and mccain lay out what is going on.eading isis and recruiting. go back to fast and furious and he says he learned about it in the media then you go back to the irs. he said he learned about it in the media jay carney says he learned about the v.a. in the media i begin to think i want my president to have more information than i do. and that's -- you can't make decision unless you have good information. >> well, this requires the president to be engaged in curious and active. and he is not this president has lazy attitude towards the job that he has got. he goes a year without talking to president karzai of afghanistan. predecessor talked to karzai frequently, several times a month. he went almost a year without talking to prime minister maliki in iraq. he has no relationship with him. he shows up late in the oval office. he has avoided what is it 60-some odd percent of his presidential daily briefs. he does not like to have the cia brief him in person. he would rather get a piece of paper. a president who is disengaged

senator john mccain likes a good fight, a good meal, and a good game.ccain joins us from phoenix. welcome. >> thank you two guys. congratulations on your new show, but could i say i've never known of a greater oxymoron than you two guys having a show entitled "with all due respect." that is the greatest contradiction i have ever seen in my life. >> thanks for calling that out. >> we will parse that with an investigative unit at some point. i want to ask you about some news today and facts on the ground in syria and iraq, and turkey. turkey is a nato ally. "the new york times" said the turkey was dragging its feet and said quote, this is not how a nato ally acts while hell is unfolding a stone's throw from their border. are you disappointed in turkey? >> i'm of course very disappointed in turkey to a large degree, but i also would point out when we are taking halfhearted measures and they are -- this administration -- is only striking and it's only against isis and not against assad. "the new york times" talks about how assad is taking advantage of the a

but the reason mccain and romney lost is not because they were moderate.e specific reasons why mccain lost, that were to do with the direction the country was going in, months before we ever got into 2008. and as far as romney is concerned, the reality is, romney didn't lose because he was moderate, he lost because he was a terrible candidate. he was too moderate for my tastes on economic policy topics, but the reason people didn't want to vote for him wasn't because of that. it was a whole host of other things. so i think ted cruz, when he says that's one thing that's certain, he's completely incorrect. it's one thing that's not certain. >> looking across the aisle, who do you fear most as a challenger to the democratic nominee, whether it's hillary or not, center right or hard right? >> you would fear someone who is center right. the extremes never win. they don't win if they're hard left. they don't win if they're hard right. now, they may campaign, and we all know this, in the primaries, because they're going after a certain part of the base to make su

with me now senator john mccain, republican from arizona. welcome, senator. we appreciate it. let me talk to you first about this breaking news we have this morning, and that is, look, i'm not a doctor, you're not a doctor, we can only listen to doctors. but do you get the sense that the federal government is on top of this? is there anything more you think the federal government can do? >> well, first of all, from spending time here in arizona, my constituents are not comforted. there has to be more reassurance given to them. i would say that we don't know exactly who's in charge. there has to be some kind of czar. i think we have to look at people coming into the united states, not only at our airports here but the places where they leave from. as you know, there are not direct flights from africa. americans have to be reassured here. i don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of ebola in the united states and obviously that's not correct. i was impressed by your panel, but frankly i'd like to know who's in charge, among other th

that and coming up next, arizona senator john mccain and joe lieberman here to weigh in all of this, straight ahead. ♪ all around the world the dedicated people of united airlines ♪ are there to support you. ♪ that's got your back friendly. ♪ [light instrumental music] ♪ female announcer: recycle your old fridge and get $50. schedule your free pickup at: ♪ i'll stop the world and melt with you ♪ >> welcome back to >>> welcome back to "hannity," the president's recent refusal to take any blame regarding the isis threat is just one example of him leading from behind. he too learn a thing or two from prime minister benjamin netanyahu. watch this. >> are you saying this is really not a war? >> what i'm saying is that we are assisting iraq in a very real battle. >> isis must be defeated. but to defeat isis and leave iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war. >> so rather than play whackamo and send u.s. troops, wherever this occurs we have to build strong partnerships. >> when militant islam succeeds anywhere, it is emboldenned sha. >> if we make the mistake

within a few months congress actually passed -- mccain pushed come because back in the days when mccained about campaign finance reform, mccain pushed and congress passed legislation that's still on the books that requires 527 groups that are operating outside of regular political committees, to disclose their campaign spending and the nation's. that happened within the election cycle, as i recall. our capacity to respond in the same election cycle or even in anticipation of the next election cycle seems to me in response to a similar scandal to be vastly reduced. >> i probably should at this point in the st

so we have had periodic passage of laws including the most recent mccain feingold law. and, of course, here the irony of john's lamb bafting of his perceived enemies, the corporations and big money interests, the irony that mccain feingold that he championed targets the very groups that people of average means must have in order to participate. mccain feingold targets advocacy groups in imposing this blackout period in terms of mentioning names of candidates in broadcast ads. they attack political parties for raising money regulated under state laws in order to impose more restrictions on what political parties could say about candidates for federal office. they attack unions with the same blackout periods. they did nothing about any rich person. there's not a sentence in mccain feingold that adversely affects the ability of a rich person to spend their own money in -- for politics. what about people of average means? they don't have the money. what they have to do is associate. they come together in a group. they pool their resources. now they have the money to partici

john mccain is calling for an ebola czar in the white house.s this issue about two dominated the midterms? >> he is getting good political advice. he watches briefings and we keep talking. different officials are low-key. the president would be super smart. to pick one person with a commanding presence and have them talk daily because politically he is setting himself up for the same kind of criticism is got in the past about not being commanding enough and not eating on top of the big issue. >> this white house has not designated a norman schwarzkopf like figure. someone who has public health communication and political savvy and who is out there on television leading people through this rather than seeing those five or six different faces on the screen. >> what -- leaving the public health aside what is the worst case for the democratic party? >> even though a few have been into the fear mongering game most are not want to be accused of that. you will see a lot of atmospheric ads that will bundle this isis thing with this ebola thing. we are

. >> john mccain has been on meet the press more than five dozen times and has been on this show. inaugural appearance the arizona senate man joins us next. >> welcome and thank you. and could i say, congratulations on your new show, but could i say, i have never known of a greater oxymoron than you two guys entitled "with all due respect." that is a great contradiction. >> we will pars that out. >> i want to ask you about the news of the day and syria and iraq and turkey. they are a nato ally. and turkey was dragging its feet and said, quote, this is how a nato ally acts when hell is a stone's throw. are you disappointed in turkey. >> i'm very disappointed in turkey to a large degree. but i would also point out when we are taking half-hearted measures, which we are, and they are -- this administration incredibly is only striking and only against isis and not against assaad. "new york times" talked about how assaad is taking advantage of the attacks on isis in order to kill free-syrian people. it is immoral on our part saying we aren't going to go after assaad. and the turks fear

what is senator mccain doing? that's straight ahead. [light instrumental music] ♪ female announcer: recycle your old fridge and get $50. schedule your free pickup at: people worried about the terrorist threat making and that's losing perspective. you don't want to overstate the threat but you don't want to understate it. what he is saying is just simply wrong. number one, it's premature. today is terrorism and existential threat? not yet, but the whole point is we are worried that as it metastasizes, as it gets nuclear weapons it will become existential threat. >> i agree the whole alarmist thing is bad. i worry are we properly warning people or scaring people unnecessarily. i don't know which. the lack of sort of addressing what was going on in syria because we felt quite comfortable. now brings us or the president did, rather, now brings us to where we are where it is metastasized cancer. it's got a lot bigger and trying to give it chemotherapy and it's a little lavment. >> given the administration's lack of credibility on its diagnos

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. >> directly ahead, what does meghan mccain think about her father senator john mccain wanting to putroops on the ground to fight isis? ms. mccain will be here. and then stossel says the constitution of the united states is being abused. he has three examples for us upcoming. ♪ decay. it's the opposite of evolution. the absence of improvement. and the enemy of perfection. which is why you can never stop moving forward. never stop inventing. introducing the mercedes-benz gla. a breakthrough in design, aerodynamics and engineering. because the only way to triumph over decay... is to leave it in its own dust. ♪ >>> personality story segment tonight, perhaps the biggest hawk in the senate he wants american troops to confront the isis terrorists. >> they are winning and we are not. and the iraqis are not winning, the person mergenthaler go, the kurds are not winning. there is a lot of aspects to this. there has to be a fundamental reevaluation of what we're doing because we are not -- we are not degraghtd grading and ultimately destroying isis. >> with us now senator mccain's daughter mega

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you have john mccain warning of a mass slaughter. most people never heard of kobani before, but experts like you and senator mccain telling us we need to worry. complete part of the main caliphate that they're after and the air strikes are not going to protect this town and already we see the black flag flying. what next? >> hit them with air power. hit them hard. before they got into the city when they're out in the open, now we can't very well carpet bomb the city. it's one travesty after another. president obama doesn't act to prevent tragedy, he reacts to tragedy. he mourns and does a little bit. it's going to repeat itself again and again and again because we are not at war with isis, the islamic state. they're at war with us. but we're just making this fraudulent pretend effort that we're doing something. oh, by the way, our allies in the gulf are doing far, far less and the turks as they sit on the border and watch this slaughter unfold, prime minister erdogan of turkey is playing a double game with us. we're acting as though

[laughter] >> i thought maybe you were sharing john mccain's story.y aat picture was taken wonderful photographer who asked if he could follow me around for about a week. and we let him. trent was good enough to say, yeah, if you want to do this -- so he had enormous access. that is the only time i can recall ever doing that. but that picture was taken while we were negotiating the 50-50 senate. i do not know what was funny at the time, but i am glad we found some humor in it. that was in the year 2000. >> top was the majority -- tom was the majority leader. i guess we still had the minority because we had the vice presidents vote. the leaders now, i doubt if they ever grace each other's offices. the whole between my office and tom's office went both ways. he came to my office and i went to his office. what a small thing to do. how ridiculous would you be that you would not go to the other leaders office? that was one of the things we did to keep an easy relationship. sitting at that desk, we laughed and we cried some, too. senator thinking daschle ju

plus, magazine megan mccain will join us for a look at the growing fear of ebola.re we worrying too much or is it time to panic? .. ...heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm... amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. sflimplt we're moments away from two critical briefings. one from the white house and the other from the pentagon where admiral john kirby expected to give us an update on the u.s.-led fight against isis in iraq and syria. weapons of mass destruction were found in iraq, but it was all kept a secret. we're going to keep our eyes on this throughout the show. josh ernest should be appearing at some point on the right and admiral kirby on left. in the meantime, cleaning up contamination from ebola hazardous job, right? you got to remove all traces of the virus and keep it from spreading all without putting yourself in danger. brad smith is vice president of the cleaning guys, and they were sent

senator john mccain tweeting president obama claims intel community missed isis threat.ator graham and i saw it. and senator mccain joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. >> i saw the tweet. i read the tweet. i also read back on october 20th, 2013 op. ad policesterring laying out what you thought would happen and did happen. how does the president miss this? >> because he campaigned and actually was able to get the democrat nomination by being against anything in iraq. and he refused to rizzs the reality. he refused to pursue the effort to have a stable blizzing force

thanks to iowa and six states won by john mccain in 2008.oining me now is betsy, political writer for "washington examiner." hey, betsy. >> hi, arthel. >> what are the basics that are going to drive the senate races and why are they so important? >> well, it depends on who controls the senate for the last two years president obama's presidency. so, a lot at stake here, particularly in terms who could be the next attorney general. a number of seats in play. six of these seats, as you mentioned, john mccain won in 2008 but currently held by democrats. if republicans can win enough back, it's possible they will be able to pull off a majority. some key seats to key an eye on, iowa, as you mentioned, louisiana, arkansas is going to be very interesting, alaska is going to be very interesting. it's a big hodgepodge of races, any of which could be the exciting factor on who decides the senate. >> considering everything you just said, betsy, who comes out on top on some of the competitive races that you mentioned, louisiana, iowa, et cetera. does it

thing is clear is that if republicans run another candidate in the mold of a bob dole, or a john mccainr mitt romney, let me be clear, all three are good, honorable men, decent men, they're patriots, but if we run another candidate in the mold of a bob dole or john mccain or mitt romney, we will end up with the same result, millions of people will stay home on election day which is what happened for all three of them. if we run another candidate like that, hillary clinton will be the next president. >> meanwhile, wisconsin congressman paul ryan is opening up about a possible run at the white house. in an interview with the washington post, ryan rejected the notion that he's a capitol hill lifer, but said any decision on the presidential run will have to wait. he said, quote, i don't have this insatiable political ambition, but i know how to flip the switch. if you flip the switch, you flip the switch. and right now the switch has tape over it until 2015. i don't feel the need to be out there. putting my toe in the water. i don't see the point in it. it is not fun. and i don't think i ne

whose foreign policy are you more closely aligned with, john mccain, or rand paul? i think they're both -- have -- play a valuable role in our party and i respect both of them greatly. that's the beauty of being an independent republican. like i am. i was the most bipartisan senator in the united states senate. unlike senator shaheen, who is voting with the president and his policies 99% of the time. so as an independent republican, i can work within my party and still find common ground. there is not a one-size-fits-all approach. and i will continue to listen, learn, do my own research and make my own decision. that's what it means to be an independent. >> are you with rand paul when he says he would like to eliminate all foreign aid and eventually even u.s. aid to israel? >> of course not. israel is our gratest ally. look what happened with hamas lobbing rockets and missiles. i've been there. the stress they're under right now is unbearable. but i do think that we have an opportunity and an affirmative obligation to do that review of each and every dollar we give

my opponent has called mccain-flake billed the obamacare of immigration. that is mocking our two senior senators. >> what about the demand? what do we do to cut the demand for cheap labor and drugs? >> you have to crackdown on employers. employers who hire illegally are breaking laws, just like the people who go to work for them. i believe we need to have more enforcement or ice agents who are going after people breaking the law. the mclean--- the mccain-flake bill would do just that. my opponent says she would not support it. if it were brought to the floor the house, i believe it would pass with a strong bipartisan vote. >> let me come to you and change topics again. going to medicare now. a big piece of the budget and we had talked earlier about the paul ryan budget and what it would do regarding medicare. that was your position as has been reported in 2012. but let's talk about it now as we clarified earlier. how do you reduce medicare spending? >> first, let me go back to the border because he's gone over his time multiple times. there was a bipartisa

senator job mccain joins us.good evening, sir. >> good evening, gretchen -- greta. >> whatever it is. we will go with either one. >> it 0 to 30 have joined isis. >> that's been pretty much the number, greta, that we have seen throughout these releases and by the way the five that were released taliban higher ups that were released in exchange for bergdahl i gainer teach you they entered the fight because they were judged as too dangerous to release. >> qatar was supposed to baby-sit them. what happened to that? that was the whole deal? do we have any idea where they are? any reports to you or any other committee on the hill that, yes, we are tracking them? we would do that if someone got probation, we would make them go into the probation office every five weeks here in d.c. >> it just hasn't worked out that way. qatar in many ways is not the most reliable custodian of these people as you know. the eagerness with which this administration wants to get these people out of guantanamo has clearly overridden good sen

. >> on the other hand, senator john mccain had this dire assessment. >> they're winning and we're not are not winning. the peshmerga, the kurds are not winning. and there's a lot of aspects of this, but there has to be a fundamental reevaluation of what we're doing, because we are not degrading and ultimately destroying isis. >> of course you have to agree with mccain. the trouble is, he has no alternative either. >> no. >> and bombs mccain is not necessarily the answer either. >> even if he's talking about putting boots on the ground. to me, the key is turkey. turkish friends that i know told me yesterday when the white house was saying, oh, the turks have agreed to a new situation where they're going to help us more to do this. well the turks came out today and said, essentially, no, we're not. >> they're there. >> they're right there. but they don't want to do anything that they think will help the kurds, which shows you one of the many wheels within wheels complexities of that region that even 50,000 american troops on the ground, i'm afraid, is not going to solve. so in that sens

john mccain is correct. why is the president, instead of meandering around, why was he not out there earlier, saying, look, we don't think this can come to the united states in any big way but we're taking the following precautions and we're putting so-and-so in charge and we're going to report back to you and stay right on top of it. i don't think even his best friends would say barack obama as president has handled this well. >> you're fired up about this. >> i think, look, it may be contained. the key thing is, contain, control, confine it here. find a cure for it over there. and i'm not sure that we are out in front of this the way we ought to be even yet. >> thank you for joining us. >>> now it's time for you to weigh in. what do you think about president obama's pick for ebola czar? do we need someone with a medical background? send me your tweet tweets @umapemmaraju or @anhqdc and we'll read them later in the show. >>> reaction and impact on midterms of the supreme court decision allowing texas to enf

i'm not as object as senator mccain is. i think there's potential for standing up of the tribes in anbar province especially. they got a tough fight now. they had their police chief killed in anbar province and that's devastating to the people of that province. we also have to be concerned with with a we used to call iraqi math. when some of the province members say there's 8,000 of them coming at us. you divide that by about ten and you have about the right number. i'm not downplaying the threat. it's hard out there. we've got a lot of fighting to go and we can't do this in just a couple weeks. >> iraqi math. general, do me a favor and stick around. we'll talk about whether baghdad is vulnerable to isis or not coming up in just a few minutes. >>> also ahead, the fbi is issuing this new warning that isis may be targeting police officers and may be targeting members of the media right here at home and the feds are revealing how they got that information. plus, one health official says it's concerning. they do not know how th

john mccain went on cnn to stare his former self in the face and say the new john mccain likes the czar, and in fact, demands a czar. >> i would say that we don't know exactly who is in charge. there has to be some kind of czar. >> i do not know whether this sort of thing is evidence of the fact that smart people do not go into politics anymore, or if this is the reason that smart people don't go into politics anymore because our politics is like this. but this really is how stupid our politics is with issues around czars and stuff. it almost goes without saying that after republicans demanding that he appoint an ebola czar, saying he has been irresponsible as long as he doesn't appoint an ebola czar, and now that he appoints an ebola czar, the republican response? say it with me, now. we tkoepbd need an ebola czar. that was the response today of senator ted cruz of texas. he chose ron clain, who is the chief of staff to attorney janet reno. he was a top adviser to president obama directly. all of that has led to republican criticism that, well, he's not a doctor. it should be clear tha

when john mccain picked her, the party was picked forever. and they're still trying to get back to the party that once was under reagan. back to even the lincoln days. no one even talks about that party anymore because it doesn't exist. i would say courage is a republican willing to evolve on the issues. if anything, she is not that. so run for president sarah palin, but that's not the future of the party. >> thank you for your time tonight and we'll see you later in this show. >>> coming up on the two-area anniversary of hurricane sandy, the governor says to sit down and shut up. could his temper hurt or help a potential run for president? >>> and the joan rivers death investigation. a new multimillion-dollar wrongful death lawsuit maybe coming. why is being compared to the michael jackson investigation. that's coming up. wethey were a littlehorizons to mbit skeptical.ss, what they do actually is rocket science. but at ge capital we also bring expertise from across ge, like lean process engineers we asked who does what, when, where, and why

john mccain or rand paul? >> i think that both play a valuable role in our party, and i respect both of them greatly, that's the beauty of being an independent republican like i am. i was the most bipartisan senator in the united states senate, unlike senator shaheen, who is voting with the president's policies 99 percent of the time. so, as an independent republican, i can work within my party and still find common ground, there's not a one size fits all approach and i will continue to listen, learn, do my own research and make my own decision. that's what it means to be an independent. >> are you with rand paul when he says he would like to eliminate all foreign aid and eventually even us aid to israel? >> no, of course not. israel is our greatest ally. look what happened this summer with hamas lobbing rockets and missiles at it. i've been there. the stress that they're under right now is unbearable, but i do think that we have an opportunity and an affirmative obligation to do that review of each and every

we lost 4,000 americans senator mccain.se families have to be asking why tonight. >> joe lieberman and i were in fallujah and ramadi where hundreds of americans were killed and wounded, the black flags of isis fly over those cities today. it's hard to talk to the parents of those families and those brave veterans that literally put everything on the line. but let me just say, it's a bigger problem here with this president. the dog ate my homework routine is getting a little tiresome. it started for six years with biob, blame it on bush. now the jv has turned into more than -- has been turned into super bowl contestants. he does not -- fails to realize that it is his policies and decisions that led us where we are. when ryan crocker yesterday, most respected diplomat that i know of, said, yes, we could have left a stabilizing force behind, these brave americans had stabilized the situation in iraq. isis was nothing when the president of the united states announced that we were going to withdraw everybody from iraq. and by th

john mccain joins me now. senator, thank you very much. i didn't hear a complete endorsement of julia pearson in that answer to joe. >> you know, andrea, you and i have been around this town for quite a while and we've seen this movie before. when a member of the president's own party turns against an individual with a scandal such as this, it is scandalous, then it's just a matter of time now before that person will be replaced. it almost doesn't matter what we republicans think about it. but when someone as highly respected as congressman cummings, and he is respected on both sides of the aisle and others, a voice that deep and abiding concern, if not condemnation, then it's just a matter of time. we'll see it play out. and you and i have seen this movie before. >> do you think he should go? >> oh, i think so. i think he's -- when you lose the confidence of both sides across the political spectrum, i would like to emphasize, again, something you and i know. and that is that men and women who are in this business are the best. they're won

you obviously disagree with mccain. is panetta wrong as well?ct of the matter is as i discussed with senator mccain, the president did try to negotiate with the sovereign iraqi government for the presence of a residual force in iraq of u.s. troops for the training and ct missions that were vital to the u.s. interest. and the iraqi government refused and no u.s. military leader or civilian defense secretary would have agreed to place u.s. troops in a country like iraq absent the immunities that we demanded in those negotiations. >> ari, what about panetta's comments? >> most people, not everybody, most people in the administrations are willing to share the real things that happened inside. i happen to finish secretary gates' book last night. here is the context for the discussion he had. the general is in charge to have 20,000 troops left behind in iraq. secretary gates or barack obama wouldn't go for it. he wanted to do 16,000. the president wanted to leave behind 1, 2 to 4,000 troops. so they had no choice but to say no because the troops would

for example, when senator mccain asked him about getting out of iraq in 2011, he said no, we couldn'tn he was on the iraq study group, he wanted to get out completely even earlier. i mean, that's what we're talking about. >> he says he was behind to leave behind a residual force. >> that's what he said but then he went and testified it isn't. then you get into the account of actual whether in fact that would have made a difference. we had 100,000 troops there, we told maliki -- >> okay. you can argue that. this is more about the principle of what he's done and whether these attacks on him are fair. i mention bill burton dripping with hypocrisy on this. so is the vice president. the vice president came out and said i don't like it when the administration officials write books. let the guy get out of office, would ya? but he was another one who was all too happy when scott mcclellan wrote that book to come out and bam, bam, bam, use it. he had no problem with the betrayal when it was on the republican side. >> well, wait a second, i didn't appreciate scott mcclellan writing it. that's d

>> mccain felt he was promised endorsement, so did giuliani. >> mccain got it. >> crist played the wholeld, telling everybody he was going to be on their side. >> speaking with a forked tongue. >> yes. that's why in 2010, a lot of republicans wanted to burn him, and rallierarallied around -- >> what do you think of this street corner behavior? it reminds me of high school. he stole my girlfriend, you know. >> there are a lot of transplanted new yorkers down there. not sure how well rudy travels out of new york, but a lot of new yorkers in florida have brought new york with them. it's a close race. so i don't think -- it certainly doesn't help crist in any way, and it may hurt him a little bit. >> rudy is something. anyway, thank you. what a memory. >>> howard, by the way s out there in penguin country. steelers too. >>> up next, a candidate for congress is going to the dogs. the politician and the puppy is coming up next in the side show, where it definitely belongs. this is "hardball," the place for politics. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea an

here is senator john mccain. >> they're winning and we're not.e not winning, the peshmerga, the kurds are not winning and there's a lot of aspects of this, but there has to be a fundamental reevaluation of what we're doing. because we're not degrading and ultimately destroying isis. >> no huge surprise that john mccain criticizing the president's strategy. there have been others including panetta saying that all options should be open. >> i don't think all options are on the table. i don't think we're going to be putting our troops on the ground. certainly not in syria in any case. we have not actually been launching as many air strikes on to isis formations as we could. one is we haven't had the use of the turkish air base. we haven't been targeting too many of these guys. we're not going to until we know exactly what it is that the other participants in the coalition are going to do. right now nobody else in the rest of the coalition has said anything. >> for john mccain to say they're winning and we're not. your response to that? >> their obje

it was bob dole, mitt romney, john mccain talked about the conservative bona fide. republicans need a moderate to go up against hillary clinton. a conservative will lose badly. >> you know, talking about in-fighting, dana, in an interview with "the washington post," gop congressman paul ryan hinted he might run in 2016. and he took a jab at his potential rivals who are in the running. all over the place they've been going to early primary states, he said, quote, i don't feel the need to be out there, putting my toe in the water. i don't see the point in it. it's not fun, and i don't think i neat to. i already know a lot of people in these key states well. they call me up, so i don't feel the need to have to chum. what do you say to that? now look at where chris christie is going in the next five days before you answer. he's traveling to 19 different states. >> is paul ryan taking a dig at republicans like christie who are way out in front of the 2016 primary? >> i don't know if he's taking a dig so much as he's saying, this is his own way of dipping his toe into the

so we have had periodic passage of laws including the most recent mccain feingold law. and, of course, here the irony of john's lamb bafting of his perceived enemies, the corporations and big money interests, the irony that mccain feinld that he championed targets the very groups that people of average means must have in order to participate. mccain feingold targets advocacy groups in imposing this blackout period in terms of mentioning names of candidates in broadcast ads. they attack political parties for raising money regulated under state laws in order to impose more restrictions on what political parties could say about candidates for federal office. they attack unions with the same blackout periods. they did nothing about any rich person. there's not a sentence in mccain feingold that adversely affects the ability of a rich person to spend their own money in -- for politics. what about people of average means? they don't have the money. what they have to do is associate. they come together in a group. they pool their resources. now they have the money to participa

the job approval ratings as you know in the congress are so low that senator john mccain says it is basicallyown to members themselves and to their staff members. that is about deal to people who are saying that they are approving of congress. but not too long ago, these two leading in a time when we got some things done in this country. where,came at a time above everything else, they put partisanship aside. we are going to discuss that in just a little bit. ,et's take a look at one day above all others, when they were leaders and that sort of defined the recent history in our country. [applause] >> at a time like this, no words that we should utter today or the heartsg can help and souls and feelings of the victims and the families that were a part of this great tragedy that happened in this country today. andprayers and thoughts out tof consolation goes all of those who have suffered. but one thing that happens here in this place, is that when american suffers, and when people perpetrate acts against this country, we as a congress and as a government stand united. we stand together. [appla

and of course, they ran square into mccain/feingold's blackout period. which made it a criminal offense for a corporation or a labor union to run any add that simply mentioned the name of a candidate for federal office. and what they wanted to do was to urge the public to contact them about an upcoming vote in congress. now, you might wonder, why is it that congress would pass such a blackout period. that people who come together into groups, people of average means, that's the only way they can participate is by coming together as a group. why is it that congress thinks it's outrageous and a criminal offense for someone to have the audacity to lobby them about an upcoming vote in congress? well, this is as old as time. incumbent politicians object to being criticized. they hate it when people talk about what they're doing to us and for us in office. and the people who founded our country were surely one of the most sophisticated group of politicians and political thinkers that have ever come together in the history of the world. and they knew that if --

he works with senator mccain in his office. previous -- before that he was senior staffer in the senate armed services committee. chris rose through the ranks doing pretty interesting things, including writing speeches for and advising people like colin powell. he has spent a lot of time in asia, more than most senate staffers, unfortunately. without further adieu, what we want to talk about in this panel is architecture as it res to security. i'm going to ask my colleagues to kick it off in the order that we're seated in. and then we will open up the panel to question and answer. david, it's over to you. >> thank you very much, ernie. it's great to be back at csis. it's a great honor to be joined up here with ambassador mirpuri and chris brose. i have been in my job -- my must job at dod for almost exactly one month now. and i can tell you from my experience during that one month that secretary of defense hagel certainly has a very strong personal interest in asia and east asia, given all of his history. the secretary of defen

he works with senator mccain in his office. he was a senior staffer in the armed services committee. he rose through the ranks doing pretty interesting things including writing speeches for and advising people like colin powell and condoleezza rice. he knows what he is doing and spends a lot of time in asia. much more than most senate staffers unfortunately. without further adieu, what we want to talk about on this panel, architecture as it relates to security. i will ask my colleagues to the order they are seated in. it's over to you. >> thank you very much, ernie. it's great to be back at csis and it's a great honor to be joined with ambassador curry and chris brose. i have been in my job, my new job at dod for almost exactly one month now. i can tell you that from my experience during that one month that secretary of defense hagel has strong personal interests given all of his history. the secretary of defense, the deputy secretary of defense, the under secretary of defense for policy, my chain of commands are deeply committ

warner: i agree with senator mccain. i think congress should be called back into session and debate the issue thoroughly because i believe and i strongly support the leadership on this issue. i'm not sure i believe with the authorization is part of the process. not to be fully debated and amended and dealt with. i do believe sitting on the intelligence committee that isil is a real threat to our country and this is an area where much of my opponent will make charges supporting obama on every policy this is where i differ with the president. i believe we need a more forceful response against syria and iraq. i think it is very important that we call for stronger actions against mr. putin and russia. without american leadership as we have seen there is very little that goes on in the world in a world is very dangerous. i will say the president i think has done two things on this issue that are important. one is he has pushed up the maliki government because it was important if we were going to come in and be supported in ir

my opponent has called the mccain lake bill the obamacare of immigration. that is mocking our two senior senators. >> moderator: what about the demand? barber: you have to crack down on employers. employers who hire illegal at breaking the law like the people who go to work for them and we need more law-enforcement, more agents going after people breaking the law and the mccain flake bill would do just that. my opponent says she won't support it but i think it is a good path forward. only her leadership will bring it to the floor of the house. i believe it would pass with strong bipartisan vote. >> moderator: let me change topics again. we go to medicare now. a big piece of the budget, we talked earlier about the ryan budget and what it would do regarding medicare. that was your position as we talked about has been reported in 2012 but let's talk about it now as you clarified earlier. how do you reduce medicare spending? mcsally: back to the border, he has gone over his time multiple times the bipartisan bill that came to the house before they went on reces