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Politics is binary. people win and lose elections. legislation passes or doesn't pass. foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and trying to prevent something worse from happening. it doesn't translate well into a political environment many times. >> i mean, howard, is the other issue that there is no way to sort of have a kind of big moment that the american people can grasp as sort of definitive, right, the way the killing of osama bin laden was definitive, a win. you have a country that most americans don't know much about. you have a country, ukraine, in the sphere of influence of...

And at the same time, we see putin has some choices ahead of them, whether he sort of stops where he is now, or whether he impose into other eastern parts of ukraine. and so, i think these sanctions were designed, even even if t g oligarchs are laughing in moscow, to get tighter if putin goes farther. it's a tremendous balancing act. this is the problem with foreign policy. you know, they're talking about foreign policy in a political context. politics is binary. people win and lose elections. legislation passes or doesn't pass. foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and trying to pr...

On whether or not she will sign the bill. sb 1062 as it's known would clearly and for the first time in arizona spell out that a business may discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. interestingly, the question now about that bill seems to be less about will she or won't she sign it and more about why hasn't she decided yet? because momentum seems to be on the side of the bill's critics who are actually kind of bipartisan on this one. secretary of state john kerry told my colleague andrea mitchell that he hopes it doesn't pass. republicans, including mitt romney and the state's two sen...

Republicans are concerned, not only about where to find the savings, but also that democrats are leading them down a road so if it doesn't pass, it can be used politically going forward and taking, you know, attention away from the issues that republicans want to hammer home, like obamacare and that kind of thing. i think on the other side, though, democrats and the white house are saying we're going to keep hitting on this because it's so important, not just to the long-term unemployed, but to the overall economy. the president's saying, hey, we have some momentum on the economy, not enough. ...

Fall just short but a number of republicans says, let's continue the conversation. we want to do this, but we want to find a way to pay for it. today's the opening chapter of what is going to be a yearlong debate. it's a good start to the election year. >> and you talk about the year-long debate. this does seem to be setting the agenda as democrats will be making this a central issue. do democrats seem to think this is a win-win on this vote? let's be honest, then they think they can blame republicans if it doesn't pass. >> on another part, this is a debate worth having, especially if the econ...