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Administration, within the selling of it to congress, within the press discussion of it and i think that we don't know who would be supporting here. we're not comfortable with the rebels. >> john mccain says he does know them, he is comfortable with it and -- no, it's a serious point. the senator went there -- >> he's playing on his ipad and not listening to the joint chief of staff anymore. >> newt, you're laughing. help me out here. the poker aside, senator john mccain knows this situation as well as anybody. he's been on the ground. what is your take on that, newt? >> i think anybody who th...

That an american politician, even one as experienced as john mccain has any deep understanding of the hatred, the rivalries, the clan violence, the religious conflicts that make a place like syria operate is rejecting all the evidence we have over the last 15 years. we occupied and totally dominated iraq. we could not pass fie it. we have blown apart the gaddafi dictatorship. syria is a very complicated country with a lot of people who hate each other, and the idea they have been kept relatively peaceful until two years ago because the assad regime was so consistently brutal, the idea that we'...

Administration, within the selling of it to congress, within the press discussion of it and i think that we don't know who would be supporting here. we're not comfortable with the rebels. >> john mccain says he does know them, he is comfortable with it and -- no, it's a serious point. the senator went there -- >> he's playing on his ipad and not listening to the joint chief of staff anymore. >> newt, you're laughing. help me out here. the poker aside, senator john mccain knows this situation as well as anybody. he's been on the ground. what is your take on that, newt? >> i think anybody who th...