congressman southerland. this was all done on the anniversary of lyndon johnson s declaration for war on poverty. what do you think of this idea of the promise zones across the country, the first five of which were unveiled on thursday? the president, i believe this is the program he made reference to in his state of the union a year ago. so there doesn t seem to be much of an urgency here since it s 13 months after he first mention e it. the devil is in the details. there wasn t a lot of details that came out. as you know, president reagan had the enterprise zones. if it s patterned after that, that encouraged school choice. i do believe tax incentives to move the economy forward. and so we re going to be patient. we re going to look at what the president is offering and but again, the devil is in the details. congressman van holland, i think many people were appreciative of the idea of the promise zones. ted cruz came out and said all of america needs to be a promise zone with re
tweeted, quote, the issues in iraq are threatening to undo all that our men and women in uniform have fought for as al qaeda is resurgent, taking over fallujah and ramadi again. who s to blame here, senator inhoff? well, i m not going to say who s to blame now. i d rather look at how can we correct it? we tried very hard back when president obama pulled out to get him to leave such things as surveillance, intelligence, logistics, training. that s the type of thing that we can do. we ve trained them already over that period of time. in oklahoma in my 45th, we re very much involved in that. so they re great warriors, but you can t just leave them and not have the intelligence and the logistics there with them. so that s what we re encouraging them to do now. if you look at anbar province,
but i think it s unfortunate we now see it in the book, it looks like in an effort to make the book more popular on the newsstands. senator inhoff, you said late last week you were not a fan of robert gates but you re becoming one now. that s right. first of all, to me the most revealing thing was the exchange that hillary clinton and obama had when they each one admitted to the other one that during the surge in iraq, both of them had their decisions made through a political for political motivation. i think that was really revealing. to me, that draws a distinction. because, you know, bob gates was also in that position under a republican. do you think, senator, that su hurts her chances if she decides to seek the presidency in 2016? yeah, i do. i do. i think for her to say that she of course, she may deny it. i haven t heard any response from her. the fact i haven t heard anything from her leads me to
believe she probably won t. but to be politically motivated to make those very significant decisions i think is going to be very damaging to her. senator cardin, do you agree? no. this is the type of talk after the fact president obama was opposed to us entering the war in iraq as i was opposed to it. secretary clinton as a senator voted for that. i think they were talking about the primary elections where issues get talked about but i don t think anyone questions the sincerity of secretary clinton. in fact, secretary gates was extremely complimentary of the role that secretary clinton played as secretary of state. senator en. dan: inhoff ben is right. that was during the primary and the primary at that time looked like it was going to be between obama and hillary. and both of them agreed they made that as political decisions.
i think it s going to come back and hurt her. senator inhoff, bob gates also said that vice president joe biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue for the last four decades. you served with him in the u.s. senate as a colleague for a number of years. do you think that bob gates is correct on that point? well, you know, he s a real gracious person. i had a long conversation with the vice president the other day when i had a loss in my family. we talked for over an hour. now, i have debated him in years past on foreign on issues where i have disagreed with him. and so i don t say i can t say that he s been wrong on everything. but i ve disagreed with him on most things. right. and senator cardin, it s certainly not unusual, not unprecedented for former administration officials, former administration official to write scathing tell-all books while the administration still holds office. but in this case bob gates, did you argue at all with the timing of the release of t