from that, and you know, i m very supportive of the national guard because of what they stand for. you know, i m just very proud of that. because i ve had this direct connection with these proops, and they will go to battle, no matter what is done. martha: whenever you have an interaction with these folks, it s so impressive. it s an extraordinary force. bob, talk about afghanistan. there s a feeling that the president has announced that he wants to do that draw yowrntion he has tripled the the number of troops there now and it s a tough situation, it s a situation that is losing some traction, i would say, in terms of the american confidence and what we can really achieve there. yeah, i think so. martha, you ve got to look at it this way, it s a transition between the defense department and state department and that s kind of where we re headed and i was co-chairman for two tasks in new york, the one after 9/11, the legislative task force and more recently
three things. it raises the question, when you ve got six other states who are pursuing similar initiatives, you have 21 states all together who are challenging the legality and the constitutionality of making somebody buy something, of having the government say you have to have health care insurance, john doe and marry smith and everybody else, you have to have it, there is a movement that appears to be growing not just in missouri, in 21 states across the country, to challenge that idea. do you deny that? no, of course. you re absolutely right, there s the political matter which really doesn t do anything because of the supremacy clause in the constitution trumps whatever missouri wants to do, but then there s the constitutional question that people are raising and i happen to have my constitution here and i can read article one, section eight, i won t go through the details but basically there s the tax and spend clause, the commerce clause, the necessary and proper clause, genera
june 2008, then senator obama was asked point blank by abc s jake pappeer does it both you are or bother you what california is doing and florally, he said no. mr. obama s views on gay rights has developed over the years. i m a a christian, he said, in a radio interview in 2004 when he was running for the u.s. senate and so although i try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue i do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and woman, yet two years later as he was gearing up for his presidential run, he wrote in the audacity of hope, no matter how much christian who oppose homosexuality may claim they hate the sin but love the sinner, such a judgment inflicts pain. we should note, his role in the repeal this year of the
to draw down to 50,000 troops in iraq by the end of august. i think it s a great decision, i think that it s long overdue. i think that there s a certain change in mentality that needs to occur. and i think obama is bringing us down that road, which is basically, look, we ve done what we can, we need to get out. there are other countries in that region that are closer geographically than we are and therefore have a greater interest in what happens there. if those other countries want to step up and take over for what we ve been doing, then let them do so, this is their opportunity to do that. martha: any indication that they ll do that and that other countries that have an interest doesn t turn out to be iran? that s fine, too, but the fact of the matter is we give them the opportunity to do it. we can t do it all ourselves. we cannot. we don t have the resources, we don t have the will power to do and we ve done all we can. that s all anybody asked of us. martha: jeff, you trained
ordinary people, they think you should be worried about jobs first, not every other issue in the world but jobs. the democratic party is essentially been hijacked by an educated, overeducated, elite group who basically don t care about the people who constitute their party. martha: i had a conversation with hugh hewett earlier in the show and we talk about the feeling in america, that you see in the polls, that people aren t being listened to, the feelings don t matter, what they want to be the priority doesn t matter. it s a graver constitutional crisis. we have a situation, 21 percent of the american people believe the government is operating with the consent of the governed from the declaration of inden, 21. 68 percent say no. martha: incredible. 57 percent of the people in the cnn poll a few months ago said they believe that the federal government has become a direct and immediate threat to their own freedom. i am telling you, that is prerevolutionary. in the democratic what