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You don't whknow what his motivations are and that's beyond the pale. >> peter, hold on. i understand, but there are other people on the panel. quickly, go ahead. >> the peace process makes it much harder for the palestinians to come back and negotiate when they think they can get a stay through the u.n. >> first of all, with all due respect, you're both wrong. this is not unprecedented. the bush administration, at the very end of george w. bush's term, abstained from a u.n. resolution on benghazi. the reagan administration supported a u.n. resolution criticizing israel when it attacked in ira...

Perhaps, barring muslims that would help their recruitment. and, you know, in germany just, what, two months ago, you had an incident where the german authorities were desperately searching for a terrorist, and it was other syrian refugees who found that person, called the police, the police couldn't understand their broken german, so they took a picture -- they tied him up and took a picture and walked him down to the police station and showed him who they had in their apartment. so the risks are real but the potential allies in dealing with terrorists are also some of these same folks who it...

Declare big government's war on poverty a failure? >> michael tomasky in the daily beast said rubio is just plain wrong. it's high time to say the war on poverty was a success, a wild success by nearly every meaningful measure. but no one thinks so, and a big part of the reason is that most democrats are afraid to say so. they damn well better start if we really are going to be raising the minimum wage and tackling inequality, someone needs to be willing to say to the american people that these kinds of approaches get results. cynthia tucker is a visiting professor at the university of georgia...

Declare big government's war on poverty a failure? >> michael tomasky in the daily beast said rubio is just plain wrong. it's high time to say the war on poverty was a success, a wild success by nearly every meaningful measure. but no one thinks so, and a big part of the reason is that most democrats are afraid to say so. they damn well better start if we really are going to be raising the minimum wage and tackling inequality, someone needs to be willing to say to the american people that these kinds of approaches get results. cynthia tucker is a visiting professor at the university of georgia...

We need much better medical care. you know, we gave the elderly as peter said social security and medicare. but we're still struggling to help the working class get good health care. so, yes, the economy has changed. and we need a stronger social safety net. >> very quickly, peter, you wrote recently about john edwards, interestingly, being ahead of his time on this issue. who picks up that mantle going forward in your estimation? >> well, bill de blasio has picked it up in new york, proposing universal child care, preschool care which a lot of studies show can really boost the chances for poo...