says where hillary clinton defended the president and her allies come out and say she would have been tougher, stronger, using an i m mass queue lating word. is it just that the calendar is changing and the president is winding down in afghanistan and if he waits too much longer he might not have any leverage. different personalities. hagel is different than gates. i think any team with obama at the head is team caution. he s been a very cautious decision maker. here is another point. if we say should the president have been more cautious, let me ask this question, should republicans, especially republicans who want to be president be more cautious. rand paul was speaking to a republican gathering on friday and said, mr. president, let s set up a new trade. instead of taliban, let s trade five democrats. maybe he was trying to be funny. if you want to criticize the current commander in chief over
susan rice in speaking with jim acosta last week tried to clean that up a little. what i was referring to is this is a young man who volunteered to serve his country in uniform at a time of war. that is itself a very honorable thing. there are some who say they shouldn t put her out anyway because she s such a polarizing figure. when you ve not sure about what happened here, then why say that? why use those words. if you don t have all the facts yet about the circumstances which we certainly don t, why do you go out there and really wound a lot of military families who had soldiers who did not come back? this obviously created a ripple effect across america where now the administration has to deal with and clean up. they turned this deal down essentially, pretty much the same deal. they turned it down before. a lot of people are saying that s when the president had what i ll call team caution. leon panetta at the cia. the republican hold over bob gates, you had hillary clinton