among the dnc, the sanders and clinton campaigns, the debate stage was set for the two top democrats to throw down over accusations that sanders exploited a software glitch to access clinton s confidential voter information, a move clinton s camp called below the belt. clinton goes for jugular, politico trumpeted, signaling she was ready to throw some mud in the debate. i apologize. reporter: wait, what? not only do i apologize to secretary clinton and i hope we can work together on an independent investigation from day one reporter: clinton s not going to let him off that easy, right? i very much appreciate that comment, bernie. if i don t think the american people are all that interested in this. reporter: instead it seems clinton thought americans wanted to hear how she would take on the republicans, a theme she stuck to throughout the night largely ignoring her two democratic rivals. we also need to make sure
it was certainly a very interesting debate. first of all, good afternoon. no, we re not where we need to be yet but we re attempting to get there. i don t think any of the candidates on either side and i ve been attempting to be apolitical on this have missed the mark. what secretary clinton did yesterday was basically outline what the president is doing already and so did the other kanld damtds frankly. but she added to that a no-fly zone. and anyone that s been involved in establishing a no-fly zone knows there are certain conditions you have to meet and that is a throwaway line that s been bouncing around washington for people who are unniche yalted. senator sanders basically said we have to lead from behind. they both agreed with the fact that we can t put ground troops, it would be a strategic mistake to put large numbers of ground troops from america on the ground in syria. i agree with that. governor o malley basically said we need more intelligence and we need to separate
yemen or even libya, but then moving forward, how are voters to digest this information? what s the information theyed need to hear from candidates? yeah. this is a very important issue. and first of all, i want to say that i don t agree completely with tony that secretary clinton can be blamed for the removal of cagadhafi in libya. i think there were many, many factors that contributed to that. what i d like to say is early on in the iraq war, yes, the military was given a mission, and truthfully, fred rhee kashgs i was part of that as war planner on the joint staff in the j-7, to rid iraq of a dictator. regime change is not a military mission. that s very difficult to execute with military forces. that is a political implication that politicians have to determine through diplomacy how they view do that and what they do. the military certainly can contribute to that and it has in several countries. we have to be very careful in say, hey, we just have to rid ourselves of a dictator.