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Course, being the split within the taliban. senior taliban officials may not be able to control their guards. may be angry, the idea of freeing the hostage they have held for five years. off awe mi >> i want to play you sound from 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 c...

>> originally conceived that way, wolf. these discussions in secret go back to november 2010. this is not new. in february, 2011, secretary of state clinton said publicly it was the dire of the u.s. to have a political diplomatic settlement of the conflict and the secret negotiations came out of that opening that she made. she sent her emissary to meet secretly with the taliban. there are extensive conversations with the idea of stabilizing the country when u.s. forces left. i dont think anybody...

Getting emotional. >> if the senate can declassify this report, we will be able to insure that an unamerican, brutal program of detention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted. >> but dont tell that to former bush era cia director michael hayden. >> i read an article by david ignacious earlier in week. he said that dianne feinsteins report so skwaiting that it would insure a brutal program of interrogation would never again be considered or permitted. now, that sense, tha...

Parts have preexisting conditions, republicans had proposals, democrats had proposals to live with those. harold knows that. the president had this grand ambition to remake everything, 2,700 pages. >> yes, you know what, had mitt romney won, maybe he could have done that wonderful thing he did in massachusetts. but he didnt. president obama won the election and got health care through. i cant the of another president who tried. its not pretty. >> so i want to go back to what the creative classes...

>> thats right. thats all i want to know. its always an underestimation. thank you, david. i respect you a lot. thank you, david corn, david ignacious. coming up, i am still where i am always at, against a war if we can avoid it. anyway, weve had enough of the bushes as president. how about the clintons? the kennedys? the cuomos? he might be running, too. do we like political dynasties? somebody wrote this, but i d didnt. congress stepping in to help the faa avoid further furloughs which are b...

Air attack. youd have to be prepared to defend american soldiers lives on that border which requires all kinds of additional -- >> has any war ever been easier than we thought it would be? >> no, never. >> thats right. thats all i want to know. its always an underestimation. thank you, david. i respect you a lot. thank you, david corn, david ignacious. anyway, weve had enough bushes as president. what a great line. how about the clintons? how about the kennedys? how about the cuomos? do we sti...

Its, in a sense, not in our interest for this to end suddenly tomorrow with assad going, because the opposition really isnt strong -- the moderate opposition isnt strong enough. youre creating an iraq-like vacuum, and the jihadists are the strongest fighters. three or four months from now, thats not going to be true. on senator mccains argument you can do a no-fly zone easily, im told by u.s. officials thats just not so. youd have to move the patriot batteries that are in turkey almost to the bo...

Strength. the neocon babble. lets have a muscular foreign policy. all the metaphors for war that has us stuck once again in a country whose name we dare not pronounce a decade later. i spent all day yesterday at the george w. bush library. not once did i hear the word iraq. not once. if this crowd is proud of the wars they pushed, why are they afraid to remind us of the last one or even pronounce the word? david cornyn for "mother jones" magazine and david ignacious. you came back from the middl...

Syrian government to utilize chemical weapons on its people crosses a line that will change my calculous and how the united states approaches these issues. so, you know, this is not an on or off switch. this is an ongoing challenge that all of us have to be concerned about. >> david, if the government of syria, if the assad regime were using chemical weapons consistently or in any way as part of a strategic effort to save themselves, wouldnt there be a debate? why is it so fleeting, this evidenc...

Veto and have a formal u.n. action. fine. if its a u.n. action. if its a u.n. action. short of that, david, what within quay can we do? >> the u.n. action would be for a negotiated political transition. the russians would finally say, yes, we agree, bashar al assad must go. then the mechanisms that have been prepared by former secretary general kofi annan would go forward. >> would they take the assad family to russia? >> they might. thats been discussed in the past. on the question that you ask...