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A message that goes to, as he just said, all of these other countries, north korea, iran, look, the years of pacifist city are overpaid we are going to look out for our interests and drop bombs if that is what is in our best interests. >> that is one of the things about washington. they are so firm, charles, you said this and know you're doing this. the presidents evolve. they have classified briefings. they have advisors. and everything is not political. sometimes it comes after advisors are advising. >> that is so, but the strike on syria was not something that is a tweak or a slight deviati...

A message that goes to, as he just said, all of these other countries, north korea, iran, look, the years of pacifist city are overpaid we are going to look out for our interests and drop bombs if that is what is in our best interests. >> that is one of the things about washington. they are so firm, charles, you said this and know you're doing this. the presidents evolve. they have classified briefings. they have advisors. and everything is not political. sometimes it comes after advisors are advising. >> that is so, but the strike on syria was not something that is a tweak or a slight deviati...

President. he said had i run, i would be running to cure cancer. and now this will be a new national initiative to do that with the vice president at the helm. joining us now chris murphy, democrat from connecticut, one of the people we could see responding to the president's speech. thank you very much for being with us tonight. what's your overall take on the speech tonight and having been there in the room? >> i thought it was an exceptional finish. essentially, i think it was the president handing over his administration to the people and asking them to elevate this question of partisanshi...

Garner the support of our european allies and the traditional arab states. >> there will have to be a significant american engagement. that's why we should work with our allies. i also believe we need to increase the number of special operators. we'll have to conduct an increased number of special operations attacks targeting isis leadership and revealing they are not invincible. >> ben, we were just talking earlier in the week about the last republican debate, particularly the foreign policy section and note that the two people leading the field, ben carson and donald trump have zero experien...

To destroy their caliphate. and you look for the easiest place to do that. it would be in iraq. and if outside of anbar in iraq, there's a big energy field. take that from them. take all of that land from them. we could do that, i believe, fairly easily, i've learned from talking to several generals. and then you move on from there. >> joining me now, senator chris murphy, democrat of connecticut. senator, you're tweeting along with the debate last night. getting you a little riled up. what was your general reaction to the foreign policy section of that debate? >> i had the misfortune for tuni...