so why doesn t the same logic apply in syria? it s a different country. it is 5 times as large geographically. it has one-fifth the population, that is libbia, one-fifth the population, five times as large. it s in a part of the world where they are not going to see whatever would come from that war, would seep into a regional war. you are in a country that is heavily populated in the midst of the most dangerous area newscast world. and in fact, if in fact, it blows up and the wrong people gain control, it s going to have impact on the entire region, causing potentially regional wars. we are working hand and glove with the turks, with the jordanians and the saudis and all the people in the region. attempting to identify the people who deserve the help, so that when assad goes and he will go there will be a legitimate government that
on entitlements and afghanistan, i thought biden scored. i would also say one thing about ryan, i was told going in that ryan was going to make this a big debate about big issues and it was only in the last 10 or 15 minutes that he made this talk about a big choice. here s where obama s going to take you, here s where he has taken you already. but on a lot of the issues, he got too far into the policy weeds and wasn t big enough. let s do a little fact checking. the biggest issue seemed to be what the vice-president had to say about libbia. let s take a clip from the debate. the intelligence community told us that, as they learned more facts about exactly what happened, they changed their assessment. that s why there is also an investigation headed by tom pickerring, a leading diplomat from the reagan years, who is doing an investigation to whether or not there were any lapse it s. martha: they wantedded more security there.
jay carney, the president s spokeperson wassed a about biden s comments earlier today. speaking directly for himself and for the president, he meant the white house. dana: brian, help me out there. i was white house press secretary. i m not sure how you calf off part of administration when you want to, when it sevens your purpose. brian: i should ask you that. dana: i can t answer it. brian: he said the state department. he said the cia, you re on your own. we re okay. i m thinking to myself, state department is a career what is that? i did this, or i did that. the cia has a way of getting back and get their story out. to say we were doing our job. we relayed the message. you might not have heard the message, we relayed the message in on top of that. maybe it brings up the whole situation. what are you doing on a regular basis? libbia, one, two or three in terms of importance.
so why doesn t the same logic apply in syria? it s a different country. it is 5 times as large geographically. it has one-fifth the population, that is libbia, one-fifth the population, five times as large. it s in a part of the world where they are not going to see whatever would come from that war, would seep into a regional war. you are in a country that is heavily populated in the midst of the most dangerous area newscast world. and in fact, if in fact, it blows up and the wrong people gain control, it s going to have impact on the entire region, causing potentially regional wars. we are working hand and glove with the turks, with the jordanians and the saudis and all the people in the region. attempting to identify the people who deserve the help, so that when assad goes and he will go there will be a legitimate government that
raddatz, to the crowd and to joe biden. when he thanked joe biden, biden was smirking. i thought that came across as very disrespectful and symbol symbolic of the way that joe biden handled the night. on the substance, i was struck by the same thing with respect to libbia. it seemed that vice-president was criticizing the intelligence community, in some ways, by not giving them as much information as we thought. he blamed all the false statements of the obama administration on the intelligence community and seemed to raise questions about the confidence of the intelligence community and in a discussion about iran, he said, we will know when they go to when they go to a break-out for the bomb. it seems to me, there is major tension between those two statements on the one hand, suggesting they are not competent enough to know what happened on the ground in libya but saying they will know for sure if iran decides to go for the bomb. on domestic policy, we heard joe biden do what his b