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Dangerous. when you play with aid thats, therefore, a security imperative, its sort of not a political thing. >> no. its a theme for this administration. i mean, youve seen this in central america, you saw it with pakistan, youve seen it with the palestinians, right? this theme of using aid as a lever. as, now, again, like i said, i dont want to be -- >> right. it is often a lever. its a lever for different things. in this case, it was a lever for a security issue with an adversary of americas. ...

Pull out. but what this president is learning, once you talk to security experts in this government he has to put on the brakes and he doesnt get what he wants. you need the presence, something other than saying end forever wars, to end the wars. as the general says, as general mattis has been saying this week, the enemy gets a vote. the taliban will keep fighting until something is signed. theyre not going to drop their arms and then sign a deal. i think the country needs a little bit more educ...

>> theres not a lot of time or room for distraction right now, as you write in your cnn column. these i.c.e. raids which were expected to start today in9 u.s. cities are going to overwhelm an already very stressed system. >> thats exactly right. and hypocrisy doesnt help when it comes to human rights. even before these i.c.e. raids, we know that the migrant detention facilities were overwhelmed. thats the administrations word. not mine. we know that children that were separated from their famili...

Turkey is not willing to intervene militarily against the kurds in other words its not willing to go against the wishes of washington. i think thats to be determined of course turkey has legitimate security concerns with respect to the p.k. k. and kurdish terrorism but also as the united states has said the national security advisor missed the boat and said that whatever takes place in northern syria cant impact the kurds and so there is a real challenge here right now of course there is the sec...

Not willing to go against the wishes of washington. i think thats to be determined of course turkey has legitimate security concerns with respect to the p.k. k. and kurdish terrorism but also as the united states has said and the national security advisor mr bolton has said that whatever takes place in northern syria can impact the kurds and so there is a real challenge here right now of course there is the security imperative for turkey and theres also the u.s. relationship an ongoing relations...

And at gitmo you were required to allow senators, congressmen -- >> media. >> other government officials, media, to come through, i know that the media regularly flew down and would inspect gitmo. so youre telling me theres more transparency, theres more transparency at gitmo where we had terrorists and suspected terrorists locked up, than there are at these sites where theyre holding 3-month-old babies? >> thats exactly right, from everything can e. and lets face it we have a humanitarian imper...

We dont have to set up to be able to analyze this. while, what has taken so long? where has the past administration been on cybersecurity and stepping up its efforts? >> insufficient attention and insufficient strategic that has been given to cyber and cyber security for years now. there have been a married effort reports that have recommended state actions that could be taken, for they have been diluted, if not dispelled by the powers they didnt want the unintended consequences of any new push ...

From developing a nuclear weapon is an american priority. you have used your influence in the world to convince the west that stopping iran from developing a nuclear weapon is a security imperative that requires focused, biting sanctions now. mr. president, we appreciate your ongoing efforts to bring a lasting peace between israel and the palestinians. we know that you share our profound disappointment to palestinian president mahmoud abbas has chosen to join forces with the terrorist organizati...

Is an american priority. you have used your influence in world forums to convince the west that stopping iran from developing a nuclear weapon is a security imperative that requires focus, biting sanctions, now. [applause]. >> mr. president, we appreciate your ongoing efforts to bring a lasting peace between israel and the palestinians. we know that you share our profound disappointment to palestinian president mahmoud abbas, who has chosen to join forces with the terrorist organization, hamas, ...

ironic story about egypts plummeting economy. and finally, the two top presidential candidates in egypt, two former office mates now rivals. let me first give you some of my own thoughts, having spent some time in cairo and actually listened to president obamas speech from here in tahrir square. the presidents speech was remarkably comprehensive. it described the events that we now call the arab spring, explain their causes and consequences. he placed the united states squarely beh...