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>> now, christiane 100% right. they have no throwway in northeast asia. what they have been able to help us with, what we hope they will continue, is with the tensions in the south china sea. we have a mutual security alliance with them, that dates back to 1951. they are relevant in that part of the world. they have no throw weight at all in northeast asia. i thought the argument that the call was about north korea and about building this international coalition was completely empty. there was nothing there. it was a missed opportunity for the president, if he's going to call duterte, to call ...

>> yeah, look. your diagnosis about obama being able to talk about climate change, finally, after being silent about it for many years is correct. the problem is we really need a lot more than talking about at this point. we'll find out when he makes decisions on things like the keystone pipeline, whether it's mostly just a matter of trying to one-up the republicans rhetorically or whether we're really in this to fight it. i mean u.s. carbon emissions we found out last week, end up last year which isn't a good sign. on the other hand, you're absolutely right. the price of solar panels has fall...

Sisters in arms and our oath to the nation. [ applause ] >> the world was watching and listening very carefully. what did you think? >> this was billed as a speech by his administration to face down critics that said this american foreign policy has been too weak to get people like assad or putin or name any one of the leaders around there to listen to america's leadership. this was not a muscular speech, a robust speech that would assuage those critics nor a muscular speech commensurate with america's superpower throw weight nor a speech i don't believe that many foreign leaders who i have sp...

Much concern? >> this is a syndicate. north korea and syria, and even other nations in the region, like pakistan have been involved in a rocket and nuclear weapons making syndicate now for almost 20 years. recall that the attempt by syria to build a nuclear reactor was designed and built by north korea. this is truly and axis of evil that many of the components are shared between these countries, which in some ways so the of explains why north korea has been so successful recently in getting the technology up to snuff, jaime. jaime: general, if senator kerry is confirmed as the secretary of st...

the president was he heading on this, they've always said, look, we're the ones who got rid of don't ask don't tell. the justice department no longer defends the defense of marriage act. so you knew what direction the president was heading. i think there were conversations about whether this would be good politically or not good politically for the president because this could rally mitt romney's conservative base. this could hurt the president with some voters in battleground states like ohio and iowa, for example. but in the end, the president, i think, the president feels he would...