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>> sanctions against which he lobbied before the senate implemented them 99-0. what i'm saying is the president lobbied hard against new sanctions in 2013 and 2014 that would have only increased his bargaining leverage. but in any event, the terms announced yesterday, the former deputy director of the u.n. nuclear watch dog, one of the world's most respected experts in nuclear proliferation and arms control and inspection has said it wouldn't allow iran to get nuclear materials sufficient for a bomb in a matter of months if not weeks. so these terms are not improving anything. they are only ce...

Him. so, i mean, you know, our hand was declining to get him back. our bargaining leverage was declining every day as we get fewer and fewer troops there. i think it's a good deal from that point of view. >> and there are actually some rumblings of people who were criticizing the president now saying you didn't get enough for him. you should have tried for some missing contractors, too. i think a lot more people than would admit understand what you're saying is true. reinforcing what you said, john belanger who is actually a former bush administration national security council adviser talked a...

Will make their own future. when you hear president obama say we are not in competition to russia, he is ceding field to russia >> it went to a rocky five, and many would argue it is not a replay of the cold war, i don't know if you see it that way or not. >> it is not a replay. >> if putin can access to the water ways in the black sea, that is their access to the mediterranean. >> yeah, that's why he's using the crimea as leverage. it is where russia naval bases in the he's threatening to split ukraine off over bargaining leverage. it is not a replay of the cold war, but we returned a normal ...

Information, it has to be one of the dumbest things to be speculating about it publicly even if they are comtemplating a deal with snowden and amnesty. the last thing people ought to do is enhance snowden's bargaining power. >> why are they doing it then? >> i think it is a big mistake. i have no idea. in my vow snowden committed troezon and ought to be convicted and ought to swing from a tall oak tree. that is closer to what you should be doing to enhance the bargaining leverage. we don't know how much of what snowden has and gave to the chinese and russians or they took from him and he do...

Those primary challengers are probably going say to the incumbents what have you done to stop obama care. what have you done to shrink the size of government and given that weir going into budget negotiations and a possible shutdown in january looms, well, i think it stands to reason that many of those republicans are going to use the possible shutdown as bargaining leverage in the budget negotiations. so this thing is not over. in terms of the economy, unfortunately, the economy is still going to be shaken by it. >> also three months down the line there will be more hard data of what the the ...