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Nonlethal. when free people wish to defends themselves and their homes from further aggression and when they ask for some modest means that can help them resist, i believe we should provide it. >> that was his personal opinion, but the fear -- is that the big fear here, that there could be a need for u.s. soldiers or nato forces to go into ukraine? >> jonathan, last week the pugh institute did a study as where we are with this. were very isolationists. were the most isolationist we have been in ...

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...

It, but im not surprised the republicans are criticizing him because thats what they did for the last six and a half years. hes not right on foreign policy. >> deanna. one of the things we saw out of the cpac talked about the stance on foreign policy issues. ive got some ground from senators cruz and senators king and senators paul. lets take a listen. >> i dont agree with him on foreign policy. >> we cannot allow isolationists to take over the republican party. they are both credit services. at...

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,...

Administrations faults. >> we can not ignore that the flawed foreign policy of the last two years has brought us to this stage because we have a president who believes by the shear force of his personality he would be able to shape global events. youre the leader of the government. you see something getting ready to go off the rails and what you decide to do is stay as far away from it as possible. my question now is the same question i had then. if thats your attitude, mr. president, what the h...

But as you said, i think the thing is, for all the failures of neo conservatism, and we could fill up the whole show talking about them, they still control the commanding heights of policy-making and the elite discourse on the conservative side, but we have seen a challenge from people like rand paul and others. and i think i would also note this, which i think is really significant. last week, marco rubio, who previously had very closely identified with the neo conservatives, gave a foreign pol...

Kind of the mother ship of neo conservatism, but he tried to triangulate a way from neo conservatism, saying, okay, there are tinterventionists and isolationists and im somewhere in the middle. even if this is old wine in new bottles, which i think it is, its still very telling to me that he felt the need to kind of distance himself from that sort of ideology. >> and i think were going to see, i think well get some polling on this, but weve already seen some polling indicating americans support ...

Counterterrorism. the question is 10,000 troop, 8,000 troops, is that going go over well? guess what? its not going go over well. what is surprising is the growing bipartisan coalition that is opposed to any action that would leave a large number of troops in afghanistan. john merkley and mark begich, and as a condition for any american troop presence past 2014. this is the same coalition we saw during the syrian debate and the issue. this is the cautious isolationists. expect this coalition to ...

The idea that democrats need to keep this impression -- its so confusing that theyre able to do it. but were not going to get what they say. there are enough republicans -- for all the talk you hear about this being 30 conservative republicans holding the entire conference, there are far fewer moderate republicans willing to bend. >> the republican party rift becoming more and more public, a little nastier. ted cruz seems to be bearing the brunt of a lot of this. this is new yorks peter king jus...