The role of the u. S. On the world stage. Give us a call this morning on the democratic line, the republican line, and the independent. 585ure outside the u. S. , 3883. You can reach us on facebook or twitter or email. Good monday morning to you. We want to start with the interview with president obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton from last night that appeared on 60 minutes. Heres how it played in a couple papers from around the country. Heres the New York Times headline and the culpeper star has i want to read you from the story that was in the hill newspaper this morning, the congressional newspaper here in washington. What we want to do now is take you to a clip from last night of that interview. Here is president obama. [video clip] we helped to put together and lay the groundwork for liberating libya. When it comes to egypt, i think, had it not been for the leadership we showed, you might see a different outcome. Also understanding that we do know body and a service when we leap before we look, where we take on things without having thought it through all the consequences of it. Syria is a classic example of our involvement, we want to make sure that not only does it enhance u. S. Security but also is doing right by the people of syria and neighbors like israel that will be profoundly affected by it. If so it is true sometimes we dont just shoot from the hip. Host we are taking your calls in this first segment this morning, your thoughts on americas role on the world stage. Your assessment of the last four years and what you think americas role will be in the next four years of the Obama Administration. Some spots on facebook so we will take your calls all morning on this. Also, if you commentary pieces on americas role in the world. This from the front page of the Washington Times this morning, is the changing of the guard. It is by oliver north. Also, in the Washington Post, today. Robert samuelson has a piece called american century. Liz from rockville, maryland, on the democratic line. Caller good morning. I am glad that the wars have ended, but im seeing and imperialist role of the u. S. In the world. If there is a humanitarian crisis, it is justifiable to enter the country to stop the government from doing that. But if its is you are just unseating leaders because theyre not friendly to u. S. Business interests or you are replacing them with leaders who are firmly to u. S. Business interests, that it does become imperialism. Bowlines are really blurry and we have to watch our step. Military Industrial Complex in this country is really powerful. I dont want it to spill over to the rest of the world and become the imperialists. Host a few tweets and joseph writes that is assessing the passed four years. I want to read from the oliver north peace that we mentioned earlier from the Washington Times, talking about Hillary Clinton and her assessment of her work. It says it has created opportunities for u. S. Citizens in places that have benefited our nation. Oliver north is the host of stories. Ar mike is next on the republican line in indianapolis. Caller in the last four years, the only factor in the cap of Hillary Clinton is the miles she has trouble. A relationship to india, china, all of our allies has been very bad. With russia, theres hardly any relationship existing. There has been no significant accomplishment that she can mention. No peace between israel and palestine. All the arab dictators, but missed a huge opportunity in 2009 when the green revolution was going on in 2009, and they closed their eyes, allowing the iranians to massacre people on the street. So i dont think that she has anything to show off. It has been a terrible four years as far as farm policy. Host what you make of john kerry taking over the position . Are you hopeful you will see a different course taken . Caller i dont think so. He enjoys being in the limelight a lot. This is something he has been looking forward to for a long time. I think he will overshadow the president in many ways. I dont think there will be any significant accomplishment by him. Host thanks for scott paul. Samuelson wrote a peice Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post. John from pennsylvania is next on the independent line. Good morning. Caller hello. I agree with fishing sam. I think it will just continue. We have to get out of. So many of we are in somalia, yemen, iraq. We will probably be in egypt and iran. It is ridiculous. You dont see china and germany and other great economies throughout the world trying to continue colonialism or imperialism or whatever you want to call it. Zogby to pull back, take care of the u. S. We need to pull back. We are shortchanging the u. S. Host this is more from yesterday, secretary clinton giving her assessment. [video clip] we live in a dangerous and incredibly complicated world now with very different forces at work. Statebased and nonstate. Technology and communication. I am older than the president. I dont want to surprise anybody by saying that. Not by much. I remember some of the speeches of eisenhower as a young girl. You have got to be careful. You have to be thoughtful. You cannot rush in especially now where its more complex than it has been in decades. So, yes, there are Wicked Problems like syria, absolutely. We are on the side of american values, freedom, the aspirations of all people to have a better life, to have the opportunity we are fortunate to have here. But its not always easy proceed exactly what must be done in order to get to that outcome. So i certainly am grateful for the president s steady hand and hard questions and thoughtful analysis as to what we should and should not do. Host that was secretary of state Hillary Clinton talking about americas role in the world as she is getting ready to leave that post. She mentioned syria in that commentary that she made. A little bit more from the the hill that is from the hill newspaper. The New York Times as one formation about whats going on right now in syria. The headline than 60,000 people died in the twoyear conflicts. Russia is at loggerheads with the Syrian Opposition oppose the western and arab reporters. That piece in todays New York Times. Bruce in texas on the democratic line. Caller good morning. Secretary Hillary Clinton was right. You cannot rush into anything like that. You cannot police the whole world. If the russians or countries like that, you are involving a lot of other countries. I am pretty sure secretary john carey will do the same thing. Hes not point to rush in to police a state like that. We need to take care of our country and protect our borders. Thats what we need to do. Not saying not to Pay Attention to any other countries that need help or anything like that. Host how do you make the distinction between the countries that need help and when we should pull back . Where would you draw the line . Caller i would not mess with syria right now. I think they can handle it by themselves. Theres a lot of people got killed over there, but what other wars have people not gotten killed . As long as its not like germany where they went and the people prisoner and gassed them and stuff like that, i dont think we should be involved. We need to stay back and let them do what they need to do over there. Host Richard Smith on facebook with a different take on this. One other conflict thats going on in the world that has brought in some u. S. Involvement is what is going on it in mali. The u. S. Moving to broaden the african presence. Thats the headline from the wall street journal. Gets from an Unnamed Administration official. Up next, dave from new jersey on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning, john, a break to see you. Great to see you. A couple comments. Im kind of glad to see mrs. Clinton leaving, although i dont think there will be a tremendous paradigm shift. I agree with what oliver north said and what you said earlier. I just think its going to be the same type of political oversight. It is just going to be the same type of person in a different gender leading. I would love to see someone like Robert Muller or an individual like him in charge of the state department, because i think he would do a tremendous job. Insofar as logistical entrenchment throughout the world, i think we still need to be located in many different locations. I think we need to be a little quieter, not so much to be on the military but more on the soft intelligence gathering. Another thing i want to say, i assume our military leaders are doing this, but we need to reassess where our current troops are located. If theyre in areas such as to japan and others where we may have 15,000 troops, do they still need to be there . Can we deploy them elsewhere . Or just reassess the whole situation and go from there. We need a new tactical and strategic approach to our military deployment and intelligence gathering and have strong leadership in the state department. After benghazi, i am disgusted. Host are you hopeful that this change of course can take shape or do you think the Obama Administration is set in its ways after four years, even though there are some changes in key posts . Caller john, i am so disenchanted right now. It seems like the people you see all the time who have been around forever that they go into these positions, but are they really qualified . I am republican, as you know, but i dont look at it as a republican issue. I look at it as a competency issue. We need to put people in these positions who know what they are doing, are sophisticated enough to handle it, and are not so politically driven, but actually have a true agenda, which is to protect this country and make sure benghazi does not happen. Im not on a referendum to coem me up with a plan on how to change security in our state department in those locations, but i still cannot believe benghazi happened. It is beyond me that we could allow our leadership was so poor that it could put our ambassador and our people in that position without any security. That is all i can say. Host stick around for the last segment today. We will be discussing u. S. Spending on security at u. S. Compounds and on ambassadors at complexes around world. That is at the end of the show today at 9 15, so stick around for that. If i want to go to jonathan, a staff writer for the newspaper. Thanks for joining us. Guest my pleasure. Host i want to talk about the other news that came out of that interview between obama and Hillary Clinton on 60 minutes. Clinton was clinton washer possibly was asked about her possibly running for president in 2016. Guest she did not make any news, thats for sure. They were both a little dodgy about the prospects of 2016. I imagine she will lay low for the foreseeable future when it comes to that. But she is right now the democratic frontrunner, absolutely. The way it looks right now, she would help a pretty easy path to the nomination if she wanted it. Host did she make any news about her health and recent bout with a few different issues the has been dealing with . Guest she did not. She said shes doing fine. She is a covering. Theres a lot of speculation about the glasses she was wearing at the benghazi hearing and if she suffering from double vision from the concussion and a blood clot, but it sounds like she is recovering and doing better. At least that is what she is saying publicly. Theres no real news there. Twitter was up in arms over steve kroft not really pressing president. Nd the with mrs. Clinton on her way out of the state department. Host clinton did mention in the segment that she had considered president obama if Hillary Clinton had won the white house, she mentioned that she had considered president obama to be part of her cabinet if she was president. Guest thats right. It is surprising how highly they both spoke of the tether. In 2008 it was a bitterly contested primary and it it seemed that the relationship was coined to take a long time to repair, but they both said she said she would have considered obama to be in her cabinet. Obviously, obama offered her the secretary of state position. So they have repaired that relationship. It is kind of surprising to hear how highly they see each other in the wake of that primary. Host jonathan, thanks for talking with us. We talked about clinton was asked about her plans for 2016. Heres a piece by a republican and former Capitol Hill Press Secretary in the Baltimore Sun you can read the rest of that piece in the Baltimore Sun today. I want to go now to nancy from concord, new hampshire, on our independent line. Actually, we will go to kentucky on the democratic line with c. E. Caller chuck hagel and john kerry stepping into these positions, they can bring their experiences to the table because they have fought insurgents. The only way we will be able to kill the republic is to kill the umpire empire. They started this in afghanistan. Putting all kinds of money into that pit. Just bled them. And were doing the same thing now. We need to sacrifice the empire to save the republic. , south ken from lancaster carolina, on our independent line. What is your take on the role of the United States and the world stage . Caller i would like to respond about secretary clinton. You can look at benghazi, the ambassador got killed. Egypt is in turmoil. She has not done nothing really. Now talking about gs7 the rating that she has a 70 rating . All these politicians being recycled. Leon panetta worked in the clinton administration. Recycled politicians, they never want to leave. A 69yearold lady running for president. I would vote for anybody else. Her job as secretary of state was not good. Tweets ew more poin one other tweet left got about 15 minutes on this subject and segment if you want to call this morning on what the role of the United States is on the world stage. A few other news stories out there. Heres the headline from politico a lot more on that issue today. The story is leading the front page of the wall street journal. Immigration debate gears up her. And heres john mccain talking about this proposal on abc. [video clip] i will give you some straight talk. Look at the last election. We are losing dramatically in the hispanic vote, which we think should be ours for a variety of reasons. And weve got to understand that. Second, we cannot go on forever with 11 Million People living in this country in the shadows under an illegal status. We cannot forever have children who were born here, or brought here by their parents when there were small children and live in the shadows as well. So i think the time is right. Host that was senator john mccain. President obama and will be in las vegas on tuesday to lay out his vision on immigration. At cspan. Org for all of our coverage of that event and when we finalize coverage details. The enormous object of the role of the United States on a world stage, we will go to kirby from quincy, illinois, on the democratic line. Caller thank you. I have been listening to some of these people calling in and criticizing mrs. Clinton, criticizing the this and that. Everyone needs to stop and think about it does. Look back to the 1960s when kennedy was president and when he started trying to pull people out of vietnam. What was the first thing congress set . They said we have to keep our military involved in some type of conflict, that its best for the economy. After spending 26 years in the military, i know for a fact, congress is not helping out. Orders to military o take bin laden out. But then Congress Said we have to bring him back here to try him for war crimes. Talk about a waste of money. We have troops all over the globe. However than helping our economy . Its not helping. Yet they say we have to be involved in certain type of conflicts to help boost our economy. Why dont we pull back from all these different places where there is no action whatsoever . All we have is some kind of base. How is than helping our economy . Host Shane Simmons on facebook that from our facebook page. Charlie is up next from new jersey on this subject of the role of the United States on a world stage. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think that we are overly involved militarily all over the world. I think there is political pressure from groups like neocons and aipac. We are the second most traded country in the middle east. Now we are going into africa, so maybe we could be the most hated country in africa. We spend billions and billions of dollars and 3000 people got killed in 9 11. 40,000 of our people getting even in iraq. Theres too much outside pressure from other countries. Our progress is a puppet of the israeli governments. We are controlled by the israeli government. Thank you very much. Host one other story that is in the papers today has made news from the sunday shows yesterday. The headline from the Washington Times i want to show you a little from her appearance on cbs yesterday. [video clip] this is an uphill climb. It is it differencebill that i introduced. We go from two to physical characteristics in the definition of an assault weapon to one. We ban 158 specific guns by make and model. We grandfather 2200 weapons by make and model that our rifles, shotguns, pistols used for recreation, defense, hunting. We ban clips, drums, strips of more than tablets. Prohibit the manufacture of them or their sale or transfer. We are different from the new york state law. We dont require registration of grandfathered weapons. We are also different from the California Law in that regard. In a sense, is a little bit more moderate in that regard. Host senator feinsteins Judiciary Committee meeting in the senate will hold a hearing on january 30 on wednesday to address guncontrol. At that hea