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If iraq falls to a group that is too extreme even for al-qaeda, whose fault is it? the united states for leaving too soon? for going in at all? or is it iraqs prime minister, nouri maliki, who was admittedly hand-picked by the united states. listen to what president obama said just hours ago. >> there should be a wake-up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shiite who care about building a functioning state that can bring about security a...

Some of the weakness of the state and that then carries over into the military capacity. so i think its fair to say that in our consultations with iraqis, there will be some short term immediate things that need to be done militarily, and you know, our national security team is looking at all of the options but they should be also a wake up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shia who care about building a functioning state that can brin...

Functioning state. we have not helped them get on their feet. we did a very minimalist intervention in 2011 and then essentially left them to their own with best wishes, if that. and so we have had these big debates in the united states about benghazi. we had this recent raid and now a big debate with the libyan government. but i think its all sort of about the wrong question. the right question is what can we do, even at this point, to try to help the libyan government develop its courts, devel...

In phases. the one were coming to a close now is the military one, military control. that will be followed by repairing the ground for those defectors, working with the community leaders to call back those boys so that were preparing for them rehabilitation, retraining so that they will have -- they can be even today in somalia there is employment opportunity. many of these are not employable because they lack skills. the government is working on that. and on top of that, a functioning state in ...

People here feel that their freedoms are being curbed more and more. thats the argument critics have been making. when you ask supporters of the president, they say that its actually quite the opposite. the president inherited a state bureaucracy that was full of remnants of the old regime, of the states security apparatus. theyre the ones causing the chaos. theyre the ones that are preventing any type of democratic reforms to take place. every time the president tried to push through any type o...

It would be impossible for people to get to work, get to school, to live as a functioning state. >> andrea mitchell, martin fletcher, joel, we will ask to you stand by. the news conference expected to start at 2:25 now, instead of 2:05. when that happens, we will of course bring it to you live. back here, developing, the manhunt for the gunman who shot and killed the from colorado corrections at his own home. also, immigration reform is back on the fast track in washington. but our first team ...

Part and setting it aside, its a test of a functioning state. whether it can collect taxes. this is actually a basic developmental action that you ask of states. look at greece. this is a test for america. can we collect taxes from people at the top of the social pyramid and change policy to make the tax code more fair? these are vital questions of what the future american government can do. >> and mitt romney has said nothing about any of those. >> he has spoken through his anchors. >> chris ha...

In the way its practiced. the realization people dont understand we -- scalia wrote its important, necessary you have due process but not necessary that you actually be guilty is, i think, morally shocking to people. people might say, yes, i would like to see murderers and i would like to see terrorists and other executed but to say im not comfortable of doing it that knowing on some deep level innocent people be executed along with them. >> i want to show this for a second just to the viewers. ...