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Mik, we only have a few minutes left, but weve seen what happens when the secretary of state does not have the ear of the president or is not part of the final decision making process. >> thats right, andrea. as a matter of fact, not only secretary of state kerry, but theres some question, too, among some quarters, about secretary of defense hagel and his strength. so if other nations perceive both the secretary of defense and the secretary of state as being somewhat weak in the obama administra...

Says the national security team decided they were going to go ahead and support the president. how this affects things militarily, a senior administration official says that the joint chiefs chairman, martin dempsey, told the president there wouldnt be any military ramifications on this, that essentially that their plans, their options for delivering a military strike on syria would not be affected by waiting a week or two for congress to authorize this. and so obviously there are lots of differ...

Make. he doesnt want to interfere in his decision making process. another statement from the jimny carter center. a punitive response without broad support from nato and the arab league would be illegal under international law. here is the secretary of state. >> president obama has spent many days consuling with congress and talking with leaders around the world about the situation in syria. last night the president asked all of us on his national security team to consult with leaders of congres...

Were thinking about doing. take this back to your own governments and maybe join us. >> robert, i want to return to what you were just saying there a minute ago. you laid out the rationale for, you know, enforcing the red line with syria because weve been dealing with the iranians on the nuclear issue. this way the iranians will know theres going to be consequences. is that a legitimate point to raise? do you think iran will take a message, will take a warning from any kind of military strike ag...

Sthoin zinni. thank you for joining us. you have unique perspective, especially at the military central command. give us a flavor about the decision-making process, the ramping up, if you will, to a military strike that could last a few days, if not longer against various targets in syria. >> well, im sure all the planning has been done and everything is in position. i think the key thing here is the long term strategy. any military commander wants to know how his -- and in terms of the end stat...

First took office. u.s. influence is declining in the middle east as violence and instability rock arab countries and ambitious attempt to reset u.s. relations with russia faltered and failed. theres deep skepticism about washingtons government surveillance programs in some cases the current climate has been driven by factors outside the white houses control but missteps by the president are to blame. say foreign policy analysts including some who worked for the obama administration. among them,...

Dismiss the insinuation that we really need to consider, are we going to give him what he wants here by sentencing him to death? is that going to make him a martyr? that would give them enormous amount of credibility which would be ridiculous. he is not a martyr and his moral and religious beliefs are twisted. to give that credibility by factoring that in their decision-making process too much is, would be laughable. so i think theyre really going to focus on the evidence they hear during the se...

Root cause and looking at the complete problem. but, you know, i ran for congress in 2010 and i made the decision to include my daughter who was very young at the time in my campaign and in my ads and your son daunte was featured very prominently in your ad. him and his fabulous hair. what was your decision making process around including him in such a prominent role and what the response has been to that ad? >> first, in my family, i am the third most famous person after daunte and dauntes hair...

One source even saying the president said to them, give me space. can you give us any more details about that? >> right. well, this is sort of emblematic of the jockeying going on behind the scenes about this incredibly important position, according to multiple sources, president obama did raise the issue of the fed chair and the criticism that some democrats have been giving to one of the potential nominees larry summers. one source said he was firm. some went further in their carrieization. bu...

This interception specifically but it speaks to the broader issue were trying to get inside their decision making process and get inside their think to go find out how they do things and operate and talk to each other and every bit of information that comes out about how we do that allow them to adjust and make that a little more difficult. jenna: im a huge fan of your work as you know. you always have such great reporting specifically about some of these huge stories that we have but how concer...