going back to charles freedman, louis farrakhan, reverend wright, this is obama's m.o..is no friend of the jewish people. host: cory in louisiana, your next. -- you are next. caller: i would like to thank you for taking my call. i do not understand that every time the president tried to do something, the republicans are trying to block him. he tried to nominate and they did not even give her a chance. he cannot do anything. they're blocking him. host: is there politics going on here? guest: yes, there is definitely politics going on. by the way, the previous caller made a caller madehagel's vietnam service. it does not necessarily qualify him, but it does not disqualify him each year. the previous caller said that it should disqualify him. i want to be clear on that. on national-security issues, the neocon wing of the republican party, there is a power struggle going on within the republican party itself on national- security issues. there are fiscal conservative republicans, the tea party group, or more isolationist. there are the more moderate republicans, and then the