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Best way i possibly can. and i am not going to declare tonight, christine, for you or for anybody else that i am or not running for president. you know what, the people out there in new jersey dont expect me to. what they expect me to do is my job. >> no, hes not going to declare there. hes saving it for "the ed show." new jersey governor chris christie flirting with the idea of running for president. thanks for watching tonight. this is "the ed show." this man is behind closed doors with senate...

The assumption is its his job to lose. the president feels like hes leaning toward him rather than janet yellen, who is in the fed, but if the president had his druthers, it would be tim geithner. geithner has said no to him multiple times. this could come this week. i know the markets are waiting for it. >> good theres no picture of geithner. i dont think he wants to come back to washington. meanwhile, talking about not only 12 years after 9/11 and the middle east, benghazi, back as a political...

Ownership of what weve done and make it self-sustaining, and i think a lot of people might not articulate this exactly that are asking do we have people there who really share our values because what happened in the whole middle east with the arab awakening is that people got their freedom from these regimes, but, you know, one of my teachers said, well, theres freedom one, but theres freedom too. what do you want freedom to do? some want to be free to be more islamist or more tribal. some want ...

Congressional black caucus, members like the hispanic caucus members say were not going with you, and youve seen a lot of criticism coming even from democrats on his administration, the lack of clarity, the lack of vision, the lack of position, the lack of strategy. ive had congressmen who left those classified briefings, i can tell you, mario diaz balart, he wanted to vote yes, but that briefing was like hearing from the keystone cops, and i might be offending the keystone cops. >> a friend sai...

The next phase. can you translate this into something thats a real peace process? were faced with a deeply divided opposition, a thousand different militias, a political opposition that hasnt been able to get its act together in 2 1/2 years to form a shadow government, which would be an interlocutor for us or create a shadow government operating inside as we saw in libya. theres nothing valid or viable -- >> i interviewed the general idris on friday. i was in geneva. he was in syria, and he is t...

Army except for some mres whose time was about to expire. >> your goal is the presidents goal ultimately -- >> that bashar al assad -- >> should go. should be out of power. >> yes. >> what should the united states sacrifice in order to achieve that goal? >> sacrifice some of our weapons that are viable like anti-tank and anti-air weapons, which we have not given them. ak-47s dont do very well against tanks and give them the support that they need to succeed. look -- >> do you have a partner on t...

Assad denied even having chemical weapons a week ago, and now theyre both on board to destroy these weapons, and yet youve called this deal an act of provocative weakness, why? >> well, if -- suppose that this deal is made and then bashar al assad does not comply and continues, by the way, the slaughter of over 100,000, the problem, by the way, in syria is not chemical weapons, although as horrible as they are, the 100,000 that have been killed, but suppose that he doesnt comply. they go to the ...

Lets talk about how president obama is handling this, the leadership test. kathleen parker, in your column this morning in "the washington post," i think you capture something, the two styles america is now dealing with going back to president bush and president obama. you write, "we cant seem to get it quite right at the helm. either were saddled with a cocksure decidinator, i had to say that -- who is feared for his lack of pause, or were stuck with an overthinker so afraid of making the wrong...

He would have done a no-fly zone. he would have sent lethal weapons a lot earlier. he would have tried to bolster that opposition in a way this administration did not. but the reality is the goal this president has is not to get involved in civil war and to try to stand up for a principle which is that you shouldnt use the worst weapons in the world no matter what kind of conflict that you are in. thats it. thats the limited american goal, and the public is not even for that. chairman menendez, ...

>> and these are the reasons that companies are sitting on cash. >> remember, by the way, america doesnt exist alone in the world. i mean i just listened to a group of people act as if syria was one of the 51 states and could step in there and run it. we deal in an international world. if you look at the developed economies, yes, were not doing as well as wed like, but were doing better than any other just about. and these are our customers and theres a slowdown in china, so given the economic r...