before we talk about boots on the ground, i want to go back to the rhetoric that s out there. you know, donald trump did say the president was a threat to his own country. other candidates have called president obama a joke. this is a time when americans are feeling real anxiety after what happened in paris. shouldn t this be a time that we re drawing together to come up with a plan? don t we look to our leaders to calm things down not to panic people? well, carol, that s why i ve argued that experience and being in executive matters. you haven t heard me using that kind of language. i am very determined about what i believe but as an executive your job is to keep calm. your job is really not to call names. i don t do that. that s not who i am. i don t think it s constructive and i don t think it s helpful for our country. look, this country s going to have to make a number of sacrifices now in order to defeat this enemy. we can t be doing this arguing and fighting with one another.
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fight this with love. that s important to you? it s imperative. it s imperative that we take this horrific story and learn from it to appreciate life, to realize that the victims of this tragedy don t get their lives. so we live we get to live, and we are incredibly lucky. incredibly lucky, indeed, and incredibly strong. our coverage of the breaking news out of paris continues after a short break. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,
throughout the world, as to who we are, because it is a war against our civilization. and i think we need to more effectively be able to communicate exactly what our values are. and we shouldn t run away from them. but this is not designed to be exclusive. it s not designed to tell people, you ve got to go to church. it s basically to do what things like the voice of america did, which is to communicate very effectively what our values are as a civilization. because our very civilization is under attack. they don t like the fact that you are a woman and a newscaster. they think you should be a piece of property. they think because we don t think the way they do, we should be killed. so, it s really a question of whether we can show people, particularly people who sit on the fence, who don t have much meaning in their life, that, in fact, western civilization means something about who they are and what they need to be. but, of course, many, many muslims believe what you just said abou