russia s orbit was deeply affected lost three of the former republics, baltic states to nato, number of former sal light publics are part of nato and the european union as well. to them this is a creeping, you know, advance increasingly toward their borders at the very different mentality, i think, than people in the west have right now. you know, mark, a lot has been said about the administration s foreign policy in recent weeks and especially recent days, a lot of it has been critical of the president. and i m sort of the camp that, you know, i m not sure if the president could have done anything to prevent vladimir putin from doing what he was going to do, but it puts the white house in a position where their foreign policy seems incredibly reactive and has though, for almost the recent past, i mean, years at this point, we know through rhetoric that the president has wanted to piv tote asia but events beyond his control has forced him to
proposal. if you don t think childless workers should be brought into the workforce, this should be a very, very bipartisan proposal and just one last thing on it, it also brings age at which it can begin from 25 down to 21. for the young people having a real hard time getting a reasonable paying job in the economy, it s an important change to the law. sam, the vitriol that greed the release of the president. budget outline surprised me and didn t surprise me and republicans have focused on the 56 billion in additional spending for education, welfare, defense. but that s paid for. i mean, that s offset. the notion that this is a wildly irresponsible budget, this has stuff that republicans like, republicans used to like infrastructure spending. but instead, they have seized on the narrative that this is somehow reckless. well, first of all, no one told me we were allowed to bring graphs and i would have brought graphs to look as smart as i do. you re allowed next time. there mig
back on that for a second. we talked about encircling russ russia, this as roger cohen points out in an op-ed, this began because of a benal trade agreement between kiev and the ukraine. given that, i mean, if putin s going to react with this show of force, on something like that, i mean what would happen if someone really challenged russia s power over ukraine? yeah, you know, it s not about trade agreement. it s what the trade agreement symbolize what it represented was, which camp was ukraine going to be? in the camp of the west or the camp of the east? the truth is, while president obama said repeatedly this is not a zero sum game, that s the way it s often looked national moscow, and you can t be in effect both. so the notion that the european union was trying to in effect entice ukraine away from
the press conference today with impunity it reminds of the cold war when soviet leaders were not easily turned by american actions. and to the contrary, were emboldened when they could stand up to america and make some deal important. this is not yet, i think it s overstating when people say this is the biggest crisis but it could become the biggest crisis the president face. you can be hur republicsure like big wraps to make gigantic enchiladas, somehow the irs could make their way into this, whatever transpires in ukraine. the question is, i ask your thoughts, mark, to the degree we start talking about foreign policy, the question then is turned back to conservatives and republicans in the gop which is, okay, what s your plan? and on that particular issue, i feel like it s one of these areas where there is no there is no articulated conservative foreign policy anymore. you saw that in the president s statement yesterday
al qaeda is used and bandied about and strikes fear in the hearts when we talk about benghazi or talk about unseen threats but when we actually get to the business of sort of justice, it has what you call almost some nal equality. do you equate that to 9/11 was a long time ago and not long time ago. americans appetite for the engagement of war have declined significantly. the latest polling, was it a mistake to send troops to afghanistan? for the first time, more people said yes than no, 49-48%. the president in the saint of t state of the union said this war like all wars must end. we re pursuing a national security policy rely an on special ops and drone. it happens in secret and the public is ever, ever less engaged. some of it is probably things that have dragged on too long a