorist attack in israel. the palestinian driver of a constructive vehicle rammed the car is in downtown jerusalem, wounding 11 people before he was shot and killed by police. it took place not far from the hotel, is expected to arrive tonight. <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649763&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649763&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> News,Law & Legal Issues,Government & Politics,Emergencies & Disasters http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649438 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649438/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/155/503/5d0f19de-15a2-4526-b3b8-9814d0d21cc0_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>As Barack Obama visits troops in Iraq, troops know some of them will wind up in Afghanistan because Obama and John McCain and military commanders all say we need more troops there to fight the same Taliban forces which helped Osama bin Laden and who have mounted a comeback.</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649438/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:53:17 +0000 US troop levels in Afghanistan likely to increase As Barack Obama visits troops in Iraq, troops know some of them will wind up in Afghanistan because Obama and John McCain and military commanders all say we need more troops there to fight the same Taliban forces which helped Osama bin Laden and who have mounted a comeback. http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649438/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 WVEC Norfolk VA <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649438&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649438&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Military,Local News,Government & Politics,Politics - U.S. http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649470 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649470/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/4/3/51233db1-8a8b-4a01-9538-490fcc1a3d21_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Here's the latest news for Tuesday July 22: Tropical Storm Dolly bearing down on Texas; Army soldier's husband due in court; 'Butcher of Bosnia' captured after a decade on the run; Sen. Barack Obama continues visit to Iraq. </td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649470/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:45:24 +0000 AP Top Stories Here's the latest news for Tuesday July 22: Tropical Storm Dolly bearing down on Texas; Army soldier's husband due in court; 'Butcher of Bosnia' captured after a decade on the run; Sen. Barack Obama continues visit to Iraq. http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649470/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Associated Press <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649470&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649470&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> minute_world Government & Politics,News,Politics - U.S.,obama http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649292 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649292/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/42d3176a-40e9-4045-943f-2fce69282904_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Afghanistan Former Foreign Minister; Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649292/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:50:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Dr. Abdullah Abdullah & Said Tayeb Jawad Afghanistan Former Foreign Minister; Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649292/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip afghanistan perspective. >> we wanted to know how the war on terror, which became the war in iraq, impacted the situation in afghanistan. so we turned to two of afghanistan's most respected figures, the former foreign minister and the u.n. ambassador. when we hear president bush say he's going to deploy more in the way of armed support within afghanistan for the elected government to do its job , the political differences that exist there now to be solved in a relatively peaceful atmosphere or do more troops need to be sent? >> i think still think adding to the number of troops is neded. that's what i hear from the ministers in kabul or coalition forces. shortage of forces has been the case. perhaps four years ago, the assumption was they might need lesser and lesser because of the dynamics of the situation as >> when what is the first thing you believe the karzai government should do? >> unifying its own government. trying to get the institutions to work together, the institutions between the parliament and executive branch is not something people would expect. it's very tensee and missing some oportunities. >> what do you view the iranians and the relationship between afghanistan and iran to be right now? how do you view them? >> iran playing a very big role and that continues. recently, perhaps in the past refugees, while hundreds of thousands of afghan refugees have returned home. there is now sort of forceful expulsion of those refugees, which is happening and that's the source of tension between the two countries. next to that will be the isue that is now in the media, that iran is helping taliban and the impact of the overall situation of iran and the extensions with the rest of the world. that will have an impact on the situation in afghanistan, but hopefully we will be able to remain in tact. as far as the other issues are affect u.s.-afghan relations next year? >> i think in one sense, i would say the fact that there is bipartisan support for afghanistan, this is the case right from the beginning. and afghanistan is not being a partisan issue. that, in itself, is an opportunity for afghanistan. so my assumption will be that as a result of the elections, some attention on afghanistan would continue. and that need is realized in washington as far as one can see. >> only about 10 seconds here, this war against the taliban is going to be going on for a little while, isn't it? >> i think so. >> talk to me about osama bin laden. where do you think he is? organization such as al qaeda, who needs to be connected to his organization, a person who neds continued medical care because of his dialysis and kidney condition, it would be hard for him to hide in a cave. >> he's in a city and being protected by his people, but he's probably being protected by others as well, isn't he? >> i don't want to speculate on that. but where we have found his friends, most of his close associates were arrested in major metropolitan centers in pakistan. >> if osama bin laden and ayman zawahiri were captured, if the top leadership of al qaeda were to be wiped out tomorrow, would you still have a threat from the taliban? >> it will make a significant difference, because he is the head of organization. but when you're fighting in afghanistan, what we are as long as it exists, we will have trouble. we have to make sure that the support for the phenomenon is wiped out in our region. >> there has been considerable debate about whether or not america took its eye off the ball from afghanistan when it mounted the invasion and attack in iraq and the continued presence of u.s. troops there. do you believe america made a mistake by not finishing the job in afghanistan first? >> no doubt that there was little attention to afghanistan. but if we look at the cold war after the soviets were gone, it was assumed that afghanistan was too remote and that negligence led to 9/11. i don't know if there were no iraq, we would have gotten the attention we should have. but definitely, today, there's a very good understanding here in the united states on the need to with many partners in europe, nato countries and others. in afghanistan, we know we will not build afghanistan without your assistance. our goodwill, coupled with the consensus of the international community are two important assets we should focus and build upon instead of looking back should it be done another way. we have the opportunity to build the country. afghanistan is on the right track. there is a lot of progress in education and health care. we do face security challenges, but we will overcome these challenges because of the continued partnership we have and affection of the afghan people. >> the war on terror as sen by our guests. tomorrow, we have another theme show. this one, the men who would be president. i'm mike schneider. thanks for watching. we'll see you next time. <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649292&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649292&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649255 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649255/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/03036e9c-4a96-4aac-83f4-a647cc653bd3_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Former Secretary of State; Former US Ambassador to Iraq</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649255/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:40:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Madeleine Albright & John Negroponte Former Secretary of State; Former US Ambassador to Iraq http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649255/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip and john negroponte >> for a diplomatic overview of the war, the deputy secretary of state, john negroponte, who previously served as u.s. ambassador to iraq and the former secretary of state, madeleine albright. >> as i travel around the world now, people have been wondering what is going on with this country and what do we stand after 9/11, that would not have degenerated into what some have described as anti-americanism around the world? >> i don't think so. the amazing part was when president bush went down to the site and really spoke to americans and kind of roused everybody, everybody was with us. there were jokes about the fact that the french -- it was a remarkable time. and obviously since the killers of 9/11 came out of afghanistan, there was the sense that it was justified and it was important to get rid of taliban and go after osama bin laden and that was right. but when the linkage was made to and so we lost a lot of the support and republic pewtation. >> and the sales job, the rumsfeld trip, the orlando europe remarks created a sense of acrimony that made any attempt to a true alliance impossible. >> very hard and we were insulting people along the way, which made it difficult. and i have to say sadly that - i'm of a generation that when people say america, they would think of omaha beach or the marshall plan. now with the younger generation, they think of guantanamo and abu ghraib. and that is something that has contributed so much to our fall general eaton, who talked about how the refusal to plan for post-war iraq that doomed or challenged our ability to deliver the results. >> there are several parts. it is more and evident that we went into iraq on false information. secretary powell has spoken about that and a number of people and they examined what led to the decision to go to iraq. i think it becomes more and more questionable. our military is gait. and so the invasion part was something that was done in our highest best military style. i have to tell you, i was one of the former people who were invited to the pentagon for a briefing and it was very evident the search for bin laden, the ongoing struggles that we have, you mentioned the iranians. >> are the iranians giving its support to the terrorists? they used to be adversarial? >> they were adversarial and we cooperated to some extent with the iranians at the beginning once the taliban had been overthrown. and this is what makes this disturbing. we have seen indications of them sending weapons and projectiles to taliban. >> so the same things they have alleged to have done and the u.s. has strong proof, i understand, in iraq with the kind of - >> yes. and as someone who has seen the intelligence and previously the director of national intelligence, i have no doubt in that's a very, very important situation. >> where do we stand right now, because we are led to believe we have drifted. we have seen the attempted assassination of car someday, which was a shock. it happens -- >> it was definitely an embarrassment, but they reacted to the situation once they collected their wits. but what i would say is that the afghans, as a general proposition, are working on improving their own security capability, both army and police. they had pretty good control of the northern half of the country and most of the province capitals and the district capitals in the south, but they are challenged in the southern part of the country and that's where nato and the american >> we had a good meeting, the nato summit that took place a few weeks ago, where a number of countries stepped up and ofered more troops. so it's been a challenge, but i'd say we did get a good outcome at the bucharest summit. french are going to give us more troops. canadians are heroic, the dutch and the british. so i think we have a good effort going in afghanistan. but i think the next key step that two other key points, the next one is strengthening the afghan capability to take on more and more of this challenge themselves and we have to keep working on pakistan, the other side of the border. >> is bin laden in pakistan? > we think bin laden is alive and we think he's in were, we would have dealt with that situation. we don't know. >> the polls indicate that he has lost a lot of support in that region and it's only a matter of time that someone decides to turn him in. >> that would be great. >> is the new pakistan's political structure more likely to work with us than musharaf was? >> i think over time they will be. i think they're still in their shakedown crews, if you will. i think it's positive that they made a peaceful, political transition that they had free and democratic elections. mr. musharraf tok off his uniform to run again. they have a new government, a new prime minister. and we lok forward to supporting and working with that government. as far as the war on terror is concerned, they say that this >> back in a couple of moments. looking at all this from the <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649255&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649255&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649256 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649256/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/d498f2b3-9e50-405e-a66d-88f52459a4da_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Director of 'Standard Operating Procedure'; Former Chief of Staff to Sec. Collin Powell</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649256/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:32:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Errol Morris & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Director of 'Standard Operating Procedure'; Former Chief of Staff to Sec. Collin Powell http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649256/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip general sanchez said he was a casualty of the abu ghraib prison scandal. we spent time talking about that and a whole lot more with colonel wilkerson who was an aid to general. and filmaker morris. >> no sound bites. their story in their own words and i think that's something that they didn't even expect. they say he's dirty. >> when did you become aware of torture? >> when the secretary of state walked into my office. we had ajoining offices. he would come in all the time and chat with me. he came in and i knew from the look on his face, this was about may of 204, i knew something was wrong. it wasn't hard to tel with him. and he said photos are going to come out, photos are honoren douse and involve a prison called abu ghraib in iraq and i think they're going to hit the press. and i want to know what happened. i put wil taft, who was his out who is doing this in the pentagon and work with them, too. as a consequence, i built quite an agenda from both open source and clasified information that showed me in essence what we were doing from afghanistan to iraq to guantanamo and elsewhere in the world. >> in terms of sanking this torture, how high dose it go? >> i think it goes all the way to the top. general powell have had bitter discussions about whether the president was completely willing. it was my impression when i first began to speak that the president had made a decision in his 7 february, 2003 memo that geneva would not apply to al qaeda and the taliban, for example, if their warriors were captured on the battlefield, but it would aply in spirit. torture would apply, in spirit, because that's america. that was my understanding. that's what the memorandum says. and i thought that underneath that cloak, the secretary of defense rumsfeld and the vice president, most powerful vice president in american history, by the way, had decided they were going to do what they wanted to do anyway, take the gloves off and do what was necessary. >> was that kind of like the cover they needed? >> well, the question is still in my mind and i don't know if we'll ever know. did the vice president walk back into the oval ofice and say to president bush, you know what we've really got to do, boss and the president nodded his head or did the vice president and secretary of defense set out to do things that the president didn't condone or did the president know it. >> or was this a situation that we learned thre decades, with a wink and a nod, people go off didn't go higher than they. what did secretary powel say? you loved the army. did you buy the notion that these were some rogue elements within the jail that they were having some fun, regular army that got out of control or was it more than that? >> in the beginning, i think that's what we both hoped. having been in vietnam and seen similar things that were exposed and weren't exposed and knowing how it's difficult to control people when they have seen buddies die and so forth and get a detainee, we hope for that. but by the time it became clear to us, this was a policy and it was a policy eminating from the highest levels. of the guardsmen because it sounded like they didn't know any better and not disciplined to do any better and was that a cover story that someone tried to pin on the guard? >> i think for the entire military. and what you saw what hapened when you saw john mccain getting the 99-1 vote on the senate floor, it was clearly indicative of how badly it was. >> when you hear attorney general mukasey talk about waterboarding and it's legality, what do you think? how do you react? >> i want to say, have it done to you, have it done to you over a sustained, two, three minutes, that's all, and then come back and tell me. >> back in a couple of moments with former secretary of state <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649256&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649256&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649289 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649289/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/6e634b75-9d8f-4ac8-b12c-7f67ee6ef0eb_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Former Commander of Coalition Ground Forces in Iraq</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649289/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:20:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (Ret.) Former Commander of Coalition Ground Forces in Iraq http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649289/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip rick sanchez. >> back once again with our look on the war on terror. we had a chance to talk with general rick sanchez. in june of 2003, he was put in charge of coalition forces in iraq. the highlight of his tenure, the capture of saddam hussein. the low point, abu ghraib. so you get there. and it's not what you would want leads general abizaid to make the statement that america was seen before where the secretary of defense rebuffs him and says it's a bunch of deadenders. we established that the withdrawal of those command and control elements, the command centers were mini pentagons, if you will, that that was a mistake and we needed to establish at least one of them to provide us the guidance, policy and direction to win this war. and we established that we need the resources of the headquarters, not just the military headquarters, but ambassador bremer's headquarters to be fully manned, because this is a complex problem that our and political leadership turned away from the mission after 1 may. and those three decisions changed the course of the war, changed the entire strategy of what america intended to. the first one was the de-baathification decision, which eliminates every bureaucrat of iraqi government, down to schools and hospital. the other decision was the disbanding of the army, which is notify the military commanders. but the military commanders expressed their concerns with the plan as it is laid out of 45,000 iraqis in five years and and then the third decision that changes the course of the war is our reversal, the military's reversal of orders that general franks issues to remove all of the combat forces by august and get us down to a level of 30,000. those three decisions in toe tattle and -- ensures that america is going to stay in iraq for an extended period of time. >> how high up are these decisions being made? >> these decisions are being made up to the level of secretary of defense. >> it's rumsfeld who is recorded to have had a rocky relationship with military officers. deservedly so? highest levels to synchronize and apply all of the capabilities of the country back in washington. he is focused on the deployment throughout that first year on the deployment of individual teams and the mobilization of individual teams out of the reserves and military. >> what's he trying to accomplish as far as you can tell? >> i think he is well intentioned and has this vision that we have to conserve the resources of our country and they believe we can accomplish this mission at very low cost, both in terms of dollar resources and forces committed. but it's a mistake. >> for a while, it looked like things were going great. >> they are. >> when you get saddam, talk to me about that day. >> when we captured saddam. let me set the stage. occasions when we are getting intelligence that saddam is here or there. and we responded to every one of those, because we don't know the validity and the level of confidence. and in this case, that day, those two previous days, it's kind of the same environment, and i get notified we have another lead and we're going to respond to it. the division commander, a brilliant commander and war fighter, calls me and says, i really think we've got him this time. he has the tatoos on his hand and sure as hel looks like him. we immediately shut down communications to the outside world, because we don't want this to blow up and wind up with a false alert. and fortunately for us, it's late in the evening, so all the press is gone. and i know that i have about 2:00 in the morning, 2:30 in the morning back to baghdad. we bring him in to check his physical condition. and when that hood is lifted, i'm in the smal room. and it is unmistakeable that we have saddam in our hands. and the first question that is asked of him and we say, who is you? he says saddam husein, the president of iraq. why are you doing this to me? after we give him his physical exam, we bring his close associates, his brother-in-law, and then they identified him. >> when you eyeballed him, what went through your mind? evil. an evil man and this is confirmed in the next 24 hours when we bring members of the governing council to talk to him the shia and kurds and he isn't remorse and he can't understand why those were -- actions were wrong. >> fanatic or sociopath or what? >> it's just a different culture that really believes that if you are the enemy that what is wrong with killing you if you're my enemy. and his party, the iron- physicianed rule is the only culture to maintain power. >> do you think he knew he was a dead man? >> absolutely. absolutely. from the early days after capture. the shia are asking me when are you going to give saddam over to us so we can try him and kil him? our response is, that's not the procedure. you have to try a man, if >> as we continue the film maker <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649289&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649289&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649290 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649290/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/0e488b9c-8d29-46a5-8f77-05dcece40b0d_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>US Army Major General (Ret.); US Army (Ret.)</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649290/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:10:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Paul Eaton & Col. Paul Hughes US Army Major General (Ret.); US Army (Ret.) http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649290/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip one of the interesting things we learned from our guests, many of the people in uniform were not happy with the way the bush administration took us to war in iraq. in this segment, you'll hear from some of them, colonel paul hughes and general paul eaton, that needs to be maaged and redeveloped in the pentagon. and the initial contact with this man was positive. he was a strong guy, brash. and then with the arival of 9/11, the war in afghanistan, the war in iraq, we saw a man who failed to adapt. he failed to adapt to a changed environment. no plans. and the secretary failed to adapt. and he kept pushing us down this path. and the que dr was the failure to adapt. >> are you among those who believed that general shinseki said we need more force going in. >> general shinseki has the respect of the entire united states army, past and present. this is a general who is a wonderful human being and a great soldier. and the response he great to senator levin's question was a very correct, very studied response based on any number of things, but particularly his experience, general shinseki's experience in bosnia. his answer was on the money and it was consistent with the plan substantial -- a substantially larger troop presence in iraq when it became apparent that the numbers there didn't make sense? >> the secretary of defense stopped the deployment of the first cavalry division, which was next in the shoot. the deployment of fourth mack was handled badly by the secretary of defense. he got into the deployment schedule. so once baghdad fell, he said great, end of mission. the president on the deck of the aircraft carrier lincoln, mission accomplished, and we were all anxious, those of us who wire in baghdad and the immediate and substantial turmoil that happened. >> mike, what happened, the entire governmental structure of iraq evaporated. the army demobilized. we added insult to injury and proclaimed it dismantled. >> the debaathification proces. >> debathification. there is this wonderful anecdote from george patton and he said i get criticized for using nazis to run germany. if i can find competent nazis i'll use them. >> he got called back as a result of that. but if we had not, and if those troops had come in, are you willing to say what has followed would have happened? >> nobody can be crystal clear on it, mike, but we would have the nation than the 150,000 we had on the ground at the time. >> in the months leading up to the invasion, a delate over troop levels required in iraq had been privately brewing between the military leadership and donald rumsfeld. rumsfeld and his deputy, paul wolfowitz believed that a force of 100,00 troops would be sufficient for the invasion and occupation of iraq. a month before the invasion, the fight over troop levels became public as the chief of staff of the army, general shin secretary ki testified before the senate committee. >> general shinseki, can you give us some magnitude of the army's force requirement for the occupation of iraq? >> something on the order of several hundred,000 soldiers. >> what is reasonably certain is >> when we started making the film, having spoken with george packer and having read a couple of the early books written about it, i already understod that serious mistakes had been made. but i have to say when i started doing research on my own, i was really stunned when i realized just how extraordinarily badly mismanaged the entire affair was. >> when you hear someone say that, you were there, what do those words mean to you and say to you and considering your experiences? where does it say about where we are right now? >> it means a great deal to me, because we had an opportunity at one time to try and put things right. yet, despite our warnings to the and actually began for me in the summer of 2002 when i reported in to my new duty assignment at the new national defense university and was told to put together a conference on post-saddam-iraq. and i was pulling that together the first indication that this was going to be a difficult undertaking was when i had people lined up to be speakers for this conference and suddenly they started dropping off. and i asked why they were dropping off and the word that i received was, it was because the secretary of defense made this public statement that anybody who talks about the war plan would be relieved of duties. and the secretary of defense carried such weight at that time within the circles of washington, d.c., that even people outside the department of defense were afraid of <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649290&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649290&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649291 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649291/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/7cddae84-a417-4d40-93b7-d9746fea10ac_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Author of 'War and Decision'</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649291/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:02:00 +0000 Night Talk: Interview With Douglas Feith Author of 'War and Decision' http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649291/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip tonight we begin a wek of theme shows. you will be hearing from presidential candidates, entertainers, business leaders and a whole lot more. tonight, we focus on the people involved in america's war on terror and we begin with a man who played a key role in the bush administration. doug feife. >> you were not inside the pentagon? >> i was in moscow. we had a serious focus on the you got it on a cel phone and watching it on television. what was your initial reaction? >> we weren't sure that we could rely on the first reports. it's a very wel statement that first reports are almost always wrong. and as a new official, i was advised never go off and make a statement on the basis of the first report. what drilled home immediately and confirmed that something really awful had happened was i heard -- i think it was probably live through a cell phone that i was given in moscow, the president made the statement in the elementary school, where he said something like, this act of because that was one of the few memorable things his father had said as president. and it was when saddam hussein invaded kuwait, the first president bush publicly declared that that act of aggression will not stand. and that was a very serious statement that we were going to confront saddam militarily. and it struck me that it could not be a coincidence at this moment, his son was using that one memorable phrase. >> did you at least inside your own privacy of your own brain, dedues that was his way of saying, saddam did this and we're going to go get him? >> i didn't asociate it with saddam, but a statement of determination that this was going to be confronted with - effort or a crew cruise missiles. >> did you have any idea who actually did it? >> not in the first moments. >> when did you get a sense of first of all -- you had concerns about your staff back at the pentagon after that was hit. when did you get a sense that al qaeda was behind this? >> i think initially, there were a number of people -- myself included who considered al qaeda on the list of possible organizations that could have done it. what impressed me was when i attended the first interagency meeting, which was op september 13, because i flew back from moscow on september 12. when i attended the first interagency meeting with secretary rumsfeld on september that it was al qaeda that did it. and i remember being impressed that he said it pretty categorically and that was a very early point at which to have come to such a definite conclusion and it turned out to be right. but i remember thinking that that's pretty good work to have figured that out so quickly. >> at that point, did we have any contingency plans on how we would deal with this threat from an entity like that as opposed to a sovereign nation doing something or was this something that we had to get plans together? >> there were no plans to handle this particular kind of attack. and we did not have a war plaven on the shelf for afghanistan -- plan on the shelf for afghanistan. >> we did, but aparently it was think it would have surprised a lot of people before 9/11, anybody had suggested that the united states was going to be doing a major military operation in such a remote, landlocked country. >> how soon thereafter were al of you in the pentagon focusing on saddam and taking him down? >> well, the focus on iraq preced 9/11, because it went back to 1990. and congress, for example, passed the liberation act in 1998 and iraq was the only country that was shooting service members every day when george w. bush took ofice in 2001. iraq was an issue. the administration had not actually made major decisions on <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649291&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649291&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649157 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649157/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/14522b46-d9ef-4808-85e5-9c40c7f7f728_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Analysis by Bill Gross, Pimco Co-Chief Investment Officer; Analysis by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain Economic Policy Advisor; Report and analysis by Lindsey Arent of Bloomberg News</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649157/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:23:00 +0000 Succeeding George W. Bush Analysis by Bill Gross, Pimco Co-Chief Investment Officer; Analysis by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain Economic Policy Advisor; Report and analysis by Lindsey Arent of Bloomberg News http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649157/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip > when george w. bush took office succeeding president clinton, the list of challenges facing his successor has become much more daunting. whoever becomes the next president will inherit the worst economic and foreign- policy challenges since the great depression. >> the last president to have this great a problem was franklin delano roosevelt. >> among the problems, the deepest housing recession in a generation, growing concern over bank failures, high gas prices, a sinking dollar, and a ballooning deficit. they say there is more yet to come. >> if the trillion dollar deficit comes true, and i think three years hence, we will see a $1 trillion deficit in order to support the u.s. economy. then that is a lot of paper. that is a lot depression downward in terms of the u.s. dollar value relative to almost all currencies. by noon on january 20, 2009. >> there is also a growing list of foreign-policy concerns. there are the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the iraq nuclear ambition, and the sinking u.s. reputation 3 and all of these could mean that obama is universal health care or mccain's energy independence plan will likely be put on hold as the president focuses on the crises and the economy. the advisers to a bloomberg that each is more than up to the task. >> john mccain is committed to solving the real problems underneath the financial crisis. >> what ehud seen from barack obama's of the course of this campaign is that his economic policies have showed tremendous flexibility and pragmatism. > he would not be the first time that a president has been sworn in and its turmoil. john f. kennedy took office in a >> lindsey arent at the white house, thank you very much. we appreciate it. <object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/"></param><param name="flashvars" value="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649157&cpt=8&wpid=1260"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf/" flashvars="swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&csEnv=p&va_id=649157&cpt=8&wpid=1260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="260"></embed></object> Government & Politics,News http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/3472/649164 <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr valign='top'><td><a href='http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649164/?cpt=8&wpid=1260'><img src='http://video-static.clipsyndicate.com/cs-video/vol2/2008/7/22/58/351/774ca80b-06e8-4cb4-8281-60d76f33c74a_120x90.jpg' border='0' /></a></td><td style='padding:5px;'>Analysis by Senator John McCain, (R) Presidential Candidate; Report and analysis by Lizzie O'Leary of Bloomberg News; Obama says Afghanistan is 'Central Front' for US troops; Reaction and analysis by Zbigniew Brzenzinski, Former National Security Adviser</td></tr></table> http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649164/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:01:00 +0000 Obama's International Relations Campaign; Reaction To Obama's International Affairs Campaign; Insight For The Race For The White House Analysis by Senator John McCain, (R) Presidential Candidate; Report and analysis by Lizzie O'Leary of Bloomberg News; Obama says Afghanistan is 'Central Front' for US troops; Reaction and analysis by Zbigniew Brzenzinski, Former National Security Adviser http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3472/649164/?cpt=8&wpid=1260 Bloomberg-Clip those stories and more for 'money and politics.' [captioning made possible by bloomberg television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- i am peter cook in washington. thanks for tuning in the and we continue with our focus shifting from the struggling economy to the next president's ability to handle international affairs. the reason? senator barack obama's a week- long trip abroad that started in afghanistan and which today brought him to baghdad for the first time since he announced his running for president. the prime minister their seeming to say in an interview that he agrees with senator obama's call of withdrawing u.s. forces from iraq within 16 months. we have been following the which she referred to obama's a 16-month plan as the quote right time frame. >> senator, how is the trip? >> great, so far. >> he met with the prime minister. >> we had a very constructive discussion. >> obama also visited with u.s. troops and with commanders in the southern iraqi city of basra. obama's visit to iraq as part of a congressional delegation has prompted criticism from john mccain. mccain, a supporter of the so- called search, has attacked obama for laying out a troop withdrawal plan before speaking with u.s. commanders. >> if barack obama had had his way, the troops would never been out by this past march. it took place, in what i am told, was a quote pretty unvarnished way. >> for more on that trip and the questions about obama's foreign policy experience, we turn to one of the democratic party's other statesmen. he served as security adviser to president carter, and he works at the center for strategic international studies here in washington but he is also a supporter of obama, though not involved. i spoke with him about the trip being a success. >> obviously. he is displayed interest. he is being treated by a his interlocutors, seriously. reinforces the correctness of the view he expressed so early on. >> let me ask you about afghanistan, because the very pointedly made it his first stop pre-and he is talking about we deploying, perhaps, some of the troops from iraq to afghanistan. do you have questions about that? i know you were expressing some reservations about it. >> no, i was not expressing reservations about his policy. it was about afghanistan and increasing the american troops. my concern is that we're dealing with a country that is very xenophobic. they are hostile to foreigners on their soil with guns, and foreign interlopers. so i think we have to focus on the political dimension of the problem and not be so preoccupied with the military dimension. >> would it be a mistake then to send, if he becomes president, three additional brigades, close to 10,000 additional troops? >> it is not if we put more american troops and get it is about what else do we do and what kind of political settlement do we see, and are becoming in a sense, wedding be a struggle against taliban into a comprehensive situation of afghan society, which does not want to be modernized from the outside, and certainly not by foreign troops. >> let me ask you about iraq. he met with prime minister nouri al maliki. we heard the comments over the weekend from prime minister al maliki, saying, essentially, he last few days, it seems pretty consistent than they are on his wavelength, if you will. what about those comments? something that president bush has not been able to get? >> i think it shows that his judgment was correct, for a second time, in a very significant way did he was right about the war began the war has to be ended with the understanding that the american disengagement actually helps to consolidate a more stable iraq. whereas a continuation of the american occupation perpetuates the conflict. now, the withdrawal of the troops is not aware of all of a solution. we have to do some other things as well. we have to engage the iraqis in the situation. that he is actually growing by talking to them in baghdad and we have to engage the neighbors in a conference at a regional security. >> is it that mr. brandan what president bush and prime minister al maliki were talking about on friday, this aspiration of time horizon for a withdrawal, then what barack obama is talking about? >> what is a horizon? it is an imaginary line that walks toward it -- that received as you walked towards it. i think it is a very unfortunate choice of words by president bush, but it emphasizes a problem. they all see