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Peace in our time has got, tom ricks foreign policy said they were doing it to rattle benjamin netanyahu. its so ignorant or so irresponse to believe use the phrase. its synonymous with approach to foreign policy that leads aggression across borders. >> bret: do you think it was the message or a mistake? >> i bet a mistake. the guys in the white house have a wikipedia staff when it comes to speech writing stop. they make weird errors. that previous speech writing shops would never make. obama di...

0 >> reporter: house leaders are planning a vote tomorrow to increase borrowing authority through may 18. i would include the house and senate pass resolutions by april 15. if its not passed it would withhold the salaries putting them in escrow. resistance to the debt limit vote so far comes from the rank and file house conservatives. >> we have half a budget, but raising the debt ceiling for a budget to be named later is to me something i probably wont be able to vote for. >> if you raised it f...

>> iran presents the most significant regional threat to stability and security. >> general mattis has been in charge of fighting since august of 2010. nicknameed "maddog" he led marines to iraq he once told elelders i come in peace. i didnt bring artillery but i am pleading with you with tears in my eyes. if you blank with me i will kill you all. tom ricks is saying that he is pushed out for asking too many questions about a possible strike on iran. like what do you do with iran once the nuclea...

0 enough if they choose to tell us about what it was like to grow up in the white house. which must be amazing. that is it for us on "the five." thank you for watching. see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bret: analysts on the left and the right are calling president obamas second inaugural address the most liberal speech he delivered in office. one apologetic progressive agenda. the question now: will he get it through? this is "special report." ♪ ♪ you are looking live at the inaugural pa...

0 filter going on. she wasnt playing any political games for the team. >> i agree with that. >> finish up. im sorry, michael. >> just to take that point, chris, more broadly, there was every reason to think this might have been a spontaneous demonstration, and susans instincts may have been in that direction. you think what happened the same day in egypt, it apparently was still spontaneous, and thats what our best intelligence says. if you think to the demonstrations in afghanistan over the yea...

0 wednesday and sunday of getting better talking points. but i dont think it was ambassador rices fault. i definitely dont think she lied. >> if it came through the white house, then she didnt give a straight story. anyway, joe lieberman, whos fascinating to watch because you never know which way hes going to go. hes usually a faithful ally of mccain and graham, but this afternoon joe lieberman came to a far different conclusion. take a listen. >> i specifically asked her whether at any point pr...

>> they stay dont know who was responsible. there are links to al qaeda but links is a broad word. >> youre with tom ricks on this one. >> the main question is why was the consulate in benghazi still open when the administration, when even the ambassador acknowledged that the threats against the united states was rising and security was -- >> and the answer could be we had cia agents in that area -- >> absolutely. >> that needed to be protected. ambassador susan rice met with her strongest criti...

0 at least i think he did. but it also seems like the white house is still considering another grand bargain. >> i think what we need to do is lets go for the big deal. lets go for something that we can say for a 10, 20-year period, our country is on the right path. the only way that gets done is for republicans to step out and get mercilessly criticized and that means democrats are going to have to do tough things that they will get criticized by their left. >> if this sounds familiar, it shoul...

0 campaign takes this as a personal shot at him. how will he respond? will he name ambassador rice his new secretary of state to replace hillary clinton? will he meet mccains challenge head on and send rice up to the capitol to go face-to-face with the enly? tonight we study the battlefield and the fire power. mccain sure wants this fight, but do his fellow republicans? do they want an older white guy taking on the xre tense of a young woman of color, a rhodes scholar of solid reputation? most i...

members of the inner circle. so when asked how to stand up, people should listen to this guy. >> we want to engage in entitlement reform. medicare, medicaid, these are chief drivers of the deficit. theres other spending we have to cut. >> hold on a second. i think that we all know what the chief drivers of our deficit are and have been. our projected deficit has driven by the wars and the bush tax cuts. entitlement programs dont even compete with these costs. plouffe went on to pin the...