very sacred to christians. entire christian villages, women and children by the rebels. the idea we re going to send arms to these people who are slaughtering christians and one goal to establish an islamic state is ludicrous. republican party . chris: are you saying let assad stay in? i am saying america has to grapple with the idea of a limited power in a world where the parties are unknown, where their intentions are unknown and see their intentions. chris: are you saying let assad rule? i say let him figure it out. we may not have a choice. the reason the president has moved slowly will o this we overstate our ability to affect events in political parts of the world. number two we tend to
, this is not something that suddenly happened but is something that the republican party and national partiestal have to address which we did. we went around the country and talked to people and we have a serious project we are working on. we are not closed for repairs but open for repairs and that is the republican party that needs to grow that needs to win presidential elections and needs to be a year round permanent operation which is what we are building. chris: let me pick up on that. after the 2012 election you commissioned a study on prospects, what the study needs to do after the 2012 defeat. and on policy the so-called autopsy as some people call it said you have to do a better job of reaching out to hispanic voters, to women, to young voters, a variety of groups on a variety of issues. you just heard for instance the house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte saying he opposes
and iran which now have the upper hand to try to plead for some peace deal. it is absurd. and the other factor i think that greatly bolsterle all of the parties is the fact that the president didn t carry through about the comments about the red line. he did nothing. he pretended that we didn t have the evidence. now, supposedly investigating. no thought there would be any kind of meaningful action by the united states. what this dose more than anything else. syria is a bit of a basket case. i m more concerned about the signal this is sending to tehran. they he figured out the americans will not put their money or guns where their mouths are. they will be encouraged if they can rescue assad from his current predict ament and i think they believe there is no way on earth the president will ever use the military option to stop iran s nuclear option and that is the real thing here. chris: the white house seems convinced simple americans don t want to get involved in another land war are
prosecute this reporter either. that is the whole issue here. they were never intending to prosecute him. they were trying to collect information in a case that involved a leak of important national security information that compromised sources and methods. it is perfectly legitimate ones they exhausted the search of kim that they he collect additional information for the prosecution of kim, not rosen. chris: congressman goodlatte. the information presented to the judges was that mr. rosen was considered to be a flight risk. how would he be a flight risk in the mind of the justice department and officials pursuing the matter if they did not the have a potential prosecution and intent to prosecute him when they went and requested the search warrant? they would not have received the search warrant if they would have not said that he was a potential flight risk. a target of this investigation.
under barack obama has gotten so big that his main defense is look i don t know anything about any of these scandals because everything underneath me is so big and unwieldy i can t possibly know about it. that is a world and an america that our founding fathers didn t fight for. i think that we need to go back to a constitutional america that respects the bill of rights that this president and this ag don t do. chris: i want to ask you also about the videos coming out of irs conferences. let s put them up on the screen. millions of dollars. $49 million spent on 220 conferences over three years. irs conferences at which sort of like the gsa, they had these parties and they were spending here is the video now. i m not quite sure i see the humor in all of this but in any case spent moll millions of dos on the videos and conferences. what does that say to you?