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And at the moment when like i said we are approaching the general election they have turned to the democratic processes of india any democratic sovereign state has the right to respond to what is clearly a warlike posture and i hope the global community can bear down heavily on islamabad and i hope delhi can find somebody to reverse struck otherwise i suspect this is going to hold necessary and you said you don't want the munich security conference to become a waste of time what needs to happen there in those halls this weekend to resolve the situation. exactly this i think the global communit...

Term, bff, or a valentine's day hangover? >> i think it's a technical term between -- well, i'm not going to go there with trump's personal life. >> i wasn't asking you to go there. i was just trying to know. military, they use a lot of acronyms. bff can be in there as well. let me play for you, again, participate of our job is to take things seriously even if people in power don't. so folks who watch the show know we try to just deal with the evidence. i'm not here to make a lot of judgment calls about how donald trump talks and all that kind of stuff. but let me play for you something that i...

About it in dramatic terms because so much of what we're seeing we've never seen before, but in moments like these words fail us. i want to read -- i'm just getting into andrew roberts' "churchi "churchill" which i have a feeling i've just blown -- blown the surprise for about five of my relatives who probably bought all of -- bought this for me for christmas. sorry, i already have it. but he has a quote of churchill up front, study history. study history. in history lie all the secrets of state craft, and that was from a 27th, 1953. this is a man who saved civilization in the summer of 1940, ...

This, a stable world order is a rare thing. it requires a stable distribution of power and is broad acceptance of the rules that govern the conduct of international relations. it also needs skillful state craft since an order is made, not born. eventually, with inevitably, even the best managed order comes to an end. deterioration of a world order can set in motion trends that spell catastrophe. world war i broke out some 60 years after the concert of europe had broken down in crimea. what we're seeing today resembles the mid 19th century in important ways. the post world war ii post cold worl...

They can fight for themselves. >> but the administration says they're going to buy these weapons from other people if not us. >> yeah, look, i'm a big supporter of arm sales. but arm sales aren't a gift we give to other people, it is a transaction. now, i'd call the bluff on that. i would advise the president he shouldn't feel -- they don't want chinese and russian stuff. it's not as good as ours. it won't mix well with our stuff. it will endanger support in the united states for the things they already have. they're not going to go anywhere else with their arm sales. now, again, i support the...