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President who would be forced to start a third world war, a nuclear war, the world ending war, if you will. this is what the cuban missile crisis was all about, not the island in the caribbean where the russians have placed offensive nuclear weapons, but what the russians would do if we invaded cuba. the threat made by khrushchev, setting off the nuclear trip wire, starting the countdown to a third world war. this is what berlin meant in 1961 and 62, its why kennedy said, when he heard the russi...

To decide whether to yield the city up along with the freedom of its residents or use tactical nuclear weapons. this was the prospect, the possibility that kennedy would have to make this choice that kept him worried day and night. that he would be the president forced to start a nuclear war, a world-ending war, if you will. this is what the cuban missile crisis was all about. not the island where the russians had placed offensive nuclear weapons but what the russians would do if we invaded cuba...

Of state. i did have some questions following it. she said yesterday that she was clear-eyed about the dangers and threats in benghazi, but it lael didnt make sense to me that the requests, for example, that august 16th cable where ambassador steechbs had said that the consulate could not with stand a coordinated attack. it seems like theres there should be a trip wire particularly where we come out of a war zone in libya did go up the chain of command. that did not happen here. i think thats a ...

Conference, tamron, was that while the president described the role of those forces in very narrow terms, continuing the training and doing a counter terrorism operation when needed against al qaeda remnants, what he didnt say was whats the main purpose of having those forces remain in afghanistan? i think its two fold. one of them is to keep the taliban which will certainly come back in the rural areas and has ready from taking over kabul and so its sort of a trip wire for that, the way the ame...

Details how prepared this suspect was? >> 6,295 rounds of ammunition purchased by james holmes in the lead up to the shooting. that is according to a atf supervisor. add that to the tear gas, ballistic gear and handcuffs he had. on cross-examination his defense attorney asked him is there any process in colorado to vaccine out whether mentally ill person is purchasing these items and the answer was no. a bomb tech showed photos of my of his booby-trapped apartment and they found a trip wire set ...

That trip wire, everybody goes and then youre negotiating from a position where you are giving up things. and, you know, its like if youre a parachute salesman. the parachutes are much more valuable on the way down. i think were -- i think its inevitable. ive been saying it for months. >> you think we are going over? the area where you can do the best negotiating. >> for both sides. >> both sides. >> are you a cliff diver? >> absolutely not. so we go over the cliff. is it two months, three month...

To say that one more time. netanyahu is demanding something much more immediate, a kind of trip wire that would almost force the u.s. into a quick war. its in the united states interests to have control of this situation better, not to be whipsawed by israel and by every statement from netanyahu, but for the president to behave like the leader of the biggest, strongest country in the world. and to do that, he has to make clear to the world where we stand. and i think probably the u.n. general as...

That rankles cheney a lot. its ludicrous to say we deserve credit for catching bin laden when theres plenty of proof showing they screwed up. i think when it comes to specific policies that the president continued from the bush/cheney years, cheney wants credit. >> let me talk about the situation with iran. people are mixed feelings about when to do something when the trip wire is caught. you have to do something. but cheney cried wolf by saying iraq had nuclear weapons. he pushes that and pushe...

When it was cheney and bush running the show are not with obama. that rankles cheney a lot. its ludicrous to say we deserve credit for catching bin laden when theres plenty of proof showing they screwed up. i think when it comes to specific policies that the president continued from the bush/cheney years, cheney wants credit. >> let me talk about the situation with iran. people are mixed feelings about when to do something when the trip wire is caught. you have to do something. but cheney cried ...

and were taking a lesson from the people of aurora themselves, the governor of aurora and the president of the united states. >> i had a chance to visit with each family. and most of the conversation was filled with memory. it was an opportunity for families to describe how wonderful their brother or their son or daughter was. and the lives that they have touched. and the dreams that they held for the future. i confessed to them that words are always inadequate in these kinds of conver...