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Gingrich can still excite a crowd. thats why you have primaries. this will sort itself out as they go through that process. youll see some excitement and electricity emerging from that. >> who looks strongest to you? if you said i hope they dont zero in on this guy because he could be something? >> candy, ive learned over the years trying to pick who is the strongest candidate at this point is a fools errand. >> me, too. >> and we do it. right? it still doesnt mean that it makes any difference w...

Fire goes off. hes been a good governor of indiana. he showed he can govern. gingrich can still excite a crowd. thats why you have primaries. this will sort itself out as they go through that process. youll see some excitement and electricity emerging from na. >> who looks strongest to you? if you said i hope they dont zero in on this guy because he can be something? >> candy, ive learned over the years trying to pick who is the strongest candidate at this point is a fools errand. we do it, righ...

Mouse gets to vote on the bill, and if enough do, if enough do, this president signs it if he likes to. perhaps if this were the rules that the republicans had to follow, its a much thinner book, and it rhymes, maybe you get it right. >> he thee rised that the republican freshman were being sent on a fools errand. >> lets keep the republican freshmen busy while behind closed doors your speaker is cutting a deal. things havent changed around here all that much. and youre down here pretending some...

Fools errand, spending more than $100 billion a year in afghanistan for nothing, with no ultimate purpose at all. >> to prop up karzai. >> under this circumstance makes no sense. i think if you look at another 64% in the same poll, 64% of americans want to cut the deficit, both by cutting spending and raising taxes. thats the word that never appears. any candidate that comes in and says im for doing both is going to occupy a huge center space. where are they? president scared? republicans are ag...

We basically assumed he did. i think the wisdom of that policy is shown of how difficult it would be if gadhafi in addition to his conventional forces, he had weapons of mass destruction and could threaten to use chemical weapons on his own people. that is a crisis that would dwarf what were currently concerned about. i think it was a good deal to have been, to have made. we tried to at that time, push him in the direction of reform and democracy and obviously that was a fools errand. >> david g...

Trillion dollars on this fools errand. >> frightening prediction there. when our military panel returns, reaction to a stunning new report on government spending. how much money went to the war and whether or not it paid off. new information on the arrest of two men on a flight from chicago. what authorities are calling a "dry run" for a terrorist attack. scary stuff is coming up. ♪

Drawdowns. and vice president biden a week ago said maybe it will just be a couple of thousand. and that to me would meet the letter of the presidents commitment but not the spirit. i would like to see significant drawdowns. i think wehould have under 50,000 american troops, less than half the troops we now have. i also believe we should not be on regular combat missions against the taliban unless the taliban are specifically associating themselves with al qaeda. plus i want to introduce two oth...

Appeasement, defeatism -- >> not at all. i actually thought a lot of the analysis in the article which i did read carefully was very sharp, very perceptive. but i have a memory that around 2006 people were saying of a certain prime minister in iraq he was utterly incompetent, we were pursuing a fools errand in the country, there was hope for it to come together in any meaningful way, that the insurgency was far too powerful, and we saw what happened in iraq. so were now still at the early stages...

Against the taliban unless the taliban are specifically associating themselves with al qaeda. plus i want to introduce two other things. i want the united states to begin direct talks with the taliban to see if we cant work out some sort of a modus operandi. and i want the united states to stop putting so much of what it does through the central government. i do not believe -- in this case i agree with the ambassador. i do not believe that mr. karzais government is an effective partner. instead ...

Successful mission. hes going to get the right people in the right place to finish the job. and im sure that he probably turned to general petraeus and said this is what the mission is, can you get it done. petraeus went along with it obviously. its about team, its about working together. the president was very clear that he encourages debate, but he does not want division. and you certainly dont go out and air dirty laundry. your question about the left. there are a lot of americans out there w...