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Abandoned airfield in order to demonstrate resolve and credibility which are amorphous concepts. >> joy, it's interesting to watch the obama world folks here because one of the things that i'm seeing is the degree to which the president stood apart from a lot of people around him. >> yeah. >> because a lot of the people around him are out there praising this and if you recognize the degree to which the impulses of the foreign policy establishment were tugging on him in certain ways that he was quite intentionally pushing against. >> yeah. it is very difficult for any president of the united st...

Military strike, whether it's to punish someone like bashar al assad, to change their behavior, to send a message, to show the resolve and strength of the united states. >> sometimes it's self-justification of credibility. >> sure. >> you've said you've done it so now you must. >> the one thing that is true and the military will tell you is absolutely true, you cannot undo or prevent the behavior of killing your own civilians with a strike like this? because, number one, it didn't even take out the air force that did the strikes. it didn't take out the chemical munitions. all it did was to sen...

Campaign's stop strategist. he's the late nest a long line of apologists including the candidate himself that try to explain the loss that come close to insulting the electoral. joining us is bob shrum and matt miller. welcome to you both. matt, first it was mitt romney who accused the president of bribing the electorate with free stuff. that was very effective. now we have mr. stevens, another olympic gymnast of self-justification who comes out and his big silver lining is mr. romney only lost among vote whose make less than $50,000 a year. is the painful truth too hard for these men to bear?...

Wife. and it's not your job to tell david petraeus' wife. >> we've seen this time and again in washington and elsewhere. you know, these investigations take on a life of their own, they become exercises in self-justification and you don't want to -- it's very hard on a human level to say, oh, well, forget because people get invested in this. who was the responsible -- there was some moment where that decision either was made, which seems unclear to me, and then this leaks anyway. or it wasn't. and so -- where was that? and when it involves these people do you not go to the attorney general? >>...

Well, you mentioned to me the two emblemattic moments of breitbart's journalistic career, one a high point, the other a low point. the clip at the news conference, this classic breitbart moment, hijacking the occasion, he said he came to be vindicated on that story. he was vindicated. his site drove that story, the exposure of congressman weiner, but you can see all the characteristic elements of breitbart's personality in that clip. the sort of -- the boasting -- >> scrappy. >> the self-justification, the self-congratulation, the self-promotion. they're all right there, and they give your vie...