>> to say nothing of we have nothing to fear but fear itself. let's listen to how some recent presidential wanna bes have been chose ton talk about the very same subject. >> our country doesn't win any more. we don't win on trade. we don't win on the military. we can't defeat isis. >> so we have candidates who were talking about taking actions that for a long of candidates would seem to be not legal inner its of international law but at the same time talking about america as fundamentally weak. >> there does seem to be this contradiction between this bluster of, i would be tougher, no, i would be tougher. the sort of arms race of rhetor rhetoric. also the suggestion that americans should be afraid. there seems to be a contradiction there. it does represent the idea of american weakness. at the same time, as they hit the obama administration. claim that they don't have a strategy. constantly reinforce this narrative of a weak president, a