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Buckner. >> right. >> i'm sure you know and understand you shouldn't be spitting out of your window and out of your slot to begin with. so if spitting out of your slot there's a good chance it will hit somebody to walk by. it's not incumbent upon us to not do our duties because you're choosing to spit. >> so i have 15 day, right? >> you have 15 days. >> that's the bottom line. >> you keep talking about wanting to point out that your behavior has changed and this and that and you want to point to that as reasons for getting your sanctions back getting more privileges and things like that you ca...

Nature and good humor. they will be doing a detailed investigation and issuing subpoenas and looking at a lot of e-mails and the texts. this has to be peeled back. we don't know all the details. in terms of the temperament issue though, the point is even though chris christie said he knew nothing about this, people in his office were doing this because they thought it would make him happy. when you work for a governor ors ennor or president, you don't like to bring them bad news ump like to do things that please them. >> that didn't work. >> there is an environment in which they thought this w...

President of the united states. that's very telling. and, again, this temperament issue is very important when people look at a presidential candidate because they want to see you as something larger, bigger, better than most of us. and when you're seen as part of petty politics, it doesn't work. >> you make a good point. the reason we're so interested in this story is he potentially could be the republican presidential nominee. >> right. and these are the kinds of characteristics people look at. not only does he care about my problems and does he understand me and i think chris christie would...

You got no child left behind. democrats put together an agenda they were interested in implementing. if you have a president of the other party saying, i'm tolg maybe compromise with you on education, democrats are willing to work with it. on the other side republicans seem to be operating with a pure basic political calculation here. if we don't do anything, he can't accomplish anything and then we can blame him for accomplishing nothing. and there doesn't seem to be any room there for a policy agenda. >> what do you think the difference is between then and now? is it a temperament issue? jus...

Feel like, whoa, i'm not sure our american vetting system is good enough if you can be one of the last two candidates for president of the united states and treat sensitive and deadly international affairs in this reckless a manner. in your later column, gene, one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you, you said, romney's ignorance of foreign policy more profound and potentially dangerous than anyone could have expected. why did you focus in there on the issue of ignorance. >> i, too, saw the temperament issue, and that, i thought, was genuinely frightening. but i have seen no indication from ...