one of the assistant secretaries of defense, mccarthy, kept saying, well, it s hard and it takes time, i need to talk to my boss and i haven t had a chance to go see him it was really a delay. and then by the time we spoke to the acting secretary of defense, well, we re this or that. did it make sense to you that they were delaying? no, it was inexplicable. made no sense at all. they d say and it is hard to activate the national guard, you have to start early. they said they had the authority here but they didn t have the permission to exercise it. is that why you think the january 6th commission is so important, to find out exactly what happened one year ago today here? the facts and the whole thing, the setup, what happened before and what happened during. that s very important. and what s happening after. so, it s the before, the during, and the after. but the fact is that the p
china? they ve been pretty subdued? i think we miscalculated by having president obama step forward and saying we will use military force if necessary to back up japan over the sen kak cue island dispute. you think that was a step too far? we ve gone from assistant secretaries of defense making that point to cabinet members and now this is the first time that a president of the united states has said that the united states/japan security treaty applies to these uninhabited islands and we don t take a position on who has sovereignty but willing to risk a nuclear war with china over these islands. where do you think that comes from? he did have to pars this careful stance, we re not taking a side but if china goes too far we ll engage in a military confrontation. there s been a mistaken view that we need to back japan up to show that we stand by our allies and that this will indeed
minister? reporter: the major hurdle he s got, he arrived back to downing street before you came to me, and he was presided by george osborn and william hague and we re assuming he ll appoint george osborn as the finance minister and william hague the foreign minister, the two top jobs. that was a rumor earlier on and it seems to be confirmed the fact that the they of them are in the building behind me. looking ahead he has a very tough year, because the economy is in a terrible state. the budget deficit is huge for the developed world and he ll have to install cuts rapidly in the uk. it s going to be very painful. at the same time he s having to deal with a conservative liberal democrat coalition, which is fragile in many people s eyes, but we ll see how that plays out. max foster, thank you very much. we ll stay in close touch with you. jack cafferty is up next with the cafferty file. and then a controversial decision comes back to haunt president obama s new supreme court
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