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Santorum and cruz and rubio and all these folks are not ready to -- >> who takes over if you bomb an area? who goes in and takes the area youve just bombed? >> well yeah -- >> the iraqi army? theres no such thing. >> right. theyre throwing weapons aside and running away. >> theyre saying we dont like assad either. >> thats the complication. they make it seem as simple as dropping bombs and we put people in place. the middle east is much more complicated. >> to me watching the clips, that knocks ...

From the first primary debate. how do you think the candidates are shaping up? >> you know there shouldnt be a number ceiling on it. whoever wants to run and has a passion and commitment to put this country in a better direction, please get in. you never know what can happen. todays front-runner is tomorrow guys that wins. i like what he said right there. do it again, repeat it like groundhog day. a lot of exciting candidates. people like christie has great experience. you know walker coming up ...

For kasich. it is not what it was a decade ago. you have to hit it to get in now. >> kasich will be a contender and he will be in sooner rather than later. he has signed up chris sununu out of new hampshire. the sununu family is very politically savvy. he has a record that proves the republican belief that if keep taxes low and you keep spending under control, youre going to have more money in government coffers to do things to help those less fortunate. now john kasichs challenge is going to be...

And poof, the firing squad. >> i was on the campaign trail, and you see her targeting the republican congress. if you are speaker boehner, she does not want to run against somebody who is a fresh-face contender, she wants to run against a party she can define and define through the policies on capitol hill. >> the policies she is not taking a position, which are the policies the democrats are divided. trade, for example, the huge one will be the policy going forward against the islamic state. >>...

Forgotten what theyre -- how hard it is in the aftermath of the recession. >> i do want to ask you about martin omalley, right, when you look at the aftermath of baltimore, i wonder what you think that means for martin omalley and his role as governor there in maryland what thats going to do to him if that is really tough for him to overcome. >> yeah a lot of people thought that the events in baltimore, the riots, et cetera over the last few months would actually disqualify him from the race and...

The immediate future of the patriot act is suddenly in serious doubt. according to one report an expiration of the patriot act, quote, now looks unavoidable. this after a long night of debate in voting in the senate. senators rejecting legislation that would end the governments bulk collection of phone records. but also rejecting other votes to keep the entire patriot act as a whole alive. yesterday afternoon, the white house trying to stress the urgency of the situation by saying that it does n...

Republican contender for president moop who is it? >> its marco rubio. >> why is that. >> because like you said earlier, ive met so many politicians, and, you know, theyll get in front of a lot of people and talk a lot. the second you go one-on-one, have lunch with them or something like that, everything is always the party, the party, the party, both sides. democrats and republicans, and i had met him before, and it just turned out we were there at the same time, i went and had lunch with him. ...

Mike huckabee has become the latest republican presidential contender to announce hes going to skip this summers iowa straw poll. jeb bush did so earlier this month and none of the other contenders have publicly committed to participating. the straw poll is a carnival-like event, first held 1979, it historically brings the winner a boost but critics argue its a bad indicator of who the actual front-runner is. and those are the things we just thought you should know. there i said it right. i neve...

Its not individualized. and youre not going after people who were suspicious of were just going after everybodys records. and thats an invasion of privacy privacy. >> i think if you get the wrong person at the hell am in the white house, all that data not only is it too much to comb through, they could use it against americans if you get a potentially correct president. >> even now. >> thats right. senator paul good luck with your effort. thanks for joining. >> thank you. and with me now to re...

>> were there differences? yeah. i mean sure i think that in washington, during my brothers time republicans spent too much money. i think that he could have used the veto power. he didnt have line item veto power, but he could have brought budget discipline to washington, d.c.. >> but this critique comes as his last name is proving to be a major handicap for bush among voters. in a new focus group, bloomberg politics asked iowa republicans how they felt about the potential 2016 contender? >> wh...