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I iraq was in 2003. >> and people were urging us to go into iraq for our own beliefs and now urging us to go into military service. there is no solution until we go all out and means we have to have turkey on our side. >> even if we go all out, we went all out in iraq and ten years later. you look at afghanistan. this is -- im not arguing with you but, jane, lets look at every war we have been involved with since world war ii. as dr. brzezinski said not one huge army against another huge army. k...

Theyre at this point already. theyve never met a foreign policy crisis where a military intervention and more of it wasnt the right answer. and the thing that gets me about this particular line of argument is, if you talk to anyone who knows anything about any of this, all the military options are really difficult. they may not even be effective. i ran into a congress -- a democrat -- >> they dont care as long as theyre in it. >> they dont care as long as were in it. ask lindsey graham, what is ...

Blip basically u >> jared, lets look at another number here the unemployment rate essentially unchanged. it dropped from 7.7% to 7.6%. but economists did not find that encouraging either. why not? >> no, it wasnt encouraging because there are two ways the unemployment rate could come down. one is because more people get jobs and the other because more people stopped looking, this was the latter. the labor force shrunk a bunch in march and so you could lower the unemployment rate that way but tha...

Wednesday, katherine. what we know about the budget, cutting entitlements, the first for a democratic president. what do we know about the presidents budget proposal? >> talked about things he mentioned in his state of the union speech as being priorities like extending the availability of preschool universally, something in there. >> yeah. >> he talked about in the state of the union, as we can expect this week, further tax increases, potentially to offset only some of the costs of the expansio...

Back in the early 90s. hawaiis supreme court was considering it might recognize same-sex marriage. he said congress did not want to have a situation where if one state allowed same-sex marriage, then all the other states would have to. well, thats a separate part of doma. its not under attack. what justice kennedy said is the result of the way doma stands now is, youre punishing the states who do decide they want to allow same-sex marriage because couples in their states dont have all the federa...

Views. >>chris: karl, you have a dog in this fight as we mentioned earlier, you are one of the founders of american crossroads and starting the group called conservative victory project. the idea is to help republicans in their primaries to become people that can actually get elected in general elections. sarah palin, yesterday at cpac, lets look at that. >> these experts who keep losing elections, you keep getting rehired, raking in millions, if they fowl that strongly about who gets to run in ...

This is way faster than paul ryans original deadline for balancing the budget. in congressman ryans last plan, we wouldnt have had a balanced budget for 25 years, until almost 2040. when i learned he plans to do the same thing in a mere ten years, that he has shaved 15 years off that timetable, how? what was he going to cut? what new things would be in his budget? what sort of cuts were we in for and what did i have to look forward on budget week? today on budget day eve we have learned some det...

Cutting its own and doing it the right way? >> well, eric, lets look at the cal graph, they get paid 30 to $50 an hour. there are ceremonial functions for the presidency. i think we should go after big cuts like getting out of afghanistan. >> hold on, hold on. hold on. nickel and diming? you tell me if this is nickel and diming. ii went to white house.gov and downloaded the employees. 28 pages long. listen to this. $130,000, special assistant to the president. $102,000, special assistant to the ...

Du jour, the sequester." how much of the sequester drama is manufactured? and even if some of it is, arent regular americans going to feel it, anyway? >> yes. i think hes wrong about this. i mean, there are two things i would say. one, if you go look at the local newspapers in virginia, in wisconsin, the local news, ive done a little bit of this. you can see people on the front pages of the papers have the sequester on the news. i dont think its being ignored in regular america, in part because ...

And this is where were going. >> all right. when we look at this, john, lets look at what were getting from the right and how much they are willing to work with the president, especially with march 1st, the sequester looming. take a listen to kevin mccarthy. >> were more than willing to work with the president on any issue he wants to work on. but to be frank, were kind of tires of being charlie brown and having lucy pull the football out from under us. >> is that an earnest reaction? kind of mo...