value of exceptionalism, pat buchanan?in the reaction to putin's op ed piece, he put this down the smoke stack. he keyed off of what obama said on exceptionalism and he countered it with an argument which people all over the world believe. they are sick of hearing americans talk about we are the indispensable nation, as madeline albright said, we see further than ours, we're the sheriff of the world, we see first. he's not only appealing to the world. he's appealing to that half of the united states to whom president obama himself was appealing. i think he hit home. >> i think there was a little superpower envy there, as leader of a former superpower, now sees a moment for him to get back on the world stage, appropriately so, i might add. i welcome his involvement in an attempt to find a solution in syria. and in taking a poke at u.s. exceptionalism, i think, you know, he wants to make the point that the, it's not only the u.s. that can make things happen on the world stage, but when there's a humanitarian problem, basical

pat buchanan? >> yes, it certainly was. with this fellow, rouhani, tough, intelligence, iranian diplomat, a hardliner, but someone who has been given the franchise to negotiate with the americans to get rid of the sanctions on iran because those are really hurting badly. i believe that this fellow rouhani is basically committed to do that and get that accomplished. he knows what the americans are going to demand and what they're going to want. there's a real possibility we could have a deal with this fellow. frankly the opposition to this, him and obama comes from israel, comes from the war party in the united states, the mechanics, washington post, wall street journal, and all of those who don't want the talk between united states and iran. >> what about that? >> lindsay graham has called for authorizing war on iran right now. >> what does it have to do with him and mccann? >> he wants to attack the nuclear facilities and the wholedefensement of iran. >> he campaigned on reengaging with the west. apparently they got the me

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what does pat buchanan think? pat's here. your thoughts?is on the precipice either of having a tremendous success if this thing is funded and obamacare goes forward or 's on the precipice of losing his legacy. look, the obamacare -- >> should it matter? when i hear legacy, that's all about me. >> that's what i think his reaction is here. what he feels and believes is, look, there is no deal for these republicans to try. they are a lousy bunch. they are after me, cutting and criticism. i'm not trying to deal with it anymore. we are in a fight. this fight is vitally important to the republican party. if obamacare is alive and extended, it dies as of september 30. if it is extended you will have a civil war of this issue for the house of representative s, republican house has the capacity to kill obamacare. they've got to vote to fund obamacare for it to survive. >> i'm confused which often happens to me. are you saying how is the house going to defund it? >> what i would do, they sent over the continuing resolution for the entire government.

pat buchanan? >> i think there's an argument for that, john. no doubt that the enormous part of the population right now deals with these computers and texting and all these otherthings where they get their alphabet and they learn it all. there's a huge segment in the american population raised on writing and cursive writings, especially the generation that you can see some of the letter you get from the old er women that are beautifully scripted in everything. it's a great loss in termdoing, programming and putting people into a box for the future economy, where they know this thing and how to do this, but they don't know a great deal else. >> i think it's nice to have, a nice skill to have, but i don't think that it has anything to do with literacy. and thinking back over the last week or even months, the only time that i have used cursive is when i sign my name. i don't use it anymore and i think it's going to just fade away like an organ if you will. i mean i think that forcing kids to go through all the flourishes. >> what kind of cursive

neil: to a guy named pat who disagrees with bud, pat buchanan's beef is not the mission but the personeading that mission. you think there is another agenda. >> let ple let me agree with my, colleague, he wants a robust attack that does damage and brings down the outside regime, we could do that. unquestion abily if you went in, all out, but the consequence of that would be syria, which is all broken up, where dominant forces were muslim brotherhood and al qaeda, what would follow that is the massacre of the christians. then the united states would have a hellish problem on its hand, before this occurred no one,n this country or almost no one behides mcdansain and hi- mccain and his colleagues wanted to enter us into a syria civil war we don't want al qaeda in power, what this is, behind the scenes, this syrian war is the dress rehearsal for the war on iran. it is the backdoor to the war on iran. the people you see champions robust attacks and bringing down assad, and going -- are the same ones who want to go to war with iraq, do not want to negotiate with the new regime, we're appalle

now with reaction to that powerful video and much more, author of "suicide of a super power "s pat buchananrsten powers. the president won't negotiate with republicans but if you are vladimir putin and threaten to shoot down missiles to defend syria and arm iran with shields they will suck up and kiss your feet. >> i don't think anybody is bowing at feet or kissing feet. the fact that the president will talk to these other people and can't work with the republicans actually rereflects more badly on oh the republicans than on the president. they are the ones who are completely impossible. you are one of the people leading them down a crazy path of trying to defund -- >> crazy little path. >> yes. defunding obamacare doesn't have the support of the majority of the country contrary to what republicans are saying. a tiny fraction of people want to defund it. >> sometimes -- >> it hasn't launched and it is a nonstarter and should be. >> if you read the cbo report it will lead us into bankruptcy. sometimes life is not seen through the little bit call prism of whether or not people will be re elec

former senior adviser to president reagan pat buchanan joins us. >> good to see you. >> the president feels there is extortion over the debt ceiling. >> my response is harvard law professor ought to read the constitution of the united states. the power of the purse is given to congress. the power to tax, the power over debts. what congress is doing is trying to use their power to take down a piece of legislation that was badly drafted which is going to damage the country uh and which the american people do not want. i admire congress for standing up and using the tools and weapons the founding fathers gave out in order to do something good for the country. >> they are trying to use what they have. the president may be cornered on that. they may be using their power to get him to do something. >> political leverage. you have done a little bit of law, greta. it has a connotation of criminality. that's why the word got attention. >> he's using i it loosely. >> i don't think so. >> i don't think he's accusing them of a crime. he's using it politically. >> i agree with you. the congress ha

authorize military force at this time when we have seen so many inconsistencies including the one pat buchanan just mentioned, it would be unbelievably small at one point. not as the president said last night, that we don't do pinpricks. i need a strong plan to be part of a cohesive strategy before we use military force in syria. >> today is september 11th. a dark day in our history, 12 years ago and a year ago. you have written two letters -- one to the fbi director and one to the president of the national congress of libya about benghazi. what did you write, and why? >> obviously this is the one-year anniversary of september 11th last year, benghazi, the attack on the consulate when we lost four brave americans. at this point, i'm troubled that we have not brought anyone to justice. a recent "new york times" report said those that have been indicted for these crimes, including ahmad khattala, that our government is not pushing the libyan authorities and that we could bring them to justice and the libyan authorities haven't been cooperating the way they should. particularly what we did for th

this is like pat buchanan's moment. >> i want to go back to this.et me just talk sheer politics for a minute. you know how to write it and think about it. it's not all ideology. i don't get this guy ted cruz. but rand paul is a libertarian. and it's sort of like projection large, libertarian based on isolationalists. why are we getting involved in there? i'll live my own life here. >> on the republican side you've got two things going on. you've got the legitimate, genuine disagreement going on from rand paul. but it's a small section. i don't think it's growing at all. i think the neocons are very much in charge of this party. but the problem is it's overlapping. >> why are we hearing 80% of the house republicans want to vote against this thing? >> because if the president said i'm for peanut butter and jelly, they would vote against it. it doesn't matter. they were interested in attacking syria when obama wasn't. now that he's interested in attacking, they're not. if it were a republican president recommending this same course of action -- >> they

mark, when john kerry ran for president people like pat buchanan and i were making fun of his "i votedr the $87 billion before i voted against it." now john kerry is saying the words that he pledged the syrian attack would be unbelievably small. huh? help me out with that. >> sure. >> who telegraphs that? >> americans are tired of war. it's been ten years and over a trillion dollars of taxpayer dollars spent. more importantly over 6,000 american lives lost. yes, is america reluctant to -- >> you're not answering my question. he telegraphed it would be unbelievably small. then walked it back. >> he didn't telegraph, john. >> yes, he did. >> the american people want to know what to expect. secretary kerry was telling them what to expect. >> no boots on the ground. >> not a drawn out war like iraq or afghanistan. >> no boots on the ground, no regime change. unbelievably small. what do you expect to accomplish? >> to maintain america's credibility in the world. make sure the world knows when we say something we mean it. when iran is watching, when all our friends and allies in the region a

to cause the were read editorials at the time for me to pat buchanan mad. that is and what they are up to. it takes a strong motivation for people to leave what is familiar to them and then come to places that are unfamiliar. yes, ma'am. >> what about the countries that you have toured the have the most potential >> it would have been except the got to get over by mainland china and put a sort of what blanket on the top of that. and indeed just in this past week, we saw the first major interference of mainland china and hong kong's ability to provide more or less perfect free trade. some regulations have been passed on capital movement and stock sales. that is the first time it's been done and this isn't the first time for the future other than that, it fell into the category of the places the were great but it was sort of up to the local people. and i mean, any country that falls into the category that we are talking about about being freed in having property rights and the rule of law has the potential to do what it wants. the french may want to prefer to

. >> i heard you speak before and pat buchanan spoke before about this continuing resolution being pinged back to the house now, what if it were split into different piece, funding for the defense department, pentagon, is there any impediment to doing that at all? >> look -- >> why would that be a strategy the republicans would not embrace? i guess maybe why would they not embrace that? >> i think that's a terrific idea. >> that wasn't my idea, it was actually your idea. no wonder you think it's terrific. >> i'll confess i may be a little biased towards it. listen, everyone is wondering will we have a government shutdown. that depends on harry reid and president obama. if they decide they want to force a government shutdown we will have one. i don't think we should. we should keep the government running. it would be irresponsible for harry reid and president obama to force a shutdown. if that happens, we've had many shut downs in the past, hasn't been the end of the world, i don't think we should have one now. if that happens the very effective tool the house can use, because part of the

. >> pat buchanan, i think, last night called it masterful, if i'm not -- >> it is masterful. it's quite masterful. i mean, he, yeah -- >> why is it masterful? explain that. >> i think he -- first of all, he reappropriated the language of president obama on international law and the importance of enforcing international norms. he's just talking about different international norms. he succeeds in muddying the waters. i think most people don't have an intimate knowledge of russia. they don't understand that this is double speak, that a lot of the stuff that he's -- that putin laid out in his op-ed does not apply at home in russia. that one of the reasons that we're having such a bad time with the russians right now is because of the very heated anti-american rhetoric that's been turned on in russia for the past two years. but it does, you know, it reappropriates a lot of american language, a lot of western language, which, you know, international -- >> and we were allies and defeated the nazis. a little bit of nostalgia. >> and it's telling a country that for most of its history

. >> he's got the same hand job as pat buchanan. it's always that. back to "hardball."ghazi, the word's become a rallying cry as you saw there among republicans. a buzzword that epitomizes their distress and hatred for president obama. they don't need much to bring it up. with syria, it's more than enough dry powder for the party to light the fuse. and they're even going so far as to say syria discussions are distracting from the more important benghazi witch hunt. it doesn't just stop with benghazi. the debate over the resolution have given some a megaphone to use their buzz words. congressman joe wilson, he was the one lie that accused the president of delaying action on syria. this was his reasoning. >> the president's red line, why was there no call for military response in april? was it delayed to divert attention today from the benghazi, irs, nsa scandals, the failure of obama care enforcement, the sequestration, or the upcoming debt limit vote. >> he's got the list there. later in that hearing jeff duncan picked up where wilson left off. >> the administration has

. >> in terms of -- i heard you speak before and pat buchanan spoke on the show the other night and the continuing resolution pinged back to the house now, what if it were split in to different pieces, funding for different aspects like the defense department, pentagon, is that a -- is there any impediment to doing that at snaul. >> look. >> and why would that be a strategy that the republicans would not 'embrace? why would they not embrace that? >> i think that's a terrific idea. >> that wasn't my idea. i think that was your idea. >> okay. >> it's terrific. >> i may be a little bit biassed towards it, but listen. everyone's wondering now are we going to have a government shutdown and that depends on harry reid and president obama. if they decide they want to force a government shutdown, then we'll have one. i don't think we should. we should keep the government runs and irresponsible for harry reid and president obama to force a shutdown but if that happens, and we have had many shutdowns in the past. not the end of the world. i don't think we should have one now. but if that happens,

i'm talking about pat buchanan.ht and here he is talking about how the president is inflexible onçó this. >> obamacare appears to be the one rehr line that obama will go to the wall to defend. good luck. what is going on here? the republican house is going to pass a continuing resolution forçó the entire government and obamacare is not in it. obamacare, according to senator max baucus, a democrat, is a train wreck on the american economy. what barack obama is saying is i will shut down this government with my veto if you don't send the money for that train wreck with it. >>brian: to be candid, charles krauthammer, karl rove, two people, one a strategist, a deep thinker as well as charles krauthammer said this is a bad plight. the way it is going toñr be played, you're going to be the ones blamed for shutting down the government. senator john mccain against it. what is unbelievable to me is that senator schumer as well asÑi the president of the united states when he was senator obama had a different take. >>elisabeth