bail our president out of the situation is one that is not going work for this reason, this is just my opinion. i don t trust putin. obama didn t trust putin until last tuesday. keep in mind that put sint one that supplied the armaments and everything, all of the assets to syria and now we re going to depend on them and their word without any way of determining if they re doing it to get rid of weapons chemical weapons in i don t think so. i don t think we can trust him to do it. do you think we should have made a military strike already? no. in fact, i was the first one who came out of the chute not wanting to do a strike and let me tell you why and it s something that nobody talks about, chris, but it s a reality is and that is that in the last four and a half years the president has so degraded the military and his budget. that first year, you remember that, that was when he did away with the fifth-generation fighter and did away with the c-17, and future combat system
to use force. that s my point. if you thought you can get by with sending in a few cruise missiles and washing our hands and going home and that is what happened. i think putin made it clear that there would be consequences if you did that. your colleague senator bob menendez said that that comment by president putin made him want to vomit. what was your reaction? it sickened me that we would have to sit there and read that, but let s look at it through putin s eyes. he now knows that we had to come to him to get out of a hole. so i think he s enjoying a lot more than menendez and i are enjoying it. a lot of people who were supporters of the people s strategy and now we heard it from the british foreign secretary, they believe that the threat of force is what prompted this all along, that this never would have happened if the u.s. had not threatened force. well, i just don t agree with that. i know that that s what president obama wants us to
the british foreign secretary says that president obama s threat of military strike in syria led russia to change its stance on its longtime ally. john kerry now meeting with his russian counterpart in geneva to meet with the assad government to give up chemical weapons. joining me now is the ranking member of the arms services committee. senator, good morning. good morning, chris. as you know, the russian plan for assad to forfeit chemical wep on knows s iweapons is out there. the fact he didn t have the vote is what delayed the senate vote and i think it s a lousy solution. i can just hear reagan the fact that we are in a position that we are relying on russia to
able to pass budgets and not being able to pass a hurricane relief bill, that s what 2014 is going to be about. there was a piece in the new york times today, a rare public view of obama s pivots on syria confrontation and he s taken a lot of hits on both saturdaidese aisle. senator bob corker said mr. obama is uncomfortable being commander in chief particularly on foreignaffairs and i want to play what he said on the daily rundown. this is a person who is contorted and has difficulty taking ownership and talking about what our national interests are. so, yeah, i m disappointed. i think he has great difficult ney communicating to our citizens and also to the world as a strong commander in chief. you guys on capitol hill have a few things coming up from the budget immigration. has this weakened the president? first of all, i would remind senator corker that there was
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