America’s Collision Course With The Debt Ceiling
As the nation counts down to default, Diane talks to longtime Congress watcher Norm Ornstein about the debt limit negotiations, what's at stake and whether he sees a way forward.
Analysis of world response to nuclear tests in North Korea and the ongoing challenges of trying to contain the threat of nuclear weapons elsewhere in the world.
Guests
- David Albright President of the Institute for Science and International Security, author of "Peddling Peril" and former U.N. nuclear weapons inspector
- Joseph Cirincione President, Ploughshares Fund.
- Daryl Kimball Executive director, Arms Control Association.
- Peter Brookes Senior fellow for national security affairs at the Heritage Foundation; former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs in the second Bush administration; author, "A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, WMD and Rogue States."
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