senator mccain has it right. we should give more assistance to the free syrian army including tactical guidance, command and control. that means boots on the ground. not in syria but in turkey. i'm talking about special forces. one lieutenant colonel and a handful of majors. they work on command and control. they go in and organize. help the free syrian army be better organized. decrease the number of atrocities they are perpetrating on the ground. make sure we don't have what looks like libya in the end with hundreds of militias not holding to the central government, running around refusing to disarm and the government having to bribe the militias to provide security. to work with assad, et cetera. that's one. we should be building, as the senator said, a coalition of the willing. let's call them the better friends of syria. not just friends of syria. we should plan coalition military operations. with an emphasis on arab forces. the uae and qatar were instrumental in libya. they are on the right side here, too.

senator john mccain, the current turkish ambassador to the u.s. and chief advisor to the turkish prime minister. they also heard from academic scholars, journalists, and former u.s. ambassadors. this took place at the u.s. national press club here in washington. >>> good morning. if we could all please take our seats. well, thank you very much. very good morning to everybody here. i'm sure other people will be coming in throughout the day. we have over 700 people who have registered for the conference today, and they'll be coming in and out. so we want to extend a very warm welcome to all of the first comers. this is the middle east institute's third annual turkish conference, and i'd like to say, i'm putting an emphasis on the third annual conference because actually we've been looking through some old files and have discovered that the middle east institute has been celebrating turkey for many years. in fact, we found an article that reported a banquet that we had hosted in honor of turkey's 30th anniversary as a republic back in 1953. but turke

thank you very much. [ applause ] >> nart mccain, that was inspiring. i'm sure there will be a lot of questions. we have microphones that the interns will bring to you. >> the debacle with the goldman sachs recently, it showed that the measures of frank-dodd bill will not be sufficient to -- off a new bubble. now is the time to begin discussing the reinstalling glass eagle to prevent a hyper inflationary blowout. there are now 70 sponsors to that in the house. there must also be motion in the senate. this week is very important, as you know. there's pressure on germany to start to reinflate the european economy, geithner is also discussing, according to reports, given support to lead to a hyper inflated bubble. the glass eagle could stop that if congress that has the will and the courage to do that.

right over there, mccain. we rode the truck. [applause] we rode the trek into hanoi together bouncing along. we were going to tie we thought we might be going to the slaughterhouse. we did not know. we ended up in at the hilton in a cell that was six and a half feet by 7 feet, about the size of a small bathroom. well, it was our bathroom. we had a 3-gallon bucket and their, but it was not just jim and i commend it was in three of the estimate was for this in this room. six and half by 7-foot cell was our bathroom, living room, bedroom, and our dining room for the next nine months. that is generally the way our life was. in the winter it was cold, very cold. there never seemed to be enough food to keep our bodies warm, especially that first winter. in the summer it was so hot that we had heat rash, and sometimes we did not get to take a bath and get cleaned up, and it was not exactly fun. many of the guys had terrible injuries from there it capture, like senator mccain. he was probably the most seriously injured of all this, and

john mccain is a hypocrite. i think he should put everybody who pays him first to let us know what they get out of that money. number two, i think we have to realize that it is the supreme court who destroyed america. they are the ones who have said that -- [unintelligible] there is no anyone could pay $100 million in one check. an average american can pay $25. any time that someone gives you something, they expect something from you. host: thank you . we will come back to the in a moment. here is some other news. "senate leader striking a deal to free student loan interest rates." they have affectively it reached an agreement that would freeze those student loan interest rates at 3.4% for one-year. this is according to staffers who briefed "the national journal became there is one aide saying there is a deal being finalized right now. they are -- an official announcement is expected tomorrow or tuesday. many are referred to the comment mitt romney made. we carried it live in des moines, iowa. the campaign and t

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thank you senator mccain for joining us. we look forward to your remarks on the way forward in syria. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you, michael. and it's a pleasure to be here, and back at aei i notice from the faces and crowd there are a number of interns who spending summer. i thought if there's a thing of reincarnation, i wanted to come back as the intern here in washington in the summer time. i know, that most of you are spending a great deal of your time at the library in congress on the weekends as well. it is a pleasure to be here. one of the foremost institutions in america in the world. i think is contributed so much to the dialogue and discussion and decision making that takes place here. and it's great to be back among many friends. i usually try to begin my speeches as i just did with a joke or some kind, but when we're talking about syria, it's too horrifying, too heart breaking and too campus brailted. for fifteen months now, the syrian people have faced an onslaught of forces. it's estimated as man

senator mccain made the arguments well. weaken iran, hezbollah, limit the murder of civilians, the wanton murder of civilians we know is occurring. we did hear a plan from senator mccain. right? a goal ultimately to limit president assad, creating a safe zone and increased military support to rebels. i think one of the issues that i want to point out is i think there is a very, very important risk of mission creep here with the creation of safe zones in particular. i don't think creating a safe zone is an option, frankly. i think it would be very, very difficult to keep that as a mission over the long run because that safe zone is not going to limit the murder of civilians outside. it's going to produce a backlash by the enemy at that point, the assad regime. the enemy get as vote. the enemy will perceive that as an effort to overthrow the regime and at that point perhaps options become on the table that we don't want to think about. you know, attacks against western troops in the region. hezbollah attack. last time we inte

, after mccain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. ultimately, as the "newshour's" vote 2012 map center shows, candidate obama carried ohio 51% to 47% over mccain. the cleveland area-- shaded blue -- gave the president his greatest support in the state. mccain did best in southwestern ohio's red zone-- around cincinnati and its surroundings -- where romney appeared today. no republican has won the white house without the state's 18 electoral votes, and romney appealed to voters in ohio and elsewhere that it's not what the president says, but what he does. >> look around ohio, look around the country, and you'll see that a lot of people are hurting, a lot of people have had some real tough times, and the policies the president put in place did not make america create more jobs. as a matter of fact, he made it harder for america to create more jobs. >> brown: statewide unemployment in ohio topped 10% in 2009. since then, the buckeye state's jobless rate has fallen to 7.4%- - well below the national rate. the president today claimed some

we can't afford john mccain. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> mccain was in that fall perhaps the first republican in a generation to lose to a democrat on the tax ire. and obama's attacks were somewhat disingenuous. the affordable care act ended up including a smaller version of the tax increase. that is the downside of putting forward a plan. when you tell people the tough choices you're going to make, they attack you for them. sometimes a little bit unfairly. that is politics. but it's a necessary part of politics because if you don't put forward a plan, no one knows what you're going to do. republicans in particular believe this very strongly. in fact, one of their main criticisms of president obama is he doesn't put forward enough detailed plans. >> they either don't have a plan or they simply do not want their fingerprints on one. >> the silence on my question today has been deafening because they don't have a plan. >> president obama doesn't have a plan. >> where's the president's plan? we haven't seen it. >> the president doesn't have a plan. never has had a pl

i want to talk quickly about john mccain. both of you covered him. rhetoric between president obama and john mccain has suddenly gone kind of a little nuclear. >> yeah. you know, what's interesting is there was a moment after the presidential campaign in 2008 where you sort of thought that john mccain was going to come back to the senate having lost the rice and go back to the old john mccain who was the compromiser and he just hasn't. he has become a really thorn in the side of president obama and has this thing about these moments where he just seems to want to really like jab. >> everything you were discussing with him with regard to the leaks investigation, yes, there is a bipartisan outrage about all of these leaks but he is the one driving the idea that it's political, that it is to help the president, and that it's from the white house. >> he wouldn't say no, i don't think the president would do that, i don't think the president -- i gave him a chance and he said i don't really know what the president knows and doesn't know which i thought was

john mccain is the perfect guy to ask. john mccain said something similar in 2008. except back then the economy was in the middle of of an explosion. that's when we lost all the jobs in the first place. how could you be outraged by this but not outraged by what you said, john mccain. >> mccain: the economies are strong. >> you're the perfect person to ask about in this morning. >> back then we had just had a terrible stock market crash a, and the people were very nervous, and i wanted to assure people that the fundamentals of our economy is good. >> maybe that's what he was doing. >> the private sector is doing fine. i would like to show him these small business owns and these closed businesses. it shows the philosophy of the president of the united states. he believes that having state, federal and local governments hire more people. that's the way out. mitt romney believes business creates job. >> cenk: can anybody see what happened in 2008 and what happened now? i didn't see the distinction now. you show the close the businesses. when did they close? under bush's

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senator mccain made those arguments very well. to limit the murder of civilians, the wanton murder of civilians that we know is occurring, and we did hear a plan from senator mccain. our goal ultimately to limit president assad with safe zones and increasing military support for rebels. one of the issues i want to point out is that i think there is a very, very important risk of mission creep here. i do not think that creating a safe zone is an option. i think it would be very, very difficult to keep that as a mission over the long run. it is going to produce a backlash by the enemies. the enemy always gets a vote. the enemy i think will perceive that as an effort to overthrow the regime, and at that time, there are options on the table we do not want to think about. a lot of marines died last time we were in this part of the world. we'll hostilities. i think it leads to an outcome which israeli military intervention to push him out. in my mind, that is it. there are real negative repercussions. there are some costs. the benefits

president obama, document leaks, john mccain, the miami heat, and, yes, sarah palin.hey are all tied together. we're going to explain because this conversation started earlier today after senator john mccain told our candy crowley that the president needs to take responsibility for leaks of classified documents. >> i have no idea whether the president knew or did not know. i have never alleged such a thing, but i have alleged that if you look at the information that's been leaked, again, that information in the book says that several officials said that they had to remain anonymous who gave this information because they would lose their jobs. the president may not have done it himself, but the president is certainly responsible as commander in chief. >> okay. so the senator responding to several classified reports that were leaked from the white house. some claim the leaks were done intentionally to make the president look tough in an election year. the white house flatly denies this claim, and attorney general eric holder said he's assigned two special prosecutors to

the only real issue i have is just with, you know, the tone of senator john mccain. have a lot of respect for the senator. however, i feel as if he's trying to inject a sort of political angle the way in which he's attacking the presidency, as if he's ducking this. he's not ducking this. he's taking responsibility. >> okay. >> i don't agree with that. you know, i know john mccain very well, and i can tell you that when it comes to issues of national security, when it comes to issues of freedom, when it comes to issues of the armed services and the people who risk their lives for this country, john mccain does not play politics. he doesn't play games. he's been there himself. >> are you kidding me? >> for him it's as personal as can be. no, i'm not. no, i'm not. >> for him it's as personal as it can get. >> no, i'm not. >> john mccain plays as much politics as any politician can. >> not with this, lz, not with this. the american public knows that john mccain is a hero. >> his very first major decision once he secured the nomination was to pick his vp, and he politiciz

we spoke with senator mccain a short time ago. see you, sir. >> thank you, greta. >> a big decision out of the united states supreme court today and you might imagine gov. jan brewer wasn't happy. she said the people of arizona has fought them in every turn and the threat it poses to our citizens. do you agree? >> i agree with it. the point is, too, the irony here is that the reason why arizona enacted sb1070 is because of our immense frustration over the federal government's either unable or unwilling to secure or borders. as everyone agrees, it was the most porous part of our u.s.-mexico border. and it's for reasons we won't go into. so we were frustrated, passed the law. now the supreme court says that we can't enforce our borders, and at the same time obviously the federal government wasn't. now there have been some many provements in border security. but i can tell you right now, arizona is still the place where coyotes bring people across. arizona is still the main place where drugs come across our border. there are guides o

for 39 years ago, senator mccain and myself and others came home from that war. was a long time ago, but the lessons that we learned articles relevant today as they were in the p.o.w. camps. what makes them special i think is the fact that they were tried and tested under the most difficult circumstances. we had some remarkable leaders. senator mccain mentioned some earlier, and they were. and when all the way down. the example set the pace for me, a junior officer in the camp, and that meant so much. i was there for five years, four months and two weeks. it sounds like a long time. he was here a little bit ago but his son is in the hospital and was the longest held a p.o.w. in the henley group. eight years, six months and he returned with honor and he has had such a remarkable experience in the years since. i wished he were here. i would love to have him stand up and let us honor him. there are others with us tonight, several but i haven't seen in a while. one by one to mention especially because he arrived in hanoi the same day i did and that was right over the

senator mccain has it right. we should give more assistance to the free syrian army, including tactical guidance. this means boots on the ground. not boots on the ground of syria, but boots on the ground of turkey. i am talking about special forces, one colonel, a handful of majors. the work on a command and control. they go in and organize, help increase their army, decrease the number of atrocities they are perpetrating, and make sure we do not have what looks like libya in the end, with hundreds of militias not beholden to a government refusing to disarm, and the government having to bribe them to provide security. we do not want that. that is one. we should be building, as the senator said, a coalition of the women. -- coalition of the women. which plan operations -- coalition of the willing. russia, iran, and venezuela are acting without u.s. consent. they are not seeking our consent, sending weapons to kill syrian people. we do not have to seek their consent to of the syrian people defend themselves. we can

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senator mccain has taken to the floor.d and listen in. >> has been articulated by many, both in and outside of the administration. including the most damaging that we have seen, including our director of national intelligence, saying that it's the worst that he's seen in his 30 years of service in the issue of -- in the area of intelligence. all of the ranking and chair members of the intelligence committees, the armed services committee, foreign relations committee and homeland security committees, have all described in this most strongest terms what damage has been done by these, quote, leaks. >> meanwhile, not that far away, and not that long ago, senator lindsay graham was asking attorney general eric holder directly about these leaks during a senate judiciary committee hearing. take a listen. >> we're talking about -- >> special counsel, somebody new, other than these two people, that all of us could buy into. >> but senator, i mean, i think you're missing something here. the -- >> i think you're missing here. i think

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he ran that wonderful ad-- >> joy: against mccain. >> when mccain couldn't remember how many homes heed. and mccain ran negative ads comparing obama to paris hilton. >> joy: o the celebrity ad. that one really didn't work. maybe americans like a celebrity for president. >> the whole culture is built around celebrities. every reality show creates celebrities and its counter to youtive to think that wouldn't appeal to america. >> joy: he's too handsome, too fit, too smart. they tried that, too smart he's aloof, a professorial type, it really didn't work. >> it can't work this time since romney has two harvard degrees and obama only has one. >> joy: that's true. now how negative should obama go now, really negative now? and what about the timing of it? >> i think they have to pace it. what they're doing now is they're doing ads about bain and massachusetts. but i think you hold back your biggest ones for after labor day. >> joy: did you see the ones he's running now? let's show you. he's attacking romney over his time as governor. this one is called "mosaic." >> i'm barack obama and i ap

mccain: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i ask unanimous consent to address the senate in a colloquy with my colleague from south carolina, senator graham. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: mr. president, senator graham and i -- and i know that there's others who would like to join us -- join -- come to the floor on the issue of the almost unpress defen -- t unprecedented release of information which directly affect our national security, in fact, the most important programs that we are engaged in, including the use of drones in our counterterrorism activities and, of course, the highly classified cyber attacks that have been made on the iranians in order to prevent them from achieving their goal of building nuclear weapons. i can't think of any time that i have seen such breaches of ongoing national security programs as has been the case here. the damage to our national security has been articulated by many both in and outside of the

secondly, this is not going to make people like john mccain and lindsey graham an happy.hat the president said he said it didn't come from the white house. then he is in effect blaming the intelligence community. only other people who could have known it was a problem. >> if the white house isn't involved in these stories i'm the queen of england. they are quoting the president. there are people in the room with the president. what he said interestingly wasn't so much denying their involvement. he was saying they leaked classifieded information. different than saying they weren't involved. it's very possible that the president can declassify anything he wanted to. so it's possible he declassified the information. >> chris: forgive me but are you suggesting he was that clintonian? >> i don't see how it's possible the white house didn't know about the stories when you have quotes of the president. the president said this -- i didn't hear anything about the white house freaking out about leaks. this is a white house that has been aggressive about prosecuting people who have

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