may have done to his presidential ambitions. what s fascinating, we have exerts of his i think inaugural speech. i m going to read it to you. the attitude that puts everyone into a box they are not permitted to leave. the attitude that puts political whims ahead of policy agreements. the belief that compromise is a dirty word. it s interesting because that s exactly what the mayor of hoboken and others are accusing christie of doing. reporter: well, carol, that s right. obviously this inaugural after dress was supposed to be a flat form for him to preview the campaign message for 2016. he s going to talk a lot about bipartisan ship today and try to move forward and past these controversies. erin mcpike, thanks so much. stay with us for the swearing in
a civil war is possible. there are fighters going back and forth between syria and iraq. but i think they both have to be dealt with in a different sort of manner. they re not exactly the same. there is no cookie cutter approach dealing with syria and iraq even though they border one another. jenna: speaking of some models, we re talking about the new book of former secretary of defense robert gates, he had an interesting quote, we re only seeing excerpts of book, some of us have seen the whole thing but most are only seeing exerts. i want to share this thought. he said in relation to afghanistan, if i learned one useful lesson in iraq, progress depending upon security for much of the population. the theory if you get population on your side, secure them against the bad guys surrounding them, that works in iraq. can t work in afghanistan. the question, peter, can it work in other areas of the middle east? is that something we should be considering? security is basic and basic is to s
jenna: bombshell new book by former secretary of defense robert gates comes out next week. it is called, duty, memoirs of a secretary of war. gates is critical of both the bush and obama administrations as far as we can tell from the exerts, one of the big headlines is his opinion of president obama s handling the war in afghanistan. he writes about a meeting in 2011 saying this, quote, as i sat there i thought the president doesn t trust his commander, can t stand karzai, don t believe in his own strategy and doesn t consider the war to be his. for him it is all about getting out. right now it bears reminding there are 52,000 troops still in afghanistan. 3302 have been killed since the war began. ambassador john bolton is former ambassador to the u.n. ambassador we ll get to the politics but i don t want to
senate try to hammer out a budget agreement trying to replace the sequester. the cuts have enemies on both sides of the aisle. democrats don t like cuts to head start and meals on wheels. republicans don t like the cuts to defense, which military leaders argued hurt the readiness of the armed forces. just ask former secretary robert gates. there may be a more stupid way to cut the budget than sequestration. if there is, i have not been able to identify it. these across the board mindless cuts that make no difference between what is important and what s unimportant is a crazy way to try and deal with the budget issue. so, can congress find a way to fix it or is washington s dysfunction destined to doom this effort as well? let s bring in two exerts. john avalon and my friend from
nearly six years ago, i was invited to take the seat as moderator of fox news watch. following eric burns and then eric brundell. it is easy to follow the news coverage and often those that didn t in the weeks that just passed. howard kurtz will take it from here with the program media buzz. look for it next sunday at 11:00 a.m. eastern. it has been my privilege to work with the rotating panel of exerts. a shout out to jim pinkerton. his keen memory and attention to detail has helped me avoid