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European capital. >> see! this is the rosetta stone. this is the magic decoder ring that tells you how washington works right now. say that president obama should do something and then pray that he doesn't actually do it, because if he does actually do it, you're then going to have to come out against the thing that you have been recommending all along. it's a terrible idea. john mccain does this all the time, on all sorts of issues, but on the russia thing, it was so perfect, because it was so specific. throw them out of the g-8. oh, you threw them out of the g-8? well, why'd you have to go a...

You have been recommending all along. it's a terrible idea. john mccain does this all the time, on all sorts of issues, but on the russia thing, it was so perfect, because it was so specific. throw them out of the g-8. oh, you threw them out of the g-8? well, why'd you have to go and throw them out of the g-8 for? that's not going to do anything! it's amazing. john mccain, i would have to make you up if you didn't exist. but now you're going to immedia need that magic decoder ring in order to explain the inexplicable behavior in washington on another day. you may have seen today the release of...

Would you oppose the idea of some form of negotiations or prisoner exchange? i know back in 2012, you called the idea of even negotiating with the taliban bizarre, highly questionable. >> well, at that time, the proposal was that they would release taliban, some really hard-core, particularly five really hard-core taliban leaders, as a confidence building measure. now, this idea is for an exchange of prisoners for our american fighting men. i would be inclined to support such a thing, depending on a lot of the details. >> so if there was some, the possibility of some sort of exchange, that's s...

Would you oppose the idea of some form of negotiations or prisoner exchange? i know back in 2012, you called the idea of even negotiating with the taliban bizarre, highly questionable. >> well, at that time, the proposal was that they would release taliban, some really hard-core, particularly five really hard-core taliban leaders, as a confidence building measure. now, this idea is for an exchange of prisoners for our american fighting men. i would be inclined to support such a thing, depending on a lot of the details. >> so if there was some, the possibility of some sort of exchange, that's s...

And he also threw russia out of the g-8 and got the g-8 together, lobbied all the other countries in it, and in fact they kick russia out of the g-8, and g-8 does become the g-7, which is exactly what john mccain said president obama should do. so step one, john mccain says, president obama should do this. step two, president obama does this. now here's step three. >> so now it's the g-7, right? >> uh, well, g-7, i'm sure that that has reduced vladimir to tears, that he's not going to be able to be in the g-8. take over a part of a country, and you don't get to go to the next meeting in some w...