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There. its just me being a smart-ass basically. you portrayed me as this person im not. you made claims that werent true. so ill pretend they are true. do something about it. >> you know its against the law. >> yeah its against the law. but i guess in my mind i look at it as not being that serious. >> but facing the possibility of three years in prison for felony burglary has sexton considering a change in behavior. >> hopefully maybe i can just be able to avoid jail time and do what i need to d...

False calls to 911 and was given probation. >> why would you do that? >> what would possess me to call the police when there is nothing there. its just me being a smart-ass basically. you portrayed me as this person im not. you made claims that werent true. so ill pretend they are true. do something about it. >> you know its against the law. >> yeah its against the law. but i guess in my mind i look at it as not being that serious. >> but facing the possibility of three years in prison for felon...

>> theyre going do something. this is the father of north korea, kim il-sung, theyre going to have a milestone celebration, some sort of provocative event. im sure the chinese would like them not to do it in. if they dont do it, that would be an indicator itself that the chinese have had some impact on them. but the likelihood is that they will do it. weve got the carrier strike group up there sending a message to north korea but is also to reassure our allies in the region that this is presiden...

Youre right. it explodes above the ground pushing a wave down on the ground and designed for the kind of target that we talked about here. a series of caves underneath a mountain that allowed isis to move freely throughout this region. it was dropped at 7:00 p.m. at night. anybody in that cave or in those caves is buried. >> stuart: is this a departure from what we have been do something. >> you dont know the real story. the implication from the presidents comments, this is something that requir...

>> theyre going do something. this is the father of north korea, kim il-sung, theyre going to have a milestone celebration, some sort of provocative event. im sure the chinese would like them not to do it in. if they dont do it, that would be an indicator itself that the chinese have had some impact on them. but the likelihood is that they will do it. weve got the carrier strike group up there sending a message to north korea but is also to reassure our allies in the region that this is presiden...

Seems to me without any kind of actual political will, commitment to some sort of long-term strategy that will genuinely aid the syrian people in their quest to be self-determining and free of the brutality of the assad regime, absent any actual political will domestically in the united states, its difficult for me to envision military interventions that make their lives better? >> i think there are voices that do support that broader strategic vision, people like senator mccain, and people can ...

Outspoken on the issue of syria and the need to take action. we can use military force for limited means. i believe we could have and we could still use our military to safeguard lives and certainly to demonstrate that the use of chemical weapons is absolutely unacceptable. >> all right. thank you for your time tonight. really appreciate it. i want to bring in washington post columnist jennifer reuben and shady ham ed, a senior fellow at the brookings institution. jennifer, im going to start w...

An affront to who we are as americans. and i think they have to say what is their alternative? if they dont want to have strikes against the assad regime, then what do they suggest as an alternative because doing what weve been doing for the past six years -- or the past five years, really since 2012, that cannot be our answer to this predicament. it has failed time and time again. and the question is whether are we as a country going to say, there has to be a strategy on syria because are we go...

Do you agree? >> no. i mean so obama was very close to striking in august 2013, and we were at the 11th hour. french jets were readied in terms of targets. so it wasnt as if obama was waiting for congress. its only when he apparently had second thoughts at the very last moment that he said, okay, lets table this and have a conversation about it. but i think that for obama, it was about skirting responsibility, and he already had made his decision, and he knew the votes werent there in congress. ...

Im not kidding. so i think hes getting a crash course in international diplomacy. i agree with evelyn, your previous guest, that, listen, there is always an argument we should have done something before, therefore we cant do anything now. we should ha at some point we do have to do something, and i think there are a range of options here. whether the president decides that hes going to go full bore on the most extreme options or whether hes going to seek a middle ground has yet to be determined....