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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Israel and Syria

By Marc Ambinder
Sep 26 2007, 9:21 PM ET Comment

If Israel concluded that Iran's nuclear capability threatens Israel's security, would Israel be justified in bombing Iran?

HRC and Russert argue over hypotheticals... "What we think we know, is that, with North Korean help, both financial and technical...the Syrians were.. putting together a nuclear facility and the Israelis took it out. I strongly support that."

"I don't want to talk about what might or might not talk about what might happen with Iran."

Russert tries again.

"I'm not going to answer that."

Gravel and Kucinich wants to answer, but Clinton demonstrates her mastery of the issue.

Would HRC promise as a potential commander in chief that she would not allow Iran to be a nuclear power and would do everything to stop it?

She would do "everything in power to prevent" that eventuality. But she won't meet Russert's premise.

Russert asks the questions of Obama: "I think it's important to back up for a second and just understand. Iran is in a strong position now than before the Iraq war because the Congress authorized the president to go in."

So -- will he answer every question by reminding the audience of his opposition to the war?

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