like bill kristol and the john mccain hawks of washington, they have not gone anywhere since the last time they got us to start a war. right? they were not able to get president obama to continue the war in iraq for longer than he did. they were not able to get president obama to put boots on the ground in libya, not able to get president obama to open up an american front in the war in syria. right now in washington, president obama is making it clear that they re also not going to be able to get him to start an american war with russia over ukraine or anything else. message to troops about whether the use of force, militarily in ukraine, is possible. we are not going to be getting into a military excursion in ukraine. even the ukrainians would acknowledge that, you know, for us to engage russia militarily would not be appropriate and wouldn t be good for ukraine,
mccain hawks of washington, they have not gone anywhere since the last time they got us to start a war. right? they were not able to get president obama to continue the war in iraq for longer than he did. they were not able to get president obama to put boots on the ground in libya, not able to get president obama to open up an american front in the war in syria. right now in washington, president obama is making it clear that they re also not going to be able to get him to start an american war with russia over ukraine or anything else. message to troops about whether the use of force, militarily in ukraine, is possible. we are not going to be getting into a military excursion in ukraine. even the ukrainians would acknowledge that, you know, for us to engage russia militarily would not be appropriate and wouldn t be good for ukraine, either. president obama speaking last night to nbc 7 in san diego.
washington right now are making this sort of esoteric charge he s not being tough enough against russia. and what a lot of them mean by tough enough is starting a war. just like they always want. that is not going to happen. not this time. if we are big enough as a country and smart enough now as a country to admit that starting a war is not the only way to be tough, how should we understand the toughness of what president obama is doing right now and its likely effectiveness in terms of stopping russia from doing what it has been doing? and what else is president obama capable of doing? we ll be right back.
via executive orderer? how much of a change could he make? there is a federal program called secure communities that gives local and state cops the possibility of when they arrest or detain someone checking their immigration status through dhs. that has caused more than 150,000 people to be deported. and maybe the president could tackle that specifically. that would mitigate immediately in local communities people who have minor traffic infractions and find themselves deported with u.s.-born children. and those families are divided and destroyed in this country. 1,000 deportations happen every day in this country. do you think this dramatic and now repeated protests against deportation policies, do you think they are having an effect in washington? i mean, you have access to the president that i could only dream of. you ve spoken to him a number of times i know. and you see how this is debated in washington. do these protests have an effect on the people who are making decisions?
apparently controversial. what do you think he could do via executive orderer? how much of a change could he snake. there is a federal program called secure communities that gives local and state cops the possibility of when they arrest or detain someone checking their immigration status through dhs. that has caused more than 150,000 people to be deported. and maybe the president could tackle that specifically. that would mitigate immediately in local communities people who have minor traffic infractions and find themselves deported with u.s.-born children. and those families are divided and destroyed in this country. 1,000 deportations happen every day in this country. do you think this dramatic and now repeated protests against deportation policies, do you think they are having an effect in washington? i mean, you have access to the president that i could only dream of. you ve spoken to him a number of times i know. and you see how this is debated in washington.