well, i have never put much stock in anything that shawn says. and i get it. the right would really like to tear this president s accomplishments on foreign policy apart. the problem is the facts will sup so super cede their spin. he went into pakistan and got bin laden. he s drawing down troops. and a poll this week shows americans two to one actually respect and appreciate this president s fight on terrorism and his foreign policy approach. it s with good cause. the facts bare out why they should have that approval of the president s approach. he s kept america safe. he s ending the war in iraq. he s done the things he said he would do and the republicans just can t argue against that. brad woodhouse, thank you for joining us. thank you, martin. we ll be right back to clear the air. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began.
chuck todd. let s get to my first reads of the morning. we re going to begin with libya. moammar gadhafi is daddy. after fro years in power and eight u.s. presidents, the libyan dictator was pulled from a drainage pipe and executed by his own people. ronald reagan once called him the mad dog of the middle east. his larger foreign policy approach where the president put limits on u.s. military enga engagement and let a coalition of partners in nato take the lead. there s no doubt that we did exactly what we said we were going to do in libya. i think it underscores the capacity of us to work together as an international community. i m very proud of the work we did on this operation. yesterday in the rose garden, the president talked about what the white house sees as the foreign policy victories of the last six months.
forming alliances can get our national interests accomplished by taking care of the threats. that is why we are there to remove the threat not to nation-build. those are hard choices i believe the national interest is removing the threat not building democracies across the world. feel good policy is what i call it we ve seen it. we are spread too thin to continue that type of foreign policy approach. we to get in, look at the threat, take it out and get back home. greta: joe, nice to see you. bill: president obama embracing progressive values. dick morris and dede meyers will explain. greta: we are life until the top of the hour. we are live until the top of the hour. does oprah winfrey hate david letterman? that s what dave thinks and he s telling all about the reason for the feud.
forming alliances can get our national interests accomplished by taking care of the threats. that is why we are there to remove the threat not to nation-build. those are hard choices i believe the national interest is removing the threat not building democracies across the world. feel good policy is what i call it we ve seen it. we are spread too thin to continue that type of foreign policy approach. we to get in, look at the threat, take it out and get back home. greta: joe, nice to see you. bill: president obama embracing progressive values. dick morris and dede meyers will explain. greta: we are life until the top of the hour. we are live until the top of the hour. does oprah winfrey hate david letterman? that s what dave thinks and he s telling all about the reason for the feud.
last night, but his address won praise from the right, certain especially neoconservatives. william kristol wrote, quote, the president seemed to me to go after about as far as an anti-iraq war president could go in praising the war effort. not a bad tribute to the troops and not a bad statement of the importance, an indispensability of hard power. well, is the president taking a hawkish foreign policy approach so he can move the party and the country and the progressive direction at home? michael crowley is the deputy bureau chief for time magazine and the associate editor for washington post joins us. let me start with michael. do you agree with me? i think he has hillary clinton over there, gates over there, petraeus over there, a keep-going policy in afghanistan, basically a moderate departure from iraq, doing basically what bush would have done so he can go liberal and progressive at home. your thoughts? you make a good point, chris. he sent the signal right from the outset