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Guest host: Susan Page
At the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Romania, President Bush is calling on European allies to increase commitments in Afghanistan. He's also pushing proposals Russia strongly opposes -- namely missile defense, and expanding NATO to include Ukraine and Georgia. Debate over the future of NATO, and the run-up to Bush's final meeting with President Putin in Russia.
Peter Baker, reporter, "The Washington Post"
Julianne Smith, Europe program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation
Andrei Sitov, Washington bureau chief for Itar-Tass
Almut Wieland-Karimi, director, Friedrich Ebert foundation
A modern history of the Bin Ladens: How Osama Bin Laden’s father, an illiterate bricklayer from Yemen, rose to wealth and power in Saudi Arabia and the vastly divergent lives of Osama’s large extended family
Steve Coll, a writer for "The New Yorker" and author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning "Ghost Wars, as well as, "On the Grand Trunk Road," "The Deal of the Century," and "The Taking of Getty Oil." He is president and CEO of the New America Foundation.
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