when you re dealing with a diplomatic situation like this and the prospect of ending up going to war or doing surgical strikes or whatever it may be, people need to be very clear in what you are saying that you will do and under what conditions and setting expectations and adhering to them. otherwise you end up with everything being a jumble. there is no predictability. that s going to make it very hard to actually go in and get people to do what you actually want them to do. because their assumption is going to be that there may be a lot of crying wolf going on. i think that is probably the bigger concern here. sure. and i think the issue would be it s not just sending a message if the united states were not to do anything, it would send messages to other countries, ie, iran, bark and no bite. still, maria, the question stands. i hear people coming on and they say you re damned if you do, damned if you don t. but what the f the president does nothing? i think that would be one of
about all of this. there are republicans in an organized fashion, of accusing the president of being nixonian, comparing it to water. isn t that overblown? i think it s important there is an investigation under way. rand paul says benghazi should disqualify hillary clinton from being president. is that your view? the 2016 elections are way too far away. my question stands. we re in the process of investigating a number of different investigations, all of these things are important to take a look at and we re going to do that. do you think that hillary
organized fashion, of accusing the president of being nixonian, comparing it to water. isn t that overblown? i think it s important there is an investigation under way. rand paul says benghazi should disqualify hillary clinton from being president. is that your view? the 2016 elections are way too far away. my question stands. we re in the process of investigating a number of different investigations, all of these things are important to take a look at and we re going to do that. do you think that hillary clinton was culpable for what happened in benghazi? i think we ll find out when
president to sign the legislation. it can never the republican party can t have it where it s all one party that does social security and medicare. that i have to be willing to say, ok, if they want to do this, they ll have to give on something they don t like, maybe even higher taxes. and that s where the moment was there. they almost got this president to move on social security. almost got him to move on medicare reform. and they didn t take the deal. the reality at the end of the day, they are going to walk away with this without any spending restraint. we ll get a deal that will do nothing on deficits. and it s their own fault. i agree with that. let me bring up the gun issue. the president said he ll put his full weight behind his first year gun control legislation. but the question stands, does he have the stomach for how difficult this will be politically? i m not sure. i m not either. you know, there s a great line in tom sawyer where he says an evangelist that cam
president to sign the legislation. it can never the republican party can t have it where it s all one party that does social security and medicare. that i have to be willing to say, ok, if they want to do this, they ll have to give on something they don t like, maybe even higher taxes. and that s where the moment was there. they almost got this president to move on social security. almost got him to move on medicare reform. and they didn t take the deal. the reality at the end of the day, they are going to walk away with this without any spending restraint. we ll get a deal that will do nothing on deficits. and it s their own fault. i agree with that. let me bring up the gun issue. the president said he ll put his full weight behind his first year gun control legislation. but the question stands, does he have the stomach for how difficult this will be politically? i m not sure. i m not either. you know, there s a great line in tom sawyer where he says an evangelist that cam