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In the last campaign, frankly not talking about open-ended commitments. does the gop need to recognize and respond to a war weariness in the country? >> i think the drone issue and war we areness are two totally different issues. rand pauls war and drones is a war on a pretty successful fight against terrorism right now. im not sure where that gets us. i agree with bill that the gop doesnt lose by being a strong party of national security. what we -- what the republicans lost were moderates new ...

Everyone not talking a lot about open-ended foreign commitments. does the g.o.p. need to recognize and respond to a war wearyness? >> the drone issue and war wearyness are two different issues. rand pauls war on drones is a war on a pretty successful tight against terrorism. i am not sure where that gets us. i agree with bill, the g.o.p. doesnt lose by being a strong party of national security. what the republicans lost were moderates in the election. 5 percent of moderates went to self describe...

Eventually is a winning message in the last campaign, frankly not talking about open-ended commitments. does the gop need to recognize and respond to a war weariness in the country? >> i think the drone issue and war we areness are two totally different issues. rand pauls war and drones is a war on a pretty successful fight against terrorism right now. im not sure where that gets us. i agree with bill that the gop doesnt lose by being a strong party of national security. what we -- what the repu...

Pentagon said it would install more missile intercepters in alaska and the west coast. 14 missile batteries at a cost of $1 billion. >> the american people expect us to take every necessary step to protect their security at home and u.s. strategic interests abroad. but they expect us to do so in the most efficient and effective manner possible. by taking the steps ive outlined today, we will strengthen our homeland defense, maintain our commitments to our allies and partners and make clear to th...

I want to bring in maryland democrat, senator ben cardin, sits on the foreign relations committee. senator, good to see you. thanks so much for being with me on a saturday afternoon. >> craig, good to be with you. thank you. >> how serious, how real is the threat from north korea? >> we treat their threat very seriously. we know they are continuing their nuclear weapon program against their international commitments, we know it is concern not just to the united states and korea but a concern to ...

>> they are in there, for example. >> there is no one there who believes in legalized abortion, presumably maybe someone. my point being that i think part of the difficulty of interpreting the conclave and interpreting the choice is precisely that the lens through which it is retracted to us are the places in which these kind of political commitments and religious orthodoxy bump up each other. the issues that affect catholics in their public life and private life. but that has zero to do with th...

You just returned from there. what does israels prime minister, benjamin netanyau, what does he want to hear from president obama? >> we congratulate mr. netanyahu on his new government. i think the president will reinforce our commit ment betwen the united states and his real on defense and concern on iran and its nuclear weapon program. im certain syria will come up in those discussions and we are hoping that the president will be able to talk with the palestinians about direct negotiations by...

Moving again. in the longer term theres no doubt that we have do deal with rising deficits. thats what we do in our budgets, we focus on job creation and job growth, making important investments now. but we make targeted deficit reduction in the out years to bring the outyear deficits under control. we do not want our deficits growing faster than the economy. we want to stabilize our debt but we want to do it in a way that maintains our commitments to our seniors and invests in economic growth. ...

The other thing he said is that ive heard the arguments before, but my colleagues have not. are you one of those colleagues who were hearing his arguments for the first time? >> no. i think, bill, most of us have heard those arguments over and over again. i think one of the things that wed like to see is the president to make some firm commitments and stick to them. i mean, just for the president to come out and say that he believes that we should balance the budget would be a great thing. for t...

Welcome back to "americas newsroom." 4.6trillion in deficit reduction over ten years, thats the headline. what is wrong with that? >> there is nothing wrong with deficit reduction. the issue is how you achieve it and making sure you achieve it in a way that doesnt harm the very fragile recovery right now. we will also reduce deficits so that they are not growing any faster than the economy. we will stabilize the debt, but we will not do it in a way that guts our investment or our kids education ...