. >> it all adds up to what some call the obama doctrine. >> the obama doctrine is less blood, less treasures intervention of a lengthy kind. >> though governor romney calls him reluctant to lead. >> the administration has characterized their foreign policy as leading from behind. i call that following. >> these days, his critics have more ammunition with the deaths of ambassador chris stevens and three other americans in libya. it happened on 9/11, raising questions, why wasn't security ramped up? and why were protests initially blamed for the attack? a month later, the president addressed these questions on abc news. >> as information came in, information was put out. the information may not have always been right the first time. >> the president says the fog of war created confusion. what is clear, as commander in chief, the president can fly solo. to solve the country's domestic problems, he needs a partner. >> the president was going to have to deliver half the democrats. i was going to have to deliver half the republicans. i was confident i could do that. . >>> a gorgeous june day. the

. >> it all adds up to what some call the obama doctrine. >> the obama doctrine is less blood, less treasurention of a lengthy kind. >> though governor romney calls him reluctant to lead. >> the administration has characterized their foreign policy as leading from behind. i call that following. >> these days his critics have more ammunition with the deaths of ambassador chris stevens and three other americans in libya. it happened on 9/11, raising questions, why wasn't security ramped up? and why were protests initially blamed for the attack? a month later the president addressed these questions on abc news. >> as information came in, information was put out. the information may not have always been right the first time. >> the president says the fog of war created confusion. what is clear, as commander in chief, the president can fly solo. to solve the country's domestic problems, he needs a partner. >> the president was going to have to deliver half the democrats. i was going to have to deliver half the republicans. i was confident that i could do that. 100% mmm... wow, that is mmm... it's

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this was another one, i think, in that line of speeches, people really want ed to understand th obama doctrine if they read all of these speeches together almost in a little book form they would get a better understanding of the president's world view. i would assume a lot of people already believe they have that understanding. he's off to cambodia and then it's back home because he has to pardon that turkey. i'll see you soon. >> thanks, chuck. even across the world in asia, the president can't escape washington. at a buddhist monastery he joked that geshgs 0s on the fiscal cliff may require a little help in the almighty. >> yes, we're working on this budget. we're going to need a lot of prayer. >> also on the president's plate a developing fight over who removed language and talking points given to susan rights that suggested al qaeda may have been behind the terrorist attack in libya? >> it went to the so-called deputy's committee that's populated by appointees from the administration. that's where the narrative changed. we do know that the intelligence community was accurate. the accusatio

he said there's no obama doctrine that i know of.orld view the way that henriy kissen jer did in hs day or even james baker. there's no great love there for the president of the united states. but clearly he has endorsed him. >> yes. and also he focused on climate change which i thought was interesting. >> right. >> it comes after this huge storm and there's a big fight going on right now. and the scientists are out there saying, listen, this is climate change these sort of huge storms we haven't seen the likes of before. this is the result of climate change. and this is clearly a major who believes that his city was hard hit as a result of climate change. and so, you know, again not surprising the timing is sort of interesting to me. but it does fit in with what's been going on in new york and that he spent so much time talking about climate change. and that was what he was actually criticizing mitt romney for was romney's -- what he sees as romney's flip-flop on things like coarbon emissions. >> obviously critically important issue

he rewrote the field manual and his ideas became known as the p petraeus doctrine. obama tapped general petraeus as the man to save the afghan war effort. >> it has again been the greatest of honors to serve here. >> because of his name recognition among the american people, he was surrounded by speculation that he had political ambitions. some wondered if he would appear on the republican presidential ticket, but he knocked down those rumors. >> we're not out there running a political campaign, we're running a war. >> at a senate confirmation hearing to head the cia, he admitted that president obama decided to withdraw thousands of troops significantly faster than petraeus wanted. >> the ultimate decision was a more aggressive formulation, if you will, in terms of the timeline than what we had recommended. >> petraeus' wife, holly, sat behind him in that testimony, and he publicly praised her. >> she is a symbol of strength. she has hung tough while i have been deployed for over five and a half years. >> the fbi had been investigating a tip that he was having an affair.

>> that is what i want people to understand the president obama does not care about fial responsible if youeconomies or jobs, markethe doctrine of fairness, because he went out and build a business, you were successful, it is not fair that others didn't. this is a market idea, it is what this man is about. he can crush as many people as possible to get this fairness thing under wraps. tom: if things go bad and the economy slows down, people will look back and say what the republicans do? republicans went along with it, this is what a lot of fear is, they will say not us, they own it. the democrats own it, do you think that will stick? >> there's no question the vast majority of the media will pin anything on them like the death of jesus and disappearance of jimmy hoffa. at the end of the day they should do what is right. decide what is right, do what is right. and thethey promised during thet crisis when we were negotiating the debt ceiling and promised to cut spending. if they do not like what is happening with sequestration they can cut the same amount. they must cut spending first and reform entitlement. it is immoral to p

doctrine. a scandal brought petraeus back to command another war when president obama fired general stanley mcchrystaling comments to "rolling stone" he tapped general petraeus as the man to save the afghan war effort. >> the greatest of honors to serve here. >> reporter: but because of his name recognition among the american people, petraeus was surrounded by speculation that he had, some wondered if he would appear on the american presidential ticket, but petraeus knocked down those rumors. at a senate confirmation hearing to head the cia, petraeus admitted president obama decided to withdraw thousands of troops from afghanistan significantly faster than petraeus wanted. >> the ultimate decision was a more aggressive formulation, if you will, in terms of the timeline than what we had recommended. >> reporter: petraeus's wife, holly, sat behind him during that testimony and petraeus publicly praised her. >> she is a symbol of the strength and dedication of families around the globe who wait at home for their loved ones while they're engaged in critical work in iraq, afghanistan and else where. she ha

doctrine. a scandal brought him back to command another war when president obama fired stanley mcchrystal for his unflattering comments to "rolling stone," obama tapped general petraeus as the man to staff the war effort. because of his name recognition among the american people, petraeus was surrounded by speculation that he had political ambitions. some wondered if he would appear on the republican presidential ticket. but petraeus knocked down those rumors. >> we're not out there running a political campaign. we're running a war. >> reporter: at a senate confirmation hearing to head the cia, petraeus admitted president obama decided to withdraw thousands of troops from afghanistan, significantly faster than petraeus wanted. >> the ultimate decision was a more aggressive formulation, if you will, in terms of the time line, than what we had recommended. >> reporter: petraeus's wife holly sat behind him during that testimony and petraeus publicly praised her. >> she is a simple of the strength and dedication of families around the globe who waited home for their loved ones while they're engaged i

obama is saying leave things the way they are. >> eliot: you're saying as a matter of constitutional doctrine, row versus wade, on and on, the presidentd we're happy where things are. >> that's right. and you see the lack of relative discussion on these issues. george w. bush, whatever you think of him paid attention to constitutional issues. he didn't want judges who legislated to the bench. he held high profile ceremony on primary time to nominate his first group of judges. you never hear any that have from barack obama because it's not a priority. >> eliot: where does that leave us? take the gun case and the heller case which was viewed as an expansesive interpretation of the second amendment. who won-- >> no, barack obama--this is the thing, the democratic party made a decision. chuck schumer has even talked about this, there are certain issues we're giving up on, and gun control is one of them. during the 2008 campaign barack obama was traveling the country saying i think there is a right to bear arms guaranteeed to second amendment. >> eliot: i want to go down this narrow path with much more full fullsome than democrats want. >>

doctrine, emphasizing the protection of the civilian population from violence. in 2007, president bush ordered him to take command in iraq and in 2010 president obama put him in charge in afghanistan. last year petraeus retired from the military to become director of central intelligence. the c.i.a. came of age during the cold war, but its role has changed dramatically since 9/11 and we asked david martin to look into that. >> reporter: as head of the c.i.a., david petraeus directed a covert war which required him to make almost daily decisions of life and death. he commanded the drone war against terrorist safe havens in pakistan and yemen which killed hundreds of suspected militants. and he gave the order which is sent a c.i.a. team fly into benghazi in a vain attempt to rescue americans. two members of that team-- both of them, like petraeus-- retired military, were killed on that mission. overnight he went from the best known and great estrogen of his generation to covert warrior. he said he campaigned for the job. >> i wanted this job. this was not a month or two or three in the making. >> reporter: the c.i.a. had been on the front lines since 9/11 when an agen

doctrine? never let a serious crisis go to waste. the thing that's wrong with obama's second term is they don't have a crisis. and sometimes i think they want to make one. lints to what people like patty murray and christina romer are saying. what barack obama said at that press conference when he said if there was any scenario in which we could fall off a fiscal cliff. he said sure, we could imagine that scenario, if congress doesn't agree. agree with whom? with him. he's saying it's my way off the cliff. and that is a way to go off the fiscal cliff, blame the republicans, stampede them into god knows what. cap and trade, card check. another stimulus plan. that ain't no bull market, larry. >> i think all those fears are actually now slowly being discounted in the stock market. and i agree with you. >> more to come. >> president obama answered that question all wrong because he kind of left the door open that maybe he'd let the cliff go through. anyway, don luskin, thank you very much. >> thank you, larry. >> rockets continue to rain on israel. another hamas leader is

doctrine, i would do it. it will hurt the economy. let's get over this. we'll know how the next four years will go by the way the month goes. this is new barack obama.he back aceway and says call me if you get a deal we're in trouble. >> the president made clear he will not sign a bill that extends the bush era tax cuts or those making more than $250,000. math tells us that you can't get the kind of balanced approach you need. without having rates be part of the equation. >> eric: i have to ask you -- go ahead. >> dana: i'm listening and i'm thinking set aside politics for a second and say that you could get the money you wanted. in a different way. limiting deductions. limiting deductions. not talk about the spending. why wouldn't you take that deal? if you get the same results, why not do it? temporary measures have not worked. it seems that they are being, i understand they are in negotiations but again, doing something just because it works politically does not make necessarily for good policy. i think unfortunately we have come back to bite them. i think there will be a deal. to knowingly push the country to another recession is unconscionable.

obama said something just as stupid. john quincy adams so fabulously learned man who had studied history. the reason for the monroe doctrinen south america the various countries were beginning to rebel against the spanish king, and the french king was a cousin of the spanish king and the french were going to send the military aid to help put out these rebellions and there were granted to the french from going into south america. and they invited the americans to join them in keeping the french out of south america because obviously south america was rich with the gold and silver and john quincy adams was the secretary of state and said absolutely not. we are not going to get involved in the foreign war. we are not going to let them come over here either. the seeds are planted from the issuing of the monroe doctrine today if it was a part of murowa's manual message and he had asked his cabinet for help in putting together some sort of a statement making our international policy clear and john quincy adams wrote the core provision of that. there were three long paragraphs that are called the monroe doctrine, and in one of th

doctrine," on the crisis of capitalism that we're seeing play out today. meanwhile, at our website, billmoyers.com, we asked some of our past guests for their quick visceral reaction to president obama's reelection and what it might mean for america. andrew bacevich, simon johnson and barbara ehrenreich are among those who contributed. now it's your turn. read their entries and send us yours. that's at billmoyers.com. i'll see you there and i'll see you here, next time. >>> don't wait a week to get more moyers. visit billmoyers.com for exclusive blogs, essays and video features. this episode is available on dvd for 19.95. to order, call 1-800-336-1917 or write to the address on your screen. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compass

doctrine. a scandal of a different sort brought petraeus back to command another war when president obama firedunflattering comments to rolling stone, obama tapped general petraeus as the man to save the afghan war effort. >> it has again been the greatest of honors to serve here. >> reporter: but because of his name recognition among the american people, petraeus was surrounded by speculation that he had political ambitions. some wondered if he'd appear on the republican presidential ticket. but petraeus knocked down those rumors. >> we're not out there running a political campaign. we're running a war. >> reporter: at his senate confirmation hearing to head the cia, petraeus admitted president obama decided to withdraw thousands of troops from afghanistan significantly faster than petraeus wanted. >> the ultimate decision was a more aggressive formulation, if you will in terms of the timeline, than what we had recommended. >> reporter: petraeus's wife, holly, sat behind him during that testimony. and petraeus publicly praised her. >> she is a symbol of the strength and dedication of families

caller: that the pelosi doctrine or the leadership she has had over 10 years, she was very instrumental in a lot of passing the legislation that the obamadministration passed during its first term. health care, dodd-frank, a lot of these pieces of legislation. we are going to continue to see her in her role as minority leader and working to hold house democrats to a position that was republican attempts to roll back -- any attempts to roll back obama initiatives. host: we see a lot of familiar faces in the leadership lineup. or has changed? caller: we are going to end up with the top three people staying in their current roles. one of the interesting outcomes is that -- the highly contested race against tom price for the conference chairmanship. kathy was the one female member of the republican leadership looking to move up into a high- ranking role. paul ryan is returning from the presidential challenge. he backed, price. i think that is a significant development and something to watch and pay attention to, particularly given the fact there is a lot of discussion about -- relationship they have right now. host: is it the top of leaders

doctrine? >> guest: i think so. unfortunately are those of us who saw a change being possible for years ago when president obama waselected was a call to not only in the war in iraq, which he did, but also as he put it, he claims he would and the mindset that leads to war. unfortunately quite the opposite has happened. we have had an expansion of wars particularly through the drawn wars and one of the things that is so ironic about that is that along with all of the deaths of civilians and frankly people who are on those lists for reasons that we don't always know when we don't know who put them on the list, where it is that intelligence come from and how reliable is that? it's usually problematic on a host of levels but particularly the level of civilians who are killed for no reason these drone strikes and how that antagonizes people across these countries. that is exactly the opposite of the idea of looking for new ways to solve the conflict, ways of looking at ways to avoid the mindset. this is exactly reflecting the mindset of war. so this in my view is the biggest violation if you will of the promises that pr

doctrine. but rather a shared concern for these values that come from our fate. and so given the choice that we have it, barack obamawho as we talked about a year does not have respect for human life, who has come out very blatantly, not in the grey areas, black and white, that he is for the redefinition of marriage. the choice is there are stark. i do not think is a christian i have any of the place to go then with met romney. and i am happily supporting him based upon his policies. host: is ours people who are evangelical or religious, tell us a little bit about 2008 and how they turned out and how that differs as we go to next tuesday. guest: i do not think there's any comparison. i have been here at the family research council for about two years. in 2004 there is a hotly contested reelection of george w. bush. and at the same time there is about 12 marriage amendments on ballots across the country. a lot of grassroots support from a lot of activity in churches across america. what i have been seeing in the last couple months totally eclipses what i saw in 2004. people understand that america is on the right tra