cenk: all right now we go to our panel joe williams, fouhy from yahoo news and lee fang from the nation. lee, i saw your tweets earlier today. what's happening here, who's guilty and who's innocent? >> this is silly season. it came out yesterday a california assemblyman politician went on break to cuba, as well. i'm waiting for marco rubio and other florida republicans to ask for an investigation into that trip, as well. this is just, i don't understand the cuba politics. you know these republicans talk a good game about free markets free trade. whatever happened to that? why don't we have normalized relations with cuba. look at vietnam. we have regular trade agreements with that country and look at it it's liberalizing, a strong american ally. we should do the same with cuba. cenk: to be fair, we've only given the cuba sanies 51 years. don't you think they'd break in year 52? >> you'd think they'd go away at some point. republicans in their effort to discredit or question the white house have essentially attacked two of the more popular black artists, in the united states. for a party

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speaking of old friends lee fang author. it's mark, jimmy lee we've got it.guys, let me start with you here in the studio. what in the world are we supposed to do about syria? >> go. the nation doesn't want to go, as you suggest and as you show, people aren't up for military involvement. what the people want and what will happen bear no similarity whatever. washington will feel like you feel the military industrial complex if i can sound like some sort of conspiracy theorist. you said one other thing that was powerful. corporate america doesn't want to get involved in syria. it's a sticky situation politically, you can't get in and out and it doesn't seem as though there's any benefits. i suspect they're digging their heels in in any way possible. you suggested the first way with semantics we're not quite sure this isn't technically really. >> is sarin really sarin? is it a chemical weapon? >> lindsey graham said if we don't, we'll end up going to war in iran and if we don't handle it tough enough, they'll attack us, apparently. cenk: we're either going to wa