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Everything any president does. and there are many reasons why people are opposed to political figures. i felt when i ran in 08 that there were people who were opposed to me because i was a woman. so you have to really try to keep getting up everyday and doing the best you can. thats what president obama has done. like the capture today. you know, that was months in the making. and he had to make the decision, once again, to send americans into harms way to try to detain the leader of the attack ...

Is pull pl is playing out in the oil market. oil prices up 4% so far this month. knocking on the door of $108 a barrel. every dollar that oil goes up is about 2.5 cents at the gas pump for you. heres what were watching here. you look up here, chris, you see this is a big pipeline that already has been shut down th. that was in march. down here is where you have the rich oil producing area in the southern part of the country. pipelines are still flowing. this oil is still flowing. analysts are te...

Military strategy that is unconnected to the political strategy. the big mistake we made was pulling our troops out in 2011 because it took away our political influence. malikis real moves came after the troops left and we lost our influence over him. he, quite understandably, from his point of view, concluded we didnt really much care what happened in iraq so he went off in a shiite direction. we will not be able to have influence there over the future unless we are also willing to help whateve...

But on this day, its the force of men, not nature, thats the biggest miracle of all. an unbelievable rescue mission to save one man who has crept dangerously close to the edge of the falls. the call comes in on march 19th, 2003, 5:08 p.m. sergeant pat moriarty is on duty. hes a 19-year veteran of the niagara falls state park police. >> our radio man yelled down the hall and said, we just got a call from the canadians. theres a man on the ice at terrapin point. >> not a safe place to be. terrapin...

Thats worrisome in some ways, he can try to organize to retake the north. this would also inflame and turn this into more of a sectarian fight as well too. we need to be careful we do not empower the second tarrant agenda -- sectarian agenda because of the support for what is perceived as that sunni agenda. >> would it have prevented something like that? >> if we would have been in iraq, we would have had influence to mitigate some of the worst tendencies of prime minister maliki. keep in mind t...

They are clearly enemies of the united states and if for some reason they werent enemies before the united states before they went into gitmo, they are now. you can be sure of that, and im sure that they have every reason to want to do something against the united states. now whether they will be able to pull that off, we cant so but for her to be so dismissive as if these people are these harmless people who would never do anything bad i think is irresponsibility. >> i think it is sign of how u...

Dealing with this violence that has exploded in iraq for the last 24 hours, there have sort have been hints u.s. officials were looking at air strikes, the iraqis would welcome air strikes, now the president s saying in the oval office earlier today, yes, he is considering that. at this point they are not going to put boots on the grounds in iraq. that is not being considered. keep in mind, wolf -- and gloria can talk about this. this is a tremendous political dilemma for this president. this is...

George bush. i wouldnt say this is a new trend. the democrats were certainly heated up in 2007 and 08 over the bush administration. what im seeing, and what you touched on, joy, neither party is growing enough to win an election by itself. and you hit on that number of a lot of people who have become distracted, or a large disdain for the political operations that are out there. so that number thats really growing right now, that one in the middle. i live in a state where we have polled and chec...

Read about illegal immigration, it bothers you, you say, can these guys get anything right? i cant control things because i dont have any power, but i do have the power to vote and im going to vote against that, because thats reverberating with me, whats going on with this country is the politicians fault. >> i do think there is also a strand of folks who may not vote, who may -- because, we have voted change six straight elections, right, 06, 08, 10, weve been voting a lot of change, three of t...

Democracy. we build an army, and the army is simply turning out to be a paper tiger. id be interested later in hearing from the general as to whether, if we had, say, the 15,000 u.s. forces there, that would have been there under a status of forces agreement, it would make a difference right now. >> juan, stand by. would it have made a difference? >> absolutely. we created a huge vacuum by leaving. certainly malaki is -- he started to purge his people politically, but he also began a systematic ...