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He went after u.s.-backed cia trained, cia armed anti-assad forces. in other words, kind of a proxy attack against the united states. how would you handle that as president? >> well, the only thing i have a problem with is that the rebels, we don't know who they are, sean. we really don't. i was talking to a general last week about that and they have no idea who these people are, where they come from. they might isis for all we know. you have assad who is the bad guy, but sometimes the bad guy is better than the people we're going to put in. you have to look at what happened in libya and what ...

He didn't attack isis. he went after u.s.-backed cia trained, cia armed anti-assad forces. in other words, kind of a proxy attack against the united states. how would you handle that as president? >> well, the only thing i have a problem with is that the rebels, we don't know who they are, sean. we really don't. i was talking to a general last week about that and they have no idea who these people are, where they come from. they might isis for all we know. you have assad who is the bad guy, but sometimes the bad guy is better than the people we're going to put in. you have to look at what happ...

Either because the media are protecting the administration, protecting hillary clinton because, obviously, a lot of people see this as a proxy attack on somebody who could run in 2016. is there something to that criticism? >> i think the focus on hillary clinton was a bit delayed. a lot of news organizations didn't realize or didn't report that this really could be an issue for her going forward and, of course, in 2016, in the political context. >> one person who has been singled out by the right are doing aggressive reporting is cheryl acanson who has tweeted a number of things on how the adm...

Those citations were very serious. i mean we're talking about having the cover of agents involved in covert operations in other countries blown. we're talking about secret meetings that were held with former vice president and no one could gather any data. there were a series, in those six executive privilege assertions by president bush, there was no protestations by chairman issa, by any of the other republicans who were now so focused on challenging this attorney general and being so aggressive. i mean no one in their right mind could have watched those hearings and not come to the conclusi...

He didn't attack isis. he went after u.s.-backed cia trained, cia armed anti-assad forces. in other words, kind of a proxy attack against the united states. how would you handle that as president? >> well, the only thing i have a problem with is that the rebels, we don't know who they are, sean. we really don't. i was talking to a general last week about that and they have no idea who these people are, where they come from. they might isis for all we know. you have assad who is the bad guy, but sometimes the bad guy is better than the people we're going to put in. you have to look at what happ...