the scale. >> host: give us one example how you got joe lieberman at 75 and then york times?>> okay. a recent example but the main way that i judge how liberal or conservative his speech is or the media content is the think tank cetaceans. i have a list of 300 at think tanks from the heritage foundation, to the institute, those on the left. i tell the ratio with the "new york times." but but that sucks -- but that is from that that did it turns out joe lieberman would have the same ratio. in addis from more than the heritage foundation but that content sounds like the joe lieberman speech. >> is content should be 50 from news sources? >> guest: i don't say that in the book. but my definition unbiased i'm the say something like c-span is 50 probably because a lot of your content is speeches from congress. it is very near 50. it is healthy to have it is healthy to have arranged! but it was close to 80 on that scale. i am sure it would be even higher. >> host: what about fox news? >> really did one show. it was something like 39 it was definitely right-of-center. so that brett y

we're going to move on to what was said on fox news sunday between brit hume and joe lieberman. >> he's not putting the full effort into that at all, which is why i think the majority who doubt the efficacy of the industriy do so, they can see that this isn't a full hearted effort. >> i think the president's speech to the nation about a week and a half ago was going to turn that around. and i'm afraid it doesn't, because there were too much of what you talked about before, not just what we're going to do to protect you, mr. and mrs. america, but here's what we're not going to do. and i don't think it was particularly reassuring to our americans but it was to our enemies. >> joe lieberman is -- lets companies know who the bad guys are, what brit hume is saying that president obama's heart is not in it. it was not a banner weekend. >> this is not president obama's passion. we have talked about it before. obama wanted to fight against rising tides, not rising terror. his real anger stems from the frustration because he can't -- he would rather save the earth than save america. not saying h

joe lieberman was jewish. i think joe is an orthodox jew.e was a practicing -- he is part of the abrahamic faith and people respected his religiosity or religious faith, nature. it was not necessarily a detriment for him because he was religious and talked about how important his religion was. >> how often do you write? >> i try to write once a week. sometimes twice a week. i write for my website "on faith," and that will run in the washington post. occasionally, i will do something that is not about religion, but strikes me. >> and -- it is on the website and if people want to read you, how do they find you? >> they google on faith. faithstreet.com/onfaith >> i have a piece here that you wrote in 1974. what i want you to do is to compare this town with what it was then and what it is now. and this is a piece you did on somebody named steve martindale. >> yes. >> been dead for years. when you did a piece on him he was 30 years old and he died 16 years later of aids. who was he? it was a huge piece. it had a real impact on the city and what w

we are joined by jane harman now at the woodrow wilson senator, former senator joe lieberman who is headingnter extremism project, cbs contributor mike mor mohr reall, formerly number 2 at the cia along with robert kagan of the brookings institution. welcome, well, samantha power says that other nations have agreed to participate in air strikes into syria. any guesses as to who that would be and i would take that as good news in a week when there hasn't been much, jane. >> welshes france is one. the uae is two and i think some other groups in the neighborhood would be very welcome there, but the challenge is, who would be on the ground? that is the murky piece of this, as you covered in the last segment with dianne feinsten and mike rogers, there are several groups on the ground that could harm us, and if the al nusra group or part of a corson group affiliated with the al qaeda group mixed with yemen and i know this is complicated that bowp could harm the u.s. even sooner than isil. so we have to be very careful on the ground and we need muslim bootsma on the ground and i haven't seen anybo

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i agree with joe lieberman who wrote that president obama does not need congressional approval to strike in syria. i have held that position for the last two years when the red line was first crossed on chemical weapons. so i think that that is something -- i don't know if he will discuss that on wednesday, but he might walk all of the way up to it. my last point, the white house is leaking they're planning a three-year plan. that this effort against isis will be a three-year plan. setting a date certain is one of the reasons we're in this problem to begin with because they knew when we were leaving. they would wait for us. i think it's more important for the white house to talk about what is on the table. maybe what they have been doing. i predict they will declassify a couple news nuggets, talk about things the president has authorized in the last year or so that we did not know beforehand. otherwise is sounds extremely defensive when they say don't expect this or that and the president is going to defend himself in the speech. that's what their soul purpose of the speech was. >> josh

joe lieberman was jewish. i think joe is an orthodox jew. he was a practicing -- he is part of the abrahamic faith and people respected his religiosity or religious faith, nature. it was not necessarily a detriment for him because he was religious and talked about how important his religion was. >> how often do you write? >> i try to write once a week. sometimes twice a week. i write for my website "on faith," and that will run in the washington post. occasionally, i will do something that is not about religion, but strikes me. >> and -- it is on the website and if people want to read you, how do they find you? >> they google on faith. faithstreet.com/onfaith >> i have a piece here that you wrote in 1974. what i want you to do is to compare this town with what it was then and what it is now. and this is a piece you did on somebody named steve martindale. >> yes. >> been dead for years. when you did a piece on him he was 30 years old and he died 16 years later of aids. who was he? it was a huge piece. it had a real impact on the city and what

>> certainly joe lieberman does, dianne feinstein says the president is too cautious.l see more and more democrats speaking out against what i call feckless policy. >> what do you think bill clinton thinks of all that. >> i don't know what bill clinton thinks, but the bill clinton i worked for took action in syria. the bill clinton i know was prepared to negotiate but also was prepared to use force whenever necessary. and he made it clear his greatest mistake, his greatest regret, was not intervening in rwanda to prevent slaughter. >> you as a democrat, you seem like a moderate democrat, you're obviously not far left. where would you place the president? >> he's a left wing democrat with a philosophy of noninvolvement, noninterference. i think it's not even so much leading from behind, megyn, as it's not leading at all. ipg it's tragically wrong. >> it's spelled out in your new book. >> it is. >> all the best. >>> just ahead, she refused to renounce her christian faith, and now the young christian mother who once faced a sentence of 100 lashes and then death by hanging

. >> because the are ggument they make, mccain lindsay graham, joe lieberman. look at the years after the korean war. the united states has 30,000 u.s. troops in south korea. >> well i think that the comparison of south korea to iraq is -- is a weak analogy at best. again, remember that we, there was -- absolute chaos and war in iraq when there were tens of thousand, 160,000 u.s. troops in iraq. both in 2004. again, 20007. and the idea that any number of u.s. troops in, in iraq, would -- would solve the iraqi problems that existed in terms of the, the divisions between sunis and shiites. failures of the maliki government, u.s. troop presence was help sag part ing support t divisions between suni and shiaa in iraq. some how the troop presence was sole answer to that ongoing prob lechlt problem. i know senator mccain disagreed with senator obama on these policies. i don't find it look he thikely change his mind. what he is talking about now, senator mccain, what we need how to do, tracks closely with what the president announced tonight. >> just hypothetical. if

. >> joe lieberman saying the same thing. when asked why the president's poll numbers are so low on this issue, he makes the case, take a listen, that the president hasn't gone out there and reassured the american people he is committed. >> i think the public began to lose confidence in the president on foreign policy because they didn't feel he was leading and for awhile, they were happy with us because they wanted to stay out of problems but then russia, isis, iraq, the whole combination has scared people. >> what do you think? >> you know what i think is interesting, i mean, you've got that going on and who is watching and listening to the president. some words, though, that the president has said that are realisticing today, have the terrorists now in their new messaging online talking about no boots on the ground so as the president is reaching out and saying what he don't do, you have a whole new group of actors saying -- and pointing it out in their message now, isis has their spokesperson saying that no boots on the g

joe lieberman, scott brown, hillary clinton all were of one accord. it is unfortunate that democratic senators chose to object to this, to prevent this commonsense change in law. and i would note when it comes to the constitutional concerns, i don't know if anyone in this senate has been more vigorous or more consistent in terms of defending the constitutional rights of americans than i have endeavored to be during my short tenure here. i will yield to no one in passion for defending constitutional liberties, but i would note there is an existing law that has been on the books for many, many decades covering the renuniation of united states citizenship. it is current law right now that if you go and join a foreign nation and take up arms against america, that act has long been recognized as constituting a constructive renunciation of united states citizenship. and as for the question of due process, existing law provides due process that an individual who goes and takes up arms with isis -- and all this does is treats isis, a nonstate terrorist group

. >> lindsay graham and i and joe lieberman were in baghdad. they wanted a residual force. the president has never made a statement during that or after that he wanted a residual force left behind. the iraqis were ready to go. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff testified before the senate armed services committee that the number kas dacascaded o 3,500. that was not sufficient to do anything but defend themselves. you as a spokesman bragged that the last american combat troop had left iraq. if we had left a residual force, the situation would not be what it is today and there would be a lot more -- >> senator, i can pause it with great respect for you that we don't agree on that -- >> no, you can't. you don't have the facts. you i don't have the facts, mr. carney. that's the problem. >> i understand that you present the facts that you believe are true based on the arguments that you've said that we should leave troops in iraq imperpetuity. >> you can watch obama's speech in its entirety here. we will bring you that about 45 minutes from now. take a short break, but mu

. >> well, you also -- >> democratic party has some principled people, joe lieberman, and actually dick gephardt, did not turn around 180 degrees and attack america's war in iraq. they defended it. go ahead. progressivism -- if you are guided by an imaginary future, where you think people ought to live, and you want the government to enforce that future, then you are no different from the communists and you're totalitarian. >> understood. my concern is this. having just sent off a daughter, raised in a very strong conservative home with tremendous values, to college, where she is now, for the first time can registered to vote as an independent, apologizing in effect to us, because she has become a product of what her schooling has unfortunately public school, fortunately public school, because we took advantage of the system to put her into a very excellent educational -- >> state school. >> no. she is going to a private school. bard college. and bard is very liberal -- >> my condolences. they're not liberal. they're a communist -- the liberal arts programs of the vast majority of elite

had a roundtable and joe lieberman was there. go aheade should just and attack assad and get it over with. force, craterair their air fields, just do it. sitting with the president, one of the advisers that suggested that, what would you say? la, la.a, la, [laughter] >> i don't think you open the gates of damascus to islamic marauders, but i think you can triangulate here. are known for the ability to do multiple things at once. the u.s. approach to things is very linear or binary. that what we do doesn't legitimize him and his rule long-term i'll also attacking ice. keeping in mind he has traded with them and allow them some buffers. he has attacked the free syrian army at think you can do some strategic things. not an all-out bombardment but things like attacking the wheree taken over by isis they got military weaponry, fighter jets, blow it to smither wanes -- smithereens so that they don't have it or the free syrian army for later. let's due installments with the last bastion of what the free syrian army has held territory. i

joe lieberman says if you don't identify the enemy you won't be able to defeat the enemy. there were catholics dedicated to killing people, when -- i as a catholic have a special obligation to denounce them and i would want people to know where they are coming from. i found for instance last night the president went out of his way to say the islamic state is not really islamic because they couldn't be murderers. don't be so politically correct. identify the enemy, go after the enemy. thinking somehow this is just some extremist group that has a grievance. this is a group of vicious, evil, diabolical people who want to destroy everyone who does not share their twisted view of the world. eric: we are watching the vivid and poignant results of that. the human toll these people have suffered and you personally have suffered. congressman pete king of long island, new york. >> thanks for the great job you do in alerting people to this constant danger. martha: the president has left the white house. he's on his way to the pentagon. 13 years ago today the pentagon was hit, flight

. >> this is senator joe lieberman. you are watching "fox & friends." >> oh, yeah. well, good morning. >> washat joe lieberman? what a nice guy he is we are glad to see you. it is very early on the east coast. even earlier on the west. >> you can smell the fall air? >> i'm city thinking about chick-fil-a chicken sandwiches and milk shakes. >> pumpkin spice lattes. >> can we get some food out here? >> i used to have one literally on the corner when i lived in north carolina. we don't have very many chick-fil-as. >> they are all eating breakfast around here. that's why you are so hungry. more on food-related news in a moment. first the headlines to get to. >> we start with this. a fox news alert. a new scandal rocks nfl overnight. minnesota vikings running back adrian peterson turns himself in to police in texas accused of child abuse. he was quickly released on $15,000 bond. the alleged victim is peterson's 4 -year-old boy. he visited peterson's home in may. when the visit him in minnesota took him to the doctor to treat open wounds on his legs. the doctor reported t

reform some of the bipartisan medicare reforms that are proposed by people like tom coburn and joe lieberman and simpson-bowles and apply policy policies and comeau collection of things that are commonsense proposals to reform the traditional medicaid, medicare program in ways that people appreciate. the next part is medicaid. if we migrate people who are in medicaid today for acute-care engine, traditional basically poor people who need health coverage, traditional health coverage. you can offer them better access to physicians, better coverage and better quality health outcomes. in order to do that what you're basically doing is saying the federal government should take the full funding responsibility for the population but the way to make that they've physically neutral swap, the urban institute has proposed as well as to have long-term care and each by the states. the funding levels would be prescribed in law and congressional statute that they would have the freedom to run those programs the way the water. that would eliminate a lot of the perverse incentives we have today were states g

senator joe lieberman said he became more powerful for the state of connecticut after he left the senatei'm going to servicemember pendant working with those sites. also it is my strongest conviction that there should be restrictions on fundraising while senators are in office. i pledge to serve only one term, one six-year term limitation here so i will not have to raise any money. the united states senators and 52% of their time raising money for the next election. i will do to terms a work in one term and i pledge to serve only one term as a reform. so i've had the experience and i want to go and make it work. moderator: albright, mr. pressler. mr. rick weiland. weiland: the first thing i would do is put together my own citizens united and get money out of our political process. i do believe that money is striving to show out there and as there and it's polarized congress. it has polarized the nation. when you have got folks like the koch brothers threat need to spend over $200 million on this election cycle in demanding from the candidates they support that day total line. you've got

you will see republicans and democrats, senator joe lieberman at the launch.o target extremism, where is it financed from? where is it economically supported president? create a database, supports the media, the effort to combat this, what is a growing extremist ideology. i do think you will see this, it's broad support for this it's frustrating for those in government. it's a hard thing to encounter and need outside support. there is a real growing new yorker of folks around the world. this will be an international effort to encounter the narrative to expose their human rights abuses, the number of muslims they kill and then approach those who actually financially support these extremist ideologies, get them to stop or shine a light on them and publicly shame them. >> if the u.s. has challenges, certainly, many other countries have bigger challenges encountering isis and other groups, fran townsend, thank you so much, dave wilkerson i appreciate you being with us as well. >> thanks, so much. we will take a look at the headlines right now, more than 120 heads

because lindsey graham and i and joe lieberman were in baghdad, they wanted a residual force. troop had left iraq. if we had left a residual force, the situation would not be what it is today. >> he just wiped the floor with him and he was no longer in the protective zone of the press conference, john. and i think that he just got his point across and a lot of people are thinking, maybe we wouldn't be going back if we stayed there with a force that kept a looking glass on what was happening. >> as i said, i think if we had left a residual force there, isis would not have made the gains in iraq that it did. when you look at that argument, the facts do come down on both sides of the equation. but both of them have elements of truth to them. the preponderance of evidence comes down on john mccain's side because this president, while he did try to obtain a status of forces agreement with iraq, didn't really try as hard as a lot of people thought that he would and most of his military advisors did believe that there should be a residual force there. it started off in the 20,000 ran

i was over there with lindsey graham and joe lieberman and we know it for a fact.is here idea that somehow we didn't foe that this was happening, of course we knew it. we saw it happening. >> does the president deserve a little credit for being on your side, hold on a sec, when it comes to syria, he did say in an interview right after he was with us, hey, we need to bomb syria. as you know, congress pushed back on him and said, no, you can't do it. does he deserve some credit for identifying the threat? yes, he was identifying assad. there are so many inner connections. any credit? >> no, because two years ago when his national security team top level people, secretary of state, secretary of defense, and head of the cia recommended arming the free syrian army, he overhooul ruled them. if we had armed them then the situation on the ground would be dramatically different now. and by the way, christians, i want to mention, they want to train 5,000 free syrian army in saudi arabia and send them back. but are we going to do anything about basra assad's air attack? dropp

government, former ambassador ross to israel, former ambassador to the united nations, senator joe liebermanwill raise money and do our part as americans to put pressure on financial institutions that are doing business with isis around the world and stop them in the way that we can as independent free american. >> do you think part of it is frustration? people are frustrated that until the last 12 hours, the government really hadn't done a lot? >> people are absolutely frustrated and say we need to do what we can do as americans, whether it's looking out for folks who have come back from syria to tell the f.b.i., to say these people are providing material support to terrorism. there are tools. we've seen that in the federal court. there will be a damages trial. but there is also moral swasion and constant vigilance. they're raising money as a charity and they're saying, we want to do our part to help the c.i.a., to help the department of defense, to help our troops collect information about what isis and others are doing on line and stop it cold and stop it dead. so i think people are encou

. >> you know, yesterday on "face the nation" we had a roundtable and joe lieberman was there and he said we should just go ahead and attack assad and get it over with and disable their air force, crater all their airfields. just do it. what would you, if you were sitting in the, two of you were sitting with the president and one of the advisors suggested that, what would you say? >> la, la, la, la. [laughter]. >> my reaction would be a little different. >> i don't think you open the gates of damascus to islamic marauders basically, but i think you can triangulate here. to jon's point earlier, the middle east is known for the ability to do multiple things at once. the u.s. sort of approach to things often very linear, binary, either do one thing or the other. we can weaken assad or what we do doesn't legitimatize him and his rule long term while also attacking isis. keep in mind he made accomodations with isis in the past. he traded with them. allowed them buffers. attacked free syrian army versus isis. i think you can do strategic things. not all-out bombardment, things like, let's

tion's capital i do want to say when i say this is the first hearing, i do want to say that senator joe lieberman was the prior chairman of the senate homeland and government affairs committee was also a great champion for statehood and he actually -- while he didn't have a hearing, he did have a , and yet statehood indeed there was a hearing for statehood, when my first bill, the bill when i first came to congress in the early 1990's came to the floor and we got the first and only vote for statehood for the district of columbia, there was a senate hearing. it was not a jurisdictional hearing. that's what this hearing is. therefore, it is a landmark hearing. it is a historic hearing. that's why i felt it merited my coming to the house floor today. on top of that momentum that we have now seen in the senate -- and i shupet leave this subject without -- shouldn't leave this subject without mentioning the momentum there's been in the house. we've had republican and democratic support for budget autonomy for the district of columbia, for example. that is a very essential element of statehood that it'