in the crossfire, howard dean, former presidential candidate, and paul wolfowitz, a former deputy defense secretary. is the obama doctrine working? are some republicans undermining the president abroad? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." we're continuing cnn's breaking news coverage of the crisis in ukraine. i'm s.e. cupp on the right. >> we have a former presidential candidate and former pentagon official. today we saw big hits that the tough diplomacy with russia might work. kerry delivered a billion dollar package to kiev. behind the scenes, the obama administration has put together a crippling set of proposed economic sanctions. while the president is busy doing his job, his republican critics keep trying to undermine him. freshman senator and self-appointed foreign policy expert ted cruz writing under the headline language of fools -- have laid mer putin running rampant shows how the obama administration's abdication of global leadership is making the world a more dangerous place. thank you very much for that help in a crisis, ted cruz. ted cruz is taking cheap shots

lou: all right, paul wolfowitz thank you. >> thank you, very much. lou: reports say president putin is preparing a list of americans to sanction. several senators are likely to be on the list, including perhaps senator john mccain, who may be very clever effort to use reverse psychology, claims he wants be on compute putin's t shaw-- sanction list, now day 1n search for missing malaysian airlines, still no concrete leads, as a matter of fact, many of the facts in the case are in dispute, they are vague and ambiguous, u.s. is among 26 nations searching for the flight which disappeared from radar with 239 people onboard, authorities spent weekend looking into lives and homes of pilot and co copilot with human sabotage now leading theory by investigators. seizeing a flight simulator from the home of the apy lot. -- aircraft's pilot. >> the 53-year-old pilot, who provideed web tips on air-conditioners with personal flight simulate or is now at center of the investigation. with his copilot. the chairman of house homeland security committee who gets regula

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including with paul wolfowitz, donald rumsfeld's second in command.on with just two months until the invasion, attention turns to who will run iraq in the immediate days and weeks after the fall of saddam. retired army lieutenant general jay garner, a man with deep experience in the region, gets the call from donald rumsfeld. >> he said, we need right now is somebody to come in, put a staff together, operationalize the plans we put together. you know, you think if you're going to put that together you'd have office space and desk and computers and telephones and all that. i didn't even have a chair. >> that lack of planning when it comes to basic post-saddam governance stands in stark contrast to the level of planning that's already well under way for iraq's oil sector. >> there's a very strong sense of urgency. it was 12, 15-hour days from what i remember. they knew where every pipeline, where every refinery, gas plant, oil field, gas oil separation plant was. people said we didn't plan very well for iraq. i would take exception to that when it came

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there were two key decisions made in the first day of ambassador paul wolfowitz ten e tenure. he gets to baghdad and he decides to debath the iraq society. if you took off several hundred or the top thousand, you would probably have been okay. put he went all the way down and got rid of not just the top leaders of the government of iraq, but tens of thousands of iraqis who joined because it was the only way to get a job and these were doctors, lawyers, and all of the people assuming they would need to make sure iraq would function and with one stroke of a pen he got rid of them. and since they were sunnis and denied jobs, pensions and participation in the political life of the country, what they viewed as the decent they started -- instead of agree saddam was bad com they would help was -- us -- and give us the benefit of doubt, instead we ali alienated them. and then the second was to expand the iraq army. it wasn't an instrument of regime control like before. we didn't have to eliminate the iraq army. they could have been used to help stabilize post-war iraq. but he disbrand

laura ingram and bob woodward and paul wolfowitz and former president of the world bank and fox newsolitical analyst juan williams. russia is announcing more than 30,000 troops on the border of eastern ukraine armed with tanks an artillery and aircraft. laura, i mean it's a guess, but do you think putin invades and what can and should the u.s. and west do to try to persuade him not to? >> remember that old commercial, this is your brain on drugs. this is the country in decline. the united states has a leader who has a view and the world would step in and would have a more stable world. what you think you see now is the world is less stable with america weaker. what we can do in this part of the world, i don't think we're going to do much. we can talk about sanctions. sanctions might have a minimal effect. unless europe steps up and angela merkel matches her rhetoric with real world actions against the former soviet union, i think putin sees this as a massive opening for him domestically and on the international stage. you see him getting closer to china. and i think america's options

radio talk show host laura ingraham, bob woodward of "the washington post," paul wolfowitz, former number two at the pentagon under george w. bush and fox news political analyst juan williams. russia is massing 20,000 troops on the border of eastern ukraine with tanks, artillery and aircraft. laura, i mean it's a guess. do you think putin invades and what can and should the u.s. and the west do to try to persuade him not to? >> remember that commercial that says your brain on drugs? this is your country in decline. i would say that united states has a leader now that had an expansive view of what the world community would be like, would have more harmony. the u.s. would step back and the world would step in and would have a more stable world. what i think you see now is that, of course, the world is less stable with america weaker. what we can do in this part of the world, i don't think we're going to do much. i think we can talk a lot about sanctions. sanctions might have some minimal effect. unless europe steps up and less germany matches the rhetoric with real world actions against the

is not weighing in on health care laws, fox brings out another person, the iraq war architect paul wolfowitz -- well, let me let you hear what he had to say. >> it seems to me i hear numbers. i think it's correct that five million people had their policies canceled, the ones they were promise they'd could keep. presumably some of that five million new enrollees are people who just got kicked out and are back in. this was supposed to reduce the number of uninsured. it may actually have increased the number. >> now "the washington post" fact checker gave the claim that more people are uninsured four pinocchios. so why do they keep saying this, congresswoman? it's patently not true. >> i think fox is getting pretty desperate to have folks on like wolfowitz. look what he did for the world. he was the architect behind the iraq war long before 9/11, and where does that gotten us? and donald trump, what does he have the authority to talk about health care reform? they need to stay doing what they're doing. but i do think it's a little bit of a sane of desperation that you go to sources like that to

paul wolfowitz is a former deputy secretary of defense. he joins us live from d.c. >> i understand back in 2004 when you were at the d.o.d., you visited it, you thought initially it kind of sounded like a winter vacation but then you realized it was tough, it was more like a boot camp but it was much more than that. >> it's true. i didn't mean a winter vacation is something to take lightly for people who are suffering from very severe disabilities. but this is not a place to rest. it's aç place where you, people are pushed and pushed by some of the most extraordinary instructors in the world to do things they never thought they could do, sometimes things they had never done before in their lifetime. >> never done before in their life times. how empowering is that for all these individual? how have you watched them transform? >> i remember talking to one veteran who came up to me and he was blind. he said, i had been almost killed in an automobile accident in germany when i was on active duty. i came out of it deaf, dumb, blind and quadriplegic, and he said i felt li

and i want to turn to paul wolfowitz now. >> thanks very much for coming. it's terrific to have you here. i have a quick comment and then the question. the question is about trade. but the comment is about this issue of waste in foreign aid. the amazing work that you're doing in the foundation, that the u.s. government is doing with pepfar, other things demonstrate that there are lots of ways to spend foreign aid that are the opposite of wasteful, they're accountable, they're measurable, they make a huge difference in people's lives. but i would submit that there is a lot of waste. and i'll give you just an example. if you give $100 million to a government that is so tyrannical that you really have no idea what's happened to that money, by your numbers, that's $100 million that could have saved 50,000 lives. and i think you'll have a stronger case for foreign aid if you go after the things that are wasteful as well as the things that are good. but here's my question. in talking about foreign aid, you correctly say, we spend less than 1%. we could afford to

there were two key decisions made in the first day of ambassador paul wolfowitz ten e tenure. he gets to baghdad and he decides to debath the iraq society. if you took off several hundred or the top thousand, you would probably have been okay. put he went all the way down and got rid of not just the top leaders of the government of iraq, but tens of thousands of iraqis who joined because it was the only way to get a job and these were doctors, lawyers, and all of the people assuming they would need to make sure iraq would function and with one stroke of a pen he got rid of them. and since they were sunnis and denied jobs, pensions and participation in the political life of the country, what they viewed as the decent they started -- instead of agree saddam was bad com they would help was -- us -- and give us the benefit of doubt, instead we ali alienated them. and then the second was to expand the iraq army. it wasn't an instrument of regime control like before. we didn't have to eliminate the iraq army. they could have been used to help stabilize post-war iraq. but he disbrand

and i want to turn to paul wolfowitz now. >> thanks very much for coming. it's terrific to have you here. i have a quick comment and then the question. the question is about trade. but the comment is about this issue of waste in foreign aid. the amazing work that you're doing in the foundation, that the u.s. government is doing with pepfar, other things demonstrate that there are lots of ways to spend foreign aid that are the opposite of wasteful, they're accountable, they're measurable, they make a huge difference in people's lives. but i would submit that there is a lot of waste. and i'll give you just an example. if you give $100 million to a government that is so tyrannical that you really have no idea what's happened to that money, by your numbers, that's $100 million that could have saved 50,000 lives. and i think you'll have a stronger case for foreign aid if you go after the things that are wasteful as well as the things that are good. but here's my question. in talking about foreign aid, you correctly say, we spend less than 1%. we could afford to

outside of this room that have been around since 1976 and a dick cheney, jeanne kirkpatrick, paul wolfowitzmer cia chief had been among its membership. no? no. not for our damage control for those who worship them. one may argue that they know their audience can only say what the audience wants to do. the role of the gatekeepers is to keep it that way. in 1991, speaking at berkeley, chomsky was asked by an iraqi american in the audience about the role of the israel lobby in pushing george bush senior to attack iraq in 1991. there was a loud applause, chomsky said the lobby played no role. it wasn't true. but it was what they wanted to hear. chomsky's fateful triangle was polemic designed to prove to supporting israel has been high on the agenda of every u.s. president that followed eisenhower. when it has to, they simply ignore. that's why there's no mention of kennedy in his book. can be strongly opposed and was last president to do so. he also supported the palestinian right of return and wanted to implement to some degree in the time of his murder his justice department under brother bob

involved after wards they don't know just like they didn't know about iraq they said remember paul wolfowitz we have to go back to this all the time you know there are the river aleutian in iraq is going to pay for itself we're going to be then you will back all that stupidity and now it's going going to be repaired in ukraine just a small point i'd like to i like to make about china picking up i want to and said before i've been following the chinese reaction it's very very cautious because chinese diplomacy is reactive they are terrified that the legal cool going is going oh it's already being legitimized by washington they are period five because this would create a precedent for something happening inside china by due west. could being seen could being to bet could even be hong kong we have a larry diamond dispatch few days talking about democracy. in hong kong and at the same time be have a very complex political strategic relationship based on energy as well with russia so president suturing being he called both obama and uncle merkel and he said please resolve this diplomatically i su