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And 2008 and he was unsuccessful. at that time cheney argued just the same thing. this iranian program is dangerous, we should use military action to go after it and president bush decided no. theres a real continuity between what george w. bush -- >> isnt he the real dr. strangelove here? i mean really? he always says bomb. >> the use of military power answers these problems. for most americans, the evidence of the invasion of iraq in 2003 is a counter example. people look back at that and say ...

David ignacious, had an interesting, frightening thought experiment he put forward on "morning joe." take a listen. >> i think it is useful to ask the reverse question. suppose he hadnt been released and it is a year from now. and american troops are getting ready to come home. you have this american sitting there in, ever more frequent propaganda videos from the tal -- taliban, the pressure on the president to act would be enormous. think about the alternative. >> michael, that was tuesday. isn...

Bergdahl in propaganda videos or harmed. >> he will get fury from people no matter what he does. you and i both know that. ignacious, counter example is a good one. i wrote a good onen a column i wrote earlier this week in which i said, suppose that on saturday, news broke not that bergdahl was freed and coming home but that he died in taliban hands. what do you think the republicans would be saying then? so, obama is never going to win with him. and graham in the sound you played earlier ratche...

These left wing comments that he is raising. i need a counter example, i dont know any left wing pundits who talk about slavery or white nationalism who hurl the n word, whenever this stuff happens it tends to happen from the right. >> ben, do you have any examples? >> i think there was sarah palin, somebody once that said they should defecate in her mouth, do you not count that as extreme. both sides have extreme people? >> the argument -- >> let me finish my point. >> finish. >> they do say ex...

Cities that were looking at abby that are in trouble, like detroit are doing very interesting things to recover. clearly new york is doing great but also dallas and houston. its really a national trend. and if you look at whats happened with the are our natio treasures today. mayors cant afford to shut down their governments. they have to keep the garbage people collecting garbage and the cops on the streets. >> you mean they actually have to do their job? >> they have to do their jobs, abbey. >...

Extreme? >> why are not the people of peace speaking out against the people doing these things? >> i kind of resent sometimes when people are like muslims need to prove to us they are not dangerous. why? why do i have to prove to you i am not dangerous? you are the dangerous one. i should be more afraid of you. >> well, our next guests are co-stars and directors of the film. we have a political comedian, if you want to call him a comedian and contributor to the daily beast, if you want to call h...

Anyone in his own diocese. my question is does that seem to be the case? can we expect big things from a man at this age who seems like hes lived a life thats quite far from the vatican in many ways and quite small and humble, is this someone we can expect major transformations especially on things you talked about? >> we can always hope. as catholics we pray for a miracle. theres no reason to believe he couldnt. we know that when vatican ii was called no one aspected pope john xxiii to do it. >...

>> barely. exactly. just a minor and we even raised taxes on everybody with that payroll tax. >> nobody argues about that unfortunately. >> but they dont want to admit that in a slightly higher tax environment jobs are being created. >> it seems that a couple shots have been taken to the president and they get away with them. inflation, well be overwhelmed with inflation. its like a 6%, 2% annually, theres no inflation yet this year. high interest rates, theyre so low people can borrow money if ...

One-sixth of 1% on a monthly basis. theres no inflation yet this year. high interest rates. theyre so low you can borrow money now. austerity. where is that working in the world? not only are they wrong on their attacks, theyre wrong on their prescriptions. i think estonia is doing all right with austerity and maybe a couple other countries, but thats not generally the rule that thats working. >> europe provides -- all due respect to estonia and the counter example i have heard about europe prov...

Not syria. >> one of the things about libya and i have gone back and forth on this about the libya intervention. when looking at syria, the problems in libya, which is, you know, militant groups and militias that have a lot of weapons and bulk thats happening and power vacuum that happens in our environment, to the extent you talked them up to the american intervention is fair. you now have syria going on. you are running this experiment in parallel. we are not going to intervene in syria the wa...