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Would support that. but the proposals i have seen so far, and i haven't fully read the toomey/manchin compromise but all the proposals do not reach that. we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in our society. violence in our society is the problem. >> i want to ask you about north korea can as the administration waits for a potential missile launch from kim jong-un. how do you think the admission has handled it? how do you defuse this crisis? >> i don't have much qualms with the way they've handled it, to be quite frank. i think they've taken the right s...

Implications of his budget plan are, 20% cuts for education and research and development and manufacturing, all areas where we're investing and we believe that that will create good paying jobs for the middle class. >> ben, fair enough, the -- it's worth noting, though, two thing. one is the latest quinnipiac poll shows, the president having strong leadership qualities 67% to 54%. i have to bring up the libya question. that would seem to play directly to this. the white house has had quite a mess on its hands in terms of the back and forth over what happened around the assassination of embassy...

Action. shortly in response to the events overseas in the past week, we've seen the president ensure that our diplomatic boosts and american personnel in the region are secure, reached out to international leaders to ensure that they were condemning the violence that they saw in the regions and meeting their security obligations to our embassies. again, i think you've seen that the president's been steady and governor romney is somebody who weighed in as the situation was developing, without a full set of facts and he's been roundly criticized for that. >> ben la bolt from the obama campaign h...

We have to act in our national security, what protects american people. the first responsibilities to keep them safe. but the fact is we can't afford this war endlessly unpaid for. in addition to the other security obligations. at some point there is going to have to be a moment where we say can we do this better another way or are we getting results? it's controversial. >> you think we are capable of having a robust debate without it being party line and partisan? >> i think so. i certainly hope so. it is about our national security. that's our responsibility to the american people. the issue...

More on defense or else. president trump has written letters to germany, belgium, norway and canada, taking them to task for spending too little on their own defense and warning the united states is losing patience with their failure to meet security obligations. as hans said, there's nothing wrong with encouraging them to spend more. but diplomacy is usually about talking to your friends in private and harassing your adversaries in public. president trump has it inverted. he harasses our friends in public and cozies up to our adversaries privately without -- like when he met with kim jong-un,...