frankly. with all of the networks on? governor rendell, do you think it s smart. would you regulate her, make sure you heard her speech? what would you do if you re romney, a careful guy? it s my understanding, and correct me if i m wrong, that the networks are only going to devote an hour a night? yes. when you think of the list of speakers. you have to have the key note, mccain, romney, the vice presidential nominee. there really isn t a whole lot of time to putn th her i one-hour slot. i would give her a slot when cnn, msnbc, fox are covering before the 10:00 slot and ask her to submit written remarks so we could screen them if i were the romney team and the rnc. why would she take a deal like that? why would she walk off the primetime stage when she can reach four times as many people by saying, i deserve, i was on the ticket last time. i deserve to speak between 10:00 and 11:00 eastern time. you have to put me there or i m going to speak outside at the
months he has been in office he often follows his own path when it comes to these calls with foreign leaders. brooke? republicans are blasting him, including another veteran republican senator, blasting the call to putn. here is senator chuck grassley. i think putin is a criminal. what he did in georgia, what he did in ukraine, what he has done in the baltics, what he has done in london, poisoning people with nerve gas. that s a criminal activity. i wouldn t have a conversation with a criminal. with me now, cnn political commentator andre bauer, and cnn political commentator peter beinhart and chris cillizza sticking around. andre, beginning with you, i do want to get to the fact that i
which is what they re doing. erdogan said he s going all the way to the iraqi border and accountant plating going into iraq, kurdish area of iraq. he knows the united states is thinking about giving up the fight and let somebody else do it, one, i don t know who somebody else is. this plays right into erdogan s hands, and then you re playing into putn s hands. speaking of putin, i wanted to ask you quickly, too, on russia. they have now tested this new nuclear icbm, what do you make of that? this is very troubling. if you look at what the russians have done, say, over the past four, five years, they ve introduced numerous classes of very sophisticated weaponry, laser technology, air defense weapons, the whole gamut. you look at the gdp of the country, it s somewhere around australia or italy.