Financial Reform Bill A "Game Changer," Says Advocate

Reid Cramer, Director of Asset Building for New America Foundation, says the Wall Street reform bill presents a paradigm shift from a disclosure regime to that of a principle-based regime. (0:32)

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Ambition And Resources Have Been An "Overstretched Fabric" In Afghanistan, Says Expert

President of the New America Foundation Steve Coll testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday and said that the lack of resources and soldiers in Afghanistan when the U.S. entered led to the “crisis that now confronts the Obama administration.” (0:50)
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Expert Details Iranian Election Irregularities

Afshin Molavi, a fellow at the New America Foundation, describes the many irregularities that have been found in Friday's Iranian presidential elections. Molavi desrcibes the 48 million ballots that were apparently cast for Ahmadinejad within just one hour as well as the imprisonment of senior officers from the Mousavi campaign. (0:43)
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Expert Compares Mousavi's Role Pre And Post Elections

Afshin Molavi, fellow at the New America Foundation, describes defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi as an "accidental opposition leade" stating that Mousavi needs support from the crowds as much as they need his representation. In addition, Molavi says that Mousavi represents a revolution against the older generation in Iran. (0:40)
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Iranian Presidential Election Too Close To Call

Dr. Flynt Leverett, Senior Fellow and Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, says the Iranian Presidential election is so close that a winner cannot be predicted (0:26).
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