pay attention to what the white house wants them to pay attention to. i thought that the president s comments regarding director mueller i think were going to come at a certain point in advance of next week, whether they were in yesterday particularly or whether they were going to happen, say, tomorrow, for example. wanted to somehow i think it was important to get that message out there as we re seeing this we talked about in the previous session, this mission creep, we see this moving away from this alleged coordination into business deals and such that don t seem to have anything to do with the campaign. with going back to you think it s intentional that he made those comments about mueller prior to the testimony of this son and of manafort? or for the news cycles that are coming up, i don t know the exact thinking. obviously i wasn t chatting with the president about that issue. i think regarding general sessions, i mean, look, i think the president is right in his
with going back to you think it s intentional that he made those comments about mueller prior to the testimony of this son and of manafort? or for the news cycles that are coming up, i don t know the exact thinking. obviously i wasn t chatting with the president about that issue. i think regarding general sessions, i mean, look, i think the president is right in his issue about the recusal. but i wish he hadn t brought that up. one of the things that the president stepped on yesterday was an absolute mastery of getting the senate reengaged on the health care issue. and back when the senate when the health care bill was going through the house, everyone said it was dead. and the president got engaged and he s the one who got it across the finish line. he got engaged in that same way yesterday, both in style and in substance. really engaging the senators to do that. i think the timing of the i wish he would have put it off by another day or two. that would have been my request.
now the 50 in syria, the united states is reengaged in a way that, you know, they are now going to be even more in control of the situation? because what i worry about, at the end of the day, this is a very deep sectarian divide. you described it as the middle east 30-year war. we just happen to now have 3,500 troops in the middle of the middle east sectarian war. can we shape the outcome with these incremental strategic pointed interventions? i think that s only true if your goal is to win a war in the traditional sense. i don t think it s our goal to restore iraq. i don t think it s our goal to restore a functioning national syria. i would simply say our goal is to keep as many innocent people as we can alive, and to keep the
leadership starts at the top and rolls down. this has gone on far too long as an example for this country. bill: the irs says they have spent $10 million already producing 750,000 documents. $10 million to print paper and they can t find e-mails during the critical time. i will give you the last word. i think it is now up to the citizens to take a strong, hard look in the mirror and get reengaged in this country because this administration is rattling the very foundations of this republican. we need not kid ourselves about where this is going. bill: thank you, we will talk again. martha: this question has been raised, is president obama failing in his presidency? brit hume says yes. i hate to say it because i am an american, i wanted a robust
call them neoconservatives. they re out of power in terms of the u.s. government really since bush s first term ended then he cleaned house. in my view, i mean, i think that sort of focusing on what paul wolfowitz may say on some of the sunday shows is a way for progressives to avoid some of the hard questions about the policy of a democratic president right now on iraq. and, you know, this is obviously very different than it was in 2003. it s very complicated issue with no really satisfying policy options. so i don t necessarily know there is 100% right way to go, but i also think that, you know, at this point neoconservatives have very little to do with the actual policy debates that are going on and president obama right now is weighing, you know, exactly how much he wants to get reengaged in iraq as a terrorist group that used to be more associated with al qaeda and has now kind of become too radical for al qaeda, marches its way to baghdad. they have little to do with