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facility and will be reunited with his family. these developments coming while secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary timothy geithner are in beijing preparing for economic and strategic meetings with chinese leaders beginning on thursday. its not clear how the chen case might influence those talks, but this was starting to become a sticky situation between the u.s. and china. china now reportedly demanding an apology from the u.s. for sheltering the activist. well h...

The presidents foreign policy and being basically a hawk about military actions has proven to be great risk, great reward for him right now. even the vice president has said they were not 100% sure that this was the right decision to make at that time. again, i get back to this. was this in reflection great risk/great reward and the president is just cashing in? >> well, look, i think this moment was window into the presidents decisionmaking and leadership skills. this was a very courageous call...

Alone, unless you are in that very narrow group, you look at the president and say, hes been to wimp on national defense and theres no way that gop candidate in this cycle is going to be able to outflank him as a conservative on national security issuees. and that is a role reversal of where we have been for 50 years bp. joe, are you comfortable being in a party with a hawkish -- well, im not saying youre in the party. i take that back. are you comfortable withing two hawks run for president. >>...

The presidents national security policy and his counter-terrorism actions, the drone strikes are certainly one piece of that. a "new york times" op-ed by peter bergen yesterday calls the president the warrior in chief and makes a point that beyond al qaeda he overthrew gadhafi, the drone attacks in pakistan, covert warses in yemen and somalia, an increase in the troops in afghanistan and the authorized assassination of anwar al awlaki. a u.s. citizen. and he continues to battle this sort of publ...

Reminding folks? >> he would have touted it out. lets go back to the previous president, mitch accomplission , when the mission wasnt accomplished. >> two weeks into the war. >> bye. a little bit of upset on their part because they dont have the party line. and an interesting piece in "the new york times" about how everyone has sort of, you know, discounted president obama as a hawk and ive said this a lot. that basically this is one of the most hawkish presidents weve had. hes not afraid to dro...

Him on my lap, pat him, stroke him a few times, and you look at those big bette davis eyes and you think, hey, this guy depends on me. i got to take care of him. >> stones cats have even eased tensions with old adversaries. >> whats up? >> thought id bring big boy over here for you to see. >> geez, i cant believe how fat he is. look at that guy. hes a cow. whats up, dude? >> just goes to show fruits and vegetables arent necessarily good on a diet. >> hes too fat to catch anything. >> dont have t...

>> he has flip-flopped a lot of times and it has not hurt him and it served him well. on the foreign policy front, reverend, he is not moving to the center. he is consolidating the bush influence over his foreign policy staff. you know, in that case, trying to think that being a hawk -- there was a conference call today with a romney add rye sor talking about the soviets, not the russians. his experts talking as if theyre still trapped in the 1980s. if he thinks that retro, blast the soviets vie...

Process is or is going to be. honestly i done think its going to matter terribly much. ive been traveling around pennsylvania, i do that continuously, ive been speaking with a lot of republican voters, supporters of mine, people across the spectrum and theres tremendous enthusiasm for governor romney. theres energy. theres a feeling of relief that this primary season is essentially over and we can focus on the job at hand which is electing governor romney. so i think, you know, obviously we go t...

In government, and you responded. >> well, i think men, is what i said. i think that there is a sense that women would have all of the good -- its hard to figure out what it is, whether its jealousy or fear, and partially the excuse that people make is that theyre not enough qualified women, to which i uttered an ex-plaive, but basically i think that its an excuse. there are obviously very important and powerful women, and women in the chain that are ready to have a high-level national security ...

Our lives today in some form or another. and then i also wanted to examine what it was like for people to make some very, very difficult decisions, personal decisions and decisions by leaders that affected a lot of peoples lives. >> what did you learn about your roots, because i remember covering you, you were a very public figure, you had been active in public life, at the white house in campaigns, for decades. you became secretary of state and then you first learned that you were not as you ha...