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Definitely -- theyre definitely going with the strength, were go to show we can stand up, be strong, stand up to isis. and all of that. but they have to be careful with that. i think scott walker, his comparison of wisconsin union workers to isis was crazy and thats why -- thats not something you want to see as an american looking at your republican candidate. i think that they all have to be very, very careful. >> it is interesting here, chris, the biggest vulnerable i think for hillary clinton...

We got usama bin laden. the way that joe biden deployed the bin laden killing is exactly how theyll do it es less in national security issue, less of foreign policy issue than a character issue. thats how they want to frame it. they say this is the president who had the fortitude to made a tough decision, when outcome was uncertain, there were significant political risks for him and he had the fort tuesday to do this. the reason -- fortitude to do this. the reason it will work or help them, it u...

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Laden. we got bin laden. what is your medicare plan? we got usama bin laden. the way that joe biden deployed the bin laden killing is exactly how theyll do it es less in national security issue, less of foreign policy issue than a character issue. thats how they want to frame it. they say this is the president who had the fortitude to made a tough decision, when outcome was uncertain, there were significant political risks for him and he had the fort tuesday to do this. the reason -- fortitude t...

Knows i expect them to give me their best assessments. and so the fact that there were some who voiced doubts about this approach was invaluable because it meant the plan was sharper, it meant that we had thought through all of our options, it meant that when i finally did make the decision, i was making it based on the very best information. it wasnt as if any of the folks who were voicing doubts were voicing something that i wasnt already running through in my own head. >> it was not self-evid...

The decision to kill osama bin laden, rather than taking him alive. 80% believe that killing bin laden rather than capturing him was the right decision. only 11% say it was not. msnbc news pollster peter hart of hart research joins us. great to see you. thank you for coming here in person. these new numbers, 80%, thats about as big a level of support the president could have. >> without a doubt. he made a tough decision and a decision without any sense of how the american public was going to rea...

Obama adviser, was describing how he approached the libya decision. in other words, making sure that owe ba it didnt have the big u.s. stamp on it. getting a world consensus before you went ahead. that helped him get the resolution and indeed expand the resolutionhat the united nations. so thats what that -- >> it is situational. that phrase was applied to the libya situation, but obviously this is completely different. >> this is completely different. look, this is totally different situation. ...

There were competing voices on that decision. if you look at the decision to intervene in libya, publicly, i mean, almost publicly, bob gates and hillary clinton were on opposite sides of that debate, very strongly pressing different sides of that. thats what it means to be president for, you know, obama, he once said that if a decision gets to his desk, by definition it is a difficult decision because all the easy decisions are made by staff and the interagency process way before it gets to the...

Declare this is my doctrine for the use of military force and it will apply to all cases. as president, you want to be able to be inconsistent, you want to be able to have different leadership styles and build different coalitions for different kinds of actions. >> isnt it easier to justify i have this policy for bin laden and i went after him and told leon panetta we want to get him, compared to libya, but how do you compare libya and syria? you can say we made a humanitarian decision to save b...

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