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America's enemy, he's either blind or indifferent. he's -- he seems to be ushering in iran into iraq. there's always some little bit of a hedge, if liz chaining were writing that on her own, all that stuff would be gone. >> in terms of the substantive legacy of the cheney vice presidency, and especially with regard to war. as the president and congress grapple with whether or not the united states is going to do something else militarily in iraq now, is there substantive legacy of the way that cheney changed the approach to war as american policy? that the united states now has to decide wheth...

>> it's not a -- >> hold on. i got to clear this up for everybody else so this isn't a bush versus obama deal. george bush was exhausted in 2008 and putin made the calculated move that after seven years of war, he wasn't going to step on the gas and get involved in something like that. jeffrey, the question i'm asking. >> let me answer it by analogy. in 2003, when the u.s. invaded iraq, the iranians froze their nuclear program because they thought they were next. 2004 and five they saw america get bogged down in iraq because of terrible planning, among other things, and decided to restart and ...

A necessary imperative. >> president obama last year called for an increase in the minimum wage. this year he's going to do it again. he lets issued an executive order in increasing the wage for federal workers. that affects a small number of people. no current contracts, i understand, just future contracts. is today's executive order just for show? >> no. i think it has an important demonstration effect. i think it is an expression of values. it may affect contracting at some point in the future. but, look, it's not nearly as important as raising the minimum wage would be. raising minimum wag...

From the europe. >> explain that. >> a small economy, 2% of the overall euro zone. the problem is the demonstration effect of greece. if greece leaded euro and converts to drachma, the economy goes into freefall and governments in spain and italy, hopefully in france where you have a new socialist president are going to take a look at what happened. >> it will be ugly. >> it will be ugly when countries leave the euro zone when they try to, sort of float on air and ignore fiscal restraint and it will care them and that's what the rest of the countries need. you know, in italy. you have a trilli...

Secretly wishing a greek exit from the europe. >> explain that. >> a small economy, 2% of the overall euro zone. the problem is the demonstration effect of greece. if greece leaded euro and converts to drachma, the economy goes into freefall and governments in spain and italy, hopefully in france where you have a new socialist president are going to take a look at what happened. >> it will be ugly. >> it will be ugly when countries leave the euro zone when they try to, sort of float on air and ignore fiscal restraint and it will care them and that's what the rest of the countries need. you kno...