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Economic, humanitarian and intelligence, contingent upon them cooperating with us in this effort. the pakistani nukes get in the hands of the islamists, if tehran gets the nuclear weapon they are trying to build, we are in trouble if we don't have the bases on either side of iran. >> sean: if we are not in trouble, israel will be in trouble first. this concerns me about the rift if you will,, that has existed with our relationship with israel since president obama took office. >> it ought to be clear to everybody, certainly it is clear in jerusalem, to the israelis that they are not going to g...

Issues including one that came up late in the game, they wanted to ease restrictions on mountaintop mining. so kind of a curious thing there. >> you and certainly the president and a lot of democrats have talk about how a shutdown would be so consequential and detrimental to the economic recovery. so my question to you is, why do democrats not support what republicans have offered in the house to continue funding the government for one week so that the sides can continue to negotiate? >> well, the problem is they've introduced all these side issues, so-called legislative riders, that have noth...

Numbers. you can't do it. so why do republicans get distracted by these side issues? that's not where americans live. mike barnicle has said it for the past year and a half. it's jobs, jobs, jobs and i agree with chuck. any time they get off of that, they should be sued for political malpractice. >> the door is open for them. thanks, chuck. we'll see you later. >> thank you. >> still ahead, overnight breaking news, a massive attack in iraq as u.s. troops begin to pull out. the very latest after the break. also, oscar winner michael douglas makes a stunning announcement about his own health. we...

More clarity on the issue? does that give them a little more, where if they're not in washington, they're not as hypersectionive to all the criticism? or are they getting all these frantic phone calls from camps around the country? look, i guess this does have the feel of something, are we really going to be just talking about it in september and october? and by the way, if we are, isn't that bad news for republicans, because we're not talking about the economy? >> yeah. >> if the republicans are talking about any other issue other than the economy they ought to be sued for malpractice. >> you...

Are more interested in their own lives and the future of the country than they are in these side issues. but these kinds of things tend to follow the clinton and they're very practiced at dealing with them. i'm sure as karen suggests, they know how to deal with this. >> sam isn't there sort of a danger in being too practiced or polished in this particular moment? >> yes and no. i think it's easy to deflect when you're capable of deflecting. the danger that i can see is that an information void will exist about where secretary clinton comes down on some critical positions. for instance the keys...