lou: neil: before the presidential candidate, brent bozell talks about shell obama and what is beinge about this. >> on one hand things are funny and we should laugh at thm. that some of them, it is an attempt to undermine ted cruz. and then let me tell you what is really happening. in the republican party, there has been nothing but deadwood for about 15 years. and suddenly if you look at what the party is, there is a new leadership. the names are ted cruz and marco rubio and rand paul. and what is happening is the old, tired people who will not fight for anything, they are outraged by it. but the democrats are threatened by it and the media can't stand it and also i tell you who is taking over the republican party is ted cruz. neil: what you see here is the worry and an undercurrent saying that the sky amounts to something, much of an original attack that michele bachmann came apart. so just trying to generalize her and trivializing the sky. >> sure. >> the fact that they are all focused on him shows the effect that he has had and it's not going to stop. ted cruz will continue talk

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well, the first reaction here to president obama's decision came i'd say two minutes after he finished speaking at the white house, when syria's army began shelling rebel-held suburbs here in damascus after a day of quiet. after that came the mocking. one newspaper headline saying, "the american retreat starts here." the deputy prime minister saying obama's delay was "laughable." and today, i spoke to syria's deputy foreign minister, who said he wasn't surprised by obama's decision because he said obama and the administration are lost. they don't know what they are going to do. and he said he hopes the wise people in the u.s. congress would do what the mps in britain's house of commons have done and vote against military action. if they voted for it, he said, syria's army is absolutely ready. but to the opposition here and the rebels, this feels like a betrayal. one leader of syria's national council said obama was a weak president and a rebel here in damascus said only one person was smiling at the end of this week, and that was president assad. certainly, he will feel emboldened as the british have pulled back, the americans have delayed. he wi

obama. if you stumble back into a diplomatic solution that's great. if by some chance russia and putin have been playing a shellma the chance not to go to congress, make the strike, send a message to syria and send a message to putin which americans would be behind. >> i think you're potentially right, donny. there's no question there's a best case scenario here which involves some sort of deal to get the weapons out of there and if the russians are real partners on that then yeah an unexpected opening that russia actually paved the way for. so fine even if he's messing around with america's image and with president obama. but, yeah, the other question is a little bit more problematic. let's say the administration sets some deadlines, your get more support from the international community but not the support from russia does the president still decide to strike? again, i agree with you. i think there's the potential for the american public to say well look, you know, the president gave it a good try here to try to work all the avenues here and then decided to take action. he would be in a better position to ask

shelling in damascus. the idea of even the united states dalying while obama's in moscow an a useless g-20 mission is simplyble. and every turn the president has shown i think steve indicated, he doesn't want to get inof voed. okay. if that's the case, he shouldn't have drawn a red line. shouldn't have had made that speech. he shouldn't have leaked all the details of this account. he shouldn't have launched or ships into the med trainer. all of these and then says, you know we'll have a debate and we'll see later. in the region, this is astonishing and demoralizing to anybody on the american side >> i think senator cruz spoke an, charles, vital american interests. that that's got to be the heart of the case. so he's got to lay out vital american interests, and make that case to the american people, and i think this is an opportunity to do so. i mean, when you think about it, truman went in to korea. he didn't have any authorization. most of vietnam was done without authorization. the gulf of tonkin resolution actually written in the johnson white house and then sent to congress. that was rubber stamped. loo

shell. >> matt has testified in the is that the. his work on mental health care policy has been recognized by president obama, but he still answers one cry for help at that time. >> i talk to people, in really challenging deep depression and promise them they will get better. >> the man who has saved himself by helping others in big sky country. helena, montana. >> that will do it for this edition of aljazeera news. i'm morgan radford.

shelling. has a new phone that costs only $99. will consumers be buying? welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. president obama will address the american public on the situation in syria in a few hours time. his speech is bound to have gone through some rewrites. the russian proposal to put chemical weapons under international control could stall action but there are can confusing signals about how far that plan can go. our north american editor starts her coverage. and off the hook, at least for a while. president obama went to congress to persuade some very reluctant politicians to back an attack on syria. the vote and the action are on hold. face with a humiliation, it is little wonder that he seized on the proposal with both hands. >> i want to make sure that the norm against chemical weapon use is maintained. if we can't do that without a military strike, that is my preference. >> the international diplomacy went into overdrive. in paris, they wanted a threat of action. in london, the prime minister threw his weight behind it. .> this is a serious offer we should treat it accordingly. of course we should

shelling. but they resumed those attacks on rebel areas right after president obama announced his decision to getne. ten of them children. >>> the u.s. military had its finger on the trigger and an attack on syria appeared imminent. now, any strike will wait. >> let's talk about our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, does this wait hinder the u.s. military in any way? does it perhaps help the syrian regime, which sees what the president has done as sort of blinking? >> reporter: well, let's go to the syrian regime first, brianna and victor. a senior administration official tells me that they have intelligence, he won't specify what it is, that the syrian regime forces are now in a so-called defensive crouch, that they've dispersed, they're trying to avoid any u.s. attack. i would think the videos we're seeing coming out of syria suggests that that may not fully be the case in all instances. syrian forces still quite capable of by all accounts of attacking their own people. so the syrian forces not yet blinking really. on the u.s. side, the question is can the u.s. military wait this o

afterwards raising questions over whether obama has lost his appetite for what made a lot of support balls at. a un report and don's ba'ath regime forces and rebels for shellingunder massacring civilians coming out with speaks of those making a pilgrimage to syria to join the great jihad. and also the embassy to see other crew from the international space station success when it comes to an end as they so use cops to lines in the concepts that. china looks to brighten its economic stock saying it won't stick to.

obama has lost his appetite for me to support balls at. a u.n. report to don's ba'ath regime forces and rebels for shelling and not securing civilians coming out with speaks of those making a pilgrimage to syria to join the great jihad. also the odyssey of a crew from the international space station successfully comes to an end as they say cops your lungs in the concept that. china looks to brighten its economic start saying it wants to turn the yuan into a fully fledged alternative to the dollar and you are. russia on the wrong the wall this is our she with me. hello and welcome to the program it looks like president obama is stunning things down after weeks of bombastic statements and threats that the syrian government deserves a u.s. strike in an address to his nation which according to recent polls against america getting involved into a brand new war has agreed to give way to diplomacy fast. chicken reports now from washington. we saw president obama engaged in verbal acrobatics with the message that many americans will find very confusing he was forcefully pushing the idea that strikes against syria

obama has lost his appetite for war. support both at home and abroad. at a u.n. report both regime forces and rebels for a shelling. civilians are coming up on the program here on. making a pilgrimage to syria to join the great. crew from the international space station successfully coming to an end as the soyuz capsule lands on the steps of. its economic.

obama takes u.s. military acti of the table. validation for them that the president's threats have resonated. except assad has continued shellingebel areas leading some experts to believe that he will stay in power with putin pulling the strings. >> putin has told assad that he will not use google weapons again whether the u.n. steps in or not, and secondly if he follows his instructions from his master's you will win the war anyway with conventional weapons. >> foreign policy magazine is reporting tonight that the russian newspaper has actually said they're going to let senator john mccain write a column blasting putin, sort of a rebuttal to the new york times op-ed that blasted the american president, one official chuckling at that meet -- might be something tt actually agree with mccain not. lou: that is quite something. appreciated. well, russian president putin was meeting with the new president, our president spent the day meeting with the emir. vice-president joe biden and the labor leaders from the afl-cio and other organizations. president putin trying to, well, do a little business in his meetings here. president obam

shelled out $700 billion to save the big banks. today marks five years since the federal reserve had the bailout loan to aig, an insurance company, and president obamabserve the anniversary while speaking to the american people. even he had to it knowledge there is an economic and the quality gap. >> even though our businesses are creating new jobs and have brokered record profits, the top one percent of americans took home 20% of the nation's income while the average worker is not seeing a raise at all. >> we are here to talk about some of the lessons learned and why that cap persists, an associate professor at the university of missouri, kansas city, also the author of "the best way to rob a bank used to own one." thank you for joining me. you are a white-collar criminologist. what is the mindset on wall street that created this crisis in the first place? >> making money. the key thing about accounting control fraud is, in the words of the nobel prize winner in economics, it is a sure thing. you're mathematically guaranteed to report record profits. they are fictional, but you will report record profits in the near-term with modern executive compe

shelling. opposition forces with guns, fighting back against the regime, that less that two weeks ago, carry out what the obama administration calls a weapons attack on its own people, killing 1400 people, hundreds of them children. they have called for briefings every day this week, but members of congress, and in a few minutes, we'll hear from a congressman who was in one of those briefings today. the president also met with john mccain and lindsey graham. the senator said they're encouraged by the president's approach but they still have significant concerns. >> the key selling point that must be sold to the americans over and over is no american boots on the ground. they are tired and weary. you also have to show them a way forward. and that so far has not been articulated to the congress or the american people. >> we don't want endless war. john knows better than anybody, war is a terrible thing. we want sustainable security. syria is a cancer that's growing in the region. for two years the president has allowed this to become a debacle. >> congress is scheduled to return one week from today, which is the

is this, it seems to have given mcconnell obama clinton's good friend a lead of about five points. will that hold when the tough conservatives shell find it ironic that terry mcauliffe, who made a living and fortune by hustling donors is accusing cuccinelli of anything. this guy is a self-described hustler. he promised all these jobs with green tech to come to virginia. not one have materialized. just google fast terry and find out anything you need to know about terry mcauliffe. he's a political hack. >> now, name calling. cuccinelli wants a woman not to be able to get a divorce in virginia unless her husband gives her approval. >> in that poll we just released yesterday, mcauliffe has a five-point advantage. who's going make virginia a better place to live, who's going to improve the economy. cuccinelli waited until after donald gave back the money. >> i think it's going to be close as hell. good to know where you stand. >> he'll detroit virginia. >> okay, thank you for that. that is so ludicrous and such a hail mary, like all hail marys, it was in the recession. you can say what you want, but i think you're going to eat those w

shells from a gun store in virginia. original reports suggested he used an assault rifle in the shooting, but now law enforce the girls sif i reca the physicians say he only had a handgun. president obama and defense secretary chuck hagel are calling for separate reviews of security standards at government and military facilities worldwide. >>> now let's go to colorado. the scope of the damage this morning obviously still really difficult situation. as i said, the rain has stopped and the number of people that they're still looking for is down to about 600, but a lot of areas remain under water and some residents returning home to find that there is no home left. many others are waiting for the green light to just go back. linda tarr's home was just rebuilt after a forest fire. she was forced to evacuate when the torrential rains started. >> washed out the road all the way down. and i was six miles up that canyon. so how long can it take, you know, to repair that road. >> there's been story after story after story of people that just struggled to get here and then just almost that collapse of that i'm safe. that it's going to be okay and it won't wash away. >> a third of jamestown, col

shelling of civilian neighborhoods. second of state kerry will leave to meet with his russian counterpart in geneva, switser lands. following president obama's address to the nation last night, harsh reaction today from key republican senators, including the second highest ranking republican in the senate, john cornyn and john mccain who has been backing the president. >> making an argument for action while we're in a quote, pause while we wait for john kerry to negotiate with the people who are supplying beginning yesterday, they began again, weapons to bashar al assad and i was very disappointed that the president did not mention the free syrian army and our moral and material assistance that is required. they do feel they are being abandoned. >> it will be harder to maintain our global military dominance if we waste precious resources. our credibility and political capital on hasty misguided unbelievably small interventions. >> i cannot support an operation that is so poorly conceived and foolishly telegraphed and virtually guaranteed to fail. >> joining me live, karen bass of california, congresswoman, thank you for your time. as i under

shell. >> reporter: he turned pain into action and testified in the senate, his work on mental healthcare policy is recognized by president obamawers one cry for help at a time. >> i've talked to people and really challenging deep straights of depression and i promised them that it will get better. >> reporter: the soft-spoken man who saved himself by helping others in big sky country, paul with al jazeera helena, montana. >> reporter: the collapse of the investment giants lehman brothers is a shocking landmarks of the global economic crisis and it began with a sub prime mortgage crisis in the u.s. for loans were packaged into instruments by banks and traded. and the bubble burst and millions of mortgages defaulted and that had an effect on the bank and several major institutions collapsed in september 2008. including lehman and merrill lynch and fannie mae and freddie mac and spent $10 trillion dollars and $3,000 for every person on the planet. and lack of credit and government debt and unemployment. and where are we now? for more of the impact of the crisis we are joined from london from information handling service and a res

obama takes u.s. military action off the table. validation for them the president's threats have resonated. except assad has continued shelling rebel areas, leading some experts to believe assad will stay in power with putin pulling the strings. >> putin has told assad that, number one, he's not going to use chemical weapons again. whether the u.n. steps in or not. secondly, if he follows his instructions from this masters in moscow, he's going to win the war anyway with conventional weapons. >> reporter: now, breaking tonight, "foreign policy" magazine says a russian paper agreed to let senator john mccain write a column attacking putin, a rebuttal to the infamous "the new york times" top piece. one official chuckling saying that's something they might agree with mccain on. >> ed henry live on the north lawn. thank you. >>> secretary of state john kerry is carrying the ball for the administration, negotiating with his russian counterpart and other diplomats in geneva. chief washington correspondent james rosen is traveling with the secretary. >> reporter: after meeting with u.s. envoy brohimi, secretary of state john kerry m

agreed to back president obama's plan to attack in syria rebels attacked a regime held christian village. it started as a homicide attack. they commandeered a hotel and shelled the community below. no word on civilian casualties. >> 17-year-old louise alonzo alfaro is in police custody. he's being charged with murder after a fight and stabbing death of a fellow student. a number of students were involved in some type of altercation that police suspect may be gang related. parents are scared to send their kids back to school. >> too bad something like this happens at a place like this. >> i feel unsafe for my son. >> the three stabbing survivors have been treated and released from the hospital. >> a prison system is investigating how convicted kidnaper ariel cast though managed to hang himself with a bed sheet while in custody. they they can every 30 minutes. one review will lack at the suicide itself the other whether he received proper medical and mental healthcare. he was a month into his laf sentence for holding three women captive in his home for a decade. >> a dream vacation turns into a real tragedy. an american doctor, you can see him right there, was

shelling near the syrian border killing at least 16 people this morning. the violence comes as john kerry secures conditional backing from our european allies to back president obama's proposed military action against the assad regime. we are in beirut, lebanon with the latest. gregg? >> reporter: we are 40 miles away. folks here are watching more closely than many. the wranglings around the possible u.s. military strike against syria. secretary of state kerry was in europe and met with all the european union foreign ministers in lithuania. they gave him a backing to a certain extent. they issue add clear, strong response of the chemical attack from the citizens last month. they also urge the u.s. to hold off until u.n. chemical weapons inspectors file the report that might come in a week or so. he then went to paris. france has been, of all the european nations the most supportive of the united states in the run off to a possible military attack. in syria, we are getting word from sources on the ground government forces continue to pound rebel positions in a town north of damascus. it's a predominantly christian town. al qaeda linked rebels are doing battle with fo

shell companies, you can't go after them. they have zero assets, other than the patent. so it's difficult to countersue them and collect damages. it's kind of rare when president obama and i agree, but we definitely agree on this point. it has to be done. >> it's a tough point that hasn't gotten much attention, and we thank you for joining us. up next, we'll take a data dive into the taller and short of men's height. why are european men shooting up in stature and how are americans comparing. and what's it saying about your dating life? >> on today's data dive, european men are growing in stature. the average european man is 4 inches taller than he was. men born between 1870 and 1980 in 15 european countries. the bigger height is a wild variety of causes. fewer illnesses, better sanitary conditions, and services. the tallest, dutch men, and the shortest. portuguese, 5-8. average men in america are 5-9, 195 pounds, and women are 5-4, 166 pounds. it seems we're getting bigger in height and weight. but how big a factor is height in relationships? a 2012 study from the netherlands, the tallest country, looked at 50,000 men and women. average is 5-3 for a female, and 5-9

obama is deeply committed to a negotiated solution with respect to syria. and we know that russia is likewise. >> meanwhile rebel forces report new shelling in the suburbs of damascus. one resident telling reuters it seems that the government is back to its old routine. new york congressman gregory meeks is a democrat on the house foreign affairs committee and joins me here in studio. sir, it's great to have you here, and let's get right into this. we talk about russia and it being an honest broker, using vladimir putin and seeing that op-ed in "the new york times," how confident are you in trusting vladimir putin to successfully oversee the operation, to take out and successfully remove the chemical weapons syria now admits to having? >> i like what i'm hearing. i like what secretary kerry is saying. you know, negotiations, especially when you're trying to do something -- have a negotiated peace, it's difficult. it's hard. the secretary has been clear he's going to make sure there is no stalling done, but he sounds more hopeful also. the fact that talks are continuing, that's a very positive development in my estimation. >> meanwhile we're seeing these re

obama not striking before getting u.s. congressional approval? >> reporter: the first reaction from here came, i'd say, about two minutes after he finished speaking at the white house, when syria's army began shelling rebel held districts in damascus after day of calm. after that came the mocking-in newspaper headlines one saying the american retreat starts here. the ministers and diplomats weighed in, the ambassador to the united nations saying obama and cameron had climbed the tree but didn't know how to get down. the deputy prime minister saying obama's delay was laughable. today, i spoke to another one of assad's men, the deputy minister said he wasn't surprised by obama's administration and said obama and the administration are lost and don't know what they will do. he said he hopes the wise people in congress would do what the mps and house commons did and vote against military action. if it came, syria's army was ready, absolutely. >> bill, thanks so much from damascus. we'll check back with you later on. >>> meanwhile the weapons inspectors are briefing the u.n. and ban ki-moon is asking to hold off on military action. so far no call for military strike. so what is the timetable for any tal

shell to let the american people know where he stands on the issue. in doing so, mcconnell became the only leader in congress to say that he will oppose president obama'sia. mcconnell is up for re-election next year. and he's desperate for better poll numbers. mcconnell knows the american people are against a strike in syria. so he did what any desperate republican would do, he gave a speech slamming the president of the united states. >> it is long past time the president drops the pose of the reluctant warrior and lead. you can't build an effective foreign policy on the vilification of your predecessor alone. at some point, you have to take responsibility for your own actions and see the world the way it is. not the way you would like it to be. if you wish to engage countries that have been hostile, so be it. but be a realist. know the limits of rhetoric and prepare for the worst. >> the only republican using these events to criticize the president in order to build political capital with their base. fellow kentucky senator rand paul announced he will deliver a video response to president obama's address tonight. live streamed on his youtube page. pa

shelling. opposition forces with guns, fighting back against the regime, that less that two weeks ago, carry out what the obamaon its own people, killing 1400 people, hundreds of them children. administration officials have classified briefings every day this week with members of congress and in a few minutes, we'll hear from a congressman who was in on one of the briefings today. the president also met with john mccain and lindsey graham. the senator said they're encouraged by the president's approach but they still have significant concerns. >> the key selling point that must be told to the americans over and over is no american boots on the ground. they are tired and weary. you have to tell them no american boots on the ground. you also have to show them a way forward. and that so far has not been articulated to the congress or the american people. >> we don't want endless war. john knows better than anybody, war is a terrible thing. we want sustainable security. syria is a cancer that's growing in the region. for two years the president has allowed this to become a debacle. >> congress is scheduled to retu

shelling by assad's forces. this after syria's president mocked the white house for what it called america's retreat. correspondent bill neely is on the ground in damascus. >> reporter: the first reaction here to president obama'sion came two minutes after he finished speaking at the white house when syria's army began shelling rebel-held suburbs in damascus after a day of quiet. after that came the mocking. one newspaper headline saying the american retreat started here. the deputy prime minister saying obama's delay was laughable. and today i spoke to syria's deputy foreign policy fazal mechdad who said he isn't surprised and he hopes the white house people in the u.s. congress will do what the mps in britain's house of congress had done and vote against military action. if they vote for, he said, syria's army is absolutely ready. for the rebels, this feels like a betrayal. one leader of syria's national council said obama was a weak president. and a rebel leader in damascus said only one person was smiling and that was president assad. certainly he will feel emboldened. the british have pulled back. the americans have delayed. he will feel he's weakened his enemies. so president assad is undeterred and defia

shelled the affected areas to destroy critical evidence. so only after pursuing a wide range of nonmilitary measures to prevent and halt chemical weapons use, did president obama conclude that a limited military strike is the right way to deter assad from continuing to employ chemical weapons like any conventional weapon of war. the fact is, president obama has consistently demonstrated his commitment to multilateral diplomacy. he would much prefer the backing of the united nations security council to uphold the international ban against the use of chemical weapons, whether in the form of sanctions, accountability, or authorizing the use of force. but let's be realistic, it's just not going to happen now. believe me, i know. i was there for all of those un debates and negotiations on syria. i lived it. and it was shameful. three times the security council took up resolutions to condemn lesser violence by the syrian rejeechlt f -- regime. three times we negotiated for weeks on the most watered down language imaginable. and three times russia and china double vetoed almost meaningless resolutions. similarly, in the past two months, russia has blocked two resolut

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shell oil company. we will also be joined by producers of the documentary " american-made movie." >> john mccain and lindsey graham met with president obamaasked the white house on monday afternoon to discuss syria. after were these book with reporters for little less than half an hour. -- afterwards they spoke with reporters for little less than half an hour. >> good afternoon. a very good and of syria. discussion we emphasized to the president that has now it's been over a year since the president said it would be a game changer if chemical weapons were used. it has been two years since the president said assad must leave. we will emphasize the importance we place to actions that would degrade assad's capabilities, upgrade the opposition, and to change the momentum on the ground in order that the free syrian army can prevail over time. that does not mean we support boots on the ground. now it is an unfair fight with the thousands of hezbollah fighters who have weapons coming in from russia and iran, and iran basically being a sponsor of bashar al-assad. so we had a productive conversation. both senator graham and i are in agreement, tha