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We move away from the committee circus which it seems it has become now between darrell issa and elijah couplcouple -- cummi and we take away the opportunity for the -- which are definitely part of their tactics. >> but doesn't the congress of the united states have subpoena power? i mean, why can't congress, which is controlled by republicans force the answer from lois learner? i'm confused. >> i think that's the question you have to ask the speaker because i can guarantee you if this was a republican administration, it was speaker nancy pelosi, she would have all the tools in the kit bag and...

He is very calculating. why did he even use these chemical weapons? the fact of the matter is they were used in an eastern suburb of damascus called guta. in guta they have made advancements successfully. assad tried to dislodge them using artillery, mortars, rockets and air power, unsuccessfulful. unsuccessful. they just received a shipment of weapons, not from us, but jordan. this is a military target he sees of military value. we attack him. what course of action does he have? i don't think he would do anything immediately because he does president want another reattack by the united states...

Obama, one clearly now has the upper hand in terms of leverage and negotiation. >> yeah, completely. and president obama went into this with all of the leverage. and now he's just gotten more. look, at the end of the day, the republican party, this is what they rejected. they could not abide the idea of raising taxes only on millionaires. this was set up by their own speaker. john boehner set this deal up that you would only raise taxes on millionaires. they can't even do that. that's why the poll shows that people think the party is too extreme. you know what else is with this bill? there is ...

Sometimes they don't. what we did though in our rush to show how righteous we are during this process was we took them completely off the table. we removed the element of surprise from the kit bag. whether you use them or not, you don't tell the enemy what you can and can't do. what we did --. jenna: what is the damage for that? >> the damage is, going forward and going forward for quite some time ever since the obama administration said all we could do with what is army field manual, i couldn't break my teenage daughter with the army field manual. you advise those in the future who work again...

To open for inspection. i mean, what remains in the kit bag still is we could impose crippling sanctions on the iranians. i mean, not -- >> jon: haven't we done that? >> -- protocol -- no. i'm talking about crushing the central bank and the other banking systems, seizing all their foreign assets, literally stopping all of the international community with the exceptions of some of their allies from trading with them, shutting down the support for their refining operation. and also, quite frankly, using covert operations, cyber attacks, against limited economic and military targets and espionage...