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Korea. china really has to think pretty hard. does it want him acting in a way that, a, builds the american military presence in the area, something the chinese don't want to see, and b, runs the risk of provoking a conflict which could threaten the existence of north korea, produce millions of refugees into china, due to the last thing that china wants. at some point, china has to decide do they use their leverage on this new leader king jong unor not. it seems to me that it's profoundly in their interest if they don't do it, they're increasingly going to see their own interests put at risk. ...

About. it's a hot war where we have 66,000 troops over there right now. not just there weren't a lot of questions about it, but when he was asked about it, chuck hagel, he said, i don't have enough information right now to make an informed decision about what the ideal number of troops would be to leave there for the next year or after 2014. i thought that was a little strange that a, it didn't come up, and b, he didn't have a clear view of what we should do going forward in afghanistan. i don't know whether that's him being uninformed, unprepared or if he was just being protective and not giv...

Joining me now is jared bernstein from budget and policy priority. great blogger. former chief economist for vice president joe biden. good to see you. thank you for being here on a friday. >> can't think after better way to start my weekend than talking fiscal cliff to you. >> means a lot to me. >> i know. >> the daily beast said obama just got re-elected. it is a classic time for magnonimity. which i think i just mispronounced. do you think obama has a hard line at the wrong time? >>. if sullivan means that obama should negotiate with himself, which you point out, hasn't worked for him befor...

Than the rest of the world. megyn: we were on this brad cast friday and we saw the documents james rosen just got, and they had a lot of news worthy information in them, but that doesn't mean you endanger our libyan friends helping us in this effort. would you like to have a redo on that? >> we went through every one of those pages. i did it myself. there were others involved in it. megyn: why wouldn't you have blacked out of the names. >> these are unclassified cables. there are things in there that are redacted and things that were not released. megyn: how did you make the decision i'm going...

The message, this is the romney campaign position. and they knew, didn't they, that this was going to be tough for republicans to hear? >> well, sure. and they're in basically an impossible situation there. because if they don't say that, they are saying that mitt romney imposed the exact same tax on massachusetts that barack obama supposedly imposed on the country. you know, i have heard the theory proposed, that the 2012 election is the 2004 election in reverse. this time the democrat is in the white house, the republicans have the flip-flopping rich guy from massachusetts as their nominee. ...