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What do you make of that, guy? were going to go to you then listen to the president. >> well, its a stinging rebuke of this president and his foreign policy by an editorial board that twice endorsed him for president. when you read through, theyre really taking apart this entire notion of smart power, which was the posture that president obama and then secretary clinton, the former secretary of state, presented to the world, which i think a lot of critics have said wasnt really an actual foreign...

Late out that way. especially in the 15-year plan thats been going on. militarily. putin told kerry nothing is going on here. its laughable in some ways. >> its a serious state of affairs. i agree when everything kt said. i would justed a this. putin knows the united states is a world power. economically dominating in the world today. but the fact of the matter is he knows the united states has a leader who does not want to lead the world. thats different from our predecessors. this is global po...

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Interesting were the comments by president obama. is he one skin thinned dude. his attitude is if anybody is critical of me or if anybody pays attention to stories that i dont like. then im going to be very thin-skinned about it the guy is president of the united states. he ought to rise above it you know, could you imagine if his predecessors, republican if ronald reagan had gone out all the time saying the "new york times" is being critical of me. it makes him small. this president is so thin ...

Interesting were the comments by president obama. is he one skin thinned dude. his attitude is if anybody is critical of me or if anybody pays attention to stories that i dont like. then im going to be very thin-skinned about it the guy is president of the united states. he ought to rise above it you know, could you imagine if his predecessors, republican predecessors, if ronald reagan had gone out all the time saying the "new york times" is being critical of me. it makes him small. this preside...

That was on duty that day, it still is so fresh in my memory from being a correspondent back then and standing outside the hospital for days and the fight that jim has made for his life. and we see all of the victims, newtown and no matter how many victims there are of gun violence, theres such political resistance to closing loopholes. >> the encouraging thing that the american public is behind us. its about closing that extraordinary disconnect that exists between what the american public want...

They also captured him in mexico. on the other hand, you can see people in washington saying with some understandable concern, guys, he was in your maximum security prison last time and managed to walk right out. this is a guy who has paid hundreds and millions of dollars of bribes to people at all levels of the mexican government. there may be fears that he may not face justice if he stands trial in mexico. >> the new president of mexico has not allowed officials the broad access to mexico that...

Jet and refusing to talk about it. >> compared to his predecessors the criticism is fair, the difference is his predecessors told the press to drop dead. >> reporter: mayor de blasios grand vision for the city includes universal pre-k and better housing for low-income families, yet with the media emphasis on what hes doing wrong, it may be hard for some 8.5 million new yorkers to focus on what hes doing right. >> the notion that theres going to be scrutiny again is baked into this whole reality....

And legitimately want no more military interventions i count myself one of those have forgotten the power of articulated encouragement that means saying what side youre on and why and what principles you back. in this case, they should stand with the people in independence square in kiev just as much as their predecessors stood with the people of the warsaw pact. just because it doesnt seem there is much you can do. doesnt mean there isnt a lot you can say. and in the saying, show to the world t...

Like, raising the debt ceiling, they still have a lot of work to do and hed like to get that minimum wage raised. its an income justice issue in this country. thats his view there. you know, i asked him specifically about something that one of his predecessors has been writing about. larry summers has been writing about how the u.s. economy is becoming a downton abbey economy. think of that. where you have the super rich, the top 1% who have so much of the power and money in the country and ever...