american exceptionalism. american exceptionalism. reagan thought that america was a beacon to all of humanity, it was the last best hope on earth, it was a shining city upon a hill. he said that for 30 years before the presidency. i found a speech that reagan gave, a commencement speech in june 1952 to a little, tiny women's college called william woods college in missouri, in fulton, missouri, not far from where churchill made his iron curtain speech just a few years earlier. and in that speech reagan said: america is less of a place than an idea. think about that. chew that over. america is less of a place than an idea. it really is. right? the idea of america is nothing but the inherent love of freedom in each one of us. it is simply the idea of the basis of this country and our religion, the idea of the dignity of man, deep within the heart of each one of us is something so god-like, augustin said all of us have a god-shaped vacuum in our hearts that only god alone can fill, right? it's a vacuum that's god-shaped. only god can fi

they must be based firmly on the key values of american exceptionalism and the founding principles ofstitution. every american should understand what makes us unique as the people, as a country. unfortunately, today, many of our children are failing to learn the basics about our american history. instead, many are learning revisionist or politically correct history. as a consequence, many people, young and old, have no idea what it means to be an american. because of this, i have developed in american history series for children, known as the "ellis the elephant" series. [applause] if the left fails to accurately teach our children about american history, then we have to step up and get the job done. [applause] this october, my time traveling packyderm is back, as he joins lewis and clark on their journey to the pacific and from sea to shining sea. newt and i work for american values, doing historical documentary films in collaboration with the team at citizens united. we are pleased that several of these documentaries have been shown here at cpac. newt is working on a strategy that w

american exceptionalism. reagan thought american was a shining city upon a hill and the last beacon on earth. he said that for 30 years before t the presidency. i found a speech he gave in june 1952 at a small girl's college in missouri. in that speech, reagan said america is less than a place than an idea. think about that. chew that over. it really is, right? the idea of america is nothing but the inherent love of freedom. it is the idea that the bases of this country and our religion, the idea of the man, and the idea that deep within the heart of each of us is something so god-like, agustus said all of us have a god-shaped vacuum in our hearts and only god can fit that piece. there is something so god-like and precious that no individual or group has a right to impose their will on upon the people so well they can decide for themselves. and reagan said that speech in 1952 and over and over again and was ridiculed for this thought. i in my own mind have thought of american as a place in the divi divine prom

another principle is american exceptionalism. ronald reagan thought that america was a beacon to all of humanity who was the last best hope on earth. it was a shining city upon the hill. he said that for 30 years before the presidency. i found a speech that ronald reagan gave in june of 1952 to a little tiny college called william woods college in missouri not far from where churchill made his iron curtain speech a few years earlier. and in that speech, he said america is less of a police van and idea. think about that. america is less of a place than an idea. the idea of america is nothing but the love of freedom in each one of us it is simply the idea that basis of the country in our religion the idea of the dignity of man and the idea that deep within the heart of each one of us is something so godlike all of us have a god shaped vacuum in our heart only god alone can fill. it's a vacuum that only god can fill. something so godlike and precious that no individual or group has the right to impose their will upon the people so w

we're almost embarrassed for american exceptionalism. john? >> certainly, there's no belief in american exceptionalism, eric, and that's why we've been weak on russia, on iran, al qaeda and it's not just that we look weak, we are weak, and obama has a lot to do with that. >> i have no idea where we gets we're weak on iran when the sanctions have been working. >> we lifted them. >> but have they worked? that's the point. >> how did they work? >> we have in this country no interest in a shooting war with russia. we have got to pull back from where we were two wars that we were sick of. but at the end of the day, america is exceptional and when you talk about the president, regardless if it's a democrat or a republican in the words that conservatives have been using, that's not exceptional. >> wait, let's go to wayne. if sanctions are working against iran should we lift them, back off those sanctions? >> no, no, we should increase them, eric. that's the one thing we have. we are the strongest economic power in the world today and we should use th

this notion ofut american exceptionalism as you see it?he first thing i thought is the age-old question about american exceptionalism. where'd you come down on fat these days? was i have never been a big fan of the phrase. -- where'd you come down on that these days? >> i have never been a big fan of the phrase. a lot of people were upset with us in india, brazil, europe, germany, and everywhere else. i don't think that anybody turns around and says, that means i would much rather be close to china or russia, so by the standards of great powers, there is something different about american power. we have decided historically to set up the way we use american power to try to build these coalitions, to try to build these alliances from a to and onefree trade, irony is we spent a long time thinking about the rise of china and india. ofs a very different kind power. there are some exceptions. sometimes we use our power in more unilateral ways. we certainly know rivalry. the question is whether we know constraint. leading from behind, but when t

what he told uz he was going to do in june of 2009, where he was going to scale back the american exceptionalismpride in america, and say, look, we're going to scale down our military, which i believe is a mistake. we have talked about this before. i don't know that we need the military boots, the number of personnel, but we still need the military spending. what? >> nothing, go ahead. >> let me say something else. he also said something -- i don't know if they're going to roll more sound, but he said something very disturbing. a little later on in the answer about whether mitt romney was right or wrong. he said russia is not a super power. russia is a local power, he called them. vlad putin is litsening and he's only 1600 miles away from moscow, listening to president obama saying he's scaling back our military, the united states military, and calls russia a local power. boy, is he asking for trouble. >> bob, how does it benefit the united states to have the president do a tour to say we're cutting down on the military? >> because the audience he had there, all the european nations have put up

everybody knows about american exceptionalism. we always had a history of being the underdog. it looked down on by europe and the need to show ourselves as the soviet union and the origins of control we don't need to complete that it's always been questioning authority which makes america what it is and you have these emigrants in the triple package element but some of that gets explored and everybody isn't working overtime. what we say is after the soviet union fell maybe we were left with a superiority complex at the extent of the other two candidates that are then a superiority complex which has massive problems anyway is tempered by proving your self. >> the first question is what you want your country to have the triple package. and it requires -- they make countries do terrible things and in the last chapter america has available the sense of exception out of the other democracy and inclusiveness if that can be the basis of the complex in terms of insecurity and impulse control there are so many domains with the inability to stop borrowing the insecurity there is a good

this is a further example of this president not believing in american exceptionalism.ot believing in the special role that america plays in the world as a beacon of freedom, as an arbitor. obviously, we are not perfect. america makes a lot of mistakes. there are bad things that happen under our form of government but by and large, we always, almost alwayserer on the right side. to the list of good things that you just mentioned, the internet has spawned, don't forget the enormous amount of publicity that has been brought to freedom-seekers in places like china, even though there the a lot of sensorship there. >> right. >> but the internet, america has insured the internet is a voice for freedom all around the world. >> why would president obama's administration be doing this, unless, of course the president is simply trying to appease his critics here and abroad that the united states has been surveiling foreign governments in the nsa, spying, using the internet and so forth? so he's doing this purely largely for political reasons? >> it's not in terms of placateing a

so there is this -- you know, we talk about american exceptionalism. the russians have their own version of it in this regard. >> charlie: and then from kiev by skype, the former president of georgia, mikheil saakashvili. >> this is something that is bigger and the longer it lasts the bigger it will get. so there's a desperate need for leadership now on the parts of the united states administration and european leaders indeed because this is not just business as usual. on the other hand, i'm also, in a way have this hope that this will be one of the last adventures of vladimir putin. >> charlie: and we conclude this evening with a conversation with jeffrey goldberg of bloomberg view who just had a conversation with president obama about israeli palestinian issues. >> obama's ideas have shifted to a remarkable degree, not about his politics but his staying power and how essential he is to this process. so what he was going doing in the interview were two things. he was boxing him in saying, you know, time is up, you don't like to move, i know that but y

we're almost embarrassed for american exceptionalism. john?ainly, there's no belief in american exceptionalism, eric, and we've been weak on russia, on iran, al qaeda and it's not just that we look weak, we are weak, and obama has a lot to do with that. >> i have no idea where we gets we're weak on iran when the sanctions have been working. >> we lifted them. >> but have they worked? that's the point. >> how did they work? >> we have in this country no interest in a shooting war with russia. we have got to pull back from where we were two wars that we were sick of. but at the end of the day, america is exceptional and when you talk about the president, regardless if it's a democrat or a republican in the words that conservatives have been using, that's not exceptional. >> wait, let's go to wayne. if sanctions are working against iran should we lift them, back off those sanctions? >> no, no, we should increase them, eric. that's the one thing we have. we are the strongest economic power in the world today and we should use that power everywhere

they must be based firmly on the key values of american exceptionalism and the founding principles ofion. every american should understand what makes us unique as the people, as a country. unfortunately, today, many of our children are failing to learn the basics about our american history. instead, many are learning revisionist or politically correct history. as a consequence, many people, young and old, have no idea what it means to be an american. because of this, i have developed an american history series for children, known as the "ellis the elephant" series. [applause] if the left fails to accurately teach our children about american history, then we have to step up and get the job done. [applause] this october, my time traveling packyderm is back, as he joins lewis and clark on their journey to the pacific and from sea to shining sea. newt and i work for american values, doing historical documentary films in collaboration with the team at citizens united. we are pleased that several of these documentaries have been shown here at cpac. newt is working on a strategy that will he

i too am against jingoistic american exceptionalism.e difference, and that it -- if we don't know the difference, let us never use that phrase again. if we believe in nothing but ourselves, and god help us. it was lincoln who said we should not pray that god is on our side but that we are on god's side. that is humility. i am a christian and i say i share the good news because i know i did not invent the good news. i did not earn the good news. i did not get the good news because i am smart or wise. it was a gift given to me so i could share it with others humbly and lovingly. america'st speak of love, let me not speak of it at all. if you do not believe in god, that's ok. freedomwhat religious is all about. the government cannot tell us what to believe. they can't tell us what god to believe in or to believe in god. they can't tell us what church to go to war to go to church. -- they can't tell us what church to go to or to go to church. they can't tell us not to practice our religion. big to fail. too no idea is too big to fail. they

here's the problem, president putin has a vision of russian exceptionalism and you trash american exceptionalism. you don't believe that we americans are exceptional? and day-by-day, you do everything in your power to make sure that we are not. so does the truth matter? some people don't think it does. . >> i also can issue a warning, if our movement is primarily anti--obama, we will, in fact, reduce the number of victories we should win this fall. if we spend extra years being primarily anti-hillary, we will virtually guarantee her election. >> really, newt, not to be negative. were you around when george bush was president and the dems did a daily dance on his head when someone lies to you, what do you do? let it go? i got news for you, we're not willing to let the lies go. john bolton, though, got it right at cpac. >> we meet in a time of true national security crisis, indeed, many crises, but our biggest national security crisis is barak obama. >> and here's rick perry. >> we don't have to accept recent history. we just need to change the presidency. it's not too late for america to lead in

we talk about american exceptionalism, and the russians have their own version. vladimir putin is a russian nationalist. he believes that restoring russia's influence and power is at the forefront of his agenda. he intends to do it. >> how important does it mean to have an exit route. these are the kinds of leverage that we have. you have your own leverage, but we want to provide a way that both of us can with their own integrity and dignity intact, walk away from this. >> whatever tactical compromise he may make in the period ahead, there's no doubt my mind that vladimir putin intends for there to be a government in kiev that looks to russia. i think he will not give up on that goal. i worry that he thinks -- i believe that he thinks that he holds a lot of high cards in this situation. we need him, with respect to syria and iran and the nuclear negotiations, we still have that northern distribution network. it will bring equipment out of afghanistan. he has significant economic leverage over ukraine. he had some influence in western europe. they still get 25% of

obama does not believe in american exceptionalism. >> we're sending a signal that america is weak, that we're in decline, and weakness is provocative. we've created a leadership vacuum in the world. it's filled by putin and it will be filled by other putin-like people. putin is punching so far above his weight class and the united states isn't punching at all. we don't have a foreign policy. we don't have a strategy. >> camera three right now, bob, what about it? >> that's the same rumsfeld who went into iraq with not enough troops, forced george bush in. the fact this guy would talk about the strength, and it was him -- >> however, can we focus -- >> i'm saying rumsfeld is the wrong guy. the other guy i don't know. rumsfeld is the wrong guy to listen to. >> they were both on hannity last night. is it true, are we punching at all? and frankly, should we be punching? >> are you asking me this? >> yeah, that's what they said. >> i think we should be punching in deal making. as i said before, i don't think they're leaving crimea. i don't think they will. if they don't, we ought to get some

parents, the parents believe the kids will have a lower standard of living, and you talk about american exceptionalism. and greatness has to be earned by every generation. i guess my last question is how significant is this for our future. how concerned are you. >> i'm very concerned. it's extremely important. the nation's future depends on having a strong economy and it depends on an educated work so far as. >> americans enjoy a g.d.p. that is six times the average of the rest of the world. you don't get there by being there below average. we are well below average of every test. it is important. i am concerned and i think we know many of the answers. it's not more money, how we spend the money. >> we look forward to your new book and thop talk to you then. it's a pleasure to have you on the show. "consider this" will as we make our way back to work on monday, we may see a few flurries, we got good weather this weekend and have a lot to look forward to. we have a front pushing across the country, across the south-east that brought heavy rain across portions of alabama >> mike viqueira, 30 seconds. wh

obama does not believe in american exceptionalism. >> that is a powerful commentary. k.t.he last word. >> i think he's absolutely right. putin has had a 15-year plan, he's followed it religiously, he's used his natural gas to keep europe hostage, the revenues from this oil to give him the windfall to carry it out. i don't think he thought he would be lucky to get a weak american president. >> i think your plan is dead on. i think we can reverse the -- we're out of time. thank you, lanny, appreciate it. >> okay. >> ed henry is following the white house's response to the developing crisis in ukraine, and then an expert on russia is going to break down exactly who vladimir putin is, and why you need to be concerned. that and much more as this edition of hannity continues. vo: once upon a time there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water ancastles were houses dragons lurked, giants stood tall, and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real. avo:hatever you can imagine, all in one place. expedia, find yours. they have the same walk. sa

parents, the parents believe the kids will have a lower standard of living, and you talk about american exceptionalismd greatness has to be earned by every generation. i guess my last question is how significant is this for our future. how concerned are you. >> i'm very concerned. it's extremely important. the nation's future depends on having a strong economy and it depends on an educated work so far as. >> americans enjoy a g.d.p. that is six times the average of the rest of the world. you don't get there by being there below average. we are well below average of every test. it is important. i am concerned and i think we know many of the answers. it's not more money, how we spend the money. >> we look forward to your new book and thop talk to you then. it's a pleasure to have you on the show. "consider this" will >> twenty five years ago, pan am flight 103 exploded in the skys above lockerbie. only one man was convicted of the attack >> the major difficulty for the prosecution, that there was no evidence... >> now a three year al jazeera investigation, reveals a very different story about who was re

everybody knows about american exceptionalism. we always had a history of being the underdog. it looked down on by europe and the need to show ourselves as the soviet union and the origins of control we don't need to complete that it's always been questioning authority which makes america what it is and you have these emigrants in the triple package element but some of that gets explored and everybody isn't working overtime. what

but the lesson here is contrary to the hip grad school mentality, american exceptionalism does matter, and when it's removed from the world stage, you leave a vacuum for this to happen. i'm not saying this caused it to happen. it made it more likely to happen. when you leave the world stage, the world keeps turnic even if you jump off. >> one of the national security officials in the obama administration said today that in a "new york times" piece by david singer that obama knows that he's trying to manage a period of american retrenchment or retreat from the world. but what about the rule of -- what about the rule of law that president obama was talking about earlier? >> he said they're violating, russia is violating international law, but i agree with greg. let me not paraphrase you improperly. this is not our fight. your analogy of the mom teaching her kid something and us trying to get involved in it, let them. if the european union doesn't want to get involved, 97% of the crimeans say they want to be russian. >> you believe 96% of the people in crimea voted with their conscience,

you talk about american exceptionalism, that greatness isn't something we should take for granted. greatness have to be earned by every single generation. >> how so. >> last question i have how significant is it for di, how concerned are you? >> the strength of the community depends on the strength of the workforce for people to have good jobs. americans enjoy a gdp six times the rest of the world. you don't get there by being below average. today we are we below average in every test of which i'm aware. i am concerned. i think we know many of the answers, in this case happily it's not more money, it's how we spend the money. >> we look forward to your new book. norm augustine, it's a pleasure to have you. >> thank you. >> the center of the bullying scandal, what that could mean for the stigma of mental illness. words on your resume that could cost you a job. next on data dive. a. >> today's data dive may just help you get a job. a survey from careerbuilder.com, say each executive director expense less than five minutes on each are resume. managers hate boring overused cliches. the

. >> the president has a very dismissive attitude towards american exceptionalism. this president, philosophically going to your point, i don't think shares the concerns of this panel and a large majority of the americans. >> go ahead. >> we've seep this movie before. after vietnam in the carter administration -- >> called the peace dividend. >> we cut our military systems, we retracted our position in the world and what happened? the end result of that is when our american diplomats were taken hostage in tehran, we could not mount a successful rescue mission. we had five helicopters that were mired in the sand. we couldn't even rescue our own. so flash forward. when i was in the pentagon and reagan administration, we were horrified by what we found. we had ships that couldn't sail because they didn't have fuel. we had airplanes that couldn't fly because our pilots hadn't had enough training hours. for every tank that was operational, there was one sitting next to it that was cannibalized for spare parts. but the single worst thing is what we found with our young men

concretely for many people what the failings of leading from behind, of not believing in american exceptionalismof not promoting the reagan doctrine of peace through strength, it shows what happens when you abandon those policies. it's been true for five years in a range of other policies across the middle east, nuclear proliferation. combating international terrorism. but, for whatever reason, the crisis in ukraine has really brought it home. >> you know, i always think to myself if i were in the president's is, what would i do? he has problems with north korea firing off missiles here and there. the mess in syria that was ignored. iran threatening because many people believe they have a nuclear weapons program. the israelis certainly do. knew you have got the ukraine. he has got to deal with saudi arabia who is mad at us about syria. i don't even know how to bailout of the situation. >> well, i think it would help if he had a strategy in feel that american strength is important to preserve whatever limited order and stability there are in the world to protect our interests and those of our fri

american exceptionalism extends to this area. the problem with the world is that the people in these countries, they want our help, but their leaders don't. that's the case in almost all of these countries. we could do so much good in so many places, but the leaders say no and they screw up and make people's lives miserable. >> bob, last week, you pointed out this is the biggest aviation mystery, and do you think this is just going to have to remain a mystery? >> well, the first thing that strikes me, this is the first thing the malaysians have said definitively since the beginning. they refused to say it turned at first. now, all of a sudden, definitively, we know it went in the ocean. there's a huge credibility gap here. the other thing, it may never be explained, but why did the plane fly for eight hours? if this guy was killing himself, the pilot or the copilot, together they decided to kill themselves, why not do it sooner than that? it's so bizarre. if they think it's going to go away, i think they're kidding themselves. >>

when you see investigations conducted like this, we can appreciate the blessings of american exceptionalisme wasted o-- apparently the wasted four or five days, regarding the plane turning and heading west. >> the new time line doesn't match up. here is why, when they said at 1:07 that it made the turn, and 12 minutes later they handed off the control and the guy said good night, right? guess what? by that time they would have been 90 miles off course. that tells me that act was not controlling them at that time. because had they been controlling them when they got off course 90 miles, they would have been right on top of it, saying why are you changing? >> last night, our expert said they may not have actually seen it make the turn and go off course. and it is interesting that they went to do that just as they left the malaysian air space and went to the vietnam control. >> they were not going towards vietnam, they were going westbound towards the strait of malacca. that is where they lost the airplane, what kind of excuse do you give your people when you say that 60 miles, or whatever it

everybody knows about american exceptionalism. city on a hill, we're going to -- we have the best system. we always few most of our history had the insecurity of being underdog, you know, looked down on by europe and always need to show ourselves, the soviet union and puritan origins of impulse control. we don't need to repeat that. but as jed says, it's always been this sewer play of rebelliousness and questioning authority which kind of makes america what it is, and you have these roles of elements that come in, but in a good way some of that gets exploded out, and you have new energy so not just everybody's working all the time. what we say in the end of the book is that after the soviet union fell we, for the first time in our entire history, we had no more rival, and maybe we were left with just major superiority complex. at the expense of the other two. and as we say, it's better when superiority complex -- which has massive problems anyway -- is tempered by a little bit of sense of needing to prove yourself. and, you know,

you know, i thought it was interesting in the sense that he really tried to move away from american exceptionalism. a lot of modesty on the united states doesn't always get it right, doesn't get international law right, all the rest, but this, what putin has done is beyond the pale and we need to hit him hard. having said that, that engagement was surrounded by ten minutes on the outside of history and marshall plan -- >> from world war i to nelson mandela. >> and at the end, too. i don't think you'll come out of this speech over next few days and say, aha, now we know where it's going. for me, the actually most important policy piece said that they think there'll be more sanctions on the russian ifs they continue present course. they don't need to go into east ukraine. simply not backing down means no new sanctions. >> dr. saks, he's focused, as we just discussed, on very broad principles. let's play our first clip of him playing what's at stake here. >> including the simple truth that all men and women are created equal. but those ideals have also been tested here in europe and around the world.

everybody knows about the american exceptionalism. we have the best instead.we always had the insecurity of being underdogs. you look down by european ict show ourselves the soviet union in the puritan origins of impulse control. but it's always been this airplay of rebelliousness and questioning authority which makes america what it is. you have these rules of immigrants that come in with a lot of triple package elements. in a good way, some of that gets exploded out and you have new energy so not everybody is working all the time. what we say in the end of the book is after the soviet union, for the first time in our entire history of the vietnam war rifle and maybe we were left with major superiority complex at the expense of the other two. as we say, it is better when the spirit of complex has massive problems anyway is tempered by a little bit of needing to prove yourself. >> host: the first question would be which he won a country to have the triple package? that's a serious question and requires an intelligent man who before you decide really what our c

and that is wrap himself in american exceptionalism where he started off in 2010 with the cpac audienceukraine and those sort of things. he's trying to outhawk the most hawkish of republicans. and this speech today, i feel sorry for people who have to put together these speeches because it's like putting together a conservative mr. potato head. you have all of the same parts, and not a lot there. he's sounding similar themes. in fact, mitt romney, 2012, called for a new american century and sounded many same themes about atta s abous about attention to corporations. >> it's great, we've been calling for policy prescriptions from the gop and addressing the issue of economic inequality and poverty in the country, they're pretending they're doing it. but when it come down to laying out specific policies or acknowledging that government may be as part of the solution, there is really -- there is no meat there. its a republican mr. potato head. >> we have burned steak, potatoes. >> hungry. >> there's a meal in here somewhere. look, first two things. you are reminding me of a great column, it

battered among conservatives during the immigration debate by becoming the spokesman for american exceptionalismand he's presenting himself as a contrast to the more isolationist voices in the party these days, like rand paul. the question is whether that tactic will work in a party that is becoming more skeptical of foreign entanglements. even rubio gave a nod to that skepticism. >> there is only one nation on earth capable of rallying and bringing together the free people on this planet, to stand up to the spread of totalitarianism. that doesn't mean we're going to be involved in 15 washes or that american foreign policy needs to involve armed conflicts on every corner of the planet, but we cannot ignore the reality of who we are. >> by the way, we haven't heard many speakers at cpac make a case for governing. the exception was paul highian who argued infighting in the republican party is proof of a healthy battle of ideas. >> take senator marco rubio. he wants to repair our safety net. take chairman dave camp. he wants to lower tax rates for businesses and families. right now, the tax code is

we will identify for little american exceptionalism.f we do not believe it in our hearts, if we do not believe in us, if we do not know this is part of our civilization, they will win. our children need to know that our founding fathers mean what they said. law,onstitution and the mr. president, mean what they say. we have got to step up here and we owe them. workingthis to the class to protect and defend and defend it. and we need to hand it to the next generation. these are rights that came from god. ofy shape the declaration the constitution, fodor revolutionary war. fought a revolutionary war. we just have to hand it to the next generation in better condition than we found it. to have the most patriotic motivations. we are going to serve with joy. we might as well have fun. if you can serve with joy, they can never defeat you. [applause] and they are never going to defeat the tea party. we are stronger than ever before. we are anchored in the constitution. we are anchored in limited government. we are anchored in free enterprise. we

restore the american dream and identify for little babies yet to be borne the pillars of american exceptionalismntified because if we don't believe it in our hearts, we don't know this as part of our civilization they will define it away from us. our children's where the future is, they need to know our founding fathers meant what they said, the words in the declaration and the constitution and the law, by the way, mr. president, mean what they say. we cannot let them define them away. that is a step up because we oppose this to the people who handed this republic over to us to preserve, protect and defend it and hand it to the next generation. they form it out of the ideas of the rights the came from god and argued for it, shake to the declaration and the constitution, fatah revolutionary war and there is our great country and all we have to do is the send it andou revolutionary war and there is our great country and all we have to do is the send it and handed to the next generation and we will do this with the most patriotic motivation and serve with july aoy and might al have fun. if you serv

where are the other democrats, someone to speak out about american exceptionalism besides a former presidente we gave up the space program, then we do the internet, and soon, you know, it's just outrageous. and thank god bill clinton has stood up. where is everyone else? >> you would think the republicans trying to get the young vote, that the nsa has driven them away from obama. obamacare is driving them away. they're there for the taking. you would think they would ride in on this, but not a peep. >> they don't care about the country, john. don't you get it? none of them do. >> you have russia and china who would love to take over the internet, and some of what was said, where president clinton was talking, the former president was talking, is that, my goodness, they have been known for shutting down websites in their own countries. they might do that to somebody else. >> to quote president reagan about the panama canal, we paid for it, we're going to keep this thing. that should be part of the 2016 campai campaign. >> someone stand up for america, for god's sake. >> all right. we're stand

and in some ways america was born with these three elements and everybody knows about it american exceptionalism the city on the hill the best system. we always for most of our history have insecurity from being the underdog, look down on by europe and we always need to show ourselves. there's the soviet union and the puritan origins of impulse control and we don't need to repeat that that is jed says there has been this interplay of rebelliousness and question authority which is what nixon america what it is. we have immigrants that come in with the triple package elements but in a good way that gets gets exploded at a new energy so not everybody just working all the time. what we say at the end of the book is that after the soviet union fell for the first time in our entire history we had no more rifle and navy we were left with just the major superiority complex at the respect of the other two and as we say it's better than the superiority complex which has massive problems anyway is tempered by the sense that you have to prove yourself. i don't know if you want to -- >> guest: the first ques

he does not believe in american exceptionalism or leadership.t is why our influence is , especiallyhe world in the middle east where the united states influence and power is no longer a factor. much a consensus builder. we did not have it with the u.k. for syria. do you think things are changing at all or still in the position where it will be an uphill battle trying to convince other nations to join us as we deal with this problem? already we're seeing disappointing but not surprising signs from germany and the british that basically they do not want to do anything serious. one reason is because of the energy supplies. another is germany refuses, even though it is the strongest economy, to take a leadership role. i am afraid we will have to do a lot of it by ourselves. with memccain speaking about the president's budget proposal. i asked him about the ukraine crisis. more on that coming up in the 4:00 hour. for that we are joined by douglas holtz aegon. and carl ricketts on a, senior economist at deutsche bank. what is your biggest criticism fr