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Response to the president like a state of the union rebuttal was diligently reflected by a lot of the press. >> president obama stood firm today on his policies for fighting terror, and closing the prison at guantanamo. and former vice president dick cheney answered with a defensive bush administration policies and new challenges to mr. obama. >> there was lots of coverage like that you might remember. obama said this, dick cheney said that and cable news channels, including this one, studiously ran split screen coverage that day. dick cheney, right now, still lives in a world where he's on pa...

Reform our nation's gun laws and tackle the nra. the executive director from gabby giffords advocacy group will join the panel. coming up next on melissa harris-perry. a closer look at who and what constitutes a real threat when it comes to fighting terror. also a preview of the union vote that could shake up college sports. that is all straight ahead next. oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh...little help? i got you! unh! it's s...

You look at the russians are insistent on protecting russians. and they will take action. as it deteriorated, we should have known what he was going to do. >> so bob, how do you see that? senator dianne feinstein saying the u.s. has got to deploy its resources better in terms of intelligence. do you agree with that? i mean there are those that say that u.s. intelligence capabilities toward russia have sort of atrophied since so much focus is now on fighting terror? >> i saw it myself atrophy as the wall came down in the '90s, we were told to lay off russia, it was an ally. it wasn't a threat. ...

Focus is now on fighting terror? >> i saw it myself atrophy as the wall came down in the '90s, we were told to lay off russia, it was affect threat, we were going to cooperate with the russians. i was in a station overseas, we unplugged the telephone taps and then comes 9/11 and we take all of our intelligence sources and put them in iraq. atrophy is not the word for it it--with putin clearly intended to re-establish the russian empire in some form, i think we're going to look at this at a mistake as this continues. >> wow, a it's really fascinating. i know the cia released a statement saying ...

Russians in the near abroad as it's called. it was perfectly logically act for him to take once the ukraine started to go under. i think that should have been predicted. i think there should have been a heads up to the state department as well as the white house. get somebody to moscow, talk him out of this. i think you can only look at this as a failure. you look at the russians are insistent on protecting russians on their borders and they will take action. so as it deteriorated, we should have known that, what he was going to do. >> so bob, how do you see that, senator dianne feinstein is s...