nuclear inspections. did we just ask for too little? well, it is true that this deal doesn t turn iran from a bad guy into a good guy. but it is a little bit rewriting of history to suggest these negotiations were about all of the other activities of iran in the region. we can start to lift up the moderate elements, within iran, the internationalists who want them to be sitting as a member of the world community so we can talk about all the other issues. it is also important to point out we have a host of other sanctions that are in place, trying to change their behavior on their ballistic missile program, on their human rights violation and on their support for terrorism. those sanctions don t go away. they stay in place and congress and the president reserves the right to increase those sanctions if they continue to undermine stability in the middle east, notwithstanding the progress we re making on the nuclear program. so you support, let me get this right, you support potential
americans minds, strength translates to troops. americans want the united states to appear strong, but most are against boots on the ground these days. how do you appear strong without the threat of military action? i think you put your finger on exactly the challenge the president is going to try to address in this speech. my guess is he s going to try to point out that being strong, being engaged, being internationalists, even being interventionalists in the world doesn t necessarily mean boots on the ground, that we have rallied the world on the ukraine issue or put in place sanctions against russia, are opposing russian efforts to destabilize ukraine, but it would be crazy to try to find a land war with russia over ukraine. so a lot of times i think the president s frustration comes from the fact that the critics seem to be saying you re not doing enough. you re weak. you re giving in, when i think his feeling is, well, i m doing
points to the fact that russians are bringing in helicopters and planes right to that area. both say now force, so close to the border that they could roll into ukraine without any warning whatsoever. are these reports credible that the russians could move into ukraine. we have certain sergey lavrov saying he has no intention of coming across into ukraine. but in the last few days we have heard comments from president putin ratcheting up the propaganda saying that he believes the russians who live in ukraine are under threat from internationalists in ukraine. karl penhaul for us there reporting live. karl, thank you very much. we re so glad that you re starting your money with you. yes, your next hour of new day starts right now.
strategy in the middle east right now, because and i ve spoken privately with these leaders. they say they don t see a strategy. we don t have one. first of all, let s be clear that it s a good thing that the president is ruling out military intervention right now, because there s a big question. how much would it cost? who would pay for it? how long would we be there and whose kids are going to fight that? i think it s important we re exhausting all diplomatic means, nonmilitary means to get in there. that said, we are now in a situation where we have to have a regroup and a reset. this disaster in geneva, i think, opens a new chapter. what we are doing right now is not working. we re going to have to do something different. the difference, though, between the liberal internationalists and some of our more hawkish friends, we don t think we re going to be able to shoot our way out of this thing, bomb other way out of this thing. we have got to do two things. one, we ve got to do
street internationalists could exist side by side with one goal beating the democrats. what it mean s to be a republican today ignores much of that. over the past decade the gop has morphed into a group of tea party conservatives who are overly suspicious of government, allied against abortion and motivated by faith. it might be hard to imagine this today, but the word abortion didn t even exist in the republican party platform until 1976 when the party recognized there was a deep divide between those who supported abortion on demand and those who fought to protect life. yes, there also was a time not even that long ago when being a pro-choice republican was considered okay. remember president gerald ford and george h.w. bush when he was picked up by ronald reagan for the vp spot in 1980? while party platforms are often just words, one word didn t often appear in the good old days and that was conservative. we wanted to be known as the moderate or even progressive party. words like f