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Time when i was a random unranked radio host and i had very little idea who this barack obama was and what he might have to offer as a potential national leader, the very first thing that ever impressed me about this guy, barack obama, was when i learned that he had apparently impressed a person named samantha power. because at the time, i knew a lot about her and i knew nothing about him, and she just didnt seem like a person who would be easily impressed. her liking him made me more interested...

Favor as kind of a hail mary, that she persuaded new republic books, basic books, to publish that book. which, again, is called "a problem from hell." and the reason youve heard of that book is because it would go on that next year to win the pulitzer prize and, as i said, to become one of the centurys landmark moral arguments about americas way in the world. it almost didnt get published. samantha power had emigrated to this country from ireland at the age of 9. she and her family moved to pitt...

Extremely dangerous. >> and ambassador i think one of the most critical parts of your book and a part that will be read is a warning for future generation of leaders is actually what happened in syria. barack obama rightly saw the mistakes of bush and cheney and decided to not rush into a war, a military intervention with syria, but we remember on this show reports of 10,000 dying, 20,000 dying, 40,000 dying, and it kept going towards half a million. you were arguing, and of course i think most ...

Every foreign policy leader said its just hard. we dont know what to do when we could have done something to stop the scale of this carnage. >> samantha power said it in that clip we played. we all know what was happening. she was addressing assad and putin. she could have been saying it for herself and president obama. shes written a book, an incredible book, "a problem from hell." she understanding this problem better than anyone. we had michael mcfall on yesterday. served under president obam...

Its the first time -- how are we doing? how is everybody feeling today? everybody doing good? so, mike barnicle, we love larry, dont we? >> yes, we do. >> hes written a great book about bobby kennedy. he wrote this great op-ed in "the philadelphia inquirer" talking about how rfk could help democrats today. >> bobby kennedy defied peoples prototypes of pandering politicians. he told college kids everywhere he went that they could change the world so why werent they? it happened again in a luncheo...

Blind spot based on what her successor samantha power the current u.s. ambassador to the united states wrote about her. she called her a bystander to genocide it was a 2001 article in the atlantic. samantha power repeated it in a book called "a problem from hell" about genocide. everyone recognizes what susan rice said at the time that political considerations must take precedence over stopping the genocide in ra want da or labeling it a genocide and that is something that cannot happen again in...

Disgusted the american people are with these antics? >> yeah, i think these are all legitimate concerns, and i think, really, we should point back to where the root of the problem is. the root of the problem here is that we are not passing appropriation bills like we should. we have 12 different appropriation bills. we should pass them one at a time. government should never shut down if were doing our job appropriately, so really, what we need to be saying is why are we not passing spending bill...

Problem of the computer sites, because what we have is a perfect storm here. you have the cynics who run the democratic party and you take the stupid wing of the gop. instead somehow a monkey wrench got thrown into the system, and now everybody hates congress and republicans are taking the bigger political hit. i saw a poll where the approval rating of the u.s. congress was 5% and the margin barrier was 6. >> mitch, do you think it was a miscalculation for people to take a stand in this way with...

And i was so grateful to have the chance just to say in person what i had said to everybody. could you tell hillary that i think shes a total rock star? shes changed the world in a thousand ways. but to be able to say that in person is something that im immensely grateful to her to have given me that opportunity. >> you wrote a book called "a problem from hell" and now i was thinking these are your problems from hell. no longer are you a writer or observer, but youre in a position of power. >> w...

>> i hope to god in next years election, all of you are booted out. >> congresswoman fudge, arent you the lucky one to be the city member at this table. no matter who gets the blame here ultimately, whether people blame the republicans or the democrats, in the end is it just bad for the institution? is it on awful yoll of your hou? >> yes, it is. there are no winners here. when you talk about shutting down the government and all the stuff that goes around about who is at fault and who is not, an...