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Bill bottled up. people have the right to know. let me say one other thing on ken's point. he's right. when you look at polls, campaign finance reform doesn't really rate that high. however, when you make the connection between people's paychecks being squeezed and the fact that the special interests are dictating policy and squeezing their paychecks, people understand that's true. they think that the deck is stacked, and then they want campaign finance reform. >> so i didn't realize that -- you mean the courts would not strike down a full disclosure requirement, congressman? if people on the ...

There with that speech. he was absolutely unclear what he wants to do. does he want to attack? does he want congressional approval? does he want to work with putin and get the diment done? there's no rhyme or reason to it. th this is one of the worst moments of his presidency. we have no policy as to syria right now and what he should do is take a step back, take a few day, figure out what he wants to do. he's the leader of the free world. he's the one that should be dictating policy. not being dictated too. >> russia is one of your areas of expertise and familiar with the relations there and ...

Patrick kennedy. he handles the administration, dictating policy, the allocation of security rehe sources and really, you know, the buck does stop with him and as liz was staying they could have gotten there in 90 minutes and help these guys out. and the president got briefed at five o'clock and he was gone. didn't even, wasn't curious about what was happening. >> well, i think it's-- you're in a game of political musical chairs. everybody is worried about cya and-- >> excuse me if i'm the president and hear my ambassador is missing and our consulate is under attack, i want an update every 15 ...

He handles the administration, dictating policy, the allocation of security rehe sources and really, you know, the buck does stop with him and as liz was staying they could have gotten there in 90 minutes and help these guys out. and the president got briefed at five o'clock and he was gone. didn't even, wasn't curious about what was happening. >> well, i think it's-- you're in a game of political musical chairs. everybody is worried about cya and-- >> excuse me if i'm the president and hear my ambassador is missing and our consulate is under attack, i want an update every 15 minutes, what's g...

Pentagon has had too much power in recent decades in dictating policy, that the president should take more control. i think hagel probably is going to bring that idea into the pentagon. he's going to leave these big policy decisions to the president. he'll give advice, but the big questions of when we go to war or how we go to are war won't necessarily be his decisions. >> i've heard this criticism from military guys who say, hey, the balance is out of whack right now. it's a little too -- the military side of the quote/unquote as eisenhower said is stronger than the military side. >> i'm not ...