that was of course new york congressman, the inimitable charlie rangel. rangel's constituents like many in dribs across the country show little appetite for intervention abroad these days. it is these members of congress torn between their loyalty to the president, these are african-american members of congress and the opposition by constituents to any involvement in this war who may make or break the president's request for approval of the attack on syria. according to foreign policy magazine and the hill magazine, the leader of the congressional black caucus, congresswoman marcia fudge asked the congress members to limit their comments while nancy pelosi makes the push for the president. one of the members breaking her silence right now is representative barbara lee, a california democratic congresswoman from oakland and berkeley and the only one to vote against the use of force in afghanistan after 9/11. she joins us now. also joining us is "new york times" columnist congressional reporter jeremy peters who is covering this debate. what are your feelin

for the republicans or for america. >> in the "crossfire" tonight are democratic congressman charlie rangel and republican congresswoman michele bachmann. welcome to you both. congressman rangel, republicans don't want a government shutdown. speaker boehner is going to the floor tomorrow to keep the government funded and running and he's going to end something that most americans don't want. explain to me why that's a bad thing. >> speaker boehner wants to be speaker. he cannot be speaker unless everyone who calls themselves a republican vote for him for speaker. and some of them sent the message to remind him that they may not be in the majority of the republican party, but they've got very intelligence leaders in their party. notwithstanding anything he said before, every vote they want to be heard, not as democrats, not as congresspeople. but what they believe. and there's no compromise there. so the whole idea that you're going to repeal medicaid -- or obama care. >> obama care. >> the whole idea is ridiculous and they know that it can't be done. >> isn't the effort worthwhile, consider

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you talked to charlie rangel earlier today. other republicans say absolutely not.y they are skeptical about this. they want to learn more. the president has to make the case. if he does, i'll support him. >> can i respond to that quickly? >> very quickly. >> these have been conscious votes for the congress on whether you think we should do this or not. those are very hard to whip. it will be interesting to see where congress stands on this. >> next topic here. we've been syria all day today. i want to talk about gop. you write that not a single republican elected official stood on the steps of the lincoln memorial on wednesday. a notable absence from a party seeking to attract minority voters. robert, i'll have you answer this first. forget attracting minority voters, shouldn't they be out there in respect to a moment that changed u.s. history. >> i'm really troubled by this. at the end of the day the anniversary of dr. king's speech was not a political event. it should not have been a political event. when you look at condoleezza rice, a colin powell, there are se

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but charlie rangel is fed up with our young and women being committed to war because of reasons that my constituents don't go to sleep at night. >> if you are fed up, sir, if congress follows your lead and votes against authorizing military action and the president still goes ahead and orders a strike, what would you then do? >> well, i don't even want to think that negatively because i have the utmost respect for this president and all of our presidents and i love this country. but i think you're suggesting is the president may sayy doesn't need the support -- >> he left the door open for that. >> he may have left it open but as a constitutional scholar, the question is not open. what has happened is that congress after congress since frank roosevelt have ignored the fact that presidents after presidents have violated the constitution and started many wars, limited wars, something's just going to last two, three days and we're still count being the dead from these wars. >> would he be in violation of the constitution if he did order a strike? >> there is no question in anybody's min

. >> congressman charlie rangel, always good to see you. nick, thanks. good to have you back on the program. lynn sweet, a pleasure. thanks to all of you. >>> coming up next, another big story we are following this morning. the suicide of cleveland kidnapper aerial cai ariel cast. a month before he was convicted of kidnapping and raping of three women he held for a decade. we will also talk to marc klaas who lost his own daughter and advocates for families. before he could even think about planning for his daughters' future... mike opened a merrill edge investment account and linked it to his bank of america bank account to help free up plenty of time for the here and now. that's the wonder of streamlined connections. that's merrill edge and bank of america. dad: you excited for youyeah.st day? ♪ dad: you'll be fine, ok? girl: ok. dad: you look so pretty. ♪ i'm overprotective. that's why i got a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> just about a month after ariel castro was convicted of kidnapping and rap an investigation is under way abo

at the very least we are looking at a partial shutdown john mccain was telling me that charlie rangelf course i the house it looks that way. the question is how long that shutdown is and if it is partial or a rolling shutdown with the whole government doesn't stop but the key departments and agencies stop. what you want to avoid is the government not paying out its bills and checks. as long as it makes good on social security payments, medicare payments, it avoids a default, which would technically be insolvency, which would technically be a nightmare. melissa: i feel like they make the rules so they can avoid whatever they want. a very practical question people are asking is what would the shutdown really look like? a funny article that federal workers would have to hand over blackberry and iphone to be allowed to use them. are there big things that would be a huge problem? what would it look like? >> it would be tough. national parks would close, museums would close. it is up to that particular facility if they want to stay open on a volunteer basis but that would be the most obviou

i mean, when i wake up and open the newspaper and i'm agreeing with maureen dowd and charlie rangel then that's an interesting bipartisan issue. what does it look like now with these votes, especially let's start in the house. >> it looks bad for the president. right now there are counts out there. if you include people leaning against voting that already have this going down. now, the president has been away for a he can. would is he going to come back and have another chance to make kiss case both to the country on tuesday night and individually with members of congress. nancy pelosi has been very effective so far in keeping a the love house democrats quieted on this. and i think she still has significant sway with even some of the ones. >> laura: this is unlike something like i have ever seen before really in washington. i have been here a long time. you were probably back in elementary school when i first came to washington. but, kendrick meeks, during one of the hearings this week, he was just brutal in the questioning of john kerry, obviously a member of the black congressional cau

we're going to get the other view of this from charlie rangel. first, ed henry is hearing from a white house that's insist tant for the time being that this not be a negotiating tactic and the healthcare law and anything about it -- ed, it will end up being that, won't it? >> certainly republicans put the president's healthcare law on the table wrapped into the negotiations. the white house is trying to separate it into a couple pieces. let's deal with the debt ceiling. the bottom line is the president had a phone call late friday night before he headed to the u.n. with speaker boehner. we're told it was brief because the president said he's not going to negotiate anything at all on the debt ceiling. that frustrated republicans, they think the president should sit down with them and go through a number of things they want to add to lifting the nation's debt ceiling. perhaps claiming the healthcare law but jay carney at the podium may it clear they're not going to negotiate and want a clean up or down vote. >> everybody agrees, all the leaders and

charlie rangel 95-5. what do you think of the facts that these districts are so one-sided and how does that happen? >> well, there are several different reasons. some innocent and some not so innocent. on the innocent side is, some of it simply reflects population trends of who lives where, what kind of density, and what's adjacent to it. so you can go to places in new york city and los angeles, some of these places where you've got an enormous number of minority voters -- let's just say african-american voters in an area -- and it is enough for several congressional districts. and it sort of is what it is. sure, you can probably design one to dilute it if you wanted to, but you would have to go out of your way to do it. so there's that. then on the other side, there was a transition if the, and i think it was the 1991 redistricting, where republicans became somewhat more enlightened about the minority districts. and they started realizing that the more very, very heavily african-american or hispanic dist

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karen bass and charlie rangel and michele bachmann. [laughter] so it's bipartisan, which, you know -- what? [inaudible] >> issue bipolar? know, bipartisan. by spreading rumors. i [inaudible] >> date and a congressional listening to her, which is god's attention. they do york. they've done a leg, miami, somewhere. they've been going around. i don't think it has big bucks, but it has a lot of people and that's the first time this is ever happy. there is some political movement here. >> i would be the way anything would change the politician who had power for some other reason decided for some personal reason -- i remember spending a day at capitol hill with a lobbyist for the haitian government. they have note hole in the world and they just needed to find the senators and congresspeople who just happen to have visited haiti. or had a staff member who is from haiti. but when they found those people and got them together, they can sometimes get those people to use a tiny shard of their power in a good direction. >> and i'm not tip, that's

well, congressman charlie rangel and jim moran both join us, very different views. mr. rangel, if this goes down, if the president of the united states suffer what's the british would call a no-confidence vote on a matter of war and peace, isn't he basically finished as commander in chief? how does he walkway from a defeat if your side wins this debate? >> if we have the international community saying this is the right thing, this guy is an international tyrant and a danger to the whole world, even though i don't see a direct danger to our national security, it would it seems to me for the first time that i can remember, putin from russia may have the right solution, and that is to go and diplomatically try to find out what we could do to intervene without going to war. >> but that's not answering the political challenge to the president of the united states who you have always supported. if obama goes down on this, if he is defeated on a matter of urgent national security as he sees it, is he still credible as president, as commander in chief? >> credibility, i hope it

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we have congressman charlie rangel here with us tonight.il blazers that brought us this far. where do you see us going politically in the next 50 years? where do we need to be going? >> we need to get out of the idea that politics is the end. that just putting people in office is what we should be aspiring for. the end ultimately is about our own communities and our neighborhoods and how are we as a country living up to this ideal that no child -- every child born in america, no matter where you're born, should have an equal shot at america. so what i'm hoping is our politics as we continue to evolve doesn't simply lie within a sector but we all in america realize if we have the grace and the blessing to call ourselves an american, then we, too, must be involved in politics. and it is a political action in and of itself to remove yourself from the process. look, i know the power of the people is always greater than the people in power, but yet because of -- [ applause ] -- the way we view politics now it's becoming more and more of a specta

let me play for you what congressman charlie rangel had to say about it. >> there is no way that i can imagine that the united states is the only country that is coming forward to do this. there is no united nations, there is no great britain, there is no arab league. there is nobody but us. >> so, steven, we have britain's parliament holding a second vote toot and france won't go it alone and germany won't take action, i guess there is a question about whether israeli could bring people on board. what do you think, steven? >> i think, you know, israeli will not come on board in anything other than intelligence logistics but i think israel will monitor very closely its own interest if chemical weapons were to move across the border and to israel won't wait for anyone. they will take direct action and decisive action on their own. i don't think that taking military support solves the -- look. the president and the congress are at a historic moment where, unfortunately, there is a lot of amnesia about the horrors of world war i and where gassing enemies was a commonplace issue. many peop

charlie rangel said he was embarrassed of the president on this. you know things are really weird when david letterman says something like this -- >> well it looks like we're getting ready to teach syria a lesson and president obama is now saying that he never used the term red line. remember when he was talking about if we find out they used chemical weapons in syria that that would be crossing a red line and if they crossed that red line by god we had to go in there and get them. that would be a violation of the red line. he drew a red line. had a red line every where. now the president is saying he never used the term red line. he's saying the world used the term red line. so, it's taken him five years but finally the guy has learned to bull [ bleep ] >> well, you know i think dave might have a point. while congress is calling witnesses and debating whether to strike syria does president obama want to go to war. this red line business has been wondering. he said the red line back in 2012 when he >> we have communicated in no uncertain terms with

. >> congressman charlie rangel, thank you for your time today. >> thank you for having me. >>> back at the washington nafty yard, the inspiration reopened except for the building where the shootings took place and we now know more about the gun aaron alexis used in the rampage. authorities say he scratched two phrases into the shotgun. one said, quote, better off this way. the other etching, my elf weapon. officials don't know what either of those two mean. also to the investigation after complaining to the police in rhode island that he was hearing voices, alexis went for treatment at a va hospital, but only said he was having trouble sleeping. nothing about hearing voices. nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff is joining us now. michael, you have a new, exclusive report about the doj probe into the contractors who the government use to vet people for security clearances there. tell us about that. >> exactly. in addition to the defense department review announced by secretary hagel, the just is doing its own investigation. they're going to be looking at the

. >> can we throw to president obama and charlie rangel having two different sides to this story. take a listen to this sound bite. >> we have been very clear to assad regime but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change mychal cue lus. that would change my equation. >> this idea of any president of the united states drawing the line that if any country does something that he considers wrong, that the nation is going to war, it's unheard of drawing a red line. so, of course, it's embarrassing. i wish it didn't happen. >> robert? >> i'm not -- charlie's view is charlie's view. one of the things we haven't mentioned, israel and saudi arabia have supported going in and making in strike. secondly, when mccain talks about a plan, what plan? what end game? what does he have in mind? i always like to hear the republicans say, gee, what's the plan and no suggestions what to do? >> specific recommendation, which was not just a shot across the bow but to end the capabilit

tonight we are joined by knock congressman charlie rangel.lso with us tonight is ej dionne of the "washington post." gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. my faith leader tells me that there is no scripture that backs up any of the votes that these people are talking about. and congressman, the only reason i bring this up, you have to go into the file bank and look at all of these floor speeches that republicans are giving. the media doesn't do this story justice. very seldom do we talk about how often the republicans invoke god on the house floor, when they're making a statement. congressman, how can the republicans still claim to have the moral and religious high ground with the way they vote? >> ed, it's been weeks, months and years and you have hit it. and i think the pope has heard you. he has expressed himself. and i don't care whether you're catholic or partisan, jew or gentile. this is the time. anyone that's familiar with the bible, anything like that, when jesus said that you're going straight to hell, if you didn't treat th

now, thankfully, new york congressman, charlie rangel, was there to set the record straight. >> i heardthe republicans say that what moses would want, he was talking about some picture, and i just -- came up to say that i just talked with moses, and he's not in support of this legislation. as a matter of fact, he referred me to other biblical things about how do we treat the lesser of our brothers and sisters. >> yes, and taking food away from poor americans is horrible, but you know what, it gets worse. today house republicans passed a bill funding the government, but not obamacare. the bill won't make it past the senate. the president -- no way he's ever going to sign this. this is psycho talk on the part of the republicans. but what they are doing is effectively trying to shut down the government. it might happen. today republicans voted to stop 30 million people from getting life-saving health care. they voted against people with preexisting conditions. they voted against young people getting under 26 years old getting on their parents' health care plan. they voted against free prev

i do not think that charlie rangel can.s an ally. stuart: i think that it is time i stop preaching. it is time for dagen and connell to take it out of my priestly hands. dagen: we have to get used to work on some holly luaus and a man. we finally know what health insurance will cost for those government run exchanges. government run people could be the big losers in all this. connell mcshane will tell you what he thinks about adults who dressed up for halloween. that is all on this hour of markets now. ♪l: they go in the same category of people who wear other people's jerseys. [laughter] dagen: and there were moments he looked a little bit fuzzy. connell: let's go to nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange.

the national security goal, some question, including charlie rangel, those are answerable. allies of this position have to make that case in a fuller, more comprehensive and forceful way than they have. if they don't, i think it poses -- invites real world problems going forward for other parts of the world as we try to enact policy. >> cokie, we always have commentators and pundits and columnists talking about what sort of message this sends to the rest of the world. i actually do believe in this case that a weak president, that backs down after congress says no, after chemical weapons has been used twice, after 100,000 people have been killed in syria, sends a pretty specific message to iranians who are developing nuclear weapons right now. >> well, obviously. this is all with iran and israel in mind, which does also flip the congressional calculation to some degree. so, obviously, if congress says to, we are looking at a serious foreign policy problem. but look, to the just up to the president now. now that he has lobbed this into the congressional court, it's up to the

. >> listen top what charlie rangel said about his concerns. >> the last time i heard language like this americans, have been killed. we spent a trillion dollars. i have been elected to represent the people in my congressional district. i could not possibly go before them and say that what i've heard from the president and the secretary of state warrants going to war. >> what he just said is so critical for a number of reasons. number one, because of who he is. he obviously as i said is a veteran democrat. he is somebody who is traditionally a very loyal obama supporter but clearly hearing from his constituents in harlem that this is not something they want to support the president on. and we can't underscore enough how much i'm hearing from members of the democratic party and republican party that it's not so much about the intelligence, which barbara was talking about, which they haven't proved in a public way, but it's about the why. why are we going to do this? are we going to take out assad? is that a good idea? what if we do this and assad uses these chemical weapons again? do we g

representatives charlie rangel and michele bachmann, they are in the "crossfire." >>> now to the controversialuals and the role of women in the church. cnn's international correspondent matthew chance is in rome. >> reporter: this is the first in-depth interview with pope francis since he was elected in march and he addresses controversial issues like homosexuality, abortion and what he calls the feminine genius. and the words will be carefully examined by millions, looking to him for guidance. on the role of women, he's said in the past, the door is closed on their ordination as priests, disappointing many catholic liberals. but in the interview, he says women should have a greater role in the church. the feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions, he says. he made one of his most surprising remarks on homosexuality telling reporters, who am i to judge gay people? the church traditionally condemns homosexual acts. in his interview, the pontiff says he was asked if he approved of homocircumstantialty. he said, tell me, when god looks at a gay person, does he endorse the exi

joining us now congressman charlie rangel, democrat from new york, and randy ford, republican from virginiay. how does adding a syria vote complicate this already busy house scheduled we were anticipating. congressman rangel? >> it's kind of rough because it's an opposition in the house to everything that the president has proposed, in terms of jobs, the budget, health care, and education. so, we have a big agenda, and to get involved in international problem without international support, i just don't see where that helps us at all move forward. >> and congressman rangel, just to get to another point you advocated for a draft, which is an interesting perspective given the gender integration of the military. you're talking bat draft not only for male members of the military or prospective members, but for women, too. >> i think the defense department made it abundantly clear that men and women have to be treated equally in our services, but there's no question in my mind that the congress would not be so willing to go along with presidents who put our men and women in harm's way if they tho

a long-time new york congressman charlie rangel is against taking military action in syria. congressman rangle, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> all right. you have quite the history with your own military experience. you've received the purple heart and the bronze star for valor in the korean conflict. so you know the realities of war. but why is it you believe the u.s. should not get involved militarily in syria? >> this country has been so good to me that if i thought for one hot minute that our national security was in danger, not only will i volunteer to do whatever an 83-year-old veteran could do, but i would insist on having a draft so that all americans will have an opportunity to defend this great country. but the threat to national security, the last time i heard language like this and we have to stop these evil people was saddam hussein. now, that's been over ten years ago. 6,700 americans, americans, have been killed. we've spent a trillion dollars, and i have been elected to represent the people in my congressional district. i could not possibly go before

we have congressman charlie rangel here with us tonight.u see us going politically in the next 50 years? where do we need to be going? >> we need to get out of the idea that politics is the end. that just putting people in office is what we should be aspiring for. the end ultimately is about our own communities and our neighborhoods and how are we as a country living up to this ideal that no child, every child born in america, no matter where you're born, should have an equal shot at making. it. so what i'm hoping is our politics as we continue to evolve doesn't simply lie within a sector but we all in america realize if we have the grace and the blessing to call ourselves an american, then we, too, must be involved in politics. and it is a political action in and of itself to remove yourself from the process. look, i know the power of the people is always greater than the people in power, but yet because of -- [ applause ] -- the way we view politics now it's becoming more and more of a spectator sport. >> right. >> where you just sit on t

guest: well, over the weekend, i had occasion to talk to charlie rangel, to listen to it elijah cummingsny other members. i talked to senator joe manchin over the weekend. i think that, as i said earlier, of there not 2 factions democratic party, there are many others who will wrestle with their conscience with this, because they know their constituents are weary of four and they forget what the sequester and budget cuts -- weary of four and eight know what the sequester and budget .uts are doing they are very, very cautious and, frankly, tilting negative, and going through this again -- in going through this again or there is a joke i often use when i open speeches and talk about the president's foreign policy and the position of the united states. i was talking one-time to the equivalent of china's ministry of foreign affairs planning director, and i asked this chinese gentle man, what is china's and start -- grand strategy in the world, and he said, "how to keep you americans distracted in small middle eastern countries." while it was a joke, there is a ring of truth to it -- there ar

ted cruz, republican from texas, and charlie rangel, democrat from new york.. military force is justified only to protect the vital national security interests of the united states. and to date, the administration has not focused on those interests. >> i don't see where america is threatened, i don't see where our national security is threatened. and perhaps between now and the time we get back in september 9th, the president will have information that would allow the congress to effectively see where this danger is. >> reporter: now, administration officials that we spoke to yesterday, brianna and victor, do acknowledge that this strategy on the part of the president does come with some risk. not only could the congress say no and then potentially, you could have this tug-of-war between the two branches of government, the legislative and executive branch, you also have the situation where bashar al assad, in the view of this administration, could launch more chemical weapons attacks between now and then. that is also of concern to people inside this white hou

new york congressman charlie rangel busted again, this time tied to a political club that failed to report. rangel was found guilty on ethics charges in 2010. this same picture surfaced of him relaxes on the beach at that time. >>> would justin bieber make a good sidekick for this kaeupd crusader? it could happen. >>steve: he would be a great robin. >>elisabeth: i think he would be a good sidekick. >>steve: every kid would want to see the movie. let's tell you a bit about something kind of disturbing. a couple of weeks ago in a town called chicken, alaska, there was an armed raid and it involved agents from, among other places, the e.p.a., the u.s. fish and wildlife service, bureau of land management, the coast guard, noaa and the park service. did you know that the park service and the e.p.a. and noaa had swat teams? >>elisabeth: no. fully armed and ready to go. there are a bunch of agencies. we have fish and wildlife, we have management. >>brian: library of congress. >>elisabeth: oceanic and atmospheric. they're all armed and ready to go. >>brian: while the federal government is saying w

charlie rangel, among the democrats saying i'm not going to vote. >> this is a time to bring the countryran. >> of course he is. we made iran stronger sadly. i was one of the most vociferous supporters of the iraq war. that strengthened iran's hand. in the last ten years, we got involved in two major military actions. our country is poorer. we have more unemployment. we have barak obama as president. we wouldn't have him as president, sadly, if we didn't go into iraq. yes, all of those things are true and it's true that we do not have a defined role. maybe somehow this will emerge in the next week. i doubt it. >> steve: chemical weapons are atrocious. there is no doubt about that. but aside from that, when it comes to the civil war, you got -- who we would consider bad guys killing each other. so why get involved in that? when you look at the people now saying that we've got to do something about assad, you look at the president. you look at john kerry, chuck hagel, joe biden, they all opposed george bush playing tough. >> what about sarin gas against the kurds? we would go around and ar

today senator mccain goes over at which time when the democrats come out like charlie rangel, like othersey aren't sold by it. because the president says i'm going to have a limited strike with no boots on the ground but the four page resolution says it's open-ended and really has no limits. >>anna: what are we really fighting for? would we be taking military action for? would it be for a regime change or would it be for a steal mate? we don't re -- a stalemate? we don't know what we're trying to get done here. >>brian: the three-day music festival cut short after two deaths and several people sent to the hospital in critical condition. investigators believe the drug molly may be to blame. heather nauert here with more. >> good morning. these festivals have become popular these days among a lot of young people and the drug known to be taken there is known as ecstasy and it's believed to have caused the deaths of at least two people at the electric zoo festival on new york's randall's island. tens of thousands flocking to the big apple for the marathon party. it featured five stages and a