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Are. the president would say nation building at home more than in places like afghanistan and iraq. and then i think some of the merits, whether it's russia or the others, we need to work with them on some of these issues, like it or not. we have to work with them on places like iran. we can't do it all by ourselves. it's not clear to me either in the foreign policy case or the political case how there's that much space here for republican challenger to come at it in that way. >> there's a tradition in american politics you blast the sitting president's foreign policy, or at least the administ...

I have talked to republicans who were concerned about mitt romney's tack right now because in all actuality, just like the missile gap in 1960, there's not a lot of space between barack obama and mitt romney's position on iran. >> i think you would be a better candidate. i have been saying that for months and i'm dead serious about it. chafs exceptional about what you just said. i really do appreciate working with this guy. he's a smart guy. this guy. have you seen the movie yet, joe? >> i saw it last night. i was joking this morning that we got a bootleg from canal street. it is an incredible...

About a missile gap that wasn't there. there wasn't space between nixon and kennedy on the missile issues. it's the same thing in 2012. there's really no space between what mitt romney has said he wants president obama to do and president obama is actually doi doing. what mitt romney is depending on right now, relying on, and i think it's a very dangerous thing for him to do given the state of international relations in the the middle east right now in this particular moment with iran. but he's going back to some preconceptions that some americans and conservatives had based on what president ...

The top five. the top five presidential decisions that shaped our country, when you think maybe a president doesn't make consequential decisions. >> kennedy decides to go to the moon. we were losing the cold war and missile gap and wanted 0 to rebrand. at the time 30 billion dollars and a lot of money and people called it a moon-doggle. we got there before 1970 and it worked, his lasting legacy, the moon. >> you said people called it a moon-doggle by the critics. now, number four on the list, harry truman in dropping the atomic bomb. >> it's considered one of the biggest decisions in the presi...

We've looked almost from the beginning. we've been worried we were falling behind, losing our edge, lost the magic and yet we keep going and going. i point out in my piece in my whole life i've been hearing how, you know, we were behind the host union. we had a missile gap. the country was falling apart in the 60s. stagflation in the 70s. crisis of confidence. loss of family values. one darned thing after another. and yet we are stronger now than we've ever been. >> is it this type of dig that we need, this blatant look in the mirror that spurs measuring to be the best times where we are criti...