dana milbank is there because those washington post columns aren't going to write themselves now, arey? beer's looking good, brother. the president today continued his prl way of speaking about the middle east, which is different from previous leaders and other major leaders today in america are speaking about the middle east. saying they have to do it themselves. let's listen to a bit of the president from earlier today. >> ultimately the task of rejecting sectarianism and rejecting extremism is a generational task. and a task for the people of the middle east themselves. no external power can bring about a transformation of hearts and minds. >> he's saying that the middle east can be changed but that people there have to do it first. that we can't do it. americans like to hear, we can do anything. we can control the world. so, i imagine that's a message that goes over better at the u.n. than to a greater american audience. >> well, i think so, toure. i was struck by the change in the president's tone. i went back and looked at his cairo address, the famous speech from 2009. you real

. >> now let me bring in dana milbank and angelo wright. thank you both for being here. n now become part of the gop election strategy? >> well, it certainly is in the short term here and i think what you see going on, reverend, is they see what is basically a demographic tsunami coming their way and the country is becoming less and less white and that is if the republicans stay on the course they're on will wipe out the republican party so what they're trying to do is basically build some sand castles on the beach to hold off that tsunami and try to knock a few more voters off the roll. that may help them here and there in a very close election in the current cycle, the next cycle. in the long run, though, this is just a fool's ererrand than all that is electing white republicans. >> georgia, we've been talking about voting in georgia. here's why registering voters there is such a big deal. in 2008 president obama lost georgia by about 200,000 votes. in 2012 he lost the state by 300,000 votes. but slate is reporting there are 700,000 unregistered black voters in georgia.

columnist dana milbank cites a few examples of what he calls obama's chill lax message about the middleamericans would worry less if obama worried more. >>> in new york magazine, columbia student will carry a mat stress everywhere until her alleged rapist is expelled. emma says she was raped in her dorm and fighting back against the university for mishandling her sexual assault case. >>> some other stories, in nashville 32 teens escaping from a detention center happened during a guard shift change. they slipped out by crawling under a fence. 23 caught, seven still on the zloos a study on breast cancer and double mastectomies from the journal of the american medical association. 200,000 women were observed over several years. the study found survival rates were basically the same for women who had a double mastectomy and women who underwent tumor removal and chemo. >>> she quit social media because of hateful messages after her father died. now robin williams' daughter zelda is back on twitter. she tweeted this harvey firestein, quote, never be bullied into silence. never allow yourself

. >> let me bring in dana milbank, political columnist for "the washington post." have you to help me square that circle. you have the bellicose language, the hunt them down language we're getting from the president. a long way from where he was before. today you have josh earnest hedging his bets about what it is the white house is trying to do to de grade isis. is it going into syria? if so, do they think congress has a role to play. is this confusing or are we not listening to the white house properly? >> it is confusing and the president needs to do a bit of a delicate dance here if he goes out and presents something very specific in terms of his plan. well, then, it can be criticized up on the hill. if it's not specific enough, you get the kind of criticism that he was getting a couple of weeks ago, that it sounded weak, that he -- he didn't quite mean what he said when he said we don't have a strategy. but that did him a good bit of damage. what he needs to do on wednesday is sound tough, as he has been doing. he's been getting some plaudits from democrats an

. >> let me bring in dana milbank. the president says his decision is not a political tactic.hink? is this politics? is it policy? is it both? >> well, alex, it will shock you to know that there is politics going on here in washington a couple of months before the election. well, of course it is. the president put himself in a bad spot by promising to take action so he had to say, sorry, i'm just going to punt this until november. so he's managed to infuriate his own liberal base, at least those pushing for some sort of an immigration action. at the expense of the vulnerable democratic candidate. it now appears that he's trying to help some of these senate incumbent democrats who are vulnerable but he's taking a lot of enthusiasm and wind out of the sail out of the democratic base. >> how much pressure is on him to act? are you confident he's going to do it? >> yes, i would say wednesday morning after the tuesday election. he really has to get moving on that because it's very clear that this congress, the new congress isn't going to become any more friendly towards a comprehen

. >> dana milbank of the "the washington post" said you played it straight. today was looking at a little bit backwards. will there be hearings in the future that will look at exactly what happened that night as well as how the obama administration cover, you know, how they handled sort of the dissemination of information or transparency or whatever you want to call the investigation post 9/11? , 12? >> yes, ma'am, to all of the above. we are going to answer all of the questions that are outstanding with respect to the before, during and after benghazi. we are also going to make recommendations on how to make sure it doesn't happen again. but as i said today, greta, i am willing to risk, asking the same question twice. i am not willing to risk not answering it once. and even though other folks have looked at benghazi. there are still unanswered questions. i owe it to the family members of the four who were slain and i owe it to my fellow citizens to ask all the questions about benghazi. >> all right. can i ask you one quick question? do you still have the rep

now i want to bring in dana milbank of the "washington post." thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> how can republicans sit there and try to score political points during a debate about law? >> it is an extraordinary thing if you think about it. it was just a few weeks ago when virtually nobody was talking about boots on the ground, about a ground war in the middle east. you had the president come out and basically say what john mccain and lindsey graham have been saying. we have to get involved with the air campaign. the noemt president says it, suddenly the republican party has become the party in fare of a ground war in the middle east. so this is an you tolderly new creation. >> you wrote about that. i think it is something that we need to bring out because you did in your writings. you wrote about how we've heard some republicans push for ground troops even though a few weeks ago said they said it was a bad idea. they're being vehement, aggressive, they're throwing around insults and two weeks ago they had complete opposite posit

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with that, let's awkwardly turn to "the washington post's" dana milbank. let's keep moving forward here. >> awkward. >> this congress' purpose has been purpose obstructionists for years. it seems a bit rich to me to now expect the president in a moment of need to go to them and try to work with them when they have refused to work with him and with each other on anything. >> right. do they think he's charlie brown and the football here? i mean, we -- we -- it's not only that it's a theoretical possibility. look what happened on syria. he said, all right, congress, i'm going to put this in your court and let's see what you're going to authorize. and, you know, they couldn't authorize a ham sandwich. they couldn't do anything. so, i think what the president did in his remark was saying, look, congress, i don't need you, but i'd like you. i'd like you to come along and be part of this evert. things change from minute to minute on the hill. it looks right now that he will get the vote to authorize the funds for the training. probably separate from the overall f

. >> dana milbank with the "post." you mentioned alleged teenagers with grey hair and wrinkles. can you say how many there are? have you seen them yourself? are there photographs? are there names? >> i have seen their applications, their processing forms that have come from the jubilee center. i would say, of the 30 or 40 forms that i have seen, maybe seven or eight of them clearly, to me, looked older than the 17 or 18 years old that they were claiming to be. >> there are photographs -- >> photographs. i have not personally seen these people, because by the time i've become aware of them, they've been placed into the schools and -- i suppose i could ask the superintendent if i could take a walk over to the school system once school starts. for us it starts wednesday after labor day and maybe i'll be able to get some first-hand up-close looks at these students. but clearly, from some of the photographs, these people are adults. >> between legal/illegal, can you break down of the new student enrollment -- >> no. as i said, that's part of the problem with these figures i have been

joining me right now is from "the washington post," columnist dana milbank.nd civil rights attorney eric guster will join us. split timing there. eric, glad you're here. in addition to the way they're presenting the evidence, the prosecutors are not yet telling the grand jury what charges they think wilson should face. how does all that affect the indictment? >> well, the prosecution has a duty to make sure they protect the integrity of the investigation. they don't want to talk too much about the charges because people who are on the grand jury, they pay attention to msnbc. they read the newspaper. so those people could be influenced by what the prosecutor says. so i'm not very concerned about them not saying exactly what charges they're seeking right now. >> okay. dana, i know you cover the grand jury process here. in your latest column, you write, what happened in ferguson last month was a tragedy, what's on course to happen there next month will be a farce. the prosecutors are saying this gives the jury every possible angle the way they're approaching it.

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. >>> dana milbank, you see the point in this? i'm not going to challenge you.ington post," president obama's unnerving happy talk. i hope obama's chillax message is correct. the happy talk isn't working. following the admission thursday that we don't have a strategy yet for military action against isis adds to the impression that obama is disengaged. in short, americans would worry less if obama worried more. >>> that brings us to thomas friedman. he brings up this in ready, aim, fire, not ready, fire, aim. there are no words to describe the vileness of the video beheadings. i have no doubt they're get us to act ala 9/11 and rush off again without a strategy. isis is awful, but not a threat to america's homeland. i'm all in for destroying isis, i support using u.s. air fire and special forces to root it out, but only part of a coalition wherever bod which a stake in stability there and where sunni and shiites take the lead and demonstrate they hate more isis more than they hate each other. and sectarian passions and nothing good we do will last. >> tom just des