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Bill bottled up. people have the right to know. let me say one other thing on kens point. hes right. when you look at polls, campaign finance reform doesnt really rate that high. however, when you make the connection between peoples paychecks being squeezed and the fact that the special interests are dictating policy and squeezing their paychecks, people understand thats true. they think that the deck is stacked, and then they want campaign finance reform. >> so i didnt realize that -- you mean ...

There with that speech. he was absolutely unclear what he wants to do. does he want to attack? does he want congressional approval? does he want to work with putin and get the diment done? theres no rhyme or reason to it. th this is one of the worst moments of his presidency. we have no policy as to syria right now and what he should do is take a step back, take a few day, figure out what he wants to do. hes the leader of the free world. hes the one that should be dictating policy. not being dic...

Patrick kennedy. he handles the administration, dictating policy, the allocation of security rehe sources and really, you know, the buck does stop with him and as liz was staying they could have gotten there in 90 minutes and help these guys out. and the president got briefed at five oclock and he was gone. didnt even, wasnt curious about what was happening. >> well, i think its-- youre in a game of political musical chairs. everybody is worried about cya and-- >> excuse me if im the president a...

He handles the administration, dictating policy, the allocation of security rehe sources and really, you know, the buck does stop with him and as liz was staying they could have gotten there in 90 minutes and help these guys out. and the president got briefed at five oclock and he was gone. didnt even, wasnt curious about what was happening. >> well, i think its-- youre in a game of political musical chairs. everybody is worried about cya and-- >> excuse me if im the president and hear my ambass...

Pentagon has had too much power in recent decades in dictating policy, that the president should take more control. i think hagel probably is going to bring that idea into the pentagon. hes going to leave these big policy decisions to the president. hell give advice, but the big questions of when we go to war or how we go to are war wont necessarily be his decisions. >> ive heard this criticism from military guys who say, hey, the balance is out of whack right now. its a little too -- the milita...