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More divisive than the issues a lot of other people focus on. there is a base of the republican party who really sees a strong america, who believes we have -- who almost has this view of american interventionalism that we have a moral purpose. and thats not a right-left divide. it really is a philosophical divide about americas role in the world. but there is a growing segment of the republican party that believes in more isolationism along the lines of what rand paul believes. so this is going...

Changing interest national boundaries like that. we cant be more european than the europeans. i hate to say this in hah time of isolationism in the united states rising. if the europeans arent willing to defend themselves and come to the aid of a country like ukraine, its hard for the united states to do more. its an excuse for obama but its bad for the west as well. bill: they kicked out a few russians and who took over to towns and buildings in the eastern half of the country. well see what ha...

Youve been critical of him saying he appeals to the lowest common denominator in the party and you find it offensive. do you still think that now or is he a more viable candidate for presidency in 2016? >> the concerns i have are r still there. hes more about cia killing americans with drones as having cough knee in starbucks, who said the director of national intelligence should be in the same jail as snowden. our real enemy is al qaeda. we have to be concerned about russia. he was critical of ...

Common denominator in the party and you find it offensive. do you still think that now or is he a more viable candidate for presidency in 2016? >> the concerns i have are r still there. hes more about cia killing americans with drones as having cough knee in starbucks, who said the director of national intelligence should be in the same jail as snowden. our real enemy is al qaeda. we have to be concerned about russia. he was critical of americans several weeks ago saying we tweak the russians to...

Too much. when i say hes appealing to the lowest common denominator, hes trying to somehow tell americans we can retreat from the world, that america is an imperial power. if we retreated the world would be safer. nothing can make the world more dangerous than if america did go back into isolationism. this is not the days of charles lindbergh. we have to be a strong and viable nation, and we cant allow isolationists to take over the republican party. that would be damaging not just to the party,...

Tends to focus exclusively on our fractures, exclusively on our divisions and doesnt let us see enough of our commonality. and so i think whats maybe new for us is not the different wings of the party that used to make it a majority party, the diversity of opinions. i think this new media culture shines a light so intensely on our divisions that it doesnt let us see ourselves as one anymore. >> lets talk about cpac. at the end, they always take a straw poll. rand paul won last year. predictions ...

95 was 42% -- 1985 it was 42%. comparing then to today the finances were completely different. the world is more dangerous and is going to get more dangerous unless we get our economic houses in order. rand paul looks like he won the straw poll. the least interventionist among all the candidates. no isolationism. >> but people are not into interventionism as goes national security go. one of the three legs in ronald reagans three legged stool. there is a place in the dialogue. economy back to ro...

95 was 42% -- 1985 it was 42%. comparing then to today the finances were completely different. the world is more dangerous and is going to get more dangerous unless we get our economic houses in order. rand paul looks like he won the straw poll. the least interventionist among all the candidates. no isolationism. >> but people are not into interventionism as goes national security go. one of the three legs in ronald reagans three legged stool. there is a place in the dialogue. economy back to ro...

They are in fallujafallujah. they are, as you know, in parts of syria. allies in a variety of forms are mutating and evolving all over the place and the massacre and the nairobi mall. isnt it a fact that in many ways these things are getting to be more dangerous and, in fact, more recruits that were not, in fact, winning the long term. this is not about obama. this is about the united states. we are not winning the long-term struggle for young people in the region. >> whether more or less, a ver...

Rarely minces words, but he took aim at senator rand pauls decision to file a class action lawsuit against the nsa over their intelligence collection procedures. here he was on "morning joe." >> hes playing on some sort of -- >> fearmongering. >> isolationism, and rather than using television arguments, as people can well do, hes resorting to fear, appealing to the lowest common denominator. >> yesterday, congressman king went so far as to suggest congressman paul doesnt deserve to be a senator....