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Attitude is see you in court. and that is -- you know, thats one way for a president to act. the emancipation proclamation was an executive order. right? the president is as big a man as he can be, as woodrow wilson, not very popular now, used to say. so you can expand the powers of the office if you feel strongly enough about it. and thats what obamas doing. and hes bringing the democratic party with him. >> and my understanding of having sort of talked to some folks that know this in the legal...

If you want to protect america and defeat isis, rick santorums your president. because serious times need serious people. >> joining me now is former senator rick santorum, candidate for president. thanks for being here. >> good to be here. >> whats changed in four years? youre seeing it up close campaigning in iowa. i think theres been a lot of changes in the way american politics works. im curious what you see firsthand as a candidate in iowa. >> well, i can tell you the most difficult thing, ...

Race. but if thats the dynamic, i dont see how the person who wins that establishment slot has a shot unless the dynamic shifts. >> well, the dynamic has to shift in a way that we havent seen right now. look, since -- for seven months, chris, trump has held this poll position, this number one spot. and yeah, he may lose iowa. but im not even banking fully on that at this point. as we know, iowa can be a little fickle. everyones concerned about turnout. but trump has got an organization there. he...

Sword. today the conflict widened as bahrain and sudan joined saudi arabia in cutting diplomatic ties with iran. united arab emirates downgraded its diplomatic relations with iran. but in bahrain, which is a shia majority nation ruled by a sunni monarchy and supported by the saudis, protests have erupted against the saudi governments executions. and protests in tehran have continued. what we have seen over the last several years from iraq to syria to yemen is essentially a series of proxy wars b...

Dynamic where were sort of caught in between in which youre using national polling but then youre also -- the earliest states are broadly unrepresentative demographically of what the country looks like. and particularly on the democratic side you wonder how that affects essentially how you run this race with the democratic coalition that exists. >> yeah. aside from "star wars," there was actually very little interesting or good about 2015. i think we go into 2016 with hillary clinton being the p...

About this idea of them being armed. because at one level i think thats part of the reason that theres a little bit of reticence, right you? dont want to precipitate bloodshed. and obviously theres ruby ridge and theres waco. theres actual precedent here. but also, thats -- that is the argument that a lot of people marshal for the second amendment, that basically thats why we should be able to have guns, so we could do something like this and scare off the federal government. >> i think its more...

And protests in tehran have continued. what we have seen over the last several years from iraq to syria to yemen is essentially a series of proxy wars between the sunni saudis and the shia iranians for dominance in the region. it is one of the underlying drivers of the bloodshed in the region, which doesnt show signs of getting better. saudi arabia has also now ended air traffic and trade links with iran according to its foreign minister. between these two regimes of course it is saudi arabia th...

Know, the number one -- enemy number one in many cases is not barack obama, not hillary clinton, enemy number one is essentially who people perceive as the leaders of the republican party. >> yeah. >> the republican establishment. and you know, weve been talking this whole time about the race is ultimately going to have to come down to establishment, anti-establishment, two-person race. but if thats the dynamic, i dont see how the person who wins that establishment slot has a shot unless the dyn...

He doesnt support ethanol. now, this is of course a tried and true means of iowa campaigning. >> sure. >> but i think what were seeing in this race is those sort of local issues, essentially their sail yens has entirely evaporated. do you agree with that? >> in many respects thats right. ive said for some time one of the problems going into this cycle by relying on national polls whether it is to determine whos going to stand on the stage to debate or where they are in the poll position leading ...

>> but no, i think that is. look, when you trace the roots of arguments about the second amendment to the sort of -- their base, which is about the idea that like the government should be scared of the people rather than the people scared of the government, it comes down to the fact that this is a way of essentially break the states monopoly on violence so we have a possibility of insurrection in this bird sanctuary. >> i mean, taking bens comment, which is a very interesting moment in our histo...