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Engagement, pro u.s. the danger is that theyre pulling his strengths and he is allowing them to do that. what i do think is happening is kim jong-un and his people think he has to strengthen himself because he is so young and inexperienced with his own people. so, maybe a lot of this bluster is to show his own people he is in charge, that the missile launch was successful. the one they did a couple of months ago. but its amazing what we dont know about this guy, and this is why i think its impor...

Indicate a serious danger as well? >> well, i think the secretary of defense is doing the right thing, getting us prepared. i do think the north koreans are increasing their bluster, but whats -- whats a little difficult to understand, craig, is this new north korean leader, the young man, he is untested. it sun predictable. it looks like the hardliners in north korea have gotten his ear and thats little dangerous. thats not good. because the rhetoric is the most heated that ive ever seen. >> ev...

Dave while who is undoubtedly a crowd favorite there at national harbor, slate magazine and msnbc contributor. good to see you. dont forget to blog again today. >> i wont. thats all i can do. the presidents noon get us off oil, plus north koreas bluster and our anti-missile buildup. former energy secretary and ambassador to the united nations, bill richardson is standing by to talk about it. also, senator rob portmans stunning reversal on same-sex marriage, what they are saying about that at...

The white house arms length relationship with the truth. benghazi was a spontaneous riot. a week later the president says well, we are not really sure. then the secretary of state angrily says what difference does it make at this point? everybody considers it a brilliant retort, where it was an empty bluster. and challenge that nobody picked up the difference it makes is that truth matters. and the origins of all that, what is happening in north africa really matters. this is a more trivial exam...

Bluster. >> thats the problem. is it bluster or could it be real. it is steps the north has taken under this relatively new leader are really very different and very threatening. >> much more coming up. they are called green on blue attacks. a gunman in the uniform of afghan security forces killed american troops. the shooting came as defense secretary chuck hagel wrapped up his first visit to afghanistan as secretary of defense and follows another outrageous verbal assault by karzai. barbara ...

Those that supported education and health care, like that was cheating. his popularity was somehow not on the up and up because part of it was just the basic function of redistributing oil revenue to the poor. that strikings me as what a government should do. >> as norwegians and do -- >> and alaskans. >> sovereign wealth funds and so on. incidentally, everyone goes on about chavez here. no one is looking at socialism -- theres something special about this. it is that bluster, it is that anti-am...

Bluster, but i think that he would understand that any threat to the united states that he seeks to carry out would be met with a response that certainly would alter the geography in that region of the world. and i think what we have to do, three things, number one, we have to lower the rhetoric, which we have done. we have to increase the training and readiness, which were also doing of our troops in the region along with the south korean forces. and what we also have to do is intensify the san...

Elections, probably within 30 days. the question is will the venezuelan people continue to listen to hugo chavez after his death and vote for his hand picked successor, nicholas duro. >> bret: what is your sense of where the people are. this was obviously expected. you have this new administration. what is your sense of the mood there on the streets last time you went? >> i think there is real impatience. there is high crime and the economy is really tanking, some of the highest inflation in the...

Economics. which is why we should teach our kids chinese so they will understand the new employers, which reminds me of another joke. knock, knock. whos there? exactly. [ laughter ] >> kimberly: you almost lost he after the braiding thing. >> greg: i want to go to you first, bob. e-mail from gene sperling to bob woodward. overplayed by woodward? under played by the white house? >> bob: well, begin with the notion that bob woodward overplays everything. >> greg: to do you think he was wrong about...

And let the media take care of the rest. what is new is almost everyone seems to understand that he is playing games, he used to get more credit. his threats of coming mayhem and lack of interest in easing it have dimmed his luster. that according to peggy noonan in a sharply toned editorial. brad blakeman joins me now former deputy assistant to george w. bush. good morning, brad. what do you make that of. >> i think peggy is on target. the president says hell preserve, defend and protect americ...