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When youre dealing with a diplomatic situation like this and the prospect of ending up going to war or doing surgical strikes or whatever it may be, people need to be very clear in what you are saying that you will do and under what conditions and setting expectations and adhering to them. otherwise you end up with everything being a jumble. there is no predictability. thats going to make it very hard to actually go in and get people to do what you actually want them to do. because their assumpt...

About all of this. there are republicans in an organized fashion, of accusing the president of being nixonian, comparing it to water. isnt that overblown? >> i think its important there is an investigation under way. >> rand paul says benghazi should disqualify hillary clinton from being president. is that your view? >> the 2016 elections are way too far away. >> my question stands. >> were in the process of investigating a number of different investigations, all of these things are important to...

President to sign the legislation. it can never -- the republican party cant have it where its all one party that does social security and medicare. that i have to be willing to say, ok, if they want to do this, theyll have to give on something they dont like, maybe even higher taxes. and thats where the moment was there. they almost got this president to move on social security. almost got him to move on medicare reform. and they didnt take the deal. >> the reality at the end of the day, they a...

President to sign the legislation. it can never -- the republican party cant have it where its all one party that does social security and medicare. that i have to be willing to say, ok, if they want to do this, theyll have to give on something they dont like, maybe even higher taxes. and thats where the moment was there. they almost got this president to move on social security. almost got him to move on medicare reform. and they didnt take the deal. >> the reality at the end of the day, they a...

President to sign the legislation. it can never -- the republican party cant have it where its all one party that does social security and medicare. they have got to be willing to say, ok, if they want to do this, theyll have to give on something they dont like, maybe even higher taxes. and thats where the moment was there. they almost got this president to move on social security. almost got him to move on medicare reform. and they didnt take the deal. >> the reality at the end of the day, they...

Year gun control legislation. but the question stands, does he have the stomach for how difficult this will be politically? im not sure. >> im not either. you know, theres a great line in "tom sawyer" where he says an evangelist that came through town that was so good that even huck finn stayed saved until tuesday. i worry that our attention span on these things is so limited. you had to bring up the question of guns as the president was laying out his agenda. it is one of these cultural politic...