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Frankly, all our wealthy allies a free ride. >> do you think we can go in the direction we seem to be going? you follow this more than i do. the whole idea of drones and avoiding big commitments of ground troops but winning the wars by knocking out the bad guys with rockets going through their windows with their names on them. is that a good way for americans to fight the wars without people but with high-tech? >> no. a better way is not to fight wars we shouldnt fight. i was just reading today ...

Wealthy allies a free ride. >> do you think we can go in the direction we seem to be going. you follow this more than i do. the whole idea of drones and aavoiding big commitments of ground troops but winning the wars by knocking out the bad guys with rockets going through their windows with their names on them. is that a good way for americans to fight the wars without people but with high-tech? >> no, a better way is not to fight wars we shouldnt fight. i was just reading today an article, i wa...

Push more on this mental health check aspect. i think theyre going to throw the assault weapons thing in there, but, you know, i dont know how far -- even theyre being realistic as to whether politically thats even possible with this congress to get that in there. but i think that theyre sort of circulating around the mental health and improving that database and the magazines. and it seems to me the magazines politically might be their best shot at this. >> dr. sachs. >> peter, i wanted to come...

Commitments, theres no e kwif case. its almost like the voters determination in key races last year doesnt matter to those that feel that their base is going to come. >> exactly. i think within the republican world, it doesnt really matter what was said in election of 2012. the point is absolutely right. gerrymandering means that they can essentially exert minority rule it doesnt matter what the majority of voters want. we have to take these folks at their word. it is their true belief that they...

As time went on, i grew out of that experience and i think we grow out of tough times. >> you can guard your character and confront your doubts and fears. youre face-to-face with them there. >> yes, absolutely. first of all, guard your character means you have to be on guard all the time. you cant just say im a person of good character and that makes it happen. you have to be alert and renewing your commitments, what youre committed to. what are the values. >> and then fear, courage is so import...

We saw it again today when he reached the end of the roll call. he didnt have enough votes to be speaker. he needed 218 votes to be speaker. when everybody had already voted. he was at 216. and then they had to drag in bachmann and get her vote and then he managed to eke out a two-vote viblctory in a house where he had 18 extra votes. thats how he is. hes a weak, weak man. a weak speaker. therefore, he cant negotiate with the president because the president can actually make commitments, make de...

This to the floor and if he said, look, do we want this or do weigh want $3.5 trillion in tax increases? do we want this or do we want a stock market to crash, they could find republican votes because i think if this doesnt pass and things go very bad over the next few days, its going to be the house republicans who own it, and its hard to believe they want to do that, but it appears that their ideological sort of commitments are going to push them in that direction, at least they are as of the ...

Far as a republican platform and their agenda? >> no, i think the reason, look, this country had the opportunity in this election to once again hand completely controlled government to democrats. everyone in the house was up for reelection and yet, they continued to give republicans, majority there. they liked divided government and i think youve got to look to the number of states that have elected very conservative governors who are doing the exact opposite of what barack obama is doing at the...

Iran through sudan up through the corridor into gaza. were talking about very powerful weapons. if they dont do this, dont crack down on smuggling, then what? >> we have a serious problem. it will be a breach of egypts commitments in the camp david accords, number one. second it will raise the threat of to the people of israel. third, it will make unstable middle east more unstable. it will be a challenge for secretary of state clinton and the president. most important we have to make sure the c...

Realize the debt is not a near term problem. the massive unemployment and sluggish growth is the ek noomic problem. we need more stimulus and the idea that he did what he did, making these extraordinary commitments that you keep interest rates low from unemployment for the first time. it is going to be until unemployment is below 6.5%. we cant let the one unelected guy be responsible for carrying the weight of trying to boost demand in an economy that is reeling and coming out from under that ep...