jonathan allen is the senior washington correspondent with politico. sam stein is an msnbc contributor with "huffington post." jonathan that piece created quite a buzz. as i read it i said what's on the verge of the extinctiontion is the establishment of the republican party. >> yes they reported the morose mood among the establishmen in republican. you have social issues set in which the republican party has essentially alienated a lot of voters, hispanic voters, black voters, female voters. on the basic issues of governance you have a party that's threatening to shut down the government so it can defund obama care, the establishment doesn't library that but a lot of voice us of the party want to see that. or shutting down the government or let the nation default on its debt. any of those out comes is poor. >> this might not be evident in 2014 because all politics are local and in those hyper partisan districts for rs and ds republicans could have a very good year and give them a false since of bravado. >> those are the duelling tensions. you have a bu

what is facing the president when he meets the president today let's bring in susan page and jonathan allen. good morning. >> good morning. >> jonathan, help me out here. you wrote six questions that politico would like to ask the president. what do you think the focus is today? what is the toughest question he faces? >> certainly with the evacuation of the consulate in pakistan overnight. i think people want to know how do you square saying that al qaeda is on the run, that it's decimated with the closure of embassies in 19 countries this week? and then, of course, this evacuation last night which government officials are saying is an unrelated threat, is al qaeda on the run? is it decimated? or is it still dangerous? that that will be the big question. >> the president was asked about the u.s. relationship with russia yesterday at that photo op. he said hold that question for tomorrow basically. i want to play what former u.n. by the way, bill richardson said on "the daily rundown." he is talking about what he thinks obama needs to do. >> the guy is very good one-on-one. he gets a bad wra

jonathan allen, those are references to the hit nbc show "the office." want to make sure you're in on -- >> i've watched once or twice. >> you've seen it? well, nbc humor, it's big around here. let's start with what's going on in congress. you have all this discussion about cutting off aid. one big reason for that has nothing to do with egypt or the camp david accord. it's the fact that congress's main foreign policy tool is funding. they don't have a constitutional role in a lot of other activities other than if you actually get to the point of authorizing the use of force. is that the main reason we're hearing so much about the economic aid, or do you think there's more to it? >> i think that's a big reason. certainly gives a voice to folks like senator patrick leahy. he already had a plan to do a phased giving of u.s. aid in the future to egypt based on their ability to come up with some sort of democratically elected government in the wake of the coup that shall not be called a coup by the administration. so he's also the one that most recently said

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jonathan allen is the senior washington correspondent with politico. sam stein is an msnbc contributor with ""huffington post"." jonathan, that piece created quite a buzz today. i said to myself what's on the verge of extinction really is the establishment of the republican party. >> that's right, michael. my colleagues jim vandehei and mike allen did a very good job i think today of reporting the really as they put it more rose morose mood among the establishment in washington. you've got a couple of factors here. number one, the social issue set in which the republican party has essentially alienated a lot of voters whether you're talking about hispanic voters, black voter, female voters. and then on the sort of basic issues of governance, you have a party that is threatening to shut down the government so that it can defund obama care. the establishment doesn't like that. certainly a lot of voices in the party want to see it or just shut down the government for the purpose of shutting down on the government or let the nation default on its debt. any

i am a big fan of jonathan allen where as i am a realist and worked with richard nixon many years ago. i with argue the one point that there are many realists who say it is strategically consequential to the united states if the muslim brotherhood and its young members decide not to pursue democratic style dwrups f groups for their aspirations. if they go back underground and take a violence track we're looking at something that has consequences not only in egypt but through the entire middle east/north africa region and it will keep us tied up in a tumultuous situation and threatening israel, threatening u.s. interests, for quite a long time. so i urge those people who think this is just about democracy and not humanitarian issues to think about how important it is to get those people back into an inclusive track. >> julie, we have seen over the past few days some pretty shocking, violent images coming out of egypt particularly during yesterday's so-called day of rage. at one point, i want to show what we can of this, but at one point we saw demonstrators actually jumping off a bridg

the politico this evening is posting an article by jonathan allen where they have six pre- vacation questionsfor obama. .hat is a we will ask you your questions are president obama during his news conference tomorrow. let's go to david here. i was going to say, i do not think it is an accident that immigration reform happened under reagan. it is in the republican wheelhouse. immigrants bring great value to the united states, and i live in new york city. there is a lot of immigrants. we have not elected a democrat mayor of new york city since 1999. this notion that immigration is going to be thrown into the democratic party, i do not think it always proves to be true. --ust do not understand why the non-neocon republicans are so opposed to the notion of opening up the borders, which is something that the unions have been opposed to. traditionally it is something that republicans wanted to come in. street,alked on the they have the laundry,. this is been true for 150 years. republicanrating as not part of the tea party to see the issue treated the way that it is. i think libertarians would fall

host: jonathan allen is politico's white house bureau chief.hank you for getting up with us this morning. >> we are waiting for john kerry as he prepares to make a statement about the situation in syria, following a meeting this morning with president obama and his national security advisers. that meeting wrapped up a few moments ago, at about 12:32. secretary kerry was seen leaving the white house. we expect him to be a couple minutes late. after that, we will open up our phone lines to get your thoughts about syria. reading tweets of members of --gress, those tweets coming from members of congress. we are waiting for john kerry about to make a statement on the situation in serious after meeting with the president this morning. the resident,for we will go to a segment from this morning where we talked about you as possible military intervention in the syrian civil war. [no audio] we are planning to bring you live coverage of john kerry here talkingtate department about the situation in serious. we apologize, the conversation with a former seni

i want to bring on jonathan allen of political to talk about -- of elliptic oh two talk about ofpolitico>> the top party leaders in both chambers and members of relative committees and subcommittees. some of them weren't able to get on the call. >> what do we know about what was said and what information those members were given? >> there were a couple of big takeaways. number one, the president has not made a decision. number two, there was the sense coming off the call that the president would go it alone even if there was not an international art and the ship. number three, the members of congress were making a pitch to the president that he needs to do more to convince their colleagues that this is the right thing to do. we are seeing tremendous revolt on capitol hill right now in congressmembers of signing letters saying that the president needs to seek authorization or should seek authorization from congress before using military force. the numbers are somewhere in the of members of congress have signed off on such letters. there was a republican letter that had up to 140 signature

. >>> for more on the news conference we're joined by jonathan allen, senior correspondent for politico. good morning to you sfwhood morning to you. >> let's talk about the pointed claims by the republicans. listening to his speech it was hard not to hear him talk about obama care and immigration. so how are republicans responding? >> republicans are saying obama's health care law has been a disaster, the proof is in the pudding and the president needs to back off the so-called mandate that employers give health care to full-time employees and that the individual mandate, sort of the big part of this in terms of making it work with insurers is something that should also be put off until next year. so they're saying the law is a mess and the president will say that they want to deny health care to 30 million americans. and also in addition to that they want to shut down the government to make sure that happens. perhaps the most sharp point that he's put on his view of this yet. >> jonathan on the surveillance issues the president's proposed reforms, do you think that that's going to addr

chris carter, jonathan ogden, bill parcels, larry allen once upon a time.en sap, a little cup of coffee with the raiders and dare robinson all enshrined last no i had in canton ohio. onto baseball, welcome to oakland. a's and the rangers and cess he did he say, swinging the big stick. the a's carrying it and then -- pitch and pivot 1, 2, 3, 9th inning, the a's, they win the ballgame three-and-a-half up in the west. they went at it toe to toe. will myers, hits the old walk off, base hit. giants lose 3-1. tiger woods at the firestone. good if it goes. indeed. leads by 7 strokes going to the final round today. and chris -- and the earthquakes do a number on -- winning last night final of 2- 0. that's a soccer term. we'll see you later on everybody. we've got the first nfl preseason game of the season later on, cowboys, dolphins. see you later, everybody. >>> governor brown's war chest for his campaign if there is one, has swelled to $10 million. the governor has not formally announced running for another term, but report show he is in. >> shape raising 2.8 mil

allen. coming up next on al jazeera the 9/11 pretrial hearings are under way at guantanamo. we'll have a live report. hi, my name is jonathan betz, and i'm from dallas, texas, and i'm an anchor for al jazeera america. i started in a small television station in rural arkansas. it's a part of the country that often gets overlooked. but there are a lot of fascinating people there, a lot of fascinating stories there. i like that al jazeera will pay attention to those kinds of places. what drew me to journalism is i like the idea that we are documenting history. al jazeera documents it like none other. and to be a journalist, and to be part of a team like that? that's an incredible blessing. >> welcome back. recapping our stories at this hour. united nations security council will hold an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss the chemical weapons attack in syria. opposition groups say hundreds of people died in this attack near damascus. the syrian government denies the charges. >>> a court has released, ordered rather the release of hosni mubarak. he's currently being held while prosecutors investigate corruption allegatio

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