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0 dpl glenn beck. this afternoon, ted cruz took an end-zone dance, if you will, for helping to defeat the background check in the senate. lets watch his dance. >> a month ago you had the president holding press conference after press conference and his package of legislation that would have undermined the second amendment in washington look like an unstoppable freight train. well, i tell you, i was proud to join with my friend senator rand paul and senator mike lee. [ applause ] >> in writing a ...

0 the center left and left like that, but what a smooch contest that was. >> well, and its particularly disturbing, chris, because theres the under tone of not only defeating a bill that made common sense to 90% of america, but more importantly, defeating president obama and that seems to be the main thrust here. were not going to give the president a victory. were going to defeat the president. they lie to people. the bill in fact made a federal registry impossible because it made it a creation...

Do we give them weapons? what option does that leave us in the united states? what does that end up being? a treaty, perhaps? bashar al assad in russia? both of those outcomes seem unlikely. the war drums are out there. can they be silenced by action from the president? richard haass, president of council on foreign relations, author of brand-new book "foreign policy begins at home." and robin wright is a scholar at the united states institute of peace which i just drove by yesterday. a beautifu...

Well talk about your book in a moment. it seems like its groundhogs day. every time we get up in the morning bill kristol, john mccain and lindsay graham have a war they want us to start. im making it light and sarcastic because i am sarcastic about this. they always want us to go in. once we go in, its never clear how the hell we ever get out. were just in. your thoughts? >> robin wright said, chris, theres no quick fix to the syrian problem. im not even sure theres a slow fix. i actually dont ...

0 wants to create is one where he steps back. where maybe people in the senate negotiate some kind of compromise on sequestration. just as, for example, theyve done on immigration. because the problem is, if he endorsed something mitt romney was for in 2012, the republicans in the house, especially, are likely to be against it. so the permission structure has to let the process move forward without having the presidents fingerprints or face all over it. i think hes willing to do that. i think it...

Fighting force is actually made up of the most extreme groups. some of whom have ties to al qaeda. do we give them weapons? what option does that leave us in the united states? what does that end up being? a treaty, perhaps? bashar al assad in russia? both of those outcomes seem unlikely. the war drums are out there. can they be silenced by action from the president? richard haass, president of council on foreign relations, author of brand-new book "foreign policy begins at home." and robin wrig...

Sarcastic because i am sarcastic about this. they always want us to go in. once we go in, its never clear how the hell we ever get out. were just in. your thoughts? >> robin wright said, chris, theres no quick fix to the syrian problem. im not even sure theres a slow fix. i dont think theres necessarily a fix at all. that said, we can sit here for a few minutes and talk about the downsides of doing this and that. the downsides are all too real. not doing anything is also costly, particularly wha...

A treaty, perhaps? bashar al assad in russia? both those outcomes seem unlikely. the war drums are out there. can they be silenced by action from the president? richard hoss, author of a brand new book "foreign policy begins at home." and robin wright is a scholar at the united states institute of peace which i just drove by yesterday. a beautiful building. look at what the "washington post" is reporting lay this afternoon. "president obama is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the syrian oppo...

Im not sure what it will do. id even be in favor of limited cruise missile strikes. im trying to find, if you will, something of a goldilocks approach. i dont think we have unlimited stakes in syria. i dont think we ought to do unlimited things. on the other hand, i dont think we can simply walk away and say we have no interest or stake in its outcome. what we have to do is take a step back and look at this on the full chess board. weve got to think about the rest of the region and iran. weve go...

Stakes in sere wra. i dont think we ought to do unlimited things. i dont think we can simply walk away and say we have no interest or stake in its outcome. what we have to do is take a step back and look at this on the full chess board. think about the rest of the region and iran. we have tremendous stakes in asia. as i argue in my new book, we have to put the bulk of our resources of rebuilding the bases of america power here at home or we wont be a world power even if we want to be several yea...