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For understanding the consequences, tom ricks. >> powell was kind of an eisenhower republican. guess what? so is barack obama. eisenhower kept us out of vietnam. he explicitly said i don't want to fight wars -- >> kept us out of suez, too. >> libya was an eisenhower type operation. don't only -- >> the hidden hand. >> yeah. only do the things that the united states is uniquely available to provide. so provide things like intelligence that other countries can't, but don't put boots on the ground, don't put pilots in danger. >> well, colin powell said he has concerns about some of romney's views...

Colonel lawrence wilkerson was secretary powell's chief of staff, and thomas ricks, author of "the generals." what do you make of your old boss' decision to get into this thing right when it matters with 12 days to go? >> colin powell has always had an exquisite sense of timing, chris, and i won't pretend to speak for him, but i thought he was bold, i thought he was forthright, i thought he summed it up well. the president inherited a catastrophic situation, banks failing, automobile industry collapsing, housing market tubing, and he steadied the ship, he needs another term to do more. there's...

You find very few hawks among people who have been soldiers, anwar sadat, the great george washington. they have been through it, and they've proven their manhood, they just want to be wise. i think powell is like that. what do you think he was saying about the neocons? >> i think he was saying -- >> i'm talking to tom ricks now. >> i think he was saying if you want to know where romney is going to be going with foreign policy, look to the people around him. what you see is a lot of people who are the neoconservatives who did advise going into iraq. so he's saying effectively if you like the w...

along comes another saying something about god's will and we have to incarcerate a woman who doesn't want to have a child that's the result of a rape. well, yes, we're back in the clown car with lots more guys wearing the crazy hats and shaking their noisemakers. thought you had seen the last of rick santorum and the rest of those characters from the primaries? not so. we have paul ryan and his personhood amendment aboard. a republican platform giving 14th amendment rights, including the right to property, to a fertilized human egg. who cares about the woman. nine days to go and none...

And the fox news contributor pat caddell. you a democrat and you are saying you definitively know. >> i didn't say i definitively know. i said i definitively know who it was. there is a difference. dianne feinstein. this is a he said putting american policy and american lives in "jeopardy." the "new york times" review of mr. sanger's book by thomas ricks, one of the putzer prize winning "wall street journal," "washington post" defense expert. in his interview, in his review in the "new york times" he says and throughout mr. mr. sanger endured great access to senior white house officials, most ...