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John bolton trying to distance himself tonight from some of the things he said in the past as he gears up to replace h.r. mcmaster as national security adviser. i want to bring in keith boik and peter binert and ben ferguson. hello one and all. the gang is all here. a lot of people take issue with boltons politics. you say he has anti-muslim ties or ties to anti-muslim groups. what are they? >> he wrote the forward to a book called "the postamerican presidency of barack obama." in the forward bo...

Security, he doesnt have the same identity on these issues. he doesnt have the same command on the issues and it allows hillary clinton to find it a much, much easier perspective >> from the republican perspective, who won this debate? >> well, she did. and i think peter is right. bernie sanders sooeg seems very unwilling make to take the dirty victory. he was constellatory, very sorry, very statesman like. david talk about their fun banter, thats great, but its not going to move you up in the p...

Within each party that we saw a display within the last weeks on the two stages about regime change versus keeping dictators in place because it is more realistic, realism. but the bottom line is, if youre a republican and the general election, all youre going to do is benghazi. you name your issue across the worlds -- >> russia reset. >> yes, she was secretary of state, she has command of the issues. rhetorically she understands them, but sheer going to see she didnt execute them properly acros...

Problem with this and what was so brilliant about bernie sanders is the back drop of all of this is the debate on a saturday night before christmas where nobody is watching it pup sort of follow dovetails to the whole problem, right? a few debates helps hillary clinton. so i think the compounding vote issues is the real problem. >> millions of people were watching. political news junkys were watching. people who like to vote, they probably were watching. so i wouldnt necessarily belittle the num...

Hillary clinton, but is she vulnerable when it comes to libya is ch is a total mess right now? isis is taking over huge chunks of libya. gadhafi may be the gone. yes, he was a dictator, but in the end, he was request cooperating with the u.s., gave up his nuclear program, compensated the pan am victims. waits a blunder to get rid of gadhafi in exchange for the isis developments in northern africa right now? moammar gadhafi bombed diskco tech in west berlin, took down an airplane filled with amer...

And the other is her suggesting that donald trump is actually a recruiting tool for isis. were not exactly sure where she got that, but that is going to be an instant, that question that were going to fact check. how can she prove that? >> were going to be doing a lot of fact checking. peter binert is one of our editors, a editor of "the atlantic," the notion that isis is using donald trumps statements about using muslims from banning to the united states. have you seen evidence that isis is doi...

Watch this. >> when we look at these complex problems, i wish it could be either/or. i wish we could say yes, lets destroy isis and devoid -- by the minute. no. we have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis which is danger to us as well as the region. >> peter, what do you think? >> that was a good answer and shes right, actually. she does finally have a strategy. its a very difficult issue, but john kerry is now beginning the diplomatic process. they have a u.n. resolution. shes right on...

To think about what happens the day after. >> peter, did he make his case strongly? >> yeah. you have a cross cutting debate on a strategy. the one realist position, stick with the bad dictators to at least provide stability. the other view being we have to overthrow the incity gators because they are the cause. this will be a different general election debate if shes standing up there against cruz or trump -- >> but trump doesnt disagree with him when it comes to this. >> the hillary is running...

Theres any third or accomplice involved. theres video coming out that shows the assault and process, well show it to you as we have a discussion about why this might have happened. >> we have peter binert and bobby ghosh, lets set the scene for people. its not a surprise that this happens wildfire it happened. in paris, two this magazine. now that we hear that the shooters supposedly said we have avenged the prophet, bobby, lets bring you in here what is the dynamic thats being revealed in this ...

But he has a structural problem that he really cant get over. and that is that while congress may be willing to approve sanctions, hes got europe which is really a problem for him. so we can do this visa ban and this asset limits for individuals, but anything broader such as what we did with iran is very hard to get to. so the presidents in kind of a tough spot here where ironically the congress is willing to support him i think more than europe. >> peter, its interesting if you take a look at -...