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Pr your perspective, what does the president need to do today? michelle kosinski put it well today. it s almost trying to balance in his speech almost seems like mission impossible. he s gotten criticism over the last few months. the idea that he has looked weak, lacked credibility on the world stage. on that point, peter, how does he push back on that on even if it is just perception, perception at some point seems to become real lity when it com to this. look at ukraine where a lot of criticism is focused in recent weeks. we have a legitimate election in ukraine. the russians seem to be moving troops away from the border. the let of russian invasion has receded. the russians accept this new leader. we have a better prospect than we ve had in months. i think american sanctions and leadership deserve credit for that. two sides of the coin. republicans say that economic sanctions while they ve been tough against vladimir putin has done little to stop the violence ....
Republicans. and he described the president s position as kind of like mission impossible. he faces a public but sometimes clamors for more, that doesn t like his foreign policy which he felt in somes cases was justified where rhetoric doesn t always meet action. but it s always a public that is risk averse. he says the president just needs to say what he means and mean what he says. kate? looking for that balance, almost an impossible task. we ll see you later this morning. michelle, thank you very much. coming up later on in the show we re going to talk more about the president s foreign policy speech and hear directly from the secretary of state john kerry. breaking overnight. president obama trying to keep hope alive on comprehensive immigration reform ordering homeland security chief jay johnson to delay releasing a review of deportation policies until the end of the summer. why? well, the administration is seeing a narrow window in june/july where congress could act before ....
we re only talking right now the president s approach for foreign policy towards afghanistan. it will be interesting. everyone is looking forward to hearing his approach, how it may change towards syria and also the extending growing threats from places in the middle east and even reaching into africa. a lot of eyes will be on this speech this morning. got to at the time your guys take on bit waiting in politics in a different way but i found it interesting. michelle obama really taking to it republicans wading into politics in a way she hasn t before on the issue of school lunch. paul, why is she taking them snon. we sh says she s reacting to this as a mom, as well as a first lady. of course, she has made nutrition and healthy kids the focal point of her service as our first lady and what s going on is there are in part because of the first lady, tough new, wonderful new, healthy new nutritional standards in the school lunch program. now a congressman from alabama has said he w ....
Walk them or scale them back and, of course, alabama, great state. i love alabama. the second highest obesity rate in america. the motion of one of obama s congressman is trying to slow walk the first lady s of for thes in obesity is offensive. so good for her. i love her this isn t about republicans. paul is quick to out rage. this is about local school nutritionalists, regulations, surprise, sure prus. ....
Billion a year. we only sent $6.4 billion on head start for our own at risk preschoolers in america. it s going to be a tough sell after 12 1/2 years of war to say cia, yeah it s over, but i want another $20 billion and 10,000 troops. kevin, does he have a point? the president made that similar case when he made the speech in manila. the president said you hit singles, you hit doubles, sometimes you hit a home run. why is it that everyone is so eager to use military force? he s talking to republicans. why republicans always so quick to criticize and so ready to put more troops in? republicans want to see this president layout a vision for afghanistan that is consistent with a larger foreign policy objective. that s one of the criticisms that you saw from folks like kelly and senator mccain yesterday that this drawdown is because of a political calendar versus it being part of a larger national security policy. so i think that s something that ....