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Take lightly. when you have the president tweeting at 3:00 in the morning or whatever it was that iran is on notice in big capital letters, and with an unspecified threat, it raises the stakes very high. and this president is not one who is known for walking that back. so i think that we have to be very, very cautious. i dont think there will be a military strike from the u.s. on iran. but i think the possibility is very real that we may see an escalation in yemen, which would be viewed as a kin...

Ratcheting up pressures is making the situation in the region as a whole far worse. its even more dangerous because were hearing these threats of military force. and this is not something to take lightly. when you have the president tweeting at 3:00 in the morning or whatever it was that iran is on notice in big capital letters, and with an unspecified threat, it raises the stakes very high. and this president is not one who is known for walking that back. so i think that we have to be very, ver...

Now, to me, thats almost a proxy attack against us. whats your read on it? >> listen, just when you think it cant get worse with this administration, it does. heres what you do. when he went into ukraine put the missiles back in poland and made troop movements to all the little baic states. make sure he knows we mean business. with syria, we should be setting up no-fly zones and protecting those people that were training. >> but the russian general went into a u.s. military complex and said, don...

Proxy attack against us. whats your read on it? >> listen, just when you think it cant get worse with this administration, it does. heres what you do. when he went into ukraine put the missiles back in poland and made troop movements to all the little baic states. make sure he knows we mean business. with syria, we should be setting up no-fly zones and protecting those people that were training. >> but the russian general went into a u.s. military complex and said, dont fly your airplanes. lectu...

Rebels that want to depose assad. >> correct. >> that seemed to be by design. that was almost a proxy attack on the united states, from my position. what are your thoughts, and how would you handle it? >> my thoughts are that he really was very disappointed with the dissolution of the soviet union, and he wants to rebuild an empire, and he needs to extend his influence widely, and he is noticing that there is weakness and, therefore, like any bully, hes going to continue to push. and i believe t...

He went after u.s.-backed cia trained, cia armed anti-assad forces. in other words, kind of a proxy attack against the united states. how would you handle that as president? >> well, the only thing i have a problem with is that the rebels, we dont know who they are, sean. we really dont. i was talking to a general last week about that and they have no idea who these people are, where they come from. they might isis for all we know. you have assad who is the bad guy, but sometimes the bad guy is ...

He didnt attack isis. he went after u.s.-backed cia trained, cia armed anti-assad forces. in other words, kind of a proxy attack against the united states. how would you handle that as president? >> well, the only thing i have a problem with is that the rebels, we dont know who they are, sean. we really dont. i was talking to a general last week about that and they have no idea who these people are, where they come from. they might isis for all we know. you have assad who is the bad guy, but som...

Either because the media are protecting the administration, protecting hillary clinton because, obviously, a lot of people see this as a proxy attack on somebody who could run in 2016. is there something to that criticism? >> i think the focus on hillary clinton was a bit delayed. a lot of news organizations didnt realize or didnt report that this really could be an issue for her going forward and, of course, in 2016, in the political context. >> one person who has been singled out by the right ...

Those citations were very serious. i mean were talking about having the cover of agents involved in covert operations in other countries blown. were talking about secret meetings that were held with former vice president and no one could gather any data. there were a series, in those six executive privilege assertions by president bush, there was no protestations by chairman issa, by any of the other republicans who were now so focused on challenging this attorney general and being so aggressive...

He didnt attack isis. he went after u.s.-backed cia trained, cia armed anti-assad forces. in other words, kind of a proxy attack against the united states. how would you handle that as president? >> well, the only thing i have a problem with is that the rebels, we dont know who they are, sean. we really dont. i was talking to a general last week about that and they have no idea who these people are, where they come from. they might isis for all we know. you have assad who is the bad guy, but som...