forces, talking about what special forces could do, looking at other options like a cruise missile or an armed predator, and recommending to the president that we go with the navy s.e.a.l. option, and then being there that day, watching part of the operation on a video screen in the situation room, just holding my breath, literally, through the whole thing. i know how hard these choices are. and i know what a cool, deliberative head needs to be finally making them. i ve learned so much, chris, over the last years. i feel very ready you know who said you had the temperament for it, bill clinton, chi thought was interesting, because he would know your temperament. let me ask about your sort of position on this. you voted for the iraq war authorization, if not the war. bernie sanders is out there still hitting you on that one. of course, he s coming from the left on you. you have rand paul out there, a libertarian, and a bit of a dove, saying that you would be more for regime change,
listening to admiral mccraven, who was the head of special forces, talking about what special forces could do, looking at other options like a cruise missile or an armed predator, and recommending to the president that we go with the navy s.e.a.l. option, and then being there that day, watching part of the operation on a video screen in the situation room, just holding my breath, literally, through the whole thing. i know how hard these choices are. and i know what a cool, deliberative head needs to be finally making them. i ve learned so much, chris, over the last years. i feel very ready you know who said you had the temperament for it, bill clinton, chi thought was interesting, because he would know your temperament. let me ask about your sort of position on this. you voted for the iraq war authorization, if not the war. bernie sanders is out there still hitting you on that one. of course, he s coming from the left on you. you have rand paul out there, a libertarian, and a bit o
he has these great sample brackets. bernie sanders versus steph curry. that s a stuff bracket. obviously, no one s going to beat steph curry. i feel bad for bernie sanders, that s a tough draw. let s talk about movies, first. i saw star wars last night, which i thought my twitter review was, it was, i enjoyed it immensely, it was like an excellent cover of a song i love. it was an excellent cover of a song i love, which i tremendously enjoyed. it was not a new song. was generally your feeling? absolutely. there was a certain feeling and a certain tone that fans of that series that were looking for, that they hadn t gotten from the prequels. there was a way that they wanted to feel from a star wars movie that they hadn t felt in a long time. and frankly, i think it took another filmmaker to come in, who understood that feeling, better than george lucas had, in order to make that film the way someone said to me, there s a lot of fan service. chi thought well fan service
and guess who that is? that s people like paul wolfowitz and dick cheney, the folks that got us into this mess in iraq in the first place. and that s maybe the most dangerous suggestion coming out of these debates, is that these guys just aren t going to be very involved in foreign policy. they re going to let the interventionalist neo conservatives take back over the white house, which is an invitation to disaster. you know, there s a moment, a lot of people calling for no-fly zone in syria. i want to play a moment in which rand paul rose in dissent, chi thought was interesting. you re asking for a no-fly zone in an area in which russia already flies. russia flies in that zone at the invitation of iraq. realize that means you are saying, we are going to shoot down russian planes. if you are ready for that, be ready to send your sons and daughters to another war in iraq. what did you think of that moment? i thought it was a rare moment of clarity. so rand paul s right about thi
they re going to let the interventionalist neo conservatives take back over the white house, which is an invitation to disaster. you know, there s a moment, a lot of people calling for no-fly zone in syria. i want to play a moment in which rand paul rose in dissent, chi thought was interesting. you re asking for a no-fly zone in an area in which russia already flies. russia flies in that zone at the invitation of iraq. realize that means you are saying, we are going to shoot down russian planes. if you are ready for that, be ready to send your sons and daughters to another war in iraq. what did you think of that moment? i thought it was a rare moment of clarity. so rand paul s right about this. this is, you know, the kind of the new sexy issue in syria policy, is a no-fly zone. but it is much more complicated in that you have complicated russian-built air defense systems that can potentially shoot down american planes. you are going to be putting yourself in conflict, perhaps,