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Speech he is gave around the country pushing the plan and all the fights in congress about it? okay, maybe youve been busy. but then how do you explain that you knew about the jobs plan after all? >> president obamas american jobs act, what do you think of it? >> well, his most recent incantation is a bit like his first versions which is a lot of money, a lot of political bluster, very little positive impact on the economy. >> let me get this straight. last night, you said there was no plan. so ...

Assassinations and they are vowing retaliation. joining us now as he does every sunday at this time, the former united states ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, ambassador, good morning, good to see you. >> glad to be here. >> eric: they are threatening to retaliate. will they start killing officials on our side? >> they are laying the basis for it by saying this is -- it was an act of state sponsored terrorism and of course the united states denied it. israel has declined to make co...

This from them. >> the kind of bluster that can lead to misunderstandings and also can lead to the disruption of 16 billion barrels of oil that passed through that strait of who hormuz each day, shepard. >> shepard: staying on the tension theme at the funeral for this scientist who was killed more threats there. thats right, there were threats from mourner whos called for death to america death to israel. they have accused u.s. the is asass sinating their nuclear scientist. a charge the u.s. veh...

Doing because of perception of weakness of obama policy, a lot of people think we are in decline in that part of the world. after fooling around a longtime and trying to be nice to the iranians its about time we tell them there are red lines they should not and cannot cross. bill: do you think the iranians are serious? >> i do. i think you have to take the threats seriously bill. often opponents, adversaries, others tell us what they are going to do. they keep talking about this. i believe the u...

But they dont stay because it would make our job easier puts sanctions on them. >> there is little doubt that tensions between iran and the west are increase willing. secretary clinton called the threats to close the straits of hormuz provocative and dangerous. we know british and american naval vessels are in the region. should we be concerned about some kind of conflict inching closer by the day? >> well, there is greater likelihood i think than there was. and my esteemed colleagues on the sub...

Becoming secretary of state is not a bad thing for vice president. i mean, i think that if the president were to go to biden or maybe biden went to president, hillary clinton is the next obvious place for joe biden, being vice president hes done a very good job but he doesnt added a the kind of luster to the ticket that hillary clinton is likely to add and that the democrats need a little bit of luster. and some excitement. there is a bit of an enthusiasm gap, shall we say. a lot of democrats, a...

Without denying and i asked him, and there was a lot of bluster, and there is some family trait here and i said, well, stop yelling and let me ask, do you want to be treasury secretary and he says "i dont lust" for the job. >>neil: so that was not in the things that would be planned. >>guest: my guess is obama will, the president will ramp up the antibusiness stuff going into the campaign and this guy is a moderate, obviously someone who has ties to the business community. he did outreach to sma...

From this? you say chips? >> you see it coming in the gulf. the west is uniting. it will hit the iranian oil industry pretty soon. syria, that regime under assad is on the ropes. the iranians have a fractured government internally. each day that goes by they per seven themselves being weaker. what do we get? we get a lot of bluster. we get a lot of posturing. we get a lot of threats to close straits of hormuz and get the arrest of the young american. bill: how is the u.s. responding? >> right no...

Backyard. he will visit venezuela as well as cuba, ecuador and nicaragua. so these allies could help as sanctions grow. they could help moving money around the world. they could help with raw supplies and fuel. it is really a question how far hugo chavez is going to go to help his quote, iranian brother. he was on television five hours yesterday attacking the united states as usual saying the u.s. is country that wants to dominate the world but he wont let them. it is always tough to separate bl...

So much to republicans now? >>neil: why? why? >>guest: not because they are a hotbed of tea party conservatives but they hate dodd-frank. it is squeezing banks like never before, and squeezing them out of the business, in their defense, and i dont defend them that much, i am not like a big goldman sachs but they despise me but it squeezed out of businesses that had nothing to do with the financial crisis. the profits and bonuses are down, and that is because of dodd-frank and it will be worse ne...