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Fingered. you'll get fingered for this. what do you think? >> i'm concerned about doing what is right, not about which party wins this. frankly this particular time i'll vote with more democrats. yesterday i voted with more democrats to try to protect american privacy from intelligence agencies snooping in your phone calls. i don't care which party presents it frankly. i am who i am. i said who i was. i'm not nor debt. i'm not for hirer taxes. i'm for smaller government and more american privacy and i'm going to vote whichever way that falls. it really isn't for me a part san issue. >> what do...

State. knowing that susan rice was telling a lie, sit on the sidelines and not correct the record. she clearly was more concerned about the president residents re-election. don't you have some obligation to the public and to the dead to tell the truth? how could she let susan rice get away with misleading the american people? she is a political animal. she put the interests of the president are's reother e, of doing her job. this goes to her character as a leader and this is something i didn't know exited. i didn't know that on september 12th she told the egypt schappes we know it's not a prot...

Things that are core executive functions and negotiating for the release of a member of the armed services on active duty is a core function. and i don't think congress can give him instructions on how to exercise that kind of power on a retail basis. >> why go ahead and sign the law? >> presidents sign all kinds of things that are presented to them in legislation that are hundreds and hundreds of pages long. it has happened repeatedly. presidents have had to swallow deeply. show me a president who will veto a defense appropriation. let's get realistic about how the system works in washington,...

However, i do think there are things that are core executive functions and negotiating for the release of a member of the armed services on active duty is a core function. and i don't think congress can give him instructions on how to exercise that kind of power on a retail basis. >> why go ahead and sign the law? >> presidents sign all kinds of things that are presented to them in legislation that are hundreds and hundreds of pages long. it has happened repeatedly. presidents have had to swallow deeply. show me a president who will veto a defense appropriation. let's get realistic about how t...

Should have engaged earlier. i agree nobody should go out there on their way and take the brunt of this because i don't think we can do it that way. eventually if we're going to do the right cuts, republicans and democrats will have to stand shoulder to shoulder. enough of them to get it done as they did with the defense appropriation. >> i think they will. >> mika, i think if you're the executive, you have the chance to frame the debate on your terms. and you have the chance to show that leadership. i think there's a time politically. was it a good move? probably yes. in terms of what's good ...