mort zuckerman. i do think, you can disagree that the image of those two beheadings, was enough to turn not only a lot of american stom stomachs but change their view of taking on isis. >> without question. in one sense justified going back in, in a way that we're serious enough to try to blow them out of power that wanton cruelty in the way they killed those two american journalists was outrageous. accident. it really did provoke a sense that maybe we have to do something. neil: your paper, new york daily news, it was a seminol term, on front cover, said what is your tragedy now -- strategy now, mr. president, i am wondering, does that represent a tipping points on the part of say mainstream media. something changed then? >> yes, i agree. there was a sense of an administration -- that was a come he made, he made it a slip of the tongue. but i don't think it was a slip of the tongue, he was trying to say, we don't know what we're going to do that. but you don't say that. you know, the problem is that

. >> i agree with everything all three of you said and i appreciate mort zuckerman, but i don't think who jeb bush is. there is only so much room for rational, middle the road, republicans in this race. the state is filled physically and idealogically by chris christie. christie will blow him away. he hasn't run for anything since 2002. >> i think they've got some kind of deal, if one goes, the other doesn't. they would split up the moderate vote. >> former --. >> so between romney, christie, and job bush. >> romney gets in and bush gets in. i'm not like mort, i don't talk to them at lunch. >> exit question. is the gop ready for a candidacy. >> for his running? >> he has a perfect right to run and there is a chance he will. more likely romney will run or christie will run. >> he doesn't show me the fire in the belly. >> americans have a short attention span and they're forgiving. he has a chance if he gets in the race. >> he will get chewed apart by the crazy right wing in the primaries. he absolutely will. >> i i don't agree with. that they're not that stupid but they're not that unw

mort zuckerman. >> no, i don't think he will. i don't think this president has the -- he has come to the conclusion if he's not going to go very far for the reason you stated. he does not want to arouse the rath of the russians in this particular context. i think this is a dangerous position for us to take, because it does, once again, give putin the sense that he can push us back and we will not respond in an area where he has an interest and we have an interest. >> obama, president obama wants to give mr. putin an exit ramp. do you understand? >> i do understand. >> that's not bad. >> it isn't. >> as far as playing the universal game. >> that's on the exception he is looking for an exit ramp rather than an entrance. >> that's what i'm doing. >> he's doing exactly the right thing. there's no matter of aid or guns where they will defeat russia. you give him some, you'll have a war and the russians will win the war. the president is doing the exact right thing. this aught to be negotiated, we aught not make ukraine a nato ally, wh

that brings me to my morning must-read from mort zuckerman.uld embrace a 35% tax rate rather than 12% in, let's say, ireland. richard, your thoughts on that? inversions are really a symptom of a larger problem. the corporate tax code. many yearsved over with special provisions, so inversions like any tax strategy, take advantage of these loopholes. says we need to have better tax code, better tax reform, but we never seem to get it. a last time we had reform on taxes was in 1987. >> i remember that. i wrote my junior paper in princeton about that. who communicates better, janet yellen or ben bernanke? tweet us. ♪ >> coming up tomorrow, mario covelli, founder of gamco will be joining us. --t is he doing now we echo what is he doing now? and we will have the benefit of the fed statement as well. he is joining us tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. i'm scarlet fu with adam johnson and olivia sterns. tom keene is on assignment. because richard glared is here, we want to get straight to our twitter question of the day and the answers to it. who communicates bett