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Appreciate your time. >> great to be with you. >> you alarmed me. i respect your expertise. and think of you as a non-hyper bollic person. you were setting often early alarm. he would be a terrifying choice. why did you single him out? >> the tweet you mentioned was a little bit of black humor in a dark moment. there are genuine concerns. there seems to be a bolten play book that goes back frankly to the iraq war. that play book goes something like this. take a threat, hype it. base it on questi...

Person and you were setting off an alarm that john bolton would be not just worrying but a terrifying choice. >> the tweet was a little bit black humor in a dark moment. but i think there are genuine concerns about bolton. there seems to basically be a bolton playbook that goes back, frankly, to the iraq war. and that goes something like this -- take a threat, hype it, base it on questionable intelligence, define it as imminent and existential, say that diplomacy is a fools errand, especially wi...

Alliance, split the west, cause more chaos, and in a sense that statement has helped to push against that, if you like. but words are words. the question, as your other guests have suggested, is what actions will be taken, and particularly for russia it is financial actions that have a real effect. what the west has really struggled with with russia over a long period of time is trying to engage with russia and not to descend into another cold war. vladimir putin has made pretty clear some time ...

This is a trend. we won state special elections earlier this year, kentucky, wisconsin, new hampshire. >> the party has done better on the stateside. thats important. those losses on the democratic level all across the country led to redistricting efforts that made it harder for you guys to win congressional seats. that was a problem that was realized. now well see if you can remedy it. lets take one step backwards. what was the calculation that led to the party identifying this seat as one you ...

"gps" with condoleezza rice. condi, the most famous statement i would say that president bush made about foreign policy was his second inaugural. this clarion call to spread democracy around the world. it almost sounded like the truman doctrine, and it was the united states is going to support all these efforts everywhere. many people saw you as being a guiding hand behind it. the trump administration seems to have premised its foreign policy on exactly the opposite view. its a fools errand, we ...

Everywhere. many people saw you as being a guiding hand behind it. the trump administration seems to have premised its foreign policy on exactly the opposite view. its a fools errand, we should never have been involved in it, we should be much more self-interested in a narrow way. do you think the country has rejected that view? >> well, i do know that people see it as hard to support democracy. i dont much like the term democracy promotion. it suggests somehow that were promoting something peop...

That is extremely personal. if he were to do that, everybody would know that he personally had done it. overruling the chief of staff. and they would know he had done it for the benefit of his son-in-law, despite significant security concerns among other people by. his national security adviser about his son-in-laws foreign contacts over financial issues. and i think the political -- potential for political blowback and political accountability is pretty acute. and he would certainly be well adv...

It only compounds the situation and makes it even more dangerous. >> you got to look at it from this perspective. when they are training on range, to your point the rounds arent coming back at them. the average proficiency, maybe good shot in the 90 or 95 perce percentile. when people have rounds coming back at them. it drops down to 18%. thats one out of the of every five rounds may strike the target. the arming school teteacher sch is a fools errand. i think theres other more sensible solution...