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Response will be. the president has chosen something to send a message to the assad regime saying we have your number here and you better stop what you are doing or you will lose everything. the problem is, you can't take away everything from assad because of a power vacum. and you can't afford that. the president has to act tactically and strategically to give him a smack up side the head and make sure he doesn't send it crumbling in to the abyss. the president had a strong message with russia and iran saying you should not stand with the murderous dictator anymore. the president described th...

Raised there. if we pull outside are are we creating a power vacum where more terrorist groups can get in and plot against the united states. what do you think about these reports that we could slow the withdrawal that we put in place in afghanistan. and what difference does that make? >> it makes a huge difference. they are conducting counter terror operations and it is a special operations fight. and with a new president, that is in place, relationships between the afghanistan and united states are going to improve. and i think that everybody is starting to see such a quick withdrawal that i...

This begs the question of what happened to gaddafi and the power vacum that came in to place. >> this is one of the reasons that he became so popular. he spent years under the gaddafi after the ref lugz and they respected him. and people came to him for mediation service and in the power vacum that was created. people like him became powerful. >> he said he played no role in the attack and he was on the scene after the attack got under way and he went in to the compound to rescue libyan personnel. is this a way to discredit that? >> it is difficult for him to come up and say what he did.

We want to see it proon pronto. >> that is america's weakness physically the u.s. is behaving in a way that shoes the world we are in decloin and withdrawal. we have a leadership vacum created in the world and it is filled by the puttins of the world. >> that was former secretary of state donald rums feld warning of a power vacum. there are signs of a large scale invasion in ukraine despite warnings from president obama. kristin is a state department advisor and author of smart power. thank you for being here. you just heard donald rums feld say that president obama's policies are creating a p...

Will need russia to make it happen. and jay carney's comments. >> it is not only the un but what is happening in un and washington and russia. there is a reversal in the super power state. within 48 hours. the united states went to being the pour in the middle east and the one country that is no longer essential. it turns that leading from behin has consequences. the russians pilled the power vacum and this is what they have done. >> president obama drew the box and president obama tried to talk to congress and the american people are against it and the russians knew it and offered hymn a life...