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What the real problem is libertarians havent had a kind of outlet in political discourse or rather in partisan politics, electoral politics. the democrats are terrible on economic issues. increasingly theyre terrible on free speech issues. and theyre terrible on wars. i mean, barack obama is not only surveilling every american all of the time, but hes also trying to invade or bomb libya and then bomb syria. if it wasnt for somebody like rand paul, we would have been bombing syria. so on the -- >...

Electoral politics. the democrats are terrible on economic issues. increasingly theyre terrible on free speech issues. and theyre terrible on wars. i mean, barack obama is not only surveilling every american all of the time, but hes also trying to invade or bomb libya and then bomb syria. if it wasnt for somebody like rand paul, we would have been bombing syria. so on the -- >> john feehery, is the ticket for the republican side rand paul? >> it could be. i find rand paul to be intriguing. i thi...

Anywhere tour continued last night. she picked up the american patriot award. i know you were wondering who was going to win that. that was given by the national defense university where she was introduced with a glowing video tribute. moments from now clinton will join secretary of state john kerry and former first lady laura bush at georgetown university to discuss continuing progress for women in afghanistan once u.s. troops leave the country. clinton also cautioned against strains of isolati...

Distinguish isolationism from having a smart defense department. what is the difference? >> there are two extremes we can be everywhere all the time around the world or nowhere. if you dont want to be anywhere, youre not going to defend the country overseas, that is isolationism. im not. that i think a lot of times, the constitutional process is that we have to have a debate in our country. i believe in the reagan doctrine that says our vital interest has to be threatened. public has to be behin...

And isolationism. whats the line that he walks here? >> hes trying to be reagan without beening an isolationist. hes trying to look at a, hes going to the citadel, a military institution, hes not avoiding it. this is a big theme of his. he is going to places that it moo be welcome. he is saying, i will keep my message consistent. i think you will continue to hear a lot of that, the line is, he has to not seem like his dad, he is saying, no wars, no time, no intervention, no anything. i think the...

They aroused to that. and the democrats are a diverse party and want all voices and races and corrodes and people from all over the country and this is consistent with the democrats party approach to politics. >> and sure, they are not saying, we want all comers. do you veterans come on in? mark what do you think? >> i think simon put a gloss on all ponents of vow. this is good for the democrats and bad for the republican party and good for the country. we need more combat veterans in both pears...

World. the debate over intervention versus isolationism coming up. plus, five years ago today, the u.s. economy was near collapse after the worst financial crisis since the great depression. are we any better off today? former treasury secretary hank paulson is here, along with one of the chief wall street watchdogs at the time, former congressman barney frank. later, our political roundtable on what the crisis in syria means for the presidents broader agenda. were back here in one minute. ....

>> i think frankly it seems as if there is something, that the back drop is a bit of a wave of isolationism. we periodically see this in our history. pugh survey says this comes in waves. right now it is the biggest that they have seen in 50 years or so. i was struck by one survey earlier this year when democrats can and republicans alike agreedt that the single area of government that should be cut the most is foreign humanitarian aid. the second choice for budget cutting was the state departme...

Jobs. that is what it comes down to. it is hard for them to focus on the idea of the president and military action in syria. they want action on jobs, nick. >> yeah, i think frankly it seems to me if there is something that the back drop is a bit of a way of isolationism. we periodically have seen this in history. pew surveys show it in waves. it is the biggest they have seen in 50 years. i was struck by one survey this year when democrats and republicans alike agreed that the single area of gov...

Isolationism, but an unwillingness to spend a million per tomahawked when you can do better things and show your values and strong questions. >> we need not forget and remember that at the end of the day a solution that leaves a solid and power, a solution that does not bring some court of closer to civil war in that country means that we stand by and allowed this brutal, brutal dictator to go on. >> but that has been the case. that is american policy. >> if you look at everything he said from t...