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And say, but hold on a second, you supported this. >> you supported this. mrs. clinton. by 2008, by the time the full scale of the iraq war disaster was clear, a central part of the argument that year for who ought to be the next president of the united states was about who had good judgment about that war. who had been smart enough and far sided enough to know that war was a bad idea. had hillary clinton in the senate voted against that war instead of voting for that war, while barack obama then a state senator was out in the street giving speeches against it at the same time, had she voted n...

Want and there, of course, is the advice and consent of the senate, and that's an important part of the process. i think that's why these hearings are going to be quite illuminating. i think you will see some changes from senator hagel based on some of the past statements that he has made. he has had some policy prescriptions that haven't worked out right, and i think many of these senators are going to explore those, and as part of trying to find the right foreign policy platform for the country, that's all going to be part of that debate. >> kevin madden, it's great to see you again. thank y...

President for most of it. is governor romney trying to have it both ways when it comes to his foreign policy platform or is he just being strategic in how he was handling last night's debate? >> well, i don't think there's any doubt that you go in to a debate with a strategy and in a debate on foreign policy, there's no doubt that the incumbent, the commander in chief has the upper hand. i think governor romney worked that strategy last night. i think his purpose which he achieved was to make people believe that he was a credible alternative as a commander in chief. i think he wanted to look p...

The race so long that michelle bachmann wasn't chased out, it says that we all feel we're just saddled with this and when a bath mat should have been able to beat obama based on the polls and romney is looking like it's not it, i would be panicked more than just at the beginning of every month. i would never stop wearing depe depends. >> dave wood, beyond the strategy and the seeming lack thereof, the other thing i thought romney's comments betrayed were a really naive understanding of the arab world and also an incredibly vague foreign policy platform. rich whimson, romney's senior adviser on...

Sharp contrast to the man that many believe he will be debating in the fall. senator marco rubio, whose own foreign policy speech turned farce when the poor man lost his notes. >> more people are free to grow their economies, free to pursue their dreams, free to become prosperous. i left my last page of the speech. does anybody have my last page? did i leave it with you? >> no worries. at least senator rubio does try to offer specifics while romney repeatly sums up his foreign policy platform in this way. >> he went around the world apologizing for america. he held out his hand and they put up...