in terms of what isis has access to, steve clemons has a report at "the atlantic" that will make your head spin around on your neck. this statement by republican senator john mccain back in january. >> not to mention what's happening in syria, of course, where, again, the united states is disengaged. thank god for the saudis, we're starting to see a little bit of reversal there, thank god. >> thank god. thank god for the saudis and prince bandar specifically. they're not disengaged. they're doing what needs done says senator arm the rebels. steve clemons reports after those comments in january, the king of saudi arabia actually relieved prince bandar. sources close to the royal court told me that, in fact, the king fired prince bandar over his handling of the kingdom's syria policy. and what was the kingdom's syria policy under prince bandar? although they have denied it, steve quotes officials from qatar admitting that country has been funding and supplying the al qaeda linked sunni militant group fighting in syria that's called al nusra. as for the other group fighting in syria and

front and isis the same group that is taking over iraq right now so my question to you all of steve clemons is reporting accurately john mccain and lindsey graham bear a lot of responsibility for what's going on in iraq right now should they be investigated or perhaps prosecuted by the justice department or by congress. i'll say this i don't know if they're what they're talking if this is this bears say you know an investigation but it does bear a little bit of you know a little bit of contrition to really think about this because this is a very complicated issue i mean over and over again over again in the middle east the united states has found itself. different sides of an issue go back to back in the in the overthrow in iran and then all of a sudden you see a supporting saddam hussein in fighting the you know. in the early eighty's continues and we were always on either side in which talking a very complicated issues in you know the say this the libertarian in me continues to want to say you know what this is something that we continue to we continue to lose treasure in american blood o

right at clemons road. we have an accident on the shoulder. you can see the line of red, lots of volume. 15 on 95 northbound from the delaware state line to the blue route. a live look at 95 near girard. heavy volume. typically around 6:20 that's what we're used to. beginning tonight we have a big construction project starting so tomorrow morning you can expect to see increased volume on the northbound side as drivers get used to the pattern. we'll keep you updated throughout morning. septa trenton line a delay of 15 minutes go to amtrak signal problems. so far the only delay on mass transit. >>> rain coming down in some rathers right now. but at least we're not seeing thunder, not seeing lightning this morning. we are seeing the raindrops, you can see from our cameras t comcast center, not much blue skies either. lots of clouds out there. rainfall in philadelphia, 67 degrees right now. winds light at this hour, humidity will go up too. we call at narrow band of rainfall because not all areas are seeing it. you'll notice from norristown to nor

they have already hired clemons for our neighborhood to have to go to the big lobbyist. it's a very hard thing for us to do because we don't have the money. i really think this is flawed because you didn't answer it. he didn't saying specialty grocery store and it's not a grocery store. this code should be changed if he applies it to it. another thing, in the case of lumbar and chestnut, it's very interesting. can you see this at all? >> yes. >> okay. nc 3 is based on if something has a wall on lombardy. there are some houses that have walls and they are 25 feet. the next house is nc 2. are you following me on this? it's nc 2. so some areas of the chestnut street shopping district which is what i call that area, they have not, you can't say this is nc 3 and nc 2. if we are sent just to the board of supervisors we are going to lose because of the lobbyist. i think this is an important thing. he was not clear. he was not forthcoming and stating that he didn't reply. there is no guarantee that they won't go up to the full 15 percent. thank you. >> thank you. mr. kramer, you

. >> hi, i'm clemon and i'm an intern. those are able to intern -- and so i want to take the time to thank the supervisors who stepped up and has been mentored us all. i want to invite you to our project which will be held at the southeast community facility commission on august 13th 2014 at 6:00 p.m. thank you. >> thanks very much for being here. [applause] >> ej, thanks for coming in here, brother. the next card i have is from francisco. thank you francisco. >> commissioners when mr. ritchie talks about water, we have to agree with him because water is trying to tell us is how water is preserved in some of our [inaudible] areas and how it's delivered. we need to look at it also from the point of view of the data which i have mentioned here many times. for example, if you have a thousand, two hundred miles of clean water in our city, we need real time knowledge of the leakage. real time. why? because we need to know that if our pipes are 85 years old and leaking, how many of them have been replaced? and over the years, sa

lurela harris and sidney clemons. >> thank you for holding this hearing, i am a proud volunteer of the coalition on homelessness here in san francisco, and i wanted to speak specifically regarding the church and market safeway, because, it seems like more and more, there is stories and information getting out, about from td opposition, to these recycling centers about how unpleasant it is to watch some of the recyclers who go there and someone who has out reached to that location numerous times i want to offer a perspective from the other end of the arena because the level of the respect achieved between the staff and the recyclers is something that i believe should be recognized and the staff stream lines and they interact and they approach the center with the items tidy, organized and ready to go. and more over, the recyclers, specifically regarding them, i have yet to see them litter, the area, with the waste of any kind, nor have i witnessed any type of behavior that led me to understand that they are a nuance or a debt triment to the community. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> th

clemons.t you to comment on that nuclear materials which i believe they know how to use nuclear materials. guest: well, thank you. i don't know. i haven't seen the reports about them finding nuclear weapons, bit wouldn't surprise me that isis has found or worked with various forms of stashes because one of the interesting debates that began to involved in syria was when they deployed chemical agents against certain portion of the population. there was also one debate at the time and a u.n. investigation that actually saw that there's the possibility that some of the opposition troops who didn't specify isis and defecting generals may have also combined some cashes. there was an effort for some time to get various areas of the defecting units to ally some of the other affected brigades. this is would be the tasks that prince ban doer of saudi arabia had which was to organize a large fighting force, possibly assemble them in scombrorne take this unit and try damascus -- fight damascus. there wer

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we can talk now to clemons from the new republican society. he joins us live from amsterdam. thank you for talking to us here at al jazeera. it's interesting, isn't, that when times are really tough, as in spain, over the last couple of years since the crisis in the eurozone, that people, an increasing number of people, it would appear are becoming antimonarch efts and becoming unrepublic can in their outlook. >> the people real suffering by the crisis while the royal house is enriching himself by corruption. the people don't accept it anymore. >> but, also, i mean in many countries, your own included, and certainly here in the united kingdom, the royal family or the monarchy is quite often cited as one of the binding forces of a country that often does a lot of good, especially during times of hardship like during wars or periods of depression. >> i can speak just for the situation, the number of republicans is about 25% of the population. monarchists are about 20%. the rest of the people don't mind. there are a lot of fairy tales about the royal family in the netherlands th

joining me is steve clemons, member at large for the atlantic and retired colonel jack jacobs.nk you, gentlemen, for being with us this morning. >> thank you, frances. >> steve, president obama said isis could pose a threat to american interests. i think that threat to americans in iraq is pretty obvious especially with barricades happening but what about on the u.s. homeland? >> well, i think that any time an extremist group gets levers of government under its control as we saw with the taliban in afghanistan, they can marshall forces and display them in ways that other groups can't do. obviously it's a big concern. the one thing to point out is isis has been exactly the group that president obama has been worried about in syria and arms falling into the hands of this group. and so for those people who have been advocating, you know, giving more military aid, more military support to various groups inside syria, this is the group that was the beneficiary of much of that, particularly a saudi aid. the white house's concerns were well placed. >> absolutely. certainly with the mu

steve clemon washington editor with the atlantic msnbc and ann. steve, let me start with you in new york. we're talking before the broadcast before the possibility that drone strikes will be used or tomahawks missiles. how much would they go in terms of changing the dynamic on the ground? >> nowhere. they would go nowhere. you're seeing a frustrated and alienated sunni population essentially ak wee sesed to their takeover by isis. they are upset over years now of prime minister maliki's complete, you know, sort of abandonment of their interests in the country. isis is walking flup are the drone strikes to going it hit the leaders and change the climate. it's south vietnam falling again. the scale of what is happening is so large. drone strikes are not an effective response. >> did we not see it coming? >> some people did see it coming. some people have been arguing since maliki -- that began a take over of the country in which iran essentially became the greatest ally of iraq. and people are saying that's not a way to satisfy the aspirations of ku

. >> i'd like to bring in steve clemons, washington editor the at large of the atlantic, and msnbc contributorng. >> good morning, chris. >> obviously, the backdrop of the trip is the situation in crimea and ukraine. >> of course, we focussed on the situation in ukraine, because pols know more than most how precious freedom is, and we agree that further russian provocation is going to be met with further cost of russia, and including if necessary, additional sanctions. >> and a reminder, this was supposed to be g-8 and in sochi, and all of that changed obviously, but it is worth mentioning, too, that vladimir putin is going to be meeting with german chancellor angela merkel in france, and what is the status of all of this sand where are we right now? sglel e wshgts it is-- >> well, it is a reassurance trip, and the president is meeting leaders of poland and eastern europe, and the white house put out an announcement today talking about the programs weighted towards the new allies in nato, but then another section that also said that our close friends in quotes, georgia, moldova and ukraine wil

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. >> steve clemons, washington editor at large for "the atlantic." with this bombshell story today. intended. thank you for coming on the show to help us understand. >> thank you, rachel. >> an iraq weapons of mass destruction story, the exact opposite of the iraq weapons of mass destruction story we know from a decade ago. >>> political trickery is sometimes evil. political trickery is sometimes hilarious. some political trickery works so well it gets taught in political science classes and political consultants patent these tricks and try them all over the country because they've worked so well somewhere important. one of those tricks saved a senate seat for the democratic party in 2012, and they are going to try to use the same trick again tomorrow in an unexpected place, and it's not mississippi. we've got the tape of how they're going to try to pull it off, and that's coming up. stay with us. live healthy and take one a day women's 50+. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares. bcaptain: and here's a tip. when you save money on hotel ro

and talked to prince prince bandar bush bandar bin sultan and got him to give multi million steve clemons wrote this article in the atlantic got him to solicit millions of dollars from saudi millionaires and give that money to to leave i became isis right in the press and the president almost no doubt when the president at the white house right when the president found out about it he confronted the king and king fired. bandar bush oh good but wait a minute on the clip was running our foreign policy we did not try only son mccain no you already know this president i am not i am not i'm pointing out to you that as much as obama might want to arm them john mccain actually got it done john outsize oh i say just all first of all to be fair john but dick cheney is the one who started the damn babo would have funded them first of all before not for house republicans killing that bill first of all house republicans said that you know this is not going to happen it was the house that killed the bill to go into syria first of all let's give credit where credit is due as a lot dick cheney has no ri