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And thats why jeb bush gave that mealymouthed answer of i would listen to the best advice of the generals and do whatever they said. and actually i dont think the generals would say, you know, that we should send a lot of troops back into iraq. >> you know following that up the polls kind of indicate that ryan because the american people seem to have mixed feelings about what to do about isis. on the one hand a recent poll found 68% think isis is a serious threat. but theyre very split on whethe...

War, both in iraq and syria, to expand their power. so all of these other tools, and then i would add to it, the tough diplomacy to actually get countries in the region thames themselves to do the sorts of things richard clarke talked about there, arming kurds and other things. why should it be about u.s. troops or u.s. taxpayer dollars or what were doing, when youve got a region of the world that actually has accumulated a massive amount of wealth because of the oil wealth and theyre now using ...

Is lets load our bombers up and bomb them back to the seventh century. >> the u.s. has already launched more than 4,000 air strikes against isis. thats not enough? and the biggest hawks, theyre calling to send thousands more troops overseas. >> how many thousands of troops -- >> about ten thousands. >> ten thousand. but well take thousands of american soldiers over there to protect millions of us back here at home. >> i doubt most americans will like that plan but at least hes being honest. beca...

>> correct. >> right. and that might highlight who some of these kind of troublesome officers are. if it finds out that -- if you find out that 50% of the resisting arrests are made by say, 2% of the officers, police unions might find themselves in a position thats analogous to where the teachers unions were ten years ago. police unions really will lay down in the street to protect every single officer as a matter of principle just as the teachers unions used to do. but they kind of have said lo...

Position on the talks. that strategy seems to be working. in his column today, david is the wet blanket and he criticized hillary for staying out of the political fray. she has been a study, a tremor checking the political winds. she is a hollow candidate. she should be taking credit for the good provisions in the tpp, not hedging her bets. she may be ready to run, but is she ready to lead? maybe the clinton campaign is making the smart move by not saying. we are joined by ryan grim of the post....

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Some services to same-sex couples. here he is taking the hard view here. >> im disappointed. lets remember what this debate was originally all about. this was about businessowners that dont want to choose between their christian faith, their sincerely held religious beliefs and being able to operate their businesses. now, what they dont want is a government to force them to participate in wedding ceremonies that contradict their beliefs. they simply want the right to say we dont want to be force...

Santorum are taking the conservative side, youre allowed to say no to certain weddings, parties you dont want to be participating in religiously, that thats going to be an appealing argument to a good chunk of the iowa caucus vote, of the early primary vote in the republican party. a good chunk of it. >> a good chunk of it. a big percentage, 20%, 30% of the iowa caucusgoers are evangelicals or -- theyre all almost all christians. so, this matters to them. and santorum and jindal will indeed use ...

And its ethanol. those are the two things you have to win out there. rick santorum proved you dont need any money, you dont need a viable path to the white house to win in iowa. if you win in iowa and you have a little bit of money coming out out of there like ted cruz and scott walker will, then thats your ticket. and so cruz and walker and the other folks, theyre all in with pence with the unreconstructed pence here to say look, republican activists, im your guy, im going to support religious ...