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Russia to invade ukraine. a lot of people did anticipate isis but not like this. not like this. you're absolutely right. so, there's been a lot of talk in the pentagon about being certain about uncertainty. how do you plan for the constant change that we're in now? there's no cold war face-off. even the russia thing it's not the cold war like it used to be. but we do know there's going to be a lot of terrorism to fight in a humongous region i've been outlining that goes from the edge of india to the edge of turkey into nigeria, boko haram down to the bottom of africa. this is an enormous area....

Through. for a full 2015 national security preview, we turn to the guys at defense one. joining us from washington is kevin barren defense one's executive editor. you have a number of things on your preview here including this ash carter nomination and also sequester cuts that will start impacting the defense budget. what do you think will republicans and democrats deciding whether they're going to sort of continue that spending restraint at the pentagon? >> you know the big word around town is it's got to be over and done with. nobody wants it anymore. the political value of it has just exhau...

A new era of work can be done with ash carter coming in as secretary. >> thank you for saying that. i'm constantly telling josh, politics runs everything. no, it's economics! so in 2015 the presidential race will begin heating up. so how is this going to have an impact on national security? obviously, none of the people running currently have any impact, direct impact on but surely folks in washington and the pentagon must be thinking about we're about to change presidencies not too far in the future. how is that going to affect 2015? >> i think people in the national security community care a...

Kids works real miracles with people with epilepsy. but, you know that's about the same as a lot of other drugs that could applied to that. so these people are taking a real chance but a lot of them feel like it's the best chance they've got. >> colorado is one of 22 states that as legalized marijuana, but the federal -- >> 23 p mel marijuana. you have colorado, washington state, oregon alaska and the d.c. have all theoretically legalized theoretical -- >> but the point is the federal government is not recognizing -- not legalizing. and the challenge for some of these businesses is that banks ...

Presidential sweepstakes gets underway. the president has a program and he wants to follow it through. >> let me ask you, chuck, you say if barack obama has republicans to work with, well, just what happened to the guy we followed in iowa? he either was not telling the truth in iowa when he talked about bringing people together and changing washington's climate, or he was the most naive politician in the history of washington. >> you know, i -- >> what is it? democrats control washington, fights republicans when republicans control washington? >> my conclusion would be this. right now, this pr...