of what letter to naps intentions are in ukraine, whether ritter has been creeping invasion of eastern ukraine by russian proxy forces and whether that will stand and whether economic pressure will continue to try to push back against that idea. it has done very little attention. there is reason to think the russian separatists might be getting prepared to be more aggressive on the ground to heighten their hold on eastern ukraine, that won t go away. we will be back on that subject sooner rather l.a.. john: we will talk more about it in a moment. always good to have your expertise. arthel: this continued trouble in ukraine, why the president says his country is in a real war with russia and what will the obama administration is considering in this tense standoff.
for more aggressive intervention in syria, didn t prevail in that argument but talked publicly about that. the same time she has criticism from republicans who say she was part of the administration that did not leave behind forces in iraq, was not willing enough to stay on the ground there so it is going to be a balancing act for her just as i think for somebody like jeb bush as we have seen, painfully over the last week or so, going to be difficult questions about do you still think the war in iraq initiated by republican president named bush was of a good idea or bad idea what we do that again, these are tough questions for anybody running for president. john: is there one event, one time line that was drawn that sort of erased the old rules about democrat versus republican, ideas on foreign policy? this is interesting and ironic, at the end the third straight presidential debate in which the question of iraq and whether we should have intervened becomes a central
and major roles in nine other campaigns. mary ann, let me start with you, talk with me a little bit this arrangement and why bill clinton is here tonight? he said he was surprised very surprised to be asked. i don t know if that is really true or not but here he is, teeing up for tonight. well, look, barack obama needs bill clinton, more than bill clinton needs barack obama today. but the fact is bill clinton needs barack obama tomorrow and the next four years if hillary clinton runs for president. there is only one person in the world who can stand up and say i put the american economy back on track after recession, created by president named bush. now he is will confer that credibility on barack obama. that is about this election. and by bill clinton doing that, if hillary clinton runs in 2016. there is no question that president obama will owe two clintons a big debt for tonight and for her service as secretary of state. i think that is something . martha: that is very interestin
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she said she s already told them everything she knows. there s nothing else to tell them. she and the other wives are being held there, about to be charged. she was injured because she was the wife who was actually in the room with him when he was shot. fascinating stuff. what is your take away from having looked at the files? first, i saw the report. she s amazing, ama. it s terrific. i know her dad and she must make her dad very proud. so what i know from reading these documents is that in the final months of his life, osama bin laden was haunted by this by his recognition that al qaeda had failed that it had killed so many muslims that it had become unpopular. its image had been tarnished to the point that he wrote in one draft memo, we need to change the name of the organization. he wanted to rebrand al qaeda. we need to rebrand ourselves. he thought that president obama had rebranded the war on terror, stopped it calling it that.