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Role. i want to address one things that david was talking about. the connection and contact with members of the team and russian ambassador. while a top adviser of the president, it makes sense he would be in touch with foreign dignitarie dignitaries. that is a role for future diplomat in chief. secretary of state. not for the attorney general. when the meetings first came out that he hadnt disclosed them, sessions excuse is i did that as a member of the armed services committee. nobody else on ...

Unlike latin american countries, do not have military with guns walking around domestic streets and shopping malls, as weve seen. thats why they are unarmed. they are also unarmed because recruitment centers are in shopping malls, they are open in places where you wouldnt anticipate an attack. this is clearly going to make the pentagon have to rethink a variety of rules regarding the security of the recruitment centers as well as the arming of personnel when they are doing a military function li...

Schools and a lot of rockets going into israel and a general view here on the israeli side that they want to defame part of the military function of hamas to try to get back to a more calm set of politics, what would be wrong with that if hamass military was somewhat constrained here? >> theres a few things going on here. weve heard repeatedly that israel has bombed schools, hospitals, homes with families inside because hamas is supposedly hiding weapons everywhere. anyone has yet to produce a s...

Them to support hamass goals. if an election was held before this began, hamas would have lost that election and palestinians would have won an election. >> when you look at rockets in schools and a lot of rockets going into israel and a general view here on the israeli side that they want to defame part of the military function of hamas to try to get back to a more calm set of politics, what would be wrong with that if hamass military was somewhat constrained here? >> theres a few things going ...

Stability of the military that perhaps is aligned with our interests? >> weve taken the latter view, weve taken the view that at least the military function is the only functioning institution in pakistan and we have to do business with them. thats fine as far as it goes. heres the problem. what we learned in egypt, in tunisia, that by aligning ourselves with these repressive regimes, military dick statershstate e taterships. but you get a poisonous dysfunctions in the society. for our purposes ...

Political goal of getting gadhafi out. >> look, you just said the critical point, our military is there to get our political purposes accomplished. if the political objective was to get gadhafi out and yet were handcuffed by a u.n. resolution that says only civilian humanitarian purposes, that tension, that disjunction has to be squared. >> were not really handcuffed by it. that is, if the u.n. security council resolution did not include the expression "all necessary means," which u.s. ambassado...

Also ultimately serve this political goal of gutetting gadhafi usout. >> look, you just said the critical point, our military is there to get our political purposes accomplished. if the political objective was to get gadhafi out and yet werr handcuffed by a u.n. resolution that ss only civilian humanitarian purposes, that tension, that disjunction has to be square >> were not really handcuffed by it. that is, if the u.n. security council resolution did not include the expression "all necessy mea...