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Great job. she's been incredibly deft at are he positioning the u.s. in a mul multipolar world where we have relatively less economic power. she's managed through digital state craft, through smafert uses of technology to project a soft power and it's been a great credit to our country and i think it's going to be a real tough thing to put in a bad light. >> you know, and, steve, i don't know about your politics on this, i think i'm a little to her left on a lot of thers foreign policy issues like iraq and the middle east. she's positioned herself just where you want to be, a notch or two to t...

Because it's upsetting. >> of course. >> it's completely wrong. it's 11 years later. >> of course we can talk about it and learn from it, but it should be done in a fair way. not in a way where i haven't read your book, thank god, and i don't intend to, but just looking at the jacket of the quotes in the back, these are selectively taken for a specific purpose of making the bush administration look bad. this is not about history. i don't mind history. >> here's the first page or the second page. i'm not going to find it here, but what you've got is -- hold on. bush's down home veneer disguised...

Economically around the world. >> it's interesting, we are focused, the first time the state department has done what secretary clinton has been talking about economic state craft. we talk about it as the place we do peace and prosperity and this is the prosperity piece of our agenda, we have invited over 120 countries that are here, representing all sorts of business interests here, and doing what we can to support job creation, it's about americans getting americans back to work. as president obama spoke about if importance of doubling our exports, we are focused here on the state department...

The u.s.'s job to do it. >> but, you know, i would like to have a shoutout for the will sewn yans and humanitarians. it's actually not such a dreadful time. in fact, the trend is our friend in the middle east. i think what we're seeing is it's incredibly positive. i think it's naive of us to think you have an arab spring and they it turn into switzerland. but the trendline is positive. we're seeing horrible regimes being topple d. we're seeing the syrian people, how brave are they? they have been oppressed and wiped out. >> state craft is not moral empathy. sometimes america has to deal with. ...

to his day job. he would have to make a choice to fill up the gas tank to get to work or do i give up my entrepreneurial dream. $40, he wrote, means a heck of a lot. it means a heck of a lot. that's what this debate is all about. this is what's at stake for millions of americans. this is why it matters to people. it matters a heck of a lot. i'm asking the american people to keep their stories coming. tell us what $40 means to you. if you tweet it, use the hash tag $40. call, tweet, write your congressman, write your senators. tell them, do not let up until this thing gets done. don't...