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On the ground, all that, you have to then enforce them. that would be the u.s. responsibility to establish such a standard. >> wouldnt that have been a reasonable thing to do to prevent what weve seen? >> no. to come back to your question i think russian and iranian influence has grown in the region. the question is with russia coming in at first saying to the united states, to president obama, we will work with you, the announcement, the evacuation is over coming from russia while we know the c...

Easy to conclude with respect to the regime that the regime did use chemical weapons, that in fact they continue to use chlorine weapons. some of these chlorine barrel bombs are dropped from the air and the regime is the only one that has that air capability. in terms of isis, there have been public reports of isis using chlorine in the past. this would be a new and worrying report if its accurate. i have no doubt that if isis could get their hands on this stuff, they would use it. no level of v...

Without a status of forces agreement what, we really have in iraq is a recognition by the terrorists there that were done. were pulling out, and the place is yours. so what we want to do in afghanistan is while were there, still have a comprehensive strategy that shows we have resolve. well get in the airplanes and use our air capability if we have to while we work with the afghan troops. >> youre usually in touch with state department officials. what are you hearing from them in terms of this s...

Over the southwest border tonight. the first is the challenge to get additional money to deal with the growing crisis of immigrants fleeing across the rio grand valley into south texas. today, the white house submitted a $3.7 billion emergency supplemental to congress. $1.6 billion for enforcement, including expansion of air capability and expedition of processes of returning individuals. $300 million to supplement existing public media campaigns in central america. and to support repatriation a...

A retired navy captain and former national security adviser for dick cheney. good to see you. you know the george h.w. bush is moving into the persian gulf and could an air strike be enough to stop the militants? >> not just potential air strikes but making sure we have the right capabilities throughout the region. what we are doing right now is imperative. we need to make sure we have the right intelligence and recognizance capability. and you just mentioned the george h.w. bush, and the weapon...

Is that objective? and up to what limit do we get to before putting troops on the ground? >> its difficult, youre right, its a difficult line to draw and as much as we like to think that cruise missile strikes are very precise, nothing in war fare is all that precise and we have to expect that we will hit the military targets. there may be civilian casualties as well. and you can never rule out the potential loss of american life even if we dont fly over syrian air space. these kind of exercise ...

All of them have tomahawk cruise missiles that could be used here. and strategically, if were talking strategy to take out assads air capability. and one of his ways to distribute chemical weapons. he does fire these rockets as we saw. but the most effective way according to experts is to use it by air power. >> right. by air power. i think that that could be one of the strategic goals, to prevent him from doing this again. but i think charles is right. the goal has to be to prevent assad from w...

None of them agree on what comes afterwards. internen interinterventions means going in and picking sides. picking one or two or some of them. throwing guns and money at them and at the expense of the other groups. weve been down this road before, right? this is the story of iraq. this is the story of afghanistan. >> you say back during the soviet period? >> 2001. we picked sides. we threw money and guns at people and were dealing with the consequences. so i want to tease this out to have you be...

And obviously, we know that bashar assad will do whatever it is necessary in order to stay in power; massacres of his own people, all of the actions that hes taken that are so horrific. so i or worry -- i worry that the president and the administration will use these caveats as an excuse not to act right away or act at all, because the president clearly stated that it was a red line and that it couldnt be crossed without the united states taking vigorous action. that action should be a safe zone...

its the conservative political action conference in washington, d.c. ive got you there live right now. this is the vamp up, folks, to the big delegate leader, mitt romney. if you want to be the republican nominee for president, youd better have your game face on when you come to cpac. and you better have cpac on your side, some say. there is a caveat to that. ill get to that in a moment. any second now, as i said, were expecting mitt romney, whos going to make his case from that podium...