Monday May 19, 2008
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Guest host: Susan Page
Republican senator and presidential candidate John McCain claims most U.S. troops could be out of Iraq by 2013 and that Iraq will be a functioning democracy, if he's elected president. Analysis of the candidate's remarks and the ongoing debate between Congress and the White House in the run up to the November presidential election.
Lt. Gen. William Odom (Ret.), U.S. Army-Ret., former director of the National Security Agency and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Kenneth Pollack, director of research at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution; author of "The Persian Puzzle: the Conflict between Iran and America;" former director for Persian Gulf Affairs and former director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council; former Iran-Iraq military analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
Ben Pershing, Congressional reporter for the Washington Post and author of "Capitol Briefing" at washingtonpost.com
Susan Rice, senior foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama
Randy Scheunemann, senior foreign policy advisor to Republican presidential candidates and Senator John McCain
Peter Orszag was sworn in as Director of the Congressional Budget Office in January 2007. The role of the CBO is to provide non-partisan, objective and timely analysis of economic and budgetary issues pending before Congress. Director Orszag discusses such hot-topic subjects as the real cost of the Iraq war and the finances of health care reform.
Peter Orszag, seventh Director of CBO. His four-year term began on January 18, 2007. Before joining CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.
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