austin, said the u.s. wants to diminish russia s military power going forward so russia could not just do this again. we want to see russia weakened to a degree it can t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability. breaking overnight, missile strikes in the lviv area. officials say russian forces struck five rail stations in the center of the country, all within an hour. there are casualties, we are learning. in the meantime, russian forces are bombarding the steel plant in mariupol, the last holdout where hundreds of civilians are sheltering. russia s ministry of defense
to what degree you were moved by your discussions with pope francis, and for democrats who might already be wondering, is it too late for joe biden to decide whether or not to run for president? and lastly, just to clarify, to what degree it hillary clinton s endorsement just yesterday of a no-fly zone put her in a category of embracing a half-baked answer in syria that borders on mumbo jumbo? on the latter issue, on the last question that you asked, hillary clinton is not half-baked in terms of her approach to these problems. she was obviously my secretary of state. but i also think that there s a difference between running for president and being president. and the decisions that are being made and the discussions that i m having with the joint chiefs, become much more specific and require, i think, a
starting with you, are the democrats here as you were listening to chuck schumer say, are they as kplis it in the rise to the tea party as others? they really haven t been. there are a few politicians who have been complicit and said we need democrats have said we need to recruit the tee partyiers over to our side. in general, ever since the 2010 election in which rand paul was elected beat attorney general jack conway for u.s. senate, the democrats have gone on the offensive against the tea party. but to some degree it hasn t really affected the tea party that much. just because there is a sizable portion of the republican party that really believes that smaller government is what s needed out there. more offense is what senator schumer was saying. is there a risk related to that? did the democrats go too far?
they invade america s homes and say this is the only important case and who cares that people are getting gunned down in every city here and there. those lives aren t important. the only life that is important is the one that will sell us papers. that has nothing to do with this story. i do think, back to this story, i do think this is significant in terms of what you pointed out. to some degree it under cuts the debate that his he was racially profiling trayvon martin. he was wrong to get out and follow him. this was part of a violent pattern he has had. he was arrested two times in 2005 for violent-related issues. he had a similar situation with his now estranged wife a couple months ago. and now this pops up again. he is an ass and that s what it shows. i do think to some degree it under cuts the argument that he was racially profiling. he clearly exhibited patterns of being a violent jerk. it is hard for you because he was your hero.
to be more important to them than avoiding tax increases and that is not true. i think that s a mystery. you have the rand pauls of the world. plenty of tea party saying a cut in defense is a cut and we need cuts. i think so. and i think that there is enough of them in the republican caucus that really have no problem with the sequester happening. i think to some degree it. the problem is, again, these kind of cuts, these are hatchet cuts. they re not strategic scaplpals where you go in there and making cuts that make sense and programs that don t work and spending that is not beneficial. that s where one thing, you want the image of the movie dave where they all just go in and everybody is sitting there figure it out. come s in and does the line-by-line. which state hold the record for the longest consecutive democratic winning streak in