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Buff. explain the buff to people. >> the bluff is that there are political differences, national differences that would justify a general war. i think that that is something that many years, many decades removed from that period, i think we would find it very difficult to justify. but in that period, the idea that -- >> okay. >> the united states and the soviet union would have a general nuclear exchange over differences, say, regarding berlin or cuba was to some degree a bluff. but it was somet...

Until the last minute. and well see some kind of deal, i would hope. >> you know, ed, there are those who say, though, that the gop may be in a more desperate position. in fact, if the democrats refuse to back down on any parts of this plan, and the country then goes over the cliff, the administration could point fingers and blame the gop. thats one sense of ideology. is there anything to that? >> well, not only could they point fingers and blame the gop, then, of course, they could just cut eve...

China and -- vietnam. admiral ratford wanted to nuke -- >> how would you nuke in a jungle? >> its called tactical nuclear weapons. eisenhower threatened to use them. he was good at bluffing. >> is that how he ended korea? >> historians tackled this and -- >> by the way -- >> threatening something worse? >> well, thats what they say. i want to congratulate him, by the way, on this book. ive really enjoyed it, evan. we had talked about it earlier. this is a -- this bluff that you cover in the eise...

Bipartisan cooperation. >> you know, today because of the neocons and george w., you get the feeling that the republican party is a hawkish party. and all those people, all that crowd i have really come to love, sarcastically. i havent read your book but i know its great because i know your angle. to me, the greatest thing about ike is we didnt get involved in suez. tell me about his ability to bluff, saying im not going to go into these wars. he basically said no, no, no to the hawks. >> he had...

Removed from that period, i think we would find it very difficult to justify. but in that period, the idea that -- >> okay. >> the united states and the soviet union would have a general nuclear exchange over differences, say, regarding berlin or cuba was to some degree a bluff. but it was something that rested, i think, on a hard-nosed understanding that the soviets did not, in the final analysis, want war, nor did we. and this bluff reinforced a status quo. it was invoked in berlin. where the ...

Video of spoke rising from the bomb strikes in other towns. north korea may be preparing for a rocket launch. sections are strucked in the launch site. but there is speculation that it may be a bluff. to rat the obama administration. and south carolina presidential election. shooting down rockets and missiles is idea behind israel so-called iron dome. said to be effective in conflict with hamas. what. we look at the questions from the pentagon. >> 1,500 rockets were fired at israel from the gaza...

Democrats very narrowly divide ds, which means all of the incentives are to mobilize your own and to maintain the morale of your own side and this is standing in the way of bipartisan cooperation. >> you know, today because of the neocons and george w., you get the field that the republican party is a hawkish party. and all those people, all that crowd i have really come to love, sarcastically. i havent read your book but i know its great because i know your angle. to me, the greatest thing abou...

In that case it was president clinton. now we have president obama. and coming out of his election victory, theres a lot of confidence on their side that as congressman defazio was describing if we go over that cliff, its a fiscal cliff or its a fiscal bluff, because what were talking about is restoring the taxes, tax rates that were around before the bush tax cults came along. were talking about something that will not affect working-class people except for that loss in the payroll tax they vac...

That you would have right at this point to hold the feet to the fire of your -- of the other side. because we know there are real consequences to failing to make a deal. economic consequences, consequences for our fragile recovery, and the sense that even after an election, washington isnt able to govern on the biggest issues facing the country. >> well, there are also people who argue and i know you know this, ryan. this really isnt a cliff, its more of a slope. and if we go off the fiscal clif...

Election was an entorsment of the affordable care act. these guys, i think, are really nuts to try to raise that as an issue in this context. >> well, the other part that to me adds a lot to that, liberals know that they have the upper hand. particularly since the election. politico remarks, a growing bloc of em boldened liberals say they are not afraid to watch defense spending get gouged and taxed go up on every american if budget deal doesnt satisfy their priorities. in other words, theyd rat...