when we come back, ari fleischer has an embarrassing twitter story. >>> the nod goes to edward schultz. white house aid dan pfeiffer -- describing the republicans refusing to give ground on the budget deadlock. >> this is about hate and it's now at your doorstep. this is about trying to make this president be viewed in the history of this country as a man who couldn't succeed. there is an element of serious racism here. >> racism. and schultz said that some republicans merely -- what does race have to do with this particular battle? ed schultz is a passionate advocate, but this time his passion got the best of him. >>> and the most overlooked story, ari fleischer picked a twitter fight with barack obama. the former white house spokesman tweeted this, how come barack obama's last tweet was more than 140 characters? does he play by different rules? scandalous. it might have been kind of funny especially since the president's message was under the 140 word limit. by the way, one of our guests earlier said that fox-- i can't without mentioning this "new york times" correction on the game,

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cnn political commentator ari fleischer. nice to see you. told me there is absolutely no problem with the republicans coupling this bill to fund the government with this anti-obama care measure. he said, you know, it happens all the time, my question to you, ari, is this the government funding bill, this is emergency legislation, is it not? why weigh down with something that spells doom? >> it's not going to be emergency legislation until about october 30th or october 31st. ten days out is forever the way they do it. if the president were to sign this bill, it would keep the government open and get rid of obama care. that would be popular in independents, moderates. obama care has been an economic albatross. making people lose their health insurance overall, forcing them on to the exchange. so it would be popular. the problem is the president won't sign it. and therefore, in the next ten days, something needs to be done that senate won't pass it, something needs to be done to keep the government open. i suspect this is just the preliminaries

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. >> ari fleischer, the press secretary of george w.bush, has been around for wartime and said one effect might be to freeze the regime's operations now. if they are hiding planes, hiding defense systems, might it mean they are not using them? >> they will use them until they need to get them hidden. they are moving them to the airfields. they will move them to alternate airfields but they can operate. as i have been watching the insurgent websites and the syrian government websites it doesn't seem to be any real slow down in activity. we saw increased operations on both sides. i think they are all trying to take advantage of what they believe the other side might be lulled into not doing anything. i don't think that's working. >> as a former military officer when you see a limited operation, how does it strike you? >> i don't like limited operations. if we are going to do something we have to do something meaningful. terms like "shot across the bow" really rankle us. you will be expending a lot valuable resources, putting young men --

. >> joining me now live, dana bash, cnn senior political analyst david gergen and ari fleischer. dana, where do things stand right now on capitol hill? earlier in the week, we got the impression with john boehner and eric cantor, two important republican officials, coming out in favor of the strikes. there was an idea that maybe momentum was shifting for the president. but i feel like we're ending the week on a different note. >> stalled, very different note. i will just answer that question by telling you what one senior congressional source who has access to their internal whip count, if you will, the count of where the heads are right now. the answer was, it's up in the air, it could go either way. that's not where the president wants this to be right now, a week after they flooded the zone, in the words of the white house. unbelievable amount of people here coming and briefing in a classified way, in a public way. phone calls being made. it has been unbelievable. even after that, and especially members of the president's own party, there are still so many undecided members. b

. >> and former white house press secretary ari fleischer launched a twitter attack with president obamaind of after the president sent out this tweet about obama care. he tweeted back how come barack obama's tweet was more than 140 characters. does he play by different rules? he miscounted. it was only 136. he later apologized. if you read only one thing this morning, read this. scandal has hit 10 downing street after an explosive new book claims the resident cat is unloved. apparently larry the cat was acquired in february, 2011, after a rat was spotted scurrying around outside the door of 10 downing, but his efficacy has been called into question and it took him a few months to make the first confirmed kill. this story is hilarious. it's up on our facebook page. so i c an reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7. i'm sorry, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! (cat screech) you feel that in your muscles? i do... drink water. it's a long story. well, not having branches let's us give you great r

in doing that i want to read a tweet from cnn contributor ari fleischer. tuesday. quote, it's 5:00. hillary clinton is on syria? of course we now know she supports the president's stance. it's a pretty low key statement. we haven't seen her publicly. what do you make of that? >> she did put out a statement through an aide, an anonymous aide, saying that she supported limited, targeted intervention. you got to remember, secretary clinton is, a lot of people think she's going to run in 2016. she doesn't want to be a lightning rod for criticism if she, in fact, makes that decision. but i also think she doesn't want to get in the way of president's decision making. if she supports it, she doesn't want to speak too loudly because she knows that that will be seized by the right in terms of criticizing the president. so she really has to walk a careful balance. i think as you have seen, she has given some speeches in the past. i think she'll be asked about this and might speak out a little bit more. >> thank you. >>> we're going to take you back to our special cnn coverage of syria in just

we are ari fleischer and howard keen, the former chairman of the national democrat committee and formerl candidate himself. good morning, gentlemen. thanks for weighing in. let's start off with this. would either of you like to own the idea that decisions like bombing a sovereign nation should include the congress necessarily? ari, what do you think of that? isn't that the way it's supposed to work? >> i praise the president for doing this. i think it is the right thing. he has the authority to do this on his own. he's not advocating that spnt. the nation is stronger in a democracy when it has the people mind it. that's why it's important to go to congress. >> this is seen as weakness. make the case for why it is weak that president obama is going to congress. >> well the argument who say that is because they want a powerful executive who can move the military with dispatch and in this instance the president made the threat, promised enormous consequences, if he doesn't act he's giving up the word. i think this strengthen's his hand in the long run but he has to prevail on the vote. >>

first ari fleischer, former white house press secretary for president george w. bush and mr.both. let's look at the quick up and down for the president on this switch. with the up, mr. begala your take? >> i thought he did a very difficult job extremely well. this is a war-weary country and he had to adapt. ari and i both worked in white houses sadly when combat operations weren't going on and it's a very dynamic time and dynamic place and the president and his speechwriters had to adapt to what i think is a much stronger formulation and that is diplomacy backed by force. that's what president clinton used to call it when america stopped a dictator from committing genocide and it was diplomacy, we had talked in dayton, ohio, and there was 78 days of air strikes that bloat a milosevich to heal. we'll have talk and have force backing up it and i thought that was the right mix. >> the decisiveness he had shown throughout the process or the lack thereof, ari what was your take on last night? >> paul's half right. i think what the difference is with bill clinton because he did it