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These are countries that cannot provide host government security. we are not budgeting the money for, certainly, not for marines and military security, and, in fact, this outpost in benghazi was basically an intelligence listening post where we didnt want to have a huge garrison. >> i heard a lot of the republican bickering from the campaign, because benghazi fell in the middle of the campaign between president obama and governor romney, and you heard residues of that this morning. i certainly u...

Kind of discussion. we saw it with the fiscal cliff discussion. we saw when you get to last-second discussions, good decisions arent made and really nobody wins in those because then you have to sort out what happened. i think the republicans are saying, listen, lets have a cooling-off period, lets figure out how we want to approach this. lets work on solutions. thats what mayors do all day long. we work on solutions. we get frustrated when the ideology becomes the bigger issue than solving thes...

>> they think barak obama wants to take their guns away and that hes going to send troops into their homes. >> bill: if barak obama sends troops into the homes, the assault weapons is not going to help them. the troops are going to be able to go into the home no matter what they have. my talking points i tried to be fair. and i tried to put forth a calm down everybody, lets work on this problem see if we can find a solution that actual hee works. i think thats the goal here. thanks very much. up...

>> they think barak obama wants to take their guns away and that hes going to send troops into their homes. >> bill: if barak obama sends troops into the homes, the assault weapons is not going to help them. the troops are going to be able to go into the home no matter what they have. my talking points i tried to be fair. and i tried to put forth a calm down everybody, lets work on this problem see if we can find a solution that actual hee works. i think thats the goal here. thanks very much. up...

Youre not going to get a deal done without some sort of change to entitlements. specifically medicare. >> well, im not so sure what that means when you say its some sort of change. some sort of structural change to medicare? im not sure that has to be on the table. i do think, though, that we do have to have some spending cuts and the president has acknowledged that, as well. but the basis of the problem is you have to have -- the republican party is intransigent about the idea of tax increases ...

When mark warner said lets work with republicans on off-shore drilling, he said, stop it. >> sean: obamacare is the law of the lan, if he is going to repeal -- cant they de-fund it? >> yes, they can. >> sean: why cant they do that? why are the republicans caving -- >> they are letting him do it. he has a lot of power. another thing he state the, he -- the big movement behind this, is because he wants to make senate a more meaningful place-- thats not how it was designed. >> no, its not! we sho...

Budget together, he said stop. when mark warner said lets work with republicans on off-shore drilling, he said, stop it. >> sean: obamacare is the law of the lan, if he is going to repeal -- cant they de-fund it? >> yes, they can. >> sean: why cant they do that? why are the republicans caving -- >> they are letting him do it. he has a lot of power. another thing he state the, he -- the big movement behind this, is because he wants to make senate a more meaningful place-- thats not how it was d...

Him. what do you think of that. do you think thats why the president did it? >> i dont know why the president did it. i know thats the effect of what the presidents done. in the sense that it does -- it does galvanize within certain communities a response. >> sure does. >> its galvanized a response with you two. >> because i grew up with it. you grew up with it personally. >> absolutely. >> its not a southern issue. >> the law has worked since 1996, chris. why do we need to change it now? >> bec...

For him. what do you think of that. do you think thats why the president did it? >> i dont know why the president did it. i know thats the effect of what ft.s done. in the sense that it does -- it does galvanize within certain communities a response. >> sure does. >> its galvanized a response with you too. >> because i grew up with it. you grew up with it personally. >> absolutely. >> its not a southern issue. >> the law has worked since 1996, chris. >> because the governors have asked for more ...

Hes done were designed to try to shore up his base, and weakening the work requirement is an enormous mistake. hes saying that obama did to this try to get people to vote for him. what do you think of that. do you think thats why the president did it? >> i dont know why the president did it. i know thats the effect of what the presidents done. in the sense that it does -- it does galvanize within certain communities a response. >> sure does. >> its galvanized a response with you two. >> because ...