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Defense department was bloated adding quote the pentagon needs to be paired down. i don't think our military has looked at themselves strategically, critically in a long, long time. >> there's no reason why a secretary of defense should go into office thinking can't change anything can't cut anything. >> he has gone from being a war model fight it would go wars to a one-and a half war strategy under president obama given cuts over recent years. >> what everybody forgets is if we suddenly have a crisis in the gulf with iran, if we suddenly face a nuclear issue which forces us to deal with preve...

And the strategy we are implementing. when i was chairman, we saw the end of the soviet union, completely different change in our strategic positioning. and we eliminated 1 million troops and cut the budget 25%. that's not the case now. but there's no reason why a secretary of defense should go into office thinking can't change anything, can't cut anything. you know, the people who say that, oh, that's terrible, he is going to try to find things to cut in the department are the same people saying we have got to cut spending, we have got to cut spending. everything has to be looked at, entitlem...

So far as barack obama went into this office thinking that it was about giving great speeches and moving the public to give him the political support he could 40s other side to cave in and that's not how washington works. john boehner has a strong hand. bill: kirsten powers. up late last night. i don't know if you slept or not, but that's okay. >> a little. bill: on the issue of the relationship of these two men and whether they are willing to go back to this grand bargain, how do you reflect on that now as this soaks in? >> i guess looking at what john boehner has said, look at the interview ...

with diabetes. but the impact his life had on music. >> reading the obituaries what strikes me is that this guy was important not just in the music business, but in the culture. he desegmeregated that show. he was the first show to have black teenagers appear on it. he said the only time he got swe sweaty palms in an interview was when he interviewed a black american youth. >> he talks about that integration, you don't get the sense that this was a big planned out, plotted out strategy. >> no. >> it was just one of those thing that is -- >> no. >> joe levy is with us this morning. it...

The president's greatest area of success. that's obvious because there's been no progress towards a peace treaty. but as our book shows, i think, explains in a chapter, president obama probably made some substantial mistakes in handling this diplomacy. this doesn't mean a perfect american approach would have produced middle east peace. but this may be the area we are most critical of president obama in what's otherwise a reasonably supportive book. so i do think president obama went into office thinking if he told israel, the settlement policy is not acceptable. if he was firm on that, he woul...