Shooting them. Arent they still just as dead . Isnt he still in power just the same to keep slaughtering . Weve determined its the humanitarian thing to do to intercede when dictators act inhumanly, but only how they kill their people, not whether they kill the people. Chemicals office, but anything else, not as awful. Bashar, next time, use bullets. Thank us in the mirren time we give you plenty of time to prepare for our missiles, Donald Rumsfeld on the dangers of administration promising its quick and dirty when it could leave more questions than answers. Secretary rumsfeld, great to have you. What do you make of this and why were going to do this . Its difficult for someone on the outside to know, first of all, whats happening on the ground, and, second, whats in the mind of the administration. As you point out properly, the idea of demystifying what youre going to do for the enemy is mindless. I cant imagine what they are thinking, why they want the assad regime to have crystal clarity with respect to what they, you know i must say this. I do think that we should all if u. S. Military forces are going to be involved in any way, we want to wish them god speed. I think that secretary of state kerry was dealt a bad hand as a result of decisions that have been made over the preceding four years by the Clinton State Department and the obama white house, and i do concede that its a complicated situation. Neil now, i know, secretary, were not into regime change and that whether this is the obama administrations way saying were not doing what bush, rumsfeld, and cheney did. You know the line. Were going to keep the guy in power. Its not about taking him out of power. Its about defanging him. Lets say he takes the chemical weapons away, secretary. He still has guns, has tanks, has the power to kill his people, all be it not with chemicals, so, for what . Caller neil, hes estimated to have killed close to a hundred thousands syria people before the use of chemical weapons. Neil exactly right. Caller if this is a humanitarian mission, whats interesting, seems to me, is that we there has not been any indication from the administration as to what our National Interest is with respect to this particular situation. If you think of whats really important in that region, it is two things. Its Irans Nuclear program and the relationship between iran and syria, the assad regime, with respect to funding terrorists that go around killing innocent men, women, and children including americans. Neil do you think that russia or china act on their threat, dont do anything, dont attack syria. What could, would they do, or bluff or what . Caller its hard to know. Theres no question, but each of the two countries, the peoples republic of china and russia have leaders that are fundamentally opposed to our values and our interests, and we have a lot of interests around the world, and they have the capability of doing things that are adverse to our end, and the fundamental problem we got in the United States is that this administration has been in a withdrawal mode, in an apology mode, in a mode of managing our economy in a way that tells the world were not going to be the kind of a factor in two, five, six, eight, ten years going out, and, therefore, that vacuum weve created is being filled by people who dont have our values or our interest, and that gives china and russia an opportunity to do things that are fundamentally against what we as a country and the American People woulddprefer to have happen ped neil Donald Rumsfeld, thank you so much. Great hearing you again. Caller neil, whatever happens, we have to hope it ends well for our countrys standpoint. Neil thank you very much. Rand paul says this is all the more reason just to stay out, we cant pick who will be in charge or dictate whether someone should stay in charge, so ron paul, you heard Donald Rumsfeld, did anything dissuade you of that view . Oh, hardly. Hardly should he be considered an expert on the region. He gave us iraq and afghanistan, and he was buddies with hussein, you know, worked with him when hussein was actually using poisen gaseses, and look at where iraq is today. Its a disaster. Its more allied with iran right now, and the alqaedas in iraq, and theres a death toll coming up every single day. Hardly would he be able to give us advice on what to do in afghanistan. Neil having said that, i will say this, there is some debate as to whether he individually encouraged hussein to use gaseses on his people. Leaving that aside. I want to stress this, sir, if i can. Is it your sense, then, that his other argument that russia or china could take advantage of this and seize on this vacuum if we do not . I did make that accusation just to clarify, but we as a country and he part of it, actually, we were allies with hussein, but thats another subject. Youre asking about the danger of escalation, really, with russia and china. I think its very, very serious, and i think the markets are telling us that, and i think the price of oil is telling us that because its really a big thing, so, yes, its supposed to be a toke p. One of the reasons they say, well, this is not regime change because were not really pos positive who set off the gas. I mean, the group thats most likely to benefit from that is alqaeda. They, you know, ignite some gas, people die, blame it on assad. Assad, i dont think, is an idiot or would do it on purpose in order for the whole world to come down on him. Neil you question whether assad used the gas and that hes just set up . Look how many lies were told us to about hussein. More propaganda. Endless, happens all the time. Neil to be fair, its in the past, hussein used weapons against his people, but the argument is good. I guess what i want to advance here is this, that if a dictator uses chemical weapons on his own people, is it a litmus test for us to help the people . For ron paul, what is . Well, i think getting to the truth of it, and thats what were not getting to because when Saddam Hussein used the gases, some of the products were bought from us and he was still our ally. You cant ignore that. I think its a false flag, i think really, indeed, and nobody knows if he was slaughtering people by the thousands with poisennedded gas, you know, thats another story, but thats not the case. As a matter of fact, a hundred thousand deaths is the case. The implication is that assad committed a hundred thousand killings. Theres a lot of factions. Why not ask, you know, about al chi alqaeda . Why on the side of alqaeda . They wanted weapons, rebels want the weapons, theres a bunch of people in alqaedas part of it, and this is the task for us to drop a couple bombs, send 234 weapons neil you argue were sucked in . Big time. Its big risk. What if theres an accident and a hundred russians are killed by our bombs . Some type of unintended consequences, wars expand because of unintended consequences and provide short term wars. Just think of all the promises over in iraq. Short term, not much money. Neil in and out, quick and dirty. Dont believe it. We should look at whats best for america and not trying to pick sides in an impossible war like this not on the side of the American People, and the American People right now, by a very large majority oppose the war. The constitution cant support the war, and morally, we cant support the war, getting involved in a civil war and a strike thats. Going on in the region for thousands of years. Neil right about that. We have very unclear rationale for doing what were doing. Well see. Ron paul. In the meantime, play this out to ron pauls argument. Missiles launched, message sent, assad unnoticed. Rick a bell here . Didnt bill clinton do this with hussein and reagan with gadhafi . Shaken, stirred, and for years still stirring and plotting and killing until we came back and, well, kill them. Thats the thing about messages, it requires the not receiving them to understand them. More often than not, the nut does not. A word for warning for investors out there looking for certainty that wants missiles fired, things go back to normal, and the syria sicko is humbled, but if he stays in power, theres uncertainty. What do you think, steve . Youre spot on, you know, to rumsfelds point, pauls point, were sucked into an environment we dont want to be politically, ethically, or morally. That said, i cant afford to be political in the chief investment strategist but look at what happens to the markets. Investors have a narrow window to take action. Do things like protect their portfolio because neil how would you do that . If everythings hitting the fan, i know gold, oil, all that stuff, but, i mean, if the markets are better that once the missile strike is done, whatever they call it after a couple days is done, if its another repeat of the clinton narrative, then its back to business as usual and up certainty is gone. You say, no, no, no. What are you doing . I, yeah, im in the no, no, no category because this is like calling a drug dealer an unlicensed pharmacist. No way to go to war halfway. Heres the thing; right . I think they need to look at trailing stops. Whats the point of pain . We run up marsh 2009 lows, big gains, can they take profits . Hedge portfolios . Golds a part of that. Dividend investing in stocks hold up better. Can they neil all of the above is something you hang on to presumably for some weeks and maybe months here regardless that this looks like its over in a couple days . Yeah, this is not a short term game here. That, to ron pauls point, that region has been in conflict for thousands of years, a quick strike or two does not change the game. Investors have to have a long term perspective, and they have to get their list ready because if nothing changed, a lot of Great Companies will be put on sale. Thats a cliche, but investors have a bad habit of doing the right thing at the wrong time. If they run for the door, look who put the money in the corner and pick it up. Neil i love you about that. After armageddon, theres something to be constructed. Good having you, my friend. Thank you very much. Hes been uncanningly impressive on trend in the past. Bear in mind what he says. You think the oil market after the missiles . Think again. 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The Brokerage Firm thats talking about sort of like the worst of perfect storms here with brent crude, prices jump another 40 bucks, higher than now, if countries like iraq shut down production on syria hostilities and other countries in that Oil Rich Region follow suit. Up likely, but, you know, not unimaginable, and if brent oil, used by the european starts rockenning, sandra smmth hears talks our own oil prices could quickly follow suit. Sandras in chicago at the cme. Sandra, what are you hearing about that . Hey, neil, they are calling for 150 brent crude saying that, as you said, its not likely, but its not all together impossible that were going to see high prices. They are saying this would be dependent on not only a u. S. Strike in syria, but this is also dependent on a very significant, as they put it, supply disruption over in the middle east, so the biggest fear now is not the oil coming from syria itself because as we know, we dont see a lot of oil coming from syria, but its the close proximity the country has to other major Oil Producing nations and also its home to pipelines and some very important seaways that carry the crude we here in the United States use that could be disrupted. Is it reality that we see 150 . Right now, thats in question, but if there is a strike and a significant disruption, certainly, that could be in play. Neil countries rich in oil, we remind people when it comes to crisis in egypt, syria, they are not big oil producers, nowhere on scene in that regard, but they get sympathetic reduction cuts from the neighbors, then that would be in the pileup, but its unlikely. The obvious question now, to the folks you talked to, saying right now, sandra, we think this is over done, we think its run up, already run too far . Right, if we see 150, its not going to last long, and the price target is 115 for our benchmark here, which is about at 110 as it stands, so what they are saying would happen is if we get a strike, a pop in oil prices, but, neil, as seen in the past with libya in 2011, you get spikes in the price of oil, and what happens . The saudis step in, ramp up production, and replace the canceled output, and then you see all the prices come back down. Neil thats right. Any significant jump up in oil prices, such as 115 or 150 for brent will not last long. Thats the call by most analysts looking now. Neil we shall see. Thats the history of the first iraq war, second iraq war, run up ahead, fall down after. Sandra, great having you again, and, again, great having you back. I noticed Global Crisis are everywhere since you returned from maternity leave. Well talking about that later. Meanwhile, anniversary bummer, 50 years after this, were going nuts over what happened with this . Shame on us. Shouldnt we be more concerned by the shameless punk trying to capitalize on him and pounding still more Government Programs quoting him. They saying its what martin would have wanted. Really . Martins dead. I think now hes furious. Any last requests mr. Baldwin . Do you mind grabbing my phone and opening the capital one purchase eraser . I need to redeem some venture miles before my demise. Okay. Its easy to erase any recent travel expense i want. Just pick that flight right there. Mmm hmmm. Give it a few taps, and. Its taken care of. This is pretty easy, and i see it works on hotels too. You bet. Now if you like that, press the red button on top. How did he not see that coming . Whats in your wallet . Kneel kneeling fifty years later, what have we learned . Im not talking about racism, i think and hope we made progress there, but government smending, under the guides of helping people, little progress there because the war on poverty, hate to break it to youings were losing, my friend. A year after Martin Luther king spoke on the steps of the lincoln memorial, waste upon waste warrants its own memorial that should read in memory of taxpayers in all races and creeds for good money gone bad and good goals never gone realized. This is despite spending more than 16 trillion since johnsons war on poverty, yet we have a higher percentage of americans today in poverty, more americans than ever going hungry even though we have one in three on food assistance. Theres medicare, Ambitious Program started in 1965 to help elderly with medical needs at a cost of 56 million. Today, its a budget of half a trillion with obligations north of a trillion dollars. For all the trillions, still spent, what happens . Why do government pushing crawls out of the wood work today using kings name push for more . Richard benson, says because we should and they should, especially on this set, to ron myers who says, we should stop and reassess, especially on this day. Okay. Richard, youre your argument is all these programs, all these trillions spent, all supposedly, today, espoused under the name of martin whriewter king, money wellspent . Yes, but youre pointing out what government is doing, but we also have the private business sector neil im not talking about that, but the government, we, as taxpayers, yielding little results. All that government money in the world cannot account for the business changes weve seen in the 40 last years hallowing out the middle class, workers wages plummeting down, wall street executive wages going up, ceo wages going up, so this wealth inequality explains poverty seen, and it neil youd think the 16 trillion would at least stop that, slow that, change that. What about the figure of money, trillions that have gone way neil i will get to the other guests, but i want to be clear. You dont think the 16 trillion was wasted . Its not been wasted. Not only has it not been wasted, but look at the wasted money weve spent giving unfair subsidies to already profitable businesses in the society when worker productivity has gone up. Neil all right. I would think that in comparison to the 16 trillion, i could be wrong. Ron, what say you . Rich has a good point we wasted money on wall street before, but that does not justify we made zero progress on what we solve, and we tried this war on poverty that failed. When i talk to folks, running for congress in northern virginia, and i talk to folks in woodbridge, a predominantly africanamerican neil reach out to the opponents of little aveigh, but continue. Didnt mean to throw it in there, but i talk about the problems on a daily basis, and they are worried the programs are not working, no progress, and they want School Choice. The biggest thing on their mind is can theyve give their kids a better opportunity down the road. Neil you are saying that whatever the government has done, ron, failed, and so no, no, we have to try something new. Less money going out to the government is doing better, is he saying . Neil stop the government madness, stop the multitrillion dollar wars on poverty, leaves us poor, the one in three on some sort of food help and support leaving the same percentage of americans going hungry, stop it. You couldnt begin to do that unless you raise the minimum wage, unless you agree to protect workers in giving them the right to protect themselves against corporations in terms of organizing, and so if he did that, i ask him whether hed be willing to increase minimum wage to swap that. Neil good question, a little crazy, richard is a crazy, but lovable guy, but what do you think of that . Swap out all the trillions spent, apparently have gone nowhere, and if you give us some of the other stuff yeah, well, i think what we have to look at with policies that worked for the community. Minimum wage, its not done an incredible amount of good, but policies that have work, when re