where we're joined by congress member jim mcdermott.n 1991, he voted against the persian gulf war and in 2002 he voted against a bill to authorize president george w. bush to use force against iraq. he traveled to iraq in both 1991 and 2002. welcome back to democracy now! how will you vote on arming syrian rebels? >> let's put this in perspective. george bush ripped the top off pandora's box of problems in the middle east. the president has been trying his best to stuff the problems back into the box and get them solved. he has tried it in iraq and afghanistan. this situation, which has evolved from that original decision by bush way back in 2001, is one that is very complicated. it is not black and white. it is very difficult. the president has shown what george bush failed to show, which is remarkable reserve in how quickly he jumped to a decision. what he is doing, i've serious doubts about, and there are lot of questions you could raise about. i don't think it is because he hasn't thought about it. i probably will not be supportive

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joining me tonight, congressman jim mcdermott of washington. congressman, always a pleasure.ood to be here. >> panetta and hillary clinton, are they correct on this? should we have armed the rebels in syria sooner and would it be a different scenario? >> my feeling is the president acted very judiciously and i stand with the president on this. we had a president named george bush who jumped in and without thinking about what he was doing, and got in up over his neck in both afghanistan and iraq. and president obama looked at that and said, no, i'm going to think very carefully about what i do. and the questions he raised are the questions that still exist today. exactly who are we arming and how much should we arm them? and where should we do it? are we going to give them just handguns or rifles? are we going to give them machine guns? are we going to give them anti-tank weaponry? when we say we're going to arm the moderate rebels, who are we talking about and what's the end game in all of that? i still think the president is acting in a judicious way. >> what about the vote

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. >> congressman jim mcdermott of washington, good to have you with us tonight, sir. thank you. >> that's "the ed show." "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. >> good evening and thanks to you for tuning in. i'm live tonight in minneapolis. breaking news tonight, a danger to the president. that is what a federal prosecutor said today about white house fence jumper omar gonzalez. an army vet whose family says he suffers from ptsd. this afternoon, he was in federal court, accused of being the first person to ever jump the fence of the white house. and get inside the executive mansion. here is the video from friday night. you can see him running on the white house grounds. there is no secret service seen on this video. he was carrying a three and a half inch knife. and tonight, we're getting brand new details about what he had inside his car, parked just blocks away. prosecutors say he had a machete, two hatchets, and more than 800 pounds of ammunition. gonzalez stood calmly in court today, wearing an orange jumpsuit, facing charges of unlawfully e

joining me to discuss this is democratic congressman jim mcdermott and hamid from the brooks kings institute who wrote "temptations of power." thank you for joining us. if the goal is to defeat isis, how do you do it? i want to start with a more fundamental question to both of you, posed by tom friedman who was talking about isis, what goals the u.s. should have. he wrote "there are no words to describe the vileness of the video be headings of two american journalists, but i have no doubt that they're meant to get us to overreact, ala 9/11, rush off again without a strategy. isis is awful, he writes, but it is not a threat to america's homeland. congressman, let me start with you on that basic point. isis is awful, but not a threat to america's homeland? do you agree with that. >> i don't often agree with tom friedman, but on that one i do. the problem we've had in the past is beingism pull sive and what's going on is that people are upset because the president is thoughtful and careful and deliberative. that's really a wonderful change from the last president who was impulsive who jumped in

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