his numbers are low with the american public. this happens with incumbents. we had benghazi, the v.a. scandal. the prisoner exchange, the irs lost two years of e-mails. story after story that make it difficult for him to talk about anything else. when republicans pick up seats in the house or control the senate, the lack of clout he has will be very exposed. failing a dramatic military intervention or some episode, he is in a difficult position. having said that, you can never underestimate the power of the american presidency. at the end of the term, there tends to be a little bit of a lift and people try to put him in a historic perspective. i think failing some huge episode, the force of his presidency has dissipated. it is kind of gone. >> two points i would have to make. i would love to be a democrat and be a huge cheerleader. reality strikes in this case. the worst part for the president is the events are controlling him. rather than him control in the -- him controlling the events. we have gone through five months of the year. you talk about all of the

all wars are hard to end, but the american public want two things. they want this war to end as soon as possible, but with the reaction to the taliban commanders being released is the american public is in denial about how bad it's going to feel when this war ends. how like a defeat it will feel. the truth is, in 2016 when combat operations cease, there's no legal basis to hang on to most of the taliban in guantanamo bay. there are going to be taliban guys in control of great chunks of afghanistan after 2016 because that's the logical consequence of walking away and the american public, they want us to walk away from afghanistan. they don't want soldiers left there, but they aren't ready to see the taliban back in charge of chunks of afghanistan. that's the deeper meaning. >> hold on, mort. what happened after bergdahl's release? >> on wednesday of this week, the taliban put out a 17 minute video showing bowe bergdahl's first minutes of freedom. here he is in this vehicle looking pale and blinking in the sunlight at the designated dropoff spot. armed

and the american public is starting to figure that out and the american public is starting to express its route rage. we have hundreds of activists around the country meeting with lawmakers, demanding the change in our country that's too long overdue. >> sam, you know, you're standing on the front north lawn of the white house. we know where we were as a country after sandy hook, and is where we are now. do you have sense from your reporting and from, you know, inside the 1600 pennsylvania avenue there will be a concerted effort to do something, any kind of renewed energy focused on this part of gun safety refor the? >> unfortunately, i don't share dan's optimism on this. at the white house briefing, the president's spokesman reiterated his commitment to doing common sense as he calls it, gun reforms, background checks, obviously, for individual purchases. and then on the hill, senator joe manchin reportedly said today he wants his legislation, which was the premier legislation to push back, he wants that reconsidered. but we have fallen into the predictable pattern, which is that we

if the american public recognizes that the house of representatives has become the captive of a very vocal and small, narrow band of american politics, then i think the american public will say they've had enough of that. so i don't think -- it's not just good for the democrats, i think if the country recognizes it's time to put an end to the no compromise under any circumstances for the public good attitude, then there could be an upside here. >> congressman, the democratic leader, nancy pelosi, asked about eric cantor's defeat today and she said, i have as much sympathy for mr. cantor as he would have for me -- as he would want me to have for him or he would have for me. dare i say there's a little bit of -- >> that's possible, but just to take a little broader view on this, alex, i think the problem here now in terms of moving forward on the big issues, whether the economy or immigration reform, a republican leader, eric cantor who whispered the idea of trying to reach agreement on these big issue issues was thrown out because of the tea party backlash. what that means is that repu

one is sort of the american public has decided, which is two-thirds of the american public believe that we shouldn't have been in iraq, we didn't need to be in iraq. and so it was kind of useless for cheney to even mention that. because it's a lose argument with the american public. the question now has turned to who lost iraq. okay. aside from the fact that the public believes we shouldn't be there, who lost iraq, and what dick cheney is saying is that it's the administration's blundering that lost iraq. let me read you something else from that op-ed. he said mr. obama had only to negotiate an agreement to leave behind some residual american forces, training and intelligence capabilities to help security the peace. instead, he abandoned iraq and watching american defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. the white house will say we did not abandon iraq. we tried to negotiate that agreement. we couldn't get the agreement we needed. maliki wasn't doing what we wanted. he was your guy, maliki, george w. bush, and that's why we had the problem. you're the american public here. you're like,

his numbers are quite low with the american public, and this is what happens to incumbents. we had benghazi and the va scandal, then the prisoner exchange. we have irs lost two years of e-mails. story after story that makes it very difficult for them to talk about anything else. when republicans do pick up seats in the house or they get control of the senate, that lack will be very exposed. failing some dramatic motor intervention or some episode, he's in a very difficult position. having said that, you can never underestimate the power of the american presidency but at the end of the term there tends to be a little bit of lift as people look back and got to try to put him in historic perspective. but i think, i think failing some huge episode, the essential elemental force of his presidency has dissipated and kind of gone. >> two points i would have to make and i would love to be the democrat jumping up and being a huge cheerleader, but reality strikes in this case. i think the worst part for the president is that events are controlling him rather than he is controlling the

military of limiting media access and lying to the american public during the iraq war. she writes, "i believe the current limits on press freedom and excelsive government secrecy make it impossible for americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance." "the embedded reporter program forces journalists to compete against one another for special access to vital matters of foreign and domestic policy. the result is that the american public access to the facts is gutted which leaves them with no way to evaluate the conduct of offici officials." barbara starr joins us over the phobe from washington this morning. barbara, what does manning have to gain from writing this and why now? >> well you know, i think it's absolutely fascinating. we assume that military authorities where he -- she's incarcerated were aware of this. there's no indication it got smuggled out of prison. chelsea manning is by all accounts the same rights to opinions teen speak as any other american. perhaps, perhaps wanting to be a very heartfelt voice and current debate, but as to the fact

it's our way to show the american public the sort of materials we have here so you can understand army history, whether you're a soldier and a veteran or someone who has never had family or been in the army themselves. we start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanish-american war because that's when our collections have the very first recorded audio oral histories of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. of course the spanish american war we have the title, the great adventure, because the army was not ready to go to war at this period of time when the u.s.s. maine exploded in havana harbor and cubans rebelled against the span ir, everything came to a head and we declared war on spain. spain declared war on us and the war started in earnest in a lot of soldiers enlisted all at once. we didn't have any sort of underlying setup, any sort of logistics ready to go to supply all these soldiers. so between not being able to ply the soldiers to begin with but going to war any way and seeing the consequences of the spanish american war afterwards, kind of foreshadowed the am

but the american public has not changed, andrea. erican public still does not, did not like this war, did not believe it was worth fighting and certainly does not want to go back in to relitigate or they did not like and did not think it was worth fighting. that is so difficult. ambassador hill used the threading the needle point. >> a quick round robin here. luke russert, on the hill, there's no good choice here either except that we've heard strongly democrats don't want him doing anything more aggressive. >> no, there's no easy choice. but we've heard a variety of options being thrown out. chairman ed royce of the house foreign affairs committee called for drone strikes against isis. you heard john boehner say, well, i want to hear a plan but the president should do more. nancy pelosi saying he has the authority to move forward. you get things all across the spectrum here, andrea, but when you press for a specifics, i think what chris said is very true. the american public is so war weary and so while it's easy to say president ob

convince the american public that there's. an awful lot of. title just depends on the deal without a war on terror they have no right to keep this war on terror going they have to keep finding a rest and out the surveillance or doing us surveillance. on . anyone or enough. times them by their taking on you. in london in one of the caring hearts of one of the capitals of loving liberal e.u. they've implemented a plan to finally get homeless people off the streets at night so that they provide these desperate people with a job so they could at least earn a few pounds and have some human dignity of course not they put down spikes everywhere on the ground so that the hobos have nowhere to sleep yes that isn't their layout spike keep up the homeless just like dragon's teeth keep out tanks now if this happened somewhere in say bangladesh on a bad day i might say well that is their business but all the liberals in the e.u. just constantly cry from their ivory tower to the whole world about how we all need to be tolerant and be taxed to death to help p

the weaner company got together with some big shot at the bun company and decided to rip off the american public american public is a bunch of trusting nit wits who will pay for things they don't need. >> security. >> rather than making a stink. i'm not paying for one more thing i don't need need. george banks is saying no. >> who's george banks? >> me! >> i love steve martin. now the website, nicky think.com reports that "father of the bride 3" will center around the marriage of mattie, the younger brother, marrying another man. and steve martin tweeted about the rumors, quote, so excited i'm doing father of the bride 3, haven't seen a script or been offered a role yet. >> good if he's on, and a george banks meltdown. >> he makes the movie. >> he does. thank you, sir. >>> it was earlier in the show, what other classic movies do you want to see rebooted or refreshed. what did we get? >> good morning, thomas. a lot of love for john hughes movie today, "the breakfast club" with a twist, 16 candles and home alone. >> and this one, marriage equality themed, when hare yet met sally. >> yes. >> and ne

the american public is so unhappy. give them an alternative and they will go for it. that, ify believe there was space on the ballot voters,d -- for the coalition," iom want them all out, people would punch it. the potentiality is there. i do not have the name or the way that it comes together. there is a lot more togetherness between the right and the left. >> we have one more question. >> are we publishing this? >> publishing the responses? them. tweeting when it comes to the recovery, the federal government did what? >third-party. >> i liked the ideal candidate. that sounded exceptional. the idea that there are not ideal ceos. these are real people and we pick that person. to nominates need someone to the left of hillary clinton. there ishat happened, room in the middle. and theier is money internet is replacing that barrier. what there has not been is a candidate. saying, and 2011, look at these numbers. someone should run in the middle of this. if it is hillary clinton and mccain or romney, the parties suck the middle out. , if you ask people if they would vote fo

we have been involved in afghanistan and iraq and the american public does seem to want to look inwardso is the president politically really tapping deeply into the american mood? >> i think he is, but it's hard to know whether that's cause or effect. he hasn't shown any leadership as to, you know, what is in the u.s. interest around the world and how we should act. people are less inclined to get behind somebody they don't feel confident about and go into a battle. his biggest military victory is his retreat from iraq. that's his victory. >> he would say we got osama bin laden. we prosecuted the war with drones. >> as far as military intervention goes, we lost a lot of blood and treasure in iraq, and we won. we had established a base there, and he gave it back. after you do that, do you think you're going to get the american public to say, okay, let's go to syria now and start over? that's what he's reflecting, that people don't want to do that, but i think a lot of it has to do with the fact they don't want to go into battle behind him. >> okay, matt, one of the points the president

and just talk to the american public directly about it, because i think the administration believes that the american public is on their side when it comes to fixing what's going on at the border. and common sense immigration reform. so, again, this is another issue, i think, that the white house is willing, you know, to take directly to the public. >> and what makes this even more -- frankly, appealing, i think for the president to talk about is that there already is a bill passed by the senate with enormous bipartisan support, with republicans like marco rubio and john mccain, among the authors. and if the house would simply vote on it, it would probably pass. but, well, there are a lot of reasons for that. i mean, why the house won't. and we just got one of them a few weeks ago when the house majority leader, eric cantor, was defeated in a republican primary, and one of the issues in that race was the idea that eric cantor wanted immigration reform to pass, although he certainly was not perceived by president obama to be an ally of immigration reform. but he was suspect by many tea pa

hall with christiane amanpour. >> go with cliche that she's resbror reintroducing herself for the american publicleft. giving the american public to get sick of the clinton drama again? again, who knows how it will play out. it does seem like this has been a very, very carefully calculated media strategy, which is generally how they proceed. >> mark, amy, thank you both for join ming. >> thanks, brian. i miss you. >> i miss you at the "times" but i get to read you every day. >> i feel left out. i miss you guys too. >>> coming up here, the power of a live television picture. look at this from cnn's ivan watson in istanbul, turkey last weekend. i'll talk to him about what this was like to be on air while being interrupted and harassed by police. stay tuned. [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your 401(k) or you are ready for retirement, we'll help you get there. ♪ hooking up the country whelping b

american t.v. networks are leading off with ukraine today but with iraq so that sort of shows if they can the pickens of that issue at least for the american public yes i think the issue with iraq has a special resonance with american audiences because so many thousands tens of thousands of americans have spent time in iraq so obviously this is going to be the number one issue for some time in the real question is how do we come out in iraq certainly i think this i.c.e.'s group which is essentially a group dedicated to the proposition of creating a sort of caliphate between syria and iraq and clearly this is a major attack against the current order in the middle east and so i think it is in everybody's interests united states russia and many other countries to calm the situation down and for now i think it's going to be difficult if difficult to disagree with you on that you mentioned tens of thousands of americans serving in iraq and i just want to mention that four in the have thousand americans lost there their lives. the question is what for i mean president obama takes credit for winding down these two very unpopular wars one in afghanistan

the polling numbers are dramatically good thing for those who thought the american public didn't carech about pollution and a healthier planet. but why then would republicans threaten to shut down the government over something that has such broad support? >> because they are bought. they are bought by oil industry, pure and simple. they are not as dumb as they look. it's a close call, perhaps what they really know. but they are not as dumb as they look. they are paid by big oil. it's so corrupt -- it is completely outrageous, they will not win this. this in the end will be -- >> did not know -- that is a very short game to play. other poll numbers in the same poll, 69 in states where a majority of electricity is produced by burning coal, 69% support. to your point it's clear the only folks who support being a climate change denialist are the companies that profit off of it. >> basically no other country in the world has what the united states has which are politicians who are -- present themselves as real serious people having this kind of nonsense. and actually the world is moving to

will the american public ever get behind additional involvement in iraq? > well, certainly, the american people would probably absolutely be in an uproar if there were troops on the ground, and the president has gone to great pains to say that there are no combat troops on the ground. however, as we're seeing, there are more and more advisers, and those people who oppose any sort of iraq involvement say that that can become a real slippery slope. >> absolutely. all right. bob, as always, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, betty. >>> coming up, bill and richard are back for our "first buzz," including one of the coolest 3d paintings we have ever seen. that's next. (mother vo) when i was pregnant... i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of me and my baby. luckily, unitedhealthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get the right care and guidance-before and after the baby is born. simple is good right now. (anncr vo) innovations that work for you.

s it's an interesting idea i wonder how much support it would have among the american public i gather that the appetite for the american involvement would be extremely limited and probably for good reasons if i could concentrate on all my like a bit longer i heard many western commentators. blame a lot like you for base whole crisis saying that he failed to build a functioning democracy in iraq that he disenfranchised many sunni's but i wonder if it's really fair to put all the blame on. whether he's efficient or not he was handed the country in a very a very poor state and the united states was a very very big player in these whole quagmire trying to dislodge the governments in both iraq and in syria i wonder what will it take for the united states to ever conceive that even for good reasons like democracy or freedom regime change is rarely a good idea i think rarely a good idea is probably a good way to put it by the way i would agree with a lot of your comments about maliki i think you've made them better than his government has made them in fact the criticism of maliki for not hav

not to mention the lack of faith the american public has in eric holder who misled the public saying he never heard of criminal prosecution of a journalist, meantime alleging james rosen was a criminal co-c co-conspir tore. >> well, one of the things is that i think this administration is gone beyond looking at polls or even, frankly, caring about them at this point. you're talking about the end of a presidency. they're looking at iraq and all of these questions. not where i am, where they under poll numbers but how do they deal with this situation with, i mean... >> i get that. that is not my question. my question is are these, is it just reaching critical masses? why are there 10 to 12 scandals now engulfing this administration? all made up by the opponents? >> no. well, look. i don't know they're all made up, but having opposition, coming out as strong as they have does matter. you know, look. bush had 5 million e mails disappear on them in the middle of a legal questions there. i'm not, and this isn't tit for tat, they did it too. a lot of the scandals have gone on before. they a

his numbers are quite low with the american public. and he's -- and this is what happens to incumbents. i mean, we have benghazi, then we have the v.a. scandal. then the prisoner exchange. and we had the irs lost, you know, two years of e-mails. story after story after story that make it very difficult for him to talk about anything else. and when republicans do pick up seats in the house which i believe or they get control of the senate, that lack of clout that he has will be very exposed. so again, failing some dramatic military intervention or some episode, he has -- he's in a very difficult position. having said that, you can never underestimate the power of an american presidency and at the end of the term there tends to be a little bit of a lift. as people look back and kind of try to put him in historic perspective. but i think -- i think that failing an episode -- some huge episode, the essential elemental force of his presidency is dissipated and kind of gone. >> two points i have to make. i'd love to be the democrat jumping up

justice system and federal agencies what they're trying to do was to convince the american public that there is this large army of potential terrorists that they should all be very very scared about they are very much engaged in worldwide surveillance and this surveillance is very valuable to them they can learn and in a sense control it's control issues and to their advantage and the entire legal justification for that depends on there being a war on terror without a war on terror they have no right to do this so they have to keep this war on terror going they have to keep finding people and arresting them and locking them up and scaring everybody because without that they they cannot justify the kind of surveillance or doing u.s. surveillance as the public has learned is not just limited to citizens critics say unless there is public outcry over government manufactured crime that to may eventually become common practice to target anyone. artsy new york and coming up larry king imagines a world where the united states never existed. in london in one of the caring hearts of one of the

overwhelming majority of the american public says iraq wasn't worth it. s if everybody is living a bad dream and hearing the names of the cities we heard about so much during the iraq war. and the president is walking this really fine line here saying, look, i'm not going to send troops back on the ground. but this is an important region to us. the iraqis are responible for their own security. we spent so much money training these security forces who are running away, right? so the president has to figure out a way to walk that line and say this is important, this is what we're willing to do. we didn't make our investment for nothing. so we do have leverage here. so hold on. >> he's getting pounds, though, by his critics. john mccain saying he should fire all of his national security team, bring general petraeus back in. >> that's right. and again, it is does speak to president's legacy and the question of whether we should have armed the rebels in syria, whether a complete withdrawal from afghanistan in 2016 is the right way to go given what is going on i

>> the american public does deserve. if we have a department of justice, which i feel is inept in this because we've given them enough reason to have a special prosecutor. we've shown enough questions out there about what has happened. the american people deserve to know what's happening. this is an agency that has personal information and power and control over people in this country and we have to get back to the point where we can establish the people can trust their government and in particular this agency of the irs. >> you lead us nicely into our next segment. congresswoman, nice to see you. thank you for the time today. you think people don't like the irs and tax man, turns out americans don't like congress either. a new gallop poll shows record low 7% of americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in congress. repairing that might be more difficult than irs and perhaps it's a bigger story here. allison barber is a writer and i know you have talked to a lot of people on the hill about what's happening

what they're trying to do was to convince the american public that there is this large army potential terrorist that they should all be very very scared about a muslim advocacy group report says that since two thousand and one u.s. security services have been traveling and convicting innocence which washington perceives might be dangerous in the future stay with r.t. for the details. please. please please please take a look very hard to take i. want to get on a plane that you ever had sex with her right there no. please. please. please the bottom of the the of. welcome back you're watching r.t. international now russia has given ukraine its final deadline to sort out its gas agreements with europe nervously watching from the sidelines a third of the continent's gas comes from russia through ukraine and if it gets cut off that's likely to cause headaches for european homes and businesses let's now breakdown how these prices are worked out well right now the price stands at three hundred eighty five dollars per cubic meter which is one hundred dollars less than western europe generally

what they're going to do it was to convince the american public there is this large army of potential terror they should all be very very scared about a muslim because he convicting innocents which washington perceives to be dangerous in the future also ahead how israel is has taken a step forward in its controversial plan to force feed palestinian prisoners ignoring his planes. economic record sales force. north. korea china. during johnson's germany companies now like and parts. don't want one but if the republicans at nine forty. three. over go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy schreck albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across a cynical we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school class i'm tom hartman and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyo

justice system and federal agencies what they're trying to do was to convince the american public that there is this large army of potential terrorists that they should all be very very scared about and the entire legal justification for that depends on their being a war on terror without a war on terror they have no right to do this so they have to keep this war on terror going to have to keep finding people and arresting them and locking them up and scaring everybody critics say unless there is a public outcry over govern. manufactured crime that may eventually become common practice to target anyone. artsy new york. from mass surveillance to drone attacks in guantanamo the us uses a whole range of preemptive tactics to attain its ends that's what kathy manley says she's one of the co-authors of inventing terrorists report. the government uses this. vastly inflated terror threat to justify a number of things such as the mass surveillance edward snowden disclosed used as justification for drone attacks in places where there's no declared war in somalia it's used to justify torture eve

barnum put it, nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the american public. [laughter] the american public is still interested in side shows. that's why every day the mainstream media portrays the conservative movement as a side show. and they present a parade of horribles, candidates who are portrayed as uncaring about the needs of women and minority groups. politicians who are said to promote xenophobia and fear of immigrants. and rich old white men who are seemingly focused on lowering their tax rates and preserving their wealth instead of paying their fair share. day after day the media tells stories like these in lurid detail. through these reports the entire conservative movement is depicted as a parade of human oddities, just as shocking and just as fascinating as a circus side show. and many conservatives fear that the media-reported freak shows may turn the next generation away from conservativism. in considering the situation, it's important to start with the observation that on many levels america is a conservative nation. earlier this year the wash

people understand i mean is is slow sometimes is the is it is to getting that information out of the american public the american public seems to understand a couple of things about dick cheney and that is that he went on national television in told us that heap. personally can attest to the idea that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction he can he can stand behind that personally he personally could tell us that saddam hussein was the was one was the person who helped engineer nine eleven we remember being lied to by by dick cheney and rumsfeld and paul wolfowitz. who intentionally set out to get us involved in a war for purposes that were completely contrary to our interests americans understand that today and so that so as we see these chicken hawks and i say chicken hawks because most of the most all of the people that are on there beating the drum for a war if you drill down and you say well did you ever serve at all did you ever carry a rifle did you ever have bullets flying over your head what you'd find is the story the dick cheney story not only did they not serve but they tried de

and just talk to the american public directly about it, because i think the administration believes thatlic is on their side when it comes to fixing what's going on at the border. and common sense immigration reform. so, again, this is another issue, i think, that the white house is willing, you know, to take directly to the public. >> and what makes this even more -- frankly, appealing, i think for the president to talk about is that there already is a bill passed by the senate with enormous bipartisan support, with republicans like marco rubio and john mccain, among the authors. and if the house would sim

the american people know that track record? i wish a much vaster percentage of the american public read mime tomasky's column than actually does. but they don't. they know that 5%, 3% of the american public knows those statistics. but they know that unkingdevery conservative around the country when they hear the phrase miranda rights they'll go grrr. they know that. it wasn't even a month ago. or maybe it was a month and two days ago that federal prosecutors in new york won the conviction of that london imam on every count. he's not going to be sentenced until september. so we'll see what the sentence is. but they convicted this guy in a civilian court on every count. every single count. civilian trials can work just fine. >> indeed. i read michael tomasky's column every time it comes out. >> good for you. >> everyone should do the same. really appreciate you being here. thanks, man. >> my pleasure. cheers. >>> all right. we're going to do a quick read alert on the congressional hearing into the recalls at general motors. the government is investigating why gm waited more than a decade to recall cars with an ignition switch pro

it does not reflect the american public. where did a lot of african-americans in louisiana end up? n texas. in the last census, there were four congressional districts because of the boom in texas. that was attributed to three congressional districts that should have been assigned to the latino community and one to the african-american community. it is because of the gerrymandering. one of the best ways to go against gerrymandering is to make sure that we are having public commissions. >> when you look at a 2020 strategy, it is similar to what the right did leading to 2010. in mississippi, we have had the most successful redistricting. we had an explosion from 1965 to 2010, more elected officials than other states. much of that happened as a result of concentrated voter registration, more african-americans. followed by 14 years of litigation and nine trip to the supreme court, which forced them to open up to due process with the ways in which by 1992, 21 members supported. currently it is 49. that only happened because of aggressive work on the part of citizens across the state. the

how much more american blood do you want to shed for us for a conflict that is not our not our conflict of government that is the literally irresponsible do you think the american public will not support troops on the ground i mean i think at this point you're probably right the american public will not what is on the ground by a wide margin because this is a this is become a country that is now slipped into a pretty nine eleven mentality which is why we are now going to surrender afghanistan back to the taliban in iraq to a combined force of al qaeda slash isis in the north and iran in the in the south some of the political blogs your reaction to the defeat of mr cantor is very interesting i think that it has a couple of ramifications of it once again shows kind of the difference between the establishment republican party and the grassroots that election really had nothing to do with the tea party the tea party and spend any money and in the tea party really didn't do much in that race was much more about cantor not being in his district a lot and being a little bit out of touch as far as the immigration issue i think it's a great thing for democrats because now you'

itself that that's ok because these are a lot of elites and he's in touch with the views of the american public which is, in fact, weary of war, and is somewhat weary of playing a larger role on the world stage. host: "the president has been deeply frustrated by the criticism of his foreign policy which during the first term was generally perceived as a strong suit. he has lashed out at critics for military as action as the remedy for the variation of the phrase "don't do stupid stuff". guest: for a president that has always talked about policy in a sense that he boiled down his foreign policy to bumper sticker type stuff of "don't do stupid stuff." it is a policy of caution, of restraint, of nilism to some extent. that's a reaction to the bush administration to a certain extent. host: how much of the speech was aimed at senator rand paul? he took aim in a number of references to those who say people came to do something else or critics on the other side that say this. >> there are two separate set of critics he responded to. he doesn't like the word "isolationist" but he does have a libertaria

so that the american public, if you lift the veil, the american public is perfectly capable of looking at it and making a decision. >> that well was already poisoned, the consultation well. >> no. >> gloria, ryan, john, thank you. at the top of the next hour i'll speak with the president's deputy national security adviser, tony blinken. >>> up next, bowe bergdahl's taliban captors are speaking out. we're going to learn why they are ecstatic about the prisoner swap and how they are now celebrating. >>> plus, bergdahl's captors gave him what they call a parting gift. we're going to explain what they had made especially for him. >>> and tracking the freed taliban leaders. they are supposed to be monitored for a year in qatar but why does that worrisome top u.s. officials? ♪ and cialis for daily user you. helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis i

the american nazi party and ku klux klan groups. some people are fearful that the department of homeland secured and other intelligence agencies are making a lot of interest of surveillance of the american public. so some people are worried about that, that there could be a repeat of cointelpro. we've seen for instance, a lot of people arrested for terrorist plots, arrested at the last moment before the actually carry out the plot. so to some people suggest there is a provocateur element, the people inside the government that are instigating these things. so some civil libertarians are understandably concerned about that, with good reason. how extensive that will be, will there be any oversight, a lot of that depends on i think things like the war on terror and if the country will be experienced more terrorist attacks, if our country does not expect spectacular terrorist attack i think the public will grow weary of some of those measures, these homeland secured to measures. so it might be scaled back. >> do you think we will see an increase in like lone wolf terrorism so it gets harder for extremist groups to act within certain areas of technology? >> could you speak a? >> do you think there's

but and how they're going to speak to the american public if the american public did not view the evidence. so that was tough. and ultimately there was this moment when it was going of. ted olson kind of liked the idea of kennedy getting in her early preview of the case. they're talking about. one of the main characters of the books as, ps, huge gown with being one of the five? but it was a tough but for them. it was not televised. >> anyway, the last year or so since the decisions came down, you know, there has been a wave, somewhere around a dozen or more of state little challenges to marisol's. most of the state's the marriage ban has been overturned. and most of the time when these bands are challenged an overturned the case that is actually being cited by the state level judges windsor. it is not the proper rate case. the windsor case which you talk about a little bit, overturning the federal law. so at a certain level if you compare both, in many ways windsor and a lot more index. did you feel in some way that may be covered -- for focused on the wrong case? >> no. i focused on the b