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Social security? >> i think it was one of joe biden's best moments. there's no question where paul ryan stood. even before the stock market crash, he was arguing we should go to privatizing social security. when people lost 30, 40% or more of their savings, he was still clinging to this crazy notion. joe biden put him on the spot tonight. he had to admit it. the same thing held true for medicare. joe biden would not allow paul ryan to dance away from his crazy views. >> on the issue of afghanistan, it was confusing on the surface and more confusing the deeper they got. my sense is that the dif...

With was, well, that's not right, this is what we want to do. but he really had no detail on anything. and i also thought joe biden's experience tonight on foreign policy, i mean, it was a man against a boy. >> yep. >> he got so mixed up, ryan did, about, he would not accept the fact -- he talked about how great our troops are doing, but he would not accept the fact the afghan forces are also making strides and they're the ones that are being detailed in the very regions he's talking about. and so, look -- >> he was saying he agrees with the drawdown and the drawdown is dangerous. he agrees wi...

One. abortion, i thought that ryan did a heartfelt thing but what he said was i'm for outlawing abortion in a country of this diversity. he said that. a lot of people not of the conservative roman catholic faith have a particular right wing view about all kind of social issues will say wait a minute here, are you telling me you're going to take away my right to make this decision myself? take it away from my daughter because you have a point of view? this is america. this isn't old spain. you don't tell people what you can't do because of your church views. you don't do that. i thought joe han...

People are saying that the vice president biden side is quite energized right now in terms of the discussion about a lighter footprint. and when you talk to women on the ground, they say, you know, what happens if the space that we have been using to build midwivery programs, to improve maternal schools, all of that goes away because women are seen so many times as collateral damage rather than contributors. and so much of what women are doing right now is really contributing to making afghanistan more secure. and they wonder if that all goes away. >> but at the same time, wes, with the presid...