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Powers but whether he wants to take specific steps behind it to use the bully pulpit against him and lay out the case what he is doing. >> i agree with you, david, 100%. what is potentially different here this now could galvanize public opinion. we are not dealing with geo political abstractions what is dealing in ukraine. you are dealing with 300 innocent people lost their lives presumably because of actions taken by groups that organizations that russia enabled. this could create a context in which european governments could finally begin to move against russia with sanctions to do more for ...

Imots. it's pretty clear in history. lots of people have looked into this. as you know at your urging and reached the same conclusion. why won't the president take the steps necessary to clear the record? >> well, because that would require the navy department and the department of defense to admit their own mistakes. and they are just not inclined to do that. they rely on abstractions. kimmel was the boss no matter what happens he is responsible. of course the reason i'm here today is because -- not because of the kimmel's mission, it's because the pearl harbor survivors in 198 slitted my -- ...

Good question. >> good answer. it's a populist response.ñr the local level. it's not about the grand ideas about remaking the middle east and the theoretical abstractions that the neo-cons and others pushed for years. do you want your son to die for this? we lost 4500 american men and women. over 200,000 dead iraqis. there is a real exhaustion. we have seen the cost for the exercise to go in led by people who would say there is noen reason to worry. >> funny that dick cheney never asked this question of himself. maybe during the vietnam war which he supported he had five deferme deferments. >...

And americas and africa and middle east. and the consequences that would a rise from commrasencies are not abstractions, but the impact on the lives of real people. men and women just like us, have to enter into our imaginations. just look at the young people of ukraine who are determined to take back their future from a government rotted by corruption, and the portraits of the fallen shot by snipers and the visitors who pay respects. and there was the university student wrapped in the ukranian flag expressing hope that every country should live by the law. a post graduate student speaking of ...

The middle east. and the consequences that would arise from complacency are not abinstructi abstractions. the impact that they have on the lives of real people, men and women just like us have to enter into our imaginations. just look at the young people of ukraine, who are determined to take back their future from a government rotted by corruption. the portraits of the fallen shot by snipers. the visitors who pay their respects. there was the university student wrapped in the ukrainian flag expressing her hope that every country should live by the law. a post graduate student speaking of her ...