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Iranians can shut down tomorrow if they want to becomes less important. number four, stop talking about fleeing any country where weve got military arrangements. youve got to make sure that the rest of the world knows were going to keep our forces where they need to be, not just for that country, but for the good of this country. and that includes doing things like upgrading, building and modernizing our ballistic defense system. thats some of the things this organization and white house needs t...

That they were not russian, that they were just there to make sure that russian interests were being protected and then ukraines government the interim president came out to say, wait, wait, wait, no, we understand that armed men tried to take over the airport, but its not true, flights are still going in and out. and then we hear from ukrainians international airlines and they say we cant land, you know, the airspace has violated. i have colleagues that tried to fly out yesterday. no one is get...

Terrorism and what our basis is there. this is a real problem and the president is doing a real thing by calling karzais bluff. he left the door open, though, theres a presidential election coming up in a couple months, and the new president might be ready to sign this thing. the irony is they had this convention of the whole leadership of the whole country, and they said yes to the whole deal. and now karzai, i dont think anybody knows what game hes playing. i dont know about you, but i would h...

Agencies. and, you know, even with the budget this year that, you know, hagels budget under sequestration, that only brings us back to 2007 levels in real terms. so its not like even going back to when dick cheney was secretary of defense. >> no, its still post certainly a post-9/11 footing which is a terminology i know the vice president appreciates. before i let you go, real quick, on the foreign policy question, your reaction to this d.o.d. announcement today. regarding karzai. >> well, i thi...

Afghanistan, that might not be so bad? >> i disagree with that in this case. i think the military and the white house are on the same page here. they are calling karzais bluff. it might be risky. they know, though, that there will be another president eventually, and they have high hopes that that president will sign the agreement that karzai wont. i think that the dangerous thing is they dont want to have a zero troops there. they want to have enough troops to train the afghan military and to p...

Poison. now, according to south carolina governor nikki haley, president obama delivered that message pretty bluntly when he spoke to republican governors at the chamber of commerce -- she was at the chamber of commerce, but this is what he said, according to her, when they met at the white house. >> the tone completely changed when we started talking about the national guard. it automatically went into an aggressive nature by him, implying that many of you have asked for cuts, this is what you ...

And so i think this is great to call his bluff and say, okay, you dont want us, were pla plannipla planning on -- that will get his attention and particularly the people who will succeed him in the election. >> yeah, you know, i dont want to make light of it, but i cant imagine after 12 years why hed have the impression we may be there for a very long time, but i do understand some of the complexity regarding the cat and mouse game there of trying to show him we are serious on a foreign policy f...

I mean, people forget sequestration applies to everything else other than entitlements and obama has proposed basically that the extra $50 billion hes asked for will be split between the pentagon and all the other agencies. and, you know, even with the budget this year that, you know, hagels budget under sequestration, that only brings us back to 2007 levels in real terms. so its not like even going back to when dick cheney was secretary of defense. >> no, its still post certainly a post-9/11 fo...

Pentagon folks, they tell us, according to a senior u.s. official, they tell us for the first time, here we have the commander in chief to begin planning for this complete withdrawal. there will still be an option to stay. but, quote, reached a point where the pentagon has to begin planning for zero troops. my question to you, is the president calling karzais bluff? >> well, he may well be calling karzais bluff, but hes also delivering on what the american people want. the american people, you k...