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Latest piece on america the fixable. he is the chair of common good offering americans a new way 0 look at law and government. philip, i guess i want to start with this. it's an interesting piece. the theme seems to be you want activist judges. tell me what you mean by that. >> well, judges shouldn't act as legislators but they have to assert norms of reasonableness as a platter of law. otherwise, people can sue for anything. lawsuits become suits for anything rather than lawsuits. we need the law part and that requires judges to assert that maybe you've got a claim for a broken leg but not fo...

Enforcement of this resolution just as they were instrumental in pursuing it. we are coordinating closely with them. and this is precisely how the international community should work. welcome back to "morning joe." joining us now from washington, former national security adviser for president carter, dr. zbigniew brzezinski. hi, dad. good to have you back on the show. last time we talked you said the president shouldn't act alone in libya, it should be collective action. they're not calling it war. >> well, it really isn't war. it's something in between war and military intervention to stop ...

Uncertainties. in the end i concluded if we didn't act it would be worse. two things would be terrible. first, the mass slaughter of the people in benghazi and the symbolic significance of that in the middle east. and secondly, who would stand tall in the middle east? gadhafi. the person who blew up an american airliner incidentally. he would be the top arab political leader in the middle east. what will be the consequences of that for the middle east and for us? so in the end, i concluded that we had to act. although i have some misgivings about the way it's being handled right now. >> the qu...

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The president can't operate by polls. >> correct. >> is this president operating by polls? >> i don't think there is any question that he's responding to polls and responding to people within his own party. he is responding to manchin, carl levin. responding to libertarians like rand paul who oppose it. she not listening to john kerry, he is not listening to john mccain. they are hard line and they want him to go and go now. >> the time he should have been listening is before he made the announcement we have to act. before kerry said in front of the world the word of america is at stake. befor...