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Was. >> if one were to look at your statements on syria from the start, the red line and then your decision, the very last minute not to use military force, wouldnt it be fair for critics to say this shows inconsistency, perhaps it shows your own ambivalence, and yet you have seen it as one of your best moments. >> ambivalence, absolutely. its hard with respect to my red line we positioned our military to be able to strike assad if he did not give up his chemical weapons. the fact is he got rid ...

Office in 1980. it made the left crazy and the media crazy, and he won the cold war. the idea that this is some huge change in policy or something else, i dont think it is. i think in the end this will be about sending a signal to russia. they have doubled their gdp spending on defense, while america sat by and has done nothing. we havent stood by our allies, as we saw yesterday on the vote at the u.n. this is about signaling a change in u.s. tone when its t -- when it comes to our role in the w...

Surrounding russia. georgia, crimea, ukraine, trying to re-establish the historic russian concept of a buffer zone against the west. the policy hopefully will change, but one thing i do hope, don, if i can just add this, president-elect trump has said he wants to meet with president putin. i hope that before he does, he will meet with the western european leaders who have been upset and made fearful by president trumps statement about nato and the possibility that the united states might not hon...

Have to think about what extreme vetting means and how will it square with our other commitments around freedom of liberty. >> thats the key point because extreme vetting is located in the middle east thinking about someone from syria or refugee from that part of the world. what happens with extreme vetting when it bumps up against europe where there are no borders and easy transfer and translation of bodies across these lines? and thats going to be an important definition for this administratio...

The mistake that unpredictably works or it can. >> it can. absolutely ways that it can work. in a situation like the chinese, it is written if you look at what has happened the past couple days, the terror in berlin, the ambassador killed in turkey. it is a scary time. one of the problems with this theory is to make it stick you have to be unpredictable all the time, not just some of the time and there is a risk that our allies, nato allies and others worry we are not going to be there, not goin...

>> a lot of people are going to look at what isis loses in syria and iraq and say -- they wont say it this way but theyll think i wanted to be on the winning team. youre looking like the losing team. theyll at least wait to make their commitments. we have to look also at the people who are isis sympathetic in places like the philippines, in egypt, in areas outside of the core territory of isis. theyll see this as their moment to stand up for the caliphate even if the caliphate fails where it sta...

Going to be pushing in exactly the opposite direction of what the president has promised. this is, i think, a conservative wing of the party and of this administration sort of taking up a lot of space, grabbing a lot of turf, grabbing a rlot of territory. well see what happens when those commitments run smack into the promises that the president-elect has made. >> we have time for the rally sound bite yesterday? lets play it. >> this is the last time ill be speaking at a rally for maybe a while,...

They dont comply to the agreements. >> if you have the russians cooperation, senator, its more forceful, more effective, right? >> youre absolutely correct, but russia -- before this attack, russia is not a reliable partner. they make commitments to us in ukraine and violated those commitments. made commitments to us in syria. they violated those commitments. so we cant trust russia. theyre not a partner. theyre working against our interests. so i dont think it was a matter of being nice to russ...

Its not about forcing them to hire. he wants to create an environment and a business culture and an economy that creates jobs that fosters economic growth. he was eliciting their ideas and their opinions and their feedback on some of the ideas that he has on whether or not they would effectively help grow the economy and create jobs and lift up wages. >> by the way, were looking at ibms ceo who promised to hire 25,000 more workers over the next four years. similar commitments out of others ovin ...

>> i was going to say because they hear what he said, they watch what he has done. they watch how he essentially attempted to railroad the central park five. they have watched a career of essentially dangling black people around as almost like puppets or trinkets. it is not to suggest donald trump doesnt have real black friends. when we look at political commitments and where his economic investments are it doesnt suggest caring for the black community. the economic development he is talking abo...