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War thats going to go on -- its going to be a generational war. whats your assessment? >> well, again, lets make the differentiation. when we say isis, syria, or iraq, or are we saying this global war. so isis, syria, iraq, can be defeated fairly quickly. but the global war, what i call the third world war by other means, is one that is a generational one. hopefully, the military secure aspect is the short term or the military part is a short term. the midterm is going to be the intelligence and...

Warfare. this is a global struggle that brings, as ive said, many times, muslims, christians, jews, other religions fighting alongside us as we fight our civil war inside islam. >> the iraqi prime minister says isis can be defeated this year. in the presidents state of the union address he says this is a war thats going to go on, its going to be a generational war. whats your assessment? >> well, again, lets make the differentiation. when we say isis, syria or iraq, this global war against the o...

>> let me start with the uncomfortable question. you come from, not tsafest of districts. if you ignored your district, you could lose. you just put a seat in play. you were trying to give democrats control of the house in 2016. what do you say to fellow democrats? >> this seat will not be in play in 2016. i know my district better than anybody else. if youre from new york, you better work -- no matter where youre from, people expect you to work hard. but this district performs well for democrat...

And will only help them now. what people forget is how damaging it was to the republican party. remember in 1998, republicans had historic losses in that midterm. two speakers of the house had to resign because of their own personal infidelity and the third one who came in we later found out was molesting young boys. we dont want to go down this slippery slope. theres a pot calling the kettle black. >> if it was good for the clintons, why are they staying silent? why not come out and say -- >> t...

That campaign he thought republicans would win a 40 seat gain in the house. they ended up losing five seats. that was sort of an historic loss because in the midterm the republicans were supposed to win no matter what. but i think look, two things are going on here. one is among republicans, among the republican primary universe which is right now what donald trump is after, thats right now what he has to worry about, i think getting into a war of words with bill clinton, taking shots at bill cl...

Scream from the peanut gallery at the taken but in terms things that are said from the nominees podium from the very top tier of american politics. michael beschloss is here in a moment on that. before we go to michael who is an esteemed historian, i want to say something before he gets here because i do have one possible theory for what happened here. i will admit right now, this is a bad theory and i dont believe in it. but in the spirit of christmas cheer, i feel like i must put this forward....

Let alone even repeat. not just in terms of what people scream from the peanut gallery at the taken but in terms things that are said from the nominees podium from the very top tier of american politics. michael beschloss is here in a moment on that. before we go to michael who is an esteemed historian, i want to say something before he gets here because i do have one possible theory for what happened here. i will admit right now, this is a bad theory and i dont believe in it. but in the spirit ...

People are reluctant to quote let alone even repeat. not just in terms of what people scream from the peanut gallery at the taken but in terms things that are said from the nominees podium from the very top tier of american politics. michael beschloss is here in a moment on that. before we go to michael who is an esteemed historian, i want to say something before he gets here because i do have one possible theory for what happened here. i will admit right now, this is a bad theory and i dont bel...

We have over an attack in the u.s. homeland. in the near term, were worried about people being self-radicalized, acting out. in the midterm, if isis is allowed to maintain this space, theyll have the time to plot against us. we have the best intelligence in the world, andrea, but even that is not going to be enough. you cant count on intelligence alone to detect each and every plot. there are risks here. risks from escalation. there are risks from not escalating to deprive isis of that battle sp...

The 80 seats in the assembly. one of the big issues that the democrats ran on, is opposing republicans that supported you. what does that say about your standing among the people who know you best? >> there was a 20% turnout in that election, the lowest turnout in new jersey history. the fact matter of this, the second midterm in a governors term, you always lose seats. in fact we lost less than the average governor has lost in the second term. so you can look at it that way, too, so we did bett...