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They're still evil, just a smaller empire. >> i agree. >> i want to correct your history. when president clinton, very bellicose, threatening military action against north korea, kim jong il backed down. he backed down. he stopped his nuclear program. he let the united nations put cameras in and for several years that nuclear development was frozen through a combination of carrots and sticks. the chinese were important to that, as well. we're in much worse shape now because they have nukes. they did not 15, 20 years ago when president clinton was dealing with them. the two options are war or c...

A moment that was very uncertain, advocated patience and restraint and a desire for peace and spoke directly -- >> reagan also called them the evil empire. >> he did, and that's fine. they're still evil, just a smaller empire. >> i agree. >> i want to correct your history. when president clinton, very bill bellicose, threatening military action against north korea, kim jong il backed down. he let the united nations put cameras in and for several years that nuclear development was frozen through a combination of carrots and sticks. we're in much worse shape now because they have nukes. the two ...

That were syrian regime of pilots drop those bombs on that town and we saw the aftermath of that. we understand this base was the target because as you mentioned there are airstrips there but most importantly it is where some of the chemical weapons, chemical agents are stored. remember back in 2013, when president obama decided not to go ahead and conduct air strikes against syria at that moment, when the last sarah and the attack occurred. it is generally felt that the u.s. felt that it was too dangerous to strike the regime, president obama wants to congress to get authorization, and the u....

Large scale intervention by russia and iran propping up assad. in all this, critics point to the president's infamous failure in 2013 to enforce his own red line against assad for using chemical weapons. before the president backed down, kerry had invested his own stature in a defense of imminent air strikes. >> history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator's use of weapons of mass destruction. >> reporter: when the president decided to seek congressional authorization for strikes that never came, as the u.s. and russia hatched a plan to evacuate the...

Large scale intervention by russia and iran propping up assad. in all this, critics point to the president's infamous failure in 2013 to enforce his own red line against assad for using chemical weapons. before the president backed down, kerry had invested his own stature in a defense of imminent air strikes. >> history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator's use of weapons of mass destruction. >> reporter: when the president decided to seek congressional authorization for strikes that never came, as the u.s. and russia hatched a plan to evacuate the...