mr. carney. that is the problem. >> senator, i understand that you present the facts that you believe or true based on the argument that you have made for a long time, sir, that we should leave troops in iraq in p perpetuity. and that is what the president does not believe. he did what he felt was right for our country -- >> it is a bad decision. >> i certainly understand where we are today. >> jay, it is not a matter of disagreement. it is a matter of facts. and you have yours wrong and you distort distorted. >> jay, do you believe if a residual force had had been left on the ground in iraq that we would not be in the situation now? >> anderson, i think it is basically a whitewash of history to suggest that there was not periods of enormous chaos and fighting and bloodshed in iraq when there were tens of thousands of troops fighting on the ground. that is a fact. it was true in 2004 and 2007. and it was true even when we had the highest number of u.s. troops on the ground. we cannot -- the unite

mr. carney.rstand that you present the facts that you believe or true based on the argument that you've made for a long time that we should leave troops in iraq in perpetuity. >> you have your facts wrong and distorted them. >> today, jay carney's successor was asked about it at the white house press briefing. >> you heard on cnn last night your former boss get into it with senator john mccain. and even today on the senate floor we heard him saying that it was the iraqis who wanted a residual force to stay there. and if you heard the back and forth, who is right. >> i heard a little bit of back and forth. i heard enough of the back and forth that i'm tempted to defer all the questions of senator john mccain to my former boss. >> gloria, first of all we should just point out to set the record straight that we did not plan to have that back and forth. we were interviewing senator mccain who lobbed something against jay carney, and he responded, and back and forth, that is how it began. really you s

mr. carney. that's the problem. >> senator, i understand that you present the facts that you believe are true based on the argument you've made -- >> not that i believe are true, they are true. >> for a long time you believe we should leave troops in iraq in perpetuity. that's not what this president believes. obviously he was elected president to fulfill what he believed was right for our country and right for our national security. >> reporter: looking forward, expect more debate over the syrian rebels that will take the fight to isis on behalf of the u.s. senior administration officials say they're being vetted, but republicans were skeptical before the speech. as for a timeline for those air strikes in syria, senior administration officials would not offer one saying the white house is not going to telegraph those punches, but at the same time, carol, there are other questions emerging such as which countries will be participating in those air strikes in iraq and in syria along with the u.s.

mr. carney. >> well, senator. i'm not.to agree to disagree. >> facts are stubborn thing. you in your role as spoke person bragged about the fact that the last american combat troop left iraq. if we left a residual force, the situation would not be what it is today. there would be a lot more. >> senator, i can posit with great respect for you. >> no, no, you can't. you don't have the facts, mr. carney, that's the problem. >> senator, i understand that you present the facts you believe are true based on the argument. >> not that i believe are true. that are true. >> we leave iraq in perpetuity, he full filled what he thought was right for our country and national security. >> jay, that means it was a bad decision. >> i certainly understand where we are today. >> jay, jay -- >> not a matter of disagreement, it's a matter of facts. and you have yours wrong and you have distorted them. that got pretty heated and went on. today, jay carney's successor was asked about it at the white house press briefing? >> you heard last night

mr. carney. that is his entire national security team including the secretary of state said we want to arm and train and equip these people and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down. and the fact that they didn't leave a residual force in iraq overruling all of the military adviser is reason we're facing isis today. >> well, again, senator, we will have to agree to disagree and i think that the question of the residual force, you know, there was another player in that which was the iraqi government. b, it was the fulfillment of the previous administration's withdrawal plan. c and also fulfillment of the president's promise to withdraw and not maintaining a troop presence and i think was pretty consistent with what the american people wanted and believed was the right approach. >> you are again saying fact that is are patently false. >> went on from there. you get the point. here's the thing. let's posit that malaki was difficult, horrible leader and leadership or lack thereof is why w

mr. carney says everybody was surprised, that's a fable. you may remember a couple years ago there was intense debate whether to arm so-called moderate muslim rebels in syria. they would fight not only against asad but isis but president obama said no, claiming he didn't know enough about the moderate rebels. >> yeah, we know all about them then. you just didn't choose to know. i was there in syria. we knew them. come on, you guys were the one -- it's your boss that when the entire national security team wanted to arm and train them, that he turned them down, mr. carney, after -- >> senator, look -- >> the fact is -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> we have to agree to disagree on this. >> no, facts are stub bubern things. he made the unilateral decision to turn them down and the fact that they didn't leave the residual force in iraq over ruling all of his military advisors is the reason we're facing isis today. >> of course, he, senator mccain is referring to is president obama. talking points can say with certainty there is deep anger within t

mr. carney. if we had left a residual force, it would not be what there is today and there would be a lot more -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> senator i can pause it with great respect that i don't disagree with you. >> no, you can't, because you don't have the facts. >> i'm curious why you think isis is as strong as it is right now. some say if president obama left a residual forces in iraq in 2011, this wouldn't be happening. people like john mccain make that argument strenuously. do you think that would have prevented what ear we're see -- we're seeing right now? >> i think some forces could have had a better effect to keep iraq going sectarian as it has which weaken the iraqi state. i don't think that created isis. i think it was created from the weakness inside of syria, the fact that the opposition groups were unable to get much traction which tends to award extreme elements. >> the blame game is ugly and simplistic but it is going on in full force. there are those that say president obama,

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mr. carney yesterday.in terms of the currency markets, we're seeing the dollar rising across the board. that really is the story of this week, isn't it? we're seeing a six-year high against the japanese yen, 168, up 0.5%. the euro, 1.2945. once again, i want to come back to sterling. it is all about the scottish referendum, isn't it? and we're seeing the cable rated down by another 0.3%. 1.6054. keep in mind the euro has just risen to a three-month high against the pound and we're seeing a ten-month low for the sterling against the u.s. dollar. let's check in on how markets are faring in asia. sri jegarajah is in singapore. we have one stand out performer, don't we? >> yes. and that's because of the currency markets. the yen at multi year lows against the greenbacks. that's helping the export sector. so the only bright spot in an otherwise rough session across asia. and it's really down to those fed rate hike fierce that are really sending these markets lower. the greater concentration of selling is really

mr. carney.'s the problem. >> senator, i understand you present the facts that you believe are true based on the facts -- >> no, sir 37. >> for a long time that we should leads troops into perpetuity. that's just not what this president believes. >> carney was a long time correspondent for "time" magazine. but the question he'll face like david axlerod, like dana preeno >>> john oliver is becoming quite the media critic "60 minutes." how does he often get the the per expect sound bites? could he be leading the witness? >> you have to hand it to him. >> yes, you do. he was off and running. >><2z÷ he was off and running. >> is to laugh at it. >> so it drives the price up. >> it drives the price up. >> you did everything together. >> we did everything together. >> he is the father of hot sauce. >> he is the father of hot sauce. >> all of them banned. >> all of 24e78 banned. >> with the crowd there. >> with the crowd there. >> it was almost a cake walk, actually. >> a cake walk? >> yes. >> to beat th

mr. carney says, well, the free syrian army is stronger now. that was just a blatant lie. and there are two other points i'd like to make. one, when the president decided we would leave iraq, and he decided it, and they keep saying that he wanted to keep a force there. that's not true. >> that's a lie? >> that is a lie. lindsey graham and i were in baghdad, by the way. >> he could have got and agreement? >> absolutely. >> why didn't he say that? >> because he's saying it because of the fact that we, because we left has now set in train all the events. isil was almost in nonexistence then. by the way, in 2008, when i said we would have to keep a residual force in iraq. >> it was at a town hall in new hampshire. >> i was destroyed. and the other one is that we can somehow attack isil, but leave bashar al-assad alone. we can't. we've got to go after both of them. >> well, let's face it. many americans are worried, worried isis will attack the u.s. and they have good reason. they have seen the beheading of the two americans. and the fear is bad political news for democrats. a

mr. carney. after a -- >> well senator, look, i'm not -- >> the fact that -- >> we have to agree to disagree. >> facts are stubborn things. and his entire national security team including the secretary of state said we want to arm and trap and equip these people and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down. and the fact that they didn't leave a residual force in iraq overruling all of his military advisers, is the reason why we're facing isis today. so the facts are stubborn things and history and people ought to know them. and now the president is saying basically that we are going to take certain actions, which i would favor. but to say that america is safer and that the situation is very much like yemen and somalia shows me that the president really doesn't have a grasp for how serious the threat of isis is. >> well, again, senator, we're going to have to agree to disagree. i think that you know the question of the residual force, you know, there was another player in that, which was

mr. carney. that's the problem. >> senator, i understand that you present the facts that you believe are true based on the argument that you have made for a long time, sir, that we should leave troops in iraq in perpetuity. >> so that when on for a while and inspired a great big twitter war. we won't talk about that part of the equation. talk about something with more depth, joined by lieutenant rick francona, former military attache in syria. welcome, sir. >> sure. >> okay so, let's talk about residual forces in iraq. president obama ran as the anti-war president, the american public wanted troops out of iraq, so, was the president wrong to take them out and if he had left more american troops there, would isis be a threat? >> i will be diplomatic, i won't say he was wrong but did lead us to where we are. without a u.s. presence there the iraqi army was allowed to atrophy, there was no one watching what was happening. there was no one advising prime minister maliki, no one watching prime ministe

mr. carney. that's the problem. >> senator, i understand you present the facts you believe are true based on the arguments that you made. >> not that i believe are true. are true. >> we should leave troops in iraq in perpetuity. >> quite an exchange you had, jay, with senator mccain. go ahead. you were there, you were the was press secretary. make the case why the president decided to remove all u.s. troops from iraq and not leave the residual force. >> wolf, we spoke about this. i spoke about it from the podium. the president made clear he was open to maintaining and pursuing an agreement with the iraqi government to maintain a so-called residual force in iraq of u.s. forces. after the end of the combat mission. you remember that the agreement to withdrawal troops that he was fulfilling was an agreement signed by president bush. but he pursued and was open to maintaining u.s. forces there in a residual force. but only under the condition of a status of forces agreement that would have provided p

mr. carney misstates the facts. we had it won thanks to the surge. it was won. the victory was there. all we needed was a force behind to provide support, not to engage in combat, but to supply support logistics, intelligence. by the way, the korean war we left troops behind, bosnia, we left troops behind, not to fight, but for a stabilizing force. >> senator, i want you to speak for yourself, not senator john mccain. your job is not to speak for senator john mccain. but one of the things he mentioned was the residual force, the forces left behind in korea which was 50 years ago. the korean war was 50 years ago. if you were to leave troops in iraq to keep the iraqi military consistently serving the iraqi people, how long would you be willing to keep u.s. troops there to make sure that stays stable? >> first of all, i think there are lots of other examples. let's look at japan, one of our greatest allies, third biggest economy in the world, where we didn't keep troops there, but we had a presence there after that war to help them get back on their feet and ensure we weren't squandering

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 much more on isis and president obama's speech is still to come. up next, the role of mid east nations in defeating the terror group. and that became our passion. to always build something better, airplanes that fly cleaner and farther on less fuel. that redefine comfort and connect the world like never before. after all, you can't turn dreams into airplanes unless your passion for innovation is nonstop. ♪ ♪ yeah, girl ♪ you know, i've been thinking about us ♪ ♪ and, uh, i just can't fight it anymore ♪ ♪ it's bundle time ♪ bundle ♪ mm, feel those savings, baby and that's how a home and auto bundle is made. better he learns it here than on the streets. the miracle of bundling -- now,

mr. carney blames the bleak outlook and the timing of the election, another more plausible factor may bethat is the failed liberal economic policies of obama and his democratic allies. for example, since president obama took office back in 2009 he's now at the end of his sixth year, over 11 million americans have dropped out of the labor force. and according to the latest statistics a number of americans living in poverty has dramatically increased. you can see right there. number of people on food stamps has skyrocketed under obama. there you have it. more than 46 million people are now needing programs to help them. here with reaction, former obama economic advisor austin ghoulsby. >> you lost me at hello, sean. >> i did. there's one thing i do not want to hear at the end of his sixth year of this guy's presidency that it's bush's fault. i don't want to hear it. i don't want to hear anything about george bush -- >> i never even use george bush. >> every time i've interviewed you bush, bush, bush. >> the numbers that you cite there. >> yeah. >> you consistently want to date to the middl

mr. carney, that's the problem. >> i understand you present the facts that you believe are true based on the arguments you've made. >> not i believe are true. >> we should leave troops in iraq in perpetuity. >> all right. you're a member of the armed services committee. why wasn't there a few thousand u.s. troops who were left behind, what senator mccain, senator lindsey graham, others say if there had been a u.s. military presence maybe this current crisis could have been avoided? >> i think it's time to move on from that. but i will answer your question. i think it's time for us to unify and get on with this new threat. i believe that the administration wanted to keep a residual of troops. it made sense. it's what we're trying to do now in afghanistan as we are about to leave. but, the maliki government, specifically maliki, said no. you see how good a leader he was for the iraqi government. finally he's gone. >> because senator mccain says that maliki would have been ready but it was president obama and the obama administration who really didn't try. they wanted to leave maybe 1,000 o

mr. carney making it clear the pound would not be shared.aving seen the results of monetary but not other integrations across the channel. what banking institutions would remain with their headquarters there giving somebody tax uncertainties? >> what kind of impact is this happening -- having on investors and the flows you are monitoring? . we had some numbers today. in the past two months, they have drawn $2 million -- $2 billion from u.k. equity funds. something people are broadly worrying about? uncertainty is unfriendly to the investment climate. as you think about allocation, this is a variable you haven't reckoned with. if you think about the future economic performance, it is difficult to see long-term and i economy and investment markets -termfficult to see long given the economy and investment markets. >> so far you in modeling has been scarce. the concurrency risk for here in the u.k., is that something that may have an impact in terms of how carney looks at the rate cycle next year? >> even though he said, the rate hike is on the

mr. carney thing -- >> was it theater? >> senator mccain came looking for a fight. >> he was looking for blood. let's refight the past 47 years. >> this young lady, she's saying the other night at the tuesday's children fundraiser -- remember that, her voice. >> lost her dad. >> is the voice of an angel. she was 9 when her dad died in 9/11. i hope we can get that audio. >> she sang "god bless america." willie, "daily news." national football liars. this is such a disaster for the nfl. something that they should have handled straightforward a couple of days ago. >> as we talked about a few minutes ago the associated press report that the second tape was viewed by someone perhaps not commissioner goodell but someone "inside the nfl" office back in april. >> this is devastating. let's get to some other papers. the "new york times," various uk leaders travel to scotland on wednesday in a final plea to have scots remain in the union. >> it's important everyone knows the scale of the choice being made that if scotland votes to s

mr. carney.ant to arm and train and equip these people and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down. the fact that they didn't leave a residual force in iraq overruling all of his military advisors is 9 reason why we're facing isis today. >> again senator, we're gog have to agree to disagree and i think that the question of the residual force, there was another player in that, which was the iraqi government. it was the full filtment of the previous administration's withdrawal plan. c, and also fulfillment of the president's promise to withdraw from iraq. >> mr. carney, you are again saying facts that are patently false. because lindsey graham and i and joe lieberman were in baghdad, they wanted a residual force. you in your role as spokesperson bragged about the fact 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. >> he just wiped the floor with him and he was no longer in the protective zone of the press co

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mr. carney should say that the free syrian army is now stronger.n fact, they've been -- >> that's not what i said, senator. i said, if i could, sir, i said that we know a great deal more about -- >> come on. you knew about it. come on, jay. we knew about them then. you didn't choose to know. your boss is the one that went the entire national security team wanted to arm and train them, he turned them down. >> reporter: it's interesting hearing from the uk. the u.s.'s closest ally. the foreign minister said let me be clear. there will be no british air strikes in syria and then the prime minister's office said, wait a minute. not anything is off the table yet. everything is being considered but the white house says that it is encouraged by what it calls robust international support for the president's plan including it says in the middle east. wolf? >> michelle, at the white house, thank you. did the president convince congress of the merits of his new isis strategy? does he need a go-ahead from congress to carry out the battle plan? let's turn to ch

i mean, jay carney you may not have liked him but looked like he understood the process. mr. earnest doesn't look like he has a lot of credibility. >> sort of an equal opportunity critic. go ahead, how wi. >> you stole my line. i was going to say i've heard bill criticize jay carney a time or two. >> and got it bad there. >> yeah, the spokesman. o'reilly started this fight and marie harf is entitled to defend her boss. he was saying she looks like she was having trouble doing her job. there wasn't anything in those comments remotely resemble sexism. >> it's playing the victim. something always uncomfortable for a man to defend or whatever because you have the ism. he's not too impressed by jen psa psaki. the truth is she's been criticized in many corners in the past for hash tag diplomacy, like united for ukraine and people are looking at her saying what are you doing the state department spokesperson, act like you've been there before. >> right. well, you know, we can debate whether o'reilly was a tad harsh in assessing her whole performance. >> oh, please. >> but when you pu

jay carney, you may not have liked him, but he looked like he understood the process. mr. earnest doesn't look like he doesn't have a lot of -- he has a lot of credibility. >> o'reiley going after if white house spokesman. the economists an outrageous review of edward baptist about slave slavery. it said mr. baptist has not written an objective outlook by slavery, almost all of the blacks are victims and almost all the whites villains. this is not history, it's advocacy. >> wait a second, almost all the blacks who were bought and sold as human victims. wow. the economist as now called slavery an evil system, withdrawing the review and apologizing. >>> dawn tunte stallworth has jd a new team. espn's keith obermann calls foul from the sidelines. >> so your supposed news website just hired to cover national security a still thee writticly active nfl player with no journalist experience who is a 9/11 truther, but lying about when he reformed. >> stallworth told "the washington post" he no longer believes in those 9/11 tweets. what a relief. >>> ahead on "media buzz" the uproar

jay carney, you may not have liked him, but he looks like he understood the process. mr.n't look like he has a whole lot of credibility. he just looks uncertain to me. >> we don't have the sound. they come out and say bill o'reilly is a sexist. i apologize to the viewers about that. what we have played is bill o'reilly clearly criticizing men and women. if you say a woman is in over her depth, does that make you a sexist? >> no. he calls everybody out. the fact is the state department should be dealing with the international community and not attacking fox news. they need to be dealing with all they need to be dealing with all these international crises. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. transamerica made it easy. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow. transamerica. could mean less waiting for things like security backups and file downloads you'd take that test, right? wha

jay carney, you may not have liked him, but he looks like he understood the process. mr.est doesn't look like he has a whole lot of credibility. he just looks uncertain to me. >> we don't have the sound. they come out and say bill o'reilly is a sexist. i apologize to the viewers about that. what we have played is bill o'reilly clearly criticizing men and women. if you say a woman is in over her depth, does that make you a sexist? >> no. he calls everybody out. the fact is the state department should be dealing with the international community and not attacking fox news. they need to be dealing with all these international crises. >> thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >>> coming up, your responses. and "umm, i think that's enough." that's why walgreens offers new nexium 24 hour, protection strong enough for whatever your day dishes out. walgreens makes it easy to treat frequent heartburn. with new nexium 24 hour, now get nexium level protection without a prescription. at the corner of happy and healthy. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient

i mean, jay carney, you may not have liked him but it looked like he understood the process. mr.est doesn't look like he has a lot of credibility. is that the buzz in the press corps? >> i know you have got to work with him and i don't expect to you hammer him but he looks uncertain to me. >> now we asked jen psaki and marie harf to come on the factor tonight but they are afraid. i hope that's not a sexist comment because many men are afraid to come on this program. but, the main point here is that smearing people is unacceptable, especially by folks representing the u.s. government. i mean, ms. harf didn't just go out there and say that off the top of her head. secretary kerry had to sign off on it and it was a foolish thing to do. he should know better. this is what we are seeing right now in america, cheap shot alley coming from powerful politicians. listen to the head of the democratic national committee. >> scott walker has given women the back of his hand. and there is no -- i know that is stock. i know that is direct. but that is reality. what republican tea party extremis

jay carney, you may not have liked him, but he looked like he understood the process. mr. credibility. >> hmm. so alexis, actually, i'll start with you, do women want fair treatment or do they want special treatment in this situation? >> what i think women want, first of all, no one should expect o'reilly to be respectful of anybody, that's part of his stict, but forget legitimate race, their policies don't respect women and that's what women voters are concerned about. they are concerned about minimum wage and action to contraception and to abortion. they are concerned about de-funding planned parenthood. those are the things that affect women, not just from the reproductive right issues but from the broad spectrum. >> we hear about a lot of lot of other things, we care about the economy and immigration, is it fair to put us in a box? >> the war on women is a phony focus group mantra that is made to put women in a line of victims, which we don't belong. we are strong, we are powerful, we can care for ourselves. and frankly, feminists, liberal feminists overreached this we

. >> jay carney in washington, thank you, sir, very much. mr. morning. i really appreciate it. >>> and now to john berman who is in for michaela for some of the day's top stories. john, good morning. >> brooke, we have breaking news, all flights have been stopped at chicago's o'hare and midway airports because of a fire at an faa radar facility in aurora, illinois. the facility is a traffic control center. all the employees have been evacuated. one person was injured. pilots on the ground have been told to shut off their engines. o'hare, one of the busiest airports in the world, guys, this is going to be a mess. expect extensive flight delays out of chicago. >>> happening now, pedestrian bridge has collapsed onto a busy detroit freeway snarling traffic and injuring one person. one car was crushed underneath when it collapsed. the driver was not seriously hurt. officials say a truck driving northbound may have struck the bridge with a hitch causing the entire bridge to collapse. it caused a major backup. >>> jesse matthew, suspected of abducting

i mean, jay carney, you may not have liked him, but he looked like he understood the process. mr. earnest doesn't look like he has a lot of credibility. >> so, there you go. marie harf? >> bill o'reilly does not like men. >> that was less than ten days ago that he said that, okay? >> august 26th. >> and if you think he's a sexist, how many women are there that he's in complete dialogue, debate with every single night, brilliant women that he is there discussing the top issues with. >> right. >> and you know, he's been quite fair across the board. but was that comment by marie harf? >> meanwhile, ten minutes after the hour. another fox news alert spans the world, the queen of comedy, joan rivers, dead here in new york city yesterday at the age of 81. >> her daughter, melissa, here making the heartbreaking decision to take her off life support, saying "my mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. although that is difficult to do right now, i know her final wish would be that we would be returning to laughter soon." >> rivers went into cardiac arrest last week during a