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Decades. that is all the more reason for washington to shape a rational and considered foreign policy toward it rather than one forged out of paranoia and hysteria and fears of being branded as soft. whenever policy is made in those latter circumstances, think of vietnam or iraq, it turns out badly. in 2003, when senate minority leader tom dashle tries to make the case for more diplomacy before going to war with iraq, republicans dennis hastert suggested he was giving come for the to the enemy. they spoke of those who dares to suggest improving relations with beijing in similar terms. suck e s...

His comments talking about how he's in close coordination with the white house here. well, we don't have the sound but you know what he said. he said everything that he's doing is in effect in lockstep with the white house. now, we should note factually there was communication between democrats and the democratic white house during the clinton impeachment but not -- the majority leader at the time, tom dashle, said he did not coordinate. after all, they decided on some bipartisan agreement. what do you say to your republicans colleagues and specifically to mitch mcconnell about how he is handl...

Square one again. i don't know another politician who could talk like that, friends including, for example, tom dashle, democratic leader of the senate, and warren michaels, producer of "saturday night live," so i think that we're missing that in our public life these days, the kind of authenticity that he brought to the arena. >> you know, andrea mitchell, his long time aide, sort of a son from another mother and father, in some ways, this is what he wrote in the "washington post". he was a romantic about causes and the world, and had capacity to live with the contradiction. he saw human bein...

All the hacking going on now and the cyber attacks we've got going on. my goodness, snowden out there and assange, you have all these people, it's just wrong. we're not going -- i'm for one, not going to be supportive of these types of commutes whatsoever or pardons. i think they're wrong. >> all right. senator joe manchin, democrat from west virginia. as always, appreciate having you on. >> good to be with you. >> and i appreciate your optimism. >> hey, you're coming back to west virginia too? >> you know it. i'll be there. >> we're going to the mine. >> sorry my hurricanes beat your mountain...

Administration somebody that has a problem we didn't expect and turns out to be very daunting. think about tom dashle. who would have guessed he would not have been able to take a job because of something that came out through vetting. that happened. >> i broke that story. one of the things is he was in trouble was because he had not paid the taxes from this free driver he got from a rich friend. this is a whole cabinet full of rich guys and gals who have lots of favors. >> there's a potential of something like that happening very easily. this is one of those instances where those kinds of thi...