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>> these are very clearly defensive measures we're taking in response to an increasingly worrying, concerning threat from north korea. china understands that threat. >> joining me now, former montana senator, max baucus, a democrat who served as u.s. ambassador to china under president obama. ambassador, thank you for joining me. let's get right into this threat of north korea and what is going on right now. foreignpolicy.com had a sobering read over the weekend that said, north korea is not testing their missiles and their missile capability, they are practicing it. what sort of threat is nor...

Now some pickings from the political grapevine. the government kept spending money on items you might not consider so essential. the state department awarded the $5 million contract for crystal stem and bar ware. they told foreignpolicy.com said the times was not unusual. they are demanding the va explain its purchase of $562,000 in artwork at the end of fiscal year 2013. the va told us the art does not have anything to do with the end of the spending year and is part of a larger plan to improve the veteran experience. monday a week into the shutdown,

Vietnam. use force to pressure the enemy to negotiate. but the enemy is fighting to win, not to play a negotiating game. the chance that our current efforts in syria will be enough to achieve even our objectives is small. eventually the contradictions in u.s. policy will emerge and the obama administration will face calls from people like john mccain for further escalation. they should resist them. and it's possible that they will. the scholar, daniel dressner argues in his blog on foreignpolicy.com that the new move is simply the next iteration of the unspoken, brutely policy towards syria th...

Fine print of military spending that goes on without anyone noticing. while everyone focuses on cuts to social programs in the sequester, there's a billion bucks getting dropped without a second look. it's a great read. check it out at foreignpolicy.com. and the third awesomest thing on the internet today, bob costas quoting ludacris rapping about bob costas. >> kids, this is just the lyric, and i'm quoting it. i'd be rolling torpedos, get blunted with rastas and for a hefty fee i'm on your record like bob costas. >> if i can manage a long enough career in tv, i am personally hoping for kend...

Fine print of military spending that goes on without anyone noticing. while everyone focuses on cuts to social programs in the sequester, there's a billion bucks getting dropped without a second look. it's a great read. check it out at foreignpolicy.com. and the third awesomest thing on the internet today, bob costas quoting ludacris rapping about bob costas. >> kids, this is just the lyric, and i'm quoting it. i'd be rolling torpedos, get blunted with rastas and for a hefty fee i'm on your record like bob costas. >> if i can manage a long enough career in tv, i am personally hoping for kendri...