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Austin, said the u.s. wants to diminish russia's military power going forward so russia could not just do this again. >> we want to see russia weakened to a degree it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability. breaking overnight, missile strikes in the lviv area. officials say russian forces struck five rail stations in the center of the country, all within an hour. there are casualties, we ...

To what degree you were moved by your discussions with pope francis, and for democrats who might already be wondering, is it too late for joe biden to decide whether or not to run for president? and lastly, just to clarify, to what degree it hillary clinton's endorsement just yesterday of a no-fly zone put her in a category of embracing a half-baked answer in syria that borders on mumbo jumbo? >> on the latter issue, on the last question that you asked, hillary clinton is not half-baked in terms of her approach to these problems. she was obviously my secretary of state. but i also think that t...

Starting with you, are the democrats here as you were listening to chuck schumer say, are they as kplis it in the rise to the tea party as others? >> they really haven't been. there are a few politicians who have been complicit and said we need -- democrats have said we need to recruit the tee partyiers over to our side. in general, ever since the 2010 election in which rand paul was elected beat attorney general jack conway for u.s. senate, the democrats have gone on the offensive against the tea party. but to some degree it hasn't really affected the tea party that much. just because there i...

They invade america's homes and say this is the only important case and who cares that people are getting gunned down in every city here and there. those lives aren't important. the only life that is important is the one that will sell us papers. that has nothing to do with this story. >> i do think, back to this story, i do think this is significant in terms of what you pointed out. to some degree it under cuts the debate that his -- he was racially profiling trayvon martin. he was wrong to get out and follow him. this was part of a violent pattern he has had. he was arrested two times in 200...

To be more important to them than avoiding tax increases and that is not true. >> i think that's a mystery. you have the rand pauls of the world. plenty of tea party saying a cut in defense is a cut and we need cuts. >> i think so. and i think that there is enough of them in the republican caucus that really have no problem with the sequester happening. i think to some degree it. the problem is, again, these kind of cuts, these are hatchet cuts. they're not strategic scaplpals where you go in there and making cuts that make sense and programs that don't work and spending that is not beneficial...