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>> do you view china as a potential military threat to the united states? >> yes, theyre a military threat. theyve indicated theyre trying to development nuclear capability. >> for the record, china is not trying to develop nuclear capability. they have had nuclear weapons since 1964. the herman cain campaign tried to deal with its foreign policy problem every time it manifests. using a few different strategies. at one point his campaign told the "daily caller" mr. cain was getting a one-page br...

United states? >> yes, theyre a military threat. theyve indicated theyre trying to development nuclear capability. ç >> for the record, china is not trying to develop nuclear capability. they have had nuclear weapons since 1964. the herman cain campaign tried to deal with its foreign policy problem every time it manifests. at one point his campaign told the "daily caller" mr. cain was getting a one-page briefing on foreign policy issues almost every day. a full page. almost every day. when thi...

past several months. you know, we went back and took a closer look at incumbent presidents a year before their re-election, brooke. and i know youre interested in this as well. >> how do they compare? >> obama is at 46% a year before his election. november 2012. look at president bush. in 2003 he was at 50% and got re-elected. clinton was at 52% and got re-elected. the economy began to deteriorate and he was defeated in 92 to bill clinton. ronald reagan, 53% the year before his re-elec...

Most important foreign policy problem the united states has to deal with today? >> lack of clarity. >> bill: no, no. specifically. what area of the world concerns you the most? >> the middle east, obviously. because our best friend in the middle east is israel. they are there. and one of our worst enemies is there, which is iran. >> bill: what are you going to do to iran if they cause trouble in iraq, which it looks like they will. and continue on the road to the nuclear weapon? do you have a sp...

Some of the assumptions. >> bill: what are your assumptions, how much revenue would the federal government lose under 99? how much would they lose? >> none. because under 999 we had outside analysis firm evaluate and score 999 statically and in a static evaluation we produced the same amount of revenue from five sources. corporate income taxes, personal income taxes, capital gains taxes. capital gains taxes. death taxes and the biggest tax, which is the biggest tax for most people payroll tax. y...

Some of the assumptions. >> bill: what are your assumptions, how much revenue would the federal government lose under 99? how much would they lose? >> none. because under 999 we had outside analysis firm evaluate and score 999 statically and in a static evaluation we produced the same amount of revenue from five sources. corporate income taxes, personal income taxes, capital gains taxes. capital gains taxes. death taxes and the biggest tax, which is the biggest tax for most people payroll tax. y...

Last week was to follow through with a tactical decision, with a policy that was already in place. the policy was in place from the bush administration. he did not set policy by doing what he did. he simply executed a mission of existing policy. when the president has been successful in foreign policy it is has been following through on bush administration policy which is gitmo staying hope and moves forward and close the deal on iraq. in places where the president has been faced with a new fore...

Far away, buildings going up, streets are crowded, young people are flocking here. america triumph, bin laden being gone, turning point in the war on terror, it gives you a lot of faith in the future of this country and good and right can prevail. >> in the last couple of days, more and more details have come out. do you want 0 knto know all the details? is it important? theres criticism the details are changing. >> i think the details are important, not anything that gives up security. knowing ...

We saw it in pop culture of the 1980s, top gun i have indication of our debates of pop culture, pop culture aimed at children, and now seeing a rerun. this idea that every problem can be solved, every foreign policy problem apparently can be solved with a war. another thing that comes out of the 80s, every domestic problem supposedly can be solved by a tax cut. these all come out of the 1980s. and again, both the political culture and popular culture of the 1980s. >> the nice thing about that, i...

That was the idea. we saw it in pop culture of the 1980s, top gun-ification of our debates of pop culture, pop culture aimed at children, and now seeing a rerun. this idea that every problem can be solved, every foreign policy problem apparently can be solved with a war. another thing that comes out of the 80s, every domestic problem supposedly can be solved by a tax cut. these all come out of the 1980s. and again, both the political culture and popular culture of the 1980s. >> the nice thing ab...