publisher s clearinghouse principle of politics. you can t win if you don t enter. he s entered twice as an underdog. this is his last shot. i think he d love to do it if he can be find a way to do it though he d be a clear underdog. any sense of how long o malley, webb and chafee stay in this race? in the old days we used to say until the money ran out, candidates stay in. now it s until twitter shuts down. apparently that s all you need to maintain a presidential candidacy. free media, which those three really don t have much of and a twitter account. so we ll see. i think the hand dwriting is on the wall. i mentioned the benghazi house hearing on thursday. as hillary clinton prepares for that, what are your expectations since she s been answering questions about the attacks for months now?
that was my view then. i supported the war in afghanistan. i supported president clinton s effort to deal with ethnic cleansing a kosovo. i support air strikes in syria. i happen to believe from the bottom of my heart that war should be the last resort that we have got to exercise diplomacy. but, yes, i am prepared to take this country into war if that is necessary. 30 seconds for each of you. governor chafee, who or what is the greatest national security threat to the united states? i have to answer one thing about the iran deal. i m a strong proponent. he said that because of the iran deal, that enabled russia to come in. that s not true, senator webb. i respect your foreign policy chops. russia is aligned with iran and with assad and the shias in syria. that iran deal did not senator i got to give you 30
want to defend themselves and their family from violence. people are going back and forth here for ten minutes. there are people in high levels in this government who have body guards, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. the average american does not have that and deserves the right to be able to protect mare family. governor chafee, what do you think about what senator webb just said? the reality is despite these trablgdies that happen time and time again, when legislators step up to pass common sense gun safety legislation, the gun lobby moves in and tells the people they re coming to take away your guns. and they re successful at it. in colorado and other states, the legislators then get defeated. so i would bring the gun lobby in and say we ve got to change this. where can we find common ground.
i took on the bush administration for the same thing. so i have thought deeply and long about what we re going to do to do exactly what i think both the senator and governor want, which is to rein in and stop this risk. my plan would have the potential of actually sending the executives to jail. nobody went to jail after $100 billion in fines were paid. and would give regulators the authority to go after the big banks. i will say it tonight, if only you look at the big banks, you may be missing the forest for the trees. we ve got to look at all the other financial institutions. give me a second. in my view, secretary clinton, you do not congress does not regulate wall street. wall street regulates congress and we have got to break off these banks, going to them and
little more later on. this hasn t been equal time. but if you want to look at what s happened, if you look at the facts in terms of how we re going to deal with this, since that crash, in the last ten years the amount of the world s capital economy that wall street manages has gone from 44% to 55%. that means the wall street money managers are not risking themselves the same way the american people are when they re going to get their compensation. they re managing money from all over the world. we have to take that into consideration when we regulate it. senator chafee, you voted for the very bill in 1999 that made banks bigger. i had just arrived in office. my dad are you saying you didn t know what you were voting for? i just arrived the senate. it was my very first vote and it was with all due respect, what