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Very good at used the tough-sounding words but is less good at differentiating himself from the president. joining us now is spencer ackman, national security writer, a friend of mine, and somebody who has dug deep into romneys foreign policy. good to see you. you wrote a great piece today, and the kite title was "the five things we learned about how mitt romney would run the world." number one is he seems to run the world when it comes to afghanistan, egypt, and iran a lot like obama is running...

From this map, though. i mean it makes sense why romney would go to lornden for the olympics. its a key part of this biography, and israel is a key ally, and poland, fine, you dont forget poland in the words of george w. bush, but how do you go on a big presidential trip as a presidential candidate and not going to afghanistan? how do you not go to where were still at war? in an interview today with brian williams, he turned down the chance, but if you compare his foreign policy and obamas forei...

Hes against obama moving closer to russia. however, if he backs away from that position, russia has ery incentive as it did before the obama administrations drift toward russia to go back to helping iran and frustrating international consensus on iran. its hard to see how that knits together for romney and his advisers kind of play that away rather than deal with it head on. >> spencer ackman, national security writer for wire.coms danger room. im sorry you were denied the opportunity to walk ou...

>> that is awesome. what happened in the senate today aside from the poppycock reference was something truly remarkable. in a chamber that has been essentially paralyzed by filibuster after filibuster on nearly everything over the last two years, there were two votes held in the senate today that were not filibustered. that only needed a simple majority to pass. 51 votes to pass, just like the founders intended. and these werent meaningless votes. werent naming postal offices. these we...

today aside from the poppycock reference was something truly remarkable. in a chamber that has been essentially paralyzed by filibuster after filibuster on nearly everything on the last two years, there were two votes held in the senate today that were not filibustered, that only needed a simple majority to pass. 51 votes to pass, just like the founders intended. and these werent meaningless votes. werent naming postal offices. these were votes of consequence. it was about what to do w...

what todays votes are all about are showing the people who sent us here where we stand. okay, so if you thought even for a minute that the senate was actually doing something today, well, poppycock. theres mcconnell to remind you it was all just posturing. thank you, mitch mcconnell. meanwhile, what was happening in the house today? >> i would ask the gentleman from virginia if he would be willing -- or let me rephrase that, he would not object to a unanimous consent in the house to co...

pass constitutional muster and wont become law. what todays votes are all about is showing the people who sent us here where we stand. okay. so if you thought even for a minute that the senate was actually doing something today, well, poppycock. theres mcconnell to remind you it was all just posturing. thank you, mitch mcconnell. meanwhile, what was happening in the house today? >> i would ask the gentleman from virginia if he would be willing -- or let me rephrase that -- he would not...