syria including the jihad this the money the media warfare on syria that the saudis will probably be able to achieve their goals so now they have to resort to military force to save their position in the middle east they know that if syria. succeeds in surviving. having this war against it from all fronts syria will only be a nucleus to a snowball that will stop probably growing towards other areas in the world it will start redrawing the map of the new world order the americans now are probably very concerned about such sonora and they want to stop it by force by hysteria by any means that are available to them though michael would like to expand upon that this is a very interesting point the americans are just losing their grip on the region and they have to show who's boss excellent analysis by dr abdullah i mean we think we can cleanly go in remove the bad guy and somehow the country is going to be better off but we see iraq's current violence as illustrative of how impossible that is and how dilatory is our approach is we're certainly see that in afghanistan we're seeing that in libya we thought we could support a very clearly defined with clean parameters rebel group in libya and that we funnel arms in and money t

syria. syria's response to the threat of foreign military intervention is one of the finest. the international community needs to find another reason. >> we are all hearing the drums of war around us. if they want to launch a war on syria, i think the pretext of chemical weapon is fragile. it is a false pretext. >> i totally deny that we used chemical weapons and those who claim to be in position of evidence i challenge them to layout before the eyes of the public opinion. >> intervention would only benefit al-qaida and israel. >> if a military strike is hallelujahed it woul--it would e to benefit israel's benefit. >> if they think that the military strike being planned will undermine our military operations, i assure you it will not affect them at all. >> reporter: the military attack last week has shocked the world. western leaders have accused the syrian government of using chemical weapons. now the u.k. france and other countries are talking about a military action away from the u.n. security council. but russia has warned against any military intervention in syria saying such step would have catastrophic consequences. president vladimir putin said there is no evidence yet that the syrian regime used chemical weapo

syria has postponed it's chemical weapons investigation due to safety concerns. meanwhile, syrian government said syria will defend itself. >> we all hear the drums of war being beaten around us. if these countries are willing to launch an aggression or military action against syria i believe the pretext of chemical weapons is false, basil base led groundless. i dare them to produce any piece of evidence. >> we go to lebanon, the capitol of beirut. what are you hearing that some type of military action could happen very, very soon. >> reporter: well, there are two schools of thought on that, at least on the streets of lebanon. one, there could be an attack within a 48 hour period or 48 hours from now if not tomorrow, then the following day. they do not believe there will be a striked launched on friday, the day of prayer. the big concern is people are waiting to see if the u.n. inspectors come back with more information as they continue their research on the ground and in the hospitals in syria. they ask over an over again as they look for proof if someone can point a finger at the actual regime saying they're responsible for the attack "p" even though it's not their mandate to determine that, but they'll come out with enough information that perhaps they will be

syria with iran with the resistance. group or league let's say in the middle east is really prevailing and they realize that if syria if syria doesn't fall as they planned it it will back backlash on them. and read the american leverage in the area will start to shake we've seen that happening in several areas in several countries in the middle east where they've lost they they they lost their leverage clearly they at the start employed in the and the syrian conflict the the qatari is that didn't perform well the americans were unable and a bit of confusion then the saudis put a bed to lead then they said they are fine why not as long as you can get us out of out of the syrian crisis and now they are not convinced that even the saudis with with all of what their full measures that they're deploying to syria including the jihad this the money the media warfare on syria that the saudis will probably be able to achieve their goals so now they have to resort to military force to save their position in the middle east they know that if syria. succeeds in surviving. having this war against it from all fronts syria will only be a n

syria is spilling across its western border. janine, is this a direct result of what is going on in syria? >> syria is in flames. and lebanon is there, so close. it is an hour-and-a-half drive between the root and damascus. also lebanon has a long runni ng history of being terrified of being plednto civ war becae th endured s much. there is a refugee crisis. all of this destabilizes the region and it does not help the exterior is basically divided along the lines of being supported by shias and sunnis in a proxy war. there is no way you can isolate anything that is happening in lebanon now and say it has nothing to do with what is going on in syria. >> lebanon's civil war ended 20 years ago. is there aisk that this could bring it back again? >> the problem is -- obviously, it has a loto do with the situation in syria. and rising evidence that the solution of the civil war in syria is a very long way away, because at one stage everybody was morer lessopin everyonen t west wasoping th theebels would win on the ground. if you see what the rebels are doing and lebanon, maybe not so sure you want them to win on the gr

syria whatever the syrian choose. to have should have we should not be putting our heads and arms inside syria syria should solve its problems on its own look we we we should say to every country in the world they should everybody should choose their own country their own government their own solutions nobody should put his leg inside other people's problems but unfortunately it seems like in case of syria they really don't have much say in what happens to them i mean about syrian people and that's that says a lot about both sides it says a lot about the opposition and it says a lot about the government. so i would i wouldn't be choosing either of them actually to be. the spokesman of the syrian people and what about lebanon when you talk it's a global thing what's going to happen in lebanon because people always talk about lebanon and how beautiful. it was back in the seventy's and that's also under threat of extinction right now especially with syria. have you know lebanon has been the field for everybody since a long time for the palestinians for this is that i.e. it is for the sea it is. for every single war everybody fi

syria. world leaders from the u.n. and beyond are trying to put the brakes on any sort of u.s. intervention. the latest on the tensions of syria -- in syria -- in syria i had. the bank bailout was rolled out in response to the spiral. at least one banker spent his cash on a new condo in florida. more on this muse of -- misuse of taxpayer money coming up. facebook continues to amass more users, but is the tech site protecting your privacy? we take you that later in today's show. -- tell you that later in today's wash -- today's show. it is thursday, august 29. 5:00 p.m. in washington, d.c. you're watching rt. we start with the crisis in syria as the united states and its allies away options for military intervention after the chemical attack last week in damascus. despite denials from the syrian regime, the white house has said it is undeniable president bashar al-assad is behind the attacks, setting the stage for an international brawl. president hassan rouhani of iran said he will press forward with attempts to ward off military action by western nations against president bashar al- assad. he was quoted as saying that military action wil

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seen him as we've been floating downstream. just wondering. only a little bit too far out of his territory because i'm game at. both you often. it seemed my technique was a little off if i wasn't going to go hungry i was going to have to get a professional involved. alexander has lived in mandurah b. for years and knows this river and its fish like the back of his hand. now we're heading straight to the sphere of river it goes from lake on a got to lake a lot. of. this river can be up to fifteen meters deep in places. this is the lower island quite often people stop there to rest most of them are fisherman this is a special weighted feeder so let's put some fish food inside it. gets. you have worms in england yeah we've got them so you guys fish using worms we have the right bait now we just needed some luck and off we put a few more worms on the hook. if you've hooked a fish it will fight back so if the tip starts to bend it's time to reel him in not so much that it will pick up a bit 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all up i keep it all inside. the classic northern peasant. is a pretty and. most open sponge. there's a bunch of these. now normally at this point you dump a bucket of water of yourself but here in mundra he does a far better option. that. is the perfect way to cool off. but scrubbed up and my food was almost ready it was time to let the guests in and they brought an appetite. among the might not be a typical holiday spot but it was just what i needed. quiet and a chance to experience how russians might have lived almost two hundred years ago. it's a little it deal in a busy world a slice of life from the nineteenth century that at least for a while can help you forget the twenty first so you see the present life can be difficult but if you make the right friends it can also be rather delicious. the. economic ups and downs in the final months they belong to the old sang night and the rest of the life they meet a female being every week come up a. little bit. cold cold. blood. goodspeed. her. wish. oh. mummy. mummy. mummy. mummy. come out of my mind i'm a little. but he sees things that scientists people don't notice. he's deaf. but he hears things most people never to call him disabled but he's the world's first deaf and blind doctor of science. professor i think rather savor of. the great life lived against the odds. russia says the alleged chemical attack need to mask is says aimed at disrupting peace efforts and that any military intervention triggered solely by unconfirmed claims would violate international law. meanwhile the u.s. and its allies gear up for a possible strike on syria despite the u.n. inspectors still working to establish whether a chemical attack has taken place. other top stories like the scandal around the american surveillance leaks gains new momentum threatening to influence of temper's german election while fresh revelations claimed the n.s.a. even tapped into the un's headquarters. and from triumph to despair we look at how libya 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syria and slaughtering women women men and children that's completely under corroborated it's all about machinery geostrategic objectively the ambition is to simply not sure like western political dominance in the middle east syria syria this is the one hundred million in this country which will not which will not bow to the west syria will not bow to the west that's why it's been said it is syria they can as soon as it's required now one big round will be next it's not ridiculous it's not worth it unless you you and the way this is completely ridiculous let me just say let me get a word in edgeways please it's time to get a word on injuries legitimately look here it's time to protest i think it's important to point out that libya i think that emerging markets you have made your point let's certainly have its work police. yes thank you i think anyone can in fact there are lots of videos which have been uploaded by syrian doctors as well as it hospitals there was a video published by i.t.v. news the other day which showed clear examples of kids talking while they were suffering from an attack of a chemical weapon i mean this idea you had that your this gentleman is saying that there's not this is a lie about that one o

syria, syria will respond. we don't know what that means or what extend. fighting on the ground from the syrian forces and rebel forces would almost certainly pick up again immediately following those strikes. a lot of the people here in lebanon and all over the region saying they don't know if those strikes will have a powerful impact on what's happened over the last two and a half years in syrian terms of the civil war. they simply have to wait and see, and just try to determine how much fire power is thrown at the syrians if that's what develops, but everybody is expecting it over the next few days. >> you mentioned the fire power, but early this morning, the syrian foreign minister told secretary kerry that the syrian government was absolutely not obstructing the work of the u.n. so why do their investigations keep getting delay said and are they really ever going to be able to just do their job? >> well probably not. this is a situation where people are in disbelief, do not believe what comes from the syrian regime. they don't believe the foreign minister saying they are not obstructing the u.n. inspectors. they have blamed that on the rebels. it could be that there is problem within the rebel camp. it's only a one day delay, but the feeling is that the syrian are trying to buy time, even if it is just one day, so that they can arrange themselves militarily, basically amou

syria tonight. and to a message from the white house, intended for the presidentle of syria. the white house saying there is very little doubt that it was the syrian regime that used chemical weapons against its own people in recent days. and tonight, more of those images of the aftermath, believed to be the single deadliest attack in syria. syria says it will allow inspectors, but the white house saying that time has passed. and so tonighere, will america act? what are the options? and if so, how soon? abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz reports from the region again tonight. martha? >> reporter: david, it appears tonight that the u.s. is closer to taking military action in syria than ever before, with strong words from u.s. officials today and warships at the ready. navy destroyers and submarines now in the mediterranean sea could launch cruise missiles into syria whenever ordered, targeting syrian regime command and control heldquarters, airfields or aircraft that might be used to carry chemical weapons. another option -- u.s. fighter jets launching weapons from outside syrian air space. >> the syrians have created this sanctuary, where their surface to air missiles. >> reporter: images of the suspected chemical attack have outraged the world. men, women and children killed in the most or the riffi

syria but it is important to go to noted that the head of the u.n. the u.n. investigative mission which has just landed in syria on wednesday has already called these are statements coming from a weak opposition highly suspicious as well as isabella other people who have been following the events in syria over the past several several years but you shouldn't . and i'm going to moscow thanks very much indeed for that update. allegations of this attack came shortly after u.n. inspectors arrived in syria as arena was saying to look at earlier claims of chemical weapons used by both sides ortiz correspondent in the region paul asli it takes a detailed look at current and previous accusations. media reports are citing the syrian revolutionary command council which says that government forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad were flying over the area after the bombardment using chemical agent now this is a test happened in the rebel held area of eastern damascus in a place called eastern ghouta the area has witnessed heavy fighting between opposition fighters and the army what we are hearing is reports that the norse are a front which are fighters that are affiliated with al qaida also operating there now some reports do suggest that more than a thousand people were killed in this

imminent attack on syria. >> syrian oil output is not much of a factor, as more than 30 countries produce more oil. syria's production has artie fallen to less than 15% of what it was. syria's oil output has dropped to 50,000 barrels a day from 350,000 barrels a day when civil unrest first began two years ago. it is the spillover effects. traders are concerned any strike on syria may distress other parts of the middle east and threaten exports from a region that produces over 35% of the world's oil. saudi arabia, the largest supplier of oil in opec, has backed opponents a serious president -- syrian president bashar al-assad. iran supports assad. >> if they start to affect iraq 's main crude exports, that is $2 billion a day potentially at risk. that is my big concern. i think an attack on syria is likely. not possible, it is probable. iraq is a wildcard, particularly the south. that would be my top worry. >> experts say oil markets have already begun to price the risk of military action as a u.s. strike inches closer to the middle east. >> we are taking a quick break here. coming up, brazil's central-bank fights for him... -- fights for another interest rate increase. deta

syria, after the government unexpectedly lost a parliamentary vote on the issue, and france prepares to wait for result of u.n. investigation in syria, which are due saturday, our secretary of defense, chuck hagel, saying if u.s. moves forward it will be with allied support. >> we garding syria -- regarding syria, we continue to consult with our allies, as i think has been made clear by president obama, and i have said it on a number of occasions, if any action would be taken against syria, it wou be an international collaboration. lori: it is clear that the obama administration will not be acting in concert with united nations, blaming the russians for obstructing movement within the security council, but president discussed situation with house speaker john boehner today, it remains to be seen if the to the will ask congress for approval before ordering a military strike, ed henry with this report. >> reporter: syrian president assad remained defiant, denying his forces used chemical weapons, as u.s. military moved a fifth warship toward syria, and white house officials hit hard with questions about there are iraq, insisting they have an air tight case over last week's chemical attack. >> this is not appropiate for totalitarian dictate ores to eors to flauttthem with inpun

>> we are told what happens in syria stays in syria but it's moved into iro destabilize the government. >> paul: there is an al-qaeda cell. >> hundred prisoners escaped last week. us a pointed out one day it will hurt us. we are paying the price for not doing anything. >> paul: iraq was defeated in 2008. it's gaining strength because we are not there. what about the argument that this global alert about embassy says an overreaction. this is political response to the criticism the president got about the disaster when americans were killed in benghazi and this is really not as threatening as they say. this is mostly just frankly political self-protection? >> overreacting to terrorist threats is always the right thing to do. imagine if we had another consulate destroyed as the embassies in tanzania and kenya were destroyed in 1998. hundreds of dead. people would be demanding to know why we didn't take the next precautions to make sure especially if we felt we had intelligence that could have prevented this. so the idea we are overreacting to terrorism is an idea that seems persuasive. >>

how is syria different? >> syria, syrialways been the scariest for me and partially because the shelling is so intense. the army is trained by the russians and russians fight differently than we do. they are much more brutal by let's say their urban welfare, which is in die rekt tradition with world war ii. for example, when i was captive and, you know, it got much worse after that they should shell one specific area heavily and then the rebels were either destroyed, scattered and leave the area and then move in and that's how they closed in. and that's -- i mean, that's by itself a very scary perspective to be heavily shelled like this by government forces. >> you got out just two weeks ago. >> about two weeks ago, yeah. >> what is it like being back? life has gone on over the last 81 days for most people has been probably pretty average. >> the same. i feel distance, you know, those people that were close to me but i think it seems to be a normal reaction to things. you're right, you walk down the street and people have t

syria. now, that response worst day for stocks since june yesterday. carol, the dow was down more than 170 point. oil prices also jumped on expectations of a military strike in syria. syria, oil moving. not a major oil producer. international sanctions slowed the flow out of syria, but its location makes it so incredibly important for oil transport. it has neighbors, very powerful and important neighbors, particularly right here that many people don't want to see this particular, this particular crisis get any worse. oil prices at an 18-month high yesterday. above 1$109 a barrel. they are moving higher this morning. that means higher gas prices for you if this crisis persists. >> we'll check back. christine romans, thanks so much. >>> fires burning, homes destroyed and not getting any better at yosemite national park. that massive wildfire has burned 288 square miles and flames have reached the shore of a key reservoir for san francisco's water supply and the fire has now forced officials to shut down dosome generators that provide to the bay area. casey wians is outside yosemite national park. good morning, casey. >> good morning, carol. you can see this road behind me.

syria. >> we're talking about -- >> more time could mean more planning. >> more time means more planning, absolutely. >> not just for people of syria. your critics -- >> no, not just for people of syria. a limited strike wouldn't be enough. we have assets already in the region that are ready to go according to our generals. maybe more time is planning, bigger strike, more effective. >> on our end. this is something that if we had looked at this, either two years ago or a year ago, or if we look at it now, in a more kpe hencive way, meaning, let's get on the ground and find the leaders of the true syrian opposition, people who really want to make a change, and a longstanding change, a more meaningful change in syria. what will the strikes mean for the people of syria, again, thousands of people died by the use of chemical weapons that should not happen. it should not happen. at the same time, does it really -- >> should we really differentiate between the 100,000 that died and the 1,500 that died from chemical weapons, a humanitarian crisis is a humanitarian crisis. >> let me jump in, i want to play some sound for you to listen to. charles krathhammer always has something to say. >> t

led invasion of iraq which syria opposed, and syria turned a blind eye if not helping jihadists cross syriainto iraq to kill, you know, u.s. soldiers and allied soldiers, there's a reason why they did that, and they wanted it to fail, but as one syria official told me later on, he said, of course we were helping them cross. you know what? we wanted you guys it kill them. that's why we wanted them to go into iraq because we wanted you guys to kill these guys because we don't want them in our country, but get them out, shove them through. unfortunately, they kaled our forces too. in 2005, it was blame on syria by most of the international community, and the pressure just escalated exponentially after that against syria, and people were, you know, in late 2005, were, you know, counting the days for the assad regime. they were syria expatriots, organizations that were just waiting to move in. you know, syria, once assad fell, but he survived that, and i think that really created, in him, a sense of try triumph and survivalist that formed his view of the world. if instilled righteousness that he

syria. meanwhile president obama is considering charging ahead with a limited military strike on syria of its alleged use of chemical weapons despite growing reluctance from its allies. also emergency crews in russia he's worked around the clock trying to keep floodwaters that. residents. in a century takes a heavy toll on the infrastructure.

military action on syria. >> hands off syria! obama, hands off syria! dozens rallied outside the white house, right outside where the president was spending his entire day. in australia people gathered in sydney against military intervention in syria. and in london, where the uk parliament voted this week to not join the u.s. military in any proposed action. although prime minister david cameron did give his backing today to the president's statement that he made in the rose garden. the british prime minister said i understand and support barack obama's position on syria. >>> even in the face of the protests and the complaints from some people around the world, the president during his rose garden speech said that military action will be just as effective now, next week, or next month. meanwhile, the assad regime says it is ready for whatever the u.s. might give out. it is threatening israel, saying it could be a target for retaliation. i want to go now to the pentagon and our barbara starr. and, barbara, one of the key questions that people have been a

syria's foreign minister warns against any possible military strike saying quote, syria is not easy to swallow. the white house says there's little doubt that the chemical weapons were used on a massive scale there. white house spokesman jay carney says the syrian regime is responsible. this as defense secretary chuck hagel says the u.s. is quote, ready to go, if president obama orders attacks. his comments comes days after the u.s. moved warships armed with cruise missiles into the mediterranean sea. any strike could be completed in days. meanwhile in syria expe inspectors will not examine sites. they were turned back because of the security concerns. >>> i have a dream. >> tomorrow marks 50 years since the reverend martin luther king jr. shared his vision of racial harmony. king's march on washington drew more than 200,000 people to the national mall. jesse jackson was part of dr. king's inner circle. he was in the crowd that day. he was one of dr. king's advisors. he was just 21 years old at the time and was a student leader. he's become one of the country's foremost political figures. good to see you as always. >> good to see you. >> i want to talk about that moment that day back in 1963. what was it that stood out in your mind when you were among a sea of people. did you realize what you were on the precipice. >> so much black and white interaction that was prohibited across much of the south. from texas across to farther up to maryland, we couldn't use a single public toilet. we could not public facilities by law. racial apartheid w

syria. we have to be -- it's not going to be that effective. number two, what if syria strikes back? what if syriaoots at one of our shoots or one of our planes or tries to attack us in another way? are we prepared to get into that kind of acceleration of a conflict that i think the president has been very clear, very right that would not really position and shouldn't engage our military? and certainly, what assad is doing is terrible. but we're not in a military position to go in there and fix that. and i'm awful worried about us committing ourselves to something that might start us down a path to something we shouldn't start down. >> congressman, you were visiting the syria-jordan border there. who did you talk to? what did you see? what is taking place on the ground? were you on the syrian side? were you on the jordanian side? >> we were on the jordanian side, but only about ten or 15 feet from the syrian side. we were there with the military and government and getting their brief on their border security efforts. right across the border, you've got all of the syrian border check points. as you

strikes syria, is it possible that we simply shake the hornet's nest and syria's allies become emboldened by u.s. action and syria turns to iran for more financial and military support and u.s. allies being weakened, the possibility that syria will retaliate against israel? >> well, i think, suzanne, that was the reluctance all along by this administration, not to get involved in syria. i think right now syrian forces are pretty occupied with the civil war and going on in the country, but certainly iran could retaliate, not just against israel but u.s. gulf allies in the region and ties are very strained and also against u.s. citizens in the region. the u.s. calls iran one of the biggest state sponsors of terrorism, and i think there is also a concern that if there is more chaos in syria, the extremist groups will exploit this and use it as a safe haven for terrorism, and then there is a concern that there could draw the u.s. into a larger conflict israel and so when you say hornet's nest, i think that's exactly what it is which has been the reluctance all along. >> and there are those who say it is all about oil

to support of the government of syria and the people of syria and their will for i don't think that it is they have the stomach to put a ground force and the ground syria have a lot of friends and the syrian people it is united it is not in the way they have the expected this is a pretext for the invasion and they are planning out of frustration because the success of the syrian government have achieved on the ground and the unity of the syrian people have proved that it will lead off creating as you say as a pretext for invasion you say that this is a pretext for invasion by invading it won't be another iraq on false evidence of weapons of mass destruction was used as a pretax to your intervention to what extent do you agree with the u.s. is for the last sixty seventy years have lived in the deception it's where you've done a lot of world with the political stuff we have seen in the korean war in a different vision and these war in syria and so on one have to look only on the history of the u.s. for the last seven to case what they did and invading including granada which is a very small country there which it is a very dangerous for united states the

syria from every angle. syria along with other nations is on the verge after military strike. it is a response to the syrian government killing at least a thousasand of its own civilians with chemical weapons investment full coverage on the impact here at home and potentially crippling effects across the globes to the markets and economy. fox news's leland vittert. we have the founder and president of american islamic forum for democracy. jonathan hoenig, with us, hedge fund manage eper and fox news contributor. we have an oil analyst and "wall street journal's" james freeman on emerging markets. that is quite a group. get started on the ground in the middle east with leland vittert. he is in jerusalem with the latest information. what is the latest? >> reporter: war drums continue to beat louder and loer by the hour here in the middle east often before the real war, we have a warf words. that is exactly what is going on as the syrians are now saying that tel aviv of the major israeli citiesill burn if they are attacked and iranians who are the main backers of the syrians are also saying israel will pay a dear price if syria's attack by the united states. at this point you really have to look at syria's ability to counter strike, especially long-range missiles which they have a lot of, including scud missiles. they obviously have a chemical weapons capability that must be taken into account. they have antiship missiles that can be launched against many ships in the mediterranean sea and possibly the u.s. he fleet if it gets close enough and formidable air defense measures they have deployed and on ready alert in syria. around the middle east, militaries are on alert. turkish military is on alert. here in israel they have deployed patriot anti-aircraft and anti-missile system the aero anti-missile system and iron dome missile defense system. in addition, israel is calling members. air force reserve and members of the intelligence corps from the reserve forces getting ready in case they need to react. not quite panic on the streets of israel but certainly grave concerns as thousands of israelis are lining up

look this is what this is what you get if you cooperate on this russia part of their interest in syria syria has has the only port in the mideast in the gulf that russia uses they have a long term longstanding relationship but i agree with you larry what interest does russia have in arming al-qaeda linked terrorists with chemical weapons should assad fall at the same time what interest does russia have in having assad used chemical weapons that could only spur more resistance and as we know russia has its own problems with islamic jihad. let's go to some other areas then we'll show you last sunday ted cruz the new republican senator said he's not convinced that president obama wouldn't defund is own signature health care law is congress given the opportunity do you think obama would back away i think it's really amazing i think ted cruz is becoming a very entertaining colorful figure i wonder if the you know is about anything happening in texas i thought he was a senator representing texas he's been there for six months already running for president and the thing absurd things about presiden

syria syria has has the only port in the mideast in the gulf that russia uses they have a long term longstanding relationship but i agree with you larry what interest does russia have in arming al-qaeda linked terrorists with chemical weapons should assad fall at the same time what interest does russia have in having assad used chemical weapons that could only spur more resistance and as we know russia has its own problems with islamic jihad. let's go to some other areas then we'll show you last sunday ted cruz the new republican senator said he's not convinced that president obama wouldn't defund is own signature health care law it's congress gave him the opportunity to do so you think obama would back away i think it's really amazing i think ted cruz is becoming a very entertaining colorful figure i wonder of the you know is about anything happening in texas i thought he was a senator representing texas you've been there for six months already running for president and the thing absurd things about president obama president obama said about obamacare call it obamacare because i'm obama and i do care i think that he knows this is a part of his legacy and i think that he's committed to it i think it's unfortunate that you do have these republicans who say implementation is going to be this train wreck and then you look and they're sitting there with a little black hat on with dynamite next to the train tracks oh yeah maybe a train wreck if they wreck the train but i think obviously president obama is committed to this program and if ted cruz things otherwise he is less in touch with reality than people thought amy as is is your party going to shut down the government. at this point it looks like the republican leadership is not remotely interested in that kind of. face down but i do have to say that i find it ironic that supporters of the president are attacking a junior senator from raising his profile and running for president very early in his first term since that's exactly what we're going to white house. more than ironic but in terms of in terms of a government shutdown you know let's face it tom coburn very conservative republican from oklahoma richard burr another conservative from north carolina including house leadership john boehner and eric cantor have all said they oppose the government shutdown strategy they know what happened when newt gingrich went up against bill clinton and that's republicans got the blame and republicans are also looking at the possibility of pot you know slim but the possibility of taking over the united states senate having control of both chambers i don't think they want to blow it on something that in the end is not going to fund obamacare. now that mr snowden published kind of divided if you talk to a lot of people though say they admire what mr snowden did in the what the government did invading privacy is reprehensible on the other side people say well these are interesting times and they call for interesting actions where you stand then well you know i have some real sympathy for both snowden and also for chelsea manning you know these are tough times and you know all of us have been on a job where something shady was going on something was happening and we didn't think was right and then what do you do do you tell the boss to get you quit me to get fired and you've got a little young people all across this country on these contract and they're trying to figure out what to do i think the obama administration has to be faulted here for not creating a better pathway for whistleblowers it's more reliable and that is less treacherous you have seen whistleblowers actually being prosecuted by this administration and i think that part of what happens is if you don't create a legitimate pathway and the president has not for whistleblowers and you then you're going to have these kind of activities i think he should come the united states and face the music as any civil disobedience person supposed to but i have some sympathy for for him being in that situation and they were used in. i believe that bradley manning was a extremely dangerous irresponsible individual who indiscriminately downloaded over seven hundred thousand security files he did not redacted names of spies and folks who are we helping us on the ground in very dangerous parts of the world when he gave that information to julian assange and wiki leaks us in danger in those folks lives and basically the rest of us and i find it very strange that this young man would ask the american taxpayer taxpayer who security he has risks to pay for him for his next iteration of that's too i suppose become a woman that's who is referring to to chelsea in both the case of bradley manning and manning rather and ed snowden they did have options there are lawyers who do specialize in representing whistleblowers representing them to the government going through proper channels even going through congress and telling those you know national security secret committees what information that they have i'm sure ron wyden the democratic senator from oregon would have been very pleased to speak with edward snowden let's also remember that edward snowden there's evidence that he went to go work for as a contractor for the very express purpose of gaining access to these files so it wasn't like he was just i'm innocent twentysomething who stumbled upon some you know treasure trove of information that he wanted to get out to people it seemed that he was he was. well first of all that's a rumor that's going around there we don't know if that is true i also are really surprised me i would think that when you have government officials coming in before congress and lying as the van i agree with you james clapper saying that he told our sitting representatives united states senators that he gave the least untruthful answer that is outrageous but when we're talking about whistleblowers there were proper channels for them to go through and i you know i've read about lawyers who represent whistleblowers and they have different they take long before they go public with national security secrets let me just have been guys when they . jones was just a little lad he had his father used to watch crossfire crossfire used to leave in to me every night on c.n.n. i love that i disagreed when c.n.n. at that time took it off i'm happy they're bringing it back and have van jones will be part of it along with newt gingrich stephanie cutter c. and c. cup van what it will what do you make of this oh i mean it's amazing we're we were just talking about speaker gingrich and the lessons that people learned when he was running congress and you don't shut the government down it's that it's that he's a living legend. i went to law school al can we quote you on off what i say the living let. the let me let he one of the one of the few people in american politics he did what he said seventy nine things not take over congress and move it to the right he did it i graduated from law school in one thousand nine hundred three he took over ninety four and started tearing apart every program in value i hold dear i've been debating him in my mind for twenty years i cannot wait to do a live tell. that's that is going to be it's going to be a lot of fun as i said once to newt newt everyone is humble all will be. waiting for it to happen in the case of newt gingrich watch grosser i thank you both amy holmes and van jones for joining me today don't miss crossfire's debut it's on c.n.n. september sixteenth coming up next a great new book creating quite a top ten scandal in washington we'll talk to the author of this town modern leave of it when we come back. they were ready to do anything for their country to me is to love the country more than yourself if you joined the military for any other reason that you're probably not to have a good day and they were tools in the hands of the state now they live remembering the past which is impossible to get rid of. the war. but it however good people to get hurt. and i've heard good people empty silent. a lot. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because i. i saw some people who had died and. there is cheaper than tariff. on our. kids right to see. first street. and i would think you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. could be in the. on. the back as a new book about watching that portrays the town as a culture of money hungry lobbyists and shallow politicians and journal. joining me in d.c. is the new york times chief national correspondent mark leibovich he's the author of this town two parties and a funeral plus plenty of valet parking in america's gilded capital it's now out by penguin is a major runaway bestseller digits make that mark they just picked that book to take off not like it has i mean it's obviously it's been great i'm thrilled with the response i mean i think when you write a book like this i mean my my nature is to be neurotic and to worry about all that can go wrong in three hundred fifty pages so my initial concern was just the kind of storm it was going to incite and getting sued and so forth but now none of that's happened it's been it's been amazing so i'm i'm thrilled the publisher is thrilled and hopefully readers like a too. the formation the i did did you intend to kick it off with the tim russert funeral did that with the idea come from what had you planned the book before that well no i hadn't planned the book before i mean i had i knew in the back of my mind that washington i think had reached a tipping point where the sort of hollywood missed but the sort of carnival atmosphere and the kind of money culture of this town had really reached a tipping point that i wanted to really capture over a period of five or six years tim russert died in the prime of his life in two thousand and eight in june and i was a struck by how his memorial service at the kennedy center just became like a cocktail party us you had presidents there and former presidents there and all kinds of operatives there and just everyone was throwing business cards around and trying to work it and trying to replace him on meet the press and it just struck me as a moment that i wanted to capture and hopefully just sort of flesh it all out i having fun with what you're doing with lawmakers here they come to washington to make a difference they sell out to lobby is money becomes important you uses prime examples trent lott build thousand john breaux former house minority leader richard gephardt no one comes out really good yeah i mean there are there might be a few i mean look this is not a city that really should be feeling as good about itself as it does i mean there's there's great disappointment across the country for how congress for instance is leading how the two major parties are leading how the media is performing and and frankly i wanted to sort of really describe for people who these people are what this town looks like and frankly this is the wealthiest community in the united states now i mean the washington metropolitan areas home to seven of the ten wealthiest counties in the united states at a time when the rest of the country has struggled and look i am having fun in that i think the book is fun in that it describes a lot of pretty rich scenes and it includes a lot of bold faced names and stuff but there is a serious point here which is that washington and the capital of washing the cop. but all of the united states has been given over to self-service when the city was supposedly built on public service you have coburn is very friendly to obama since publication the book he's listed as one of those who might try for impeachment what do you make of that you know there's this weird duality in the coburn obama relationship now i mean tom coburn is a very i ideologically driven conservative he has been able to kind of separate his friendship with the president that that started when they're both in the senate together with his own political imperatives now you know that would actually i would think that if he went ahead with them based impeachment proceedings it might throw a wrench into their friendship a little bit but who knows i mean compartmentalization is a very powerful thing in d.c. . you take on former white house staffers and certainly take on lobbyists and how senator trent lott is an example senators become lobbyists. a lobbyist when i've interviewed them over the years always defended themselves as being very important because what they do is provide information to people they don't have to use the information they try to influence them as broadcasters try to influence presidents try that while a lot of the is bad lobbyists or bad first of all i think there are some good lobbyists i mean i think lobbying has gotten way out of control i mean these are it's basically a lot of people who are mercenaries who are doing the working for the highest bidder and there's never been more money in politics i mean there's never been more money flooding into lobbyists and consultants and public relations professionals trying to influence government in a way that does favor i mean the wealthy interests whether it's big corporations or trade groups or something and and you know the little guys don't tend to have the more powerful lobbyists so i mean you're right i mean blood being has been around for centuries and it was present in the eighteenth century when the government was founded but i think right now it has just gotten so out of control and you know you have a situation where fifty percent of all former u.s. senators go on to become lobbyists that compares to three percent back in one nine hundred seventy four so you sort of wonder when when people are in the senate who are they working for they're working for the people who elected them or they're working for their next gig so i think there are a lot of fundamental questions that are embedded and have you as a reporter and a great journalist for a great newspaper have you kind of lost friendships and contacts writing this book i don't think i have actually i mean i think look as a reporter you've got to tell the truth you also i mean you hold a mirror to a culture and i think you know on a very personal level when you're dealing with someone whether it's a source or a subject or someone that you're doing business with you've got to be straight with them and i think i fact checked all of this pretty rigorously people knew it was. they might not have liked the end result but i think ultimately a lot of the arguments i would have had a lot of the pushback i got was before publication and now i mean the response inside of him pretty muted and i think you know look everyone loves a winner people see that the bookselling it's been well reviewed so i guess they'll have a lunch again but ultimately i don't think i lost any real friends in this i'm trying to decide about your feelings about my former executive producer of my first executive producer with c.n.n. and was formerly with the radio tammy had and she's kind of a prototype of of what what what is what is attempts to a temple that is that is sort of her nickname tammy had that is this force of nature she was your exact producer for what two decades or something for radio and tell anyone tell it was about right and then she went on to work for chris matthews and hardball i mean tammy has just rivet reinvented herself in recent years as this all purpose convener of official washington and she's everywhere she's a she's a party host she does videos i mean she signs on to multi media companies and helps them get into the white house and help them help them you know meet people and that's look she is someone who has made the modern washington work for her i mean there have always been sort of socialites in washington but for the first time ever i mean i mean sally quinn and pamela harriman were not in it for the money i mean seven tammy's a very successful business woman i think she's an original i don't know if i'll be invited to her white house correspondents' dinner brunch in the future i doubt it i'm not holding my breath but you know maybe one day will be friends again i don't like to get personal but you make jerry seinfeld said that i originated twitter which was a compliment and you use a twitter is basically my old usa today column gone wild i think it is i think i don't mean that disparagingly at all and i think you're you all that your old usa today which is legendary in part because of saturday night live i think but but also you know it's just random thoughts and that's what twitter is it's people having the technology and the means to just sort of throw their random thoughts out there and i don't think people do it as compellingly as you did frankly so that's me sucking up to the host. what do you make what washington has become in in this era of terrible lack of harmony i mean when i was a kid and i'd read about senators like giants like herbert lehman you know people like everett dirksen and they don't seem to be around anymore ya know the grown ups the gate keepers seem to have died off or gone away or been marginalized in some ways and i do think that. look i mean one one distinction i think it's important to make is that washington is working very well for washington it's not working very well for the american people and i also think that first divided is washington might look from a far it's actually quite interconnected in a lot of these democrats and these republicans are in business together the people who are shouting at each other on cable or off and business partners are doing these sort of paid dog and pony shows on the road and and so look if a tax reform bill passes tomorrow that's tens of billions of dollars in lobbying fees or consulting fees that are going to be paid out so failure in a sense is very very good for washington in the city sort of thrives on. the next time i'm there might be in the next week or so can we lunch at the palm i would love to lunch at the palm with you larry would be it would be a thrill and i would love to do it i will call you is the prom still what the plan was you know i don't know what the problem was because they never let me in there so i didn't dress well enough but i think look at the palm is still a place where you need to get reservations to get lunch food still great i think the palm might be one of many now but i think it's still quite distinctive and so a place about to go bob woodward who is my all lunch partner you'll be my next one i look forward to a larry thanks thanks mark mark leibovich and a great great book this town two parties in a funeral plus plenty of valet parking in america's gilded capital it's out now from penguin books thanks to mark and my previous guest ben jones and amy holmes for joining me on this week's politicking before we go we're going to take a look inside d.c. where the powerful in washington go to unwind and have a drink here are a few of disease favorite bartenders on what washington drinks. hey larry welcome to the governor my name's torak i'm going to take in kerry tonight larry so this first guinness is on me. with the mixing politics and beer here since one nine hundred seventy four it's a good irish hans right around the corner from capitol hill we have a lot of political those that come in this way some going to make here one of our famous pints of guinness the frock obama had here and the way for a good time to get a hold of a forty five degree angle. just where the harp is going to let that saddle for about a minute and a half until it's like this here nice and saddle we're going to push the handle forward. we call this to show you that about a minute and i'll turn and i struck for you on the top here the little car has to sit above the heart that's how you know you've got a good plan. going to see house the way to watch i know the people on the hill aren't all was that patient but you have to be patient when you come into the delta . hi larry welcome to all the relatives all the cylinders. been around since eight hundred fifty six and everyone who was anybody went there for a drink to say. just must drink here might be a martini. called sake and try people like something different every once in a while still so this is the babble me it's made with our how it came you know so it feels very very good right properly so we started out with one line about eight minute leads half an ounce come to our into the choir and we're just going to model . it in a little bit of gathering. and a little slash that kind of will just take the seed out. tend to go out. and strain it over ice then you have a nice recession a spicy cocktail with a. hi larry welcome to the restaurant capitol hill. you get to meet dinner a few people such as senators and congressman john kennedy's favorite table was right over there in the window the speaker boehner will have red wine morello the former senator scott brown a beer drinker and we have to send your children comes in sure just drink iced tea years ago our lounge should be packed with members from both sides of the aisle and they got along quite well with the show that it wasn't quite the acrimony there is today's we have a special a drink it's called the monopole punch is primarily in brandy used to be served to george washington so larry the strength sure you cherish slone show larry hopefully you'll come to see us one day but. don't forget. follow me on twitter at kings things and i'll see you next week for more politic. in cuba is not a failure of the cuban people it's a failure of sidel castro and a. one assassination on sabotage backed by the officials both hostility and suspicion encouraged by the government these operations against cuba were known to the attorney general of the 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syria right now would warrant and end to that tapering process. we'll hear at the september meeting. >> what you, jeff, the economic data came in dicey. new home sales. would syria have pushed tapering back? >> i don't think so. i agree with your other guest bernanke wants to -- >> he's determined. >> i think really this postpones syriaone get it done before he's out the door. i think it's more of a postponement than not tapering at all. >> what your buying here, jeff? how do you invest your money? >> for us if we were to see a pull back because of syria, i think we could add money to equities in particular we like financials. >> mike, if i can ask you about the emerging markets one of the other impacts we've seen about the pending tapering what's going on in indonesia and india and et cetera. could that have an impact on our economy? >> well certainly that would lower global demand. it would be something that would help slow the u.s. economy. but even with the problems in the rest of the world, europe in the doldrums, some problems in emerging markets we have a very constructive outlook on 2013. despite these problems we're projecting about 215,000 jobs per month gains. even though we have a little slow patch here in the third quarter in terms of job gains we expect a big pick up in the next year and very constructi

or terrorists that event in syria those terrorist groups didn't karishma to syria they cross borders and we must find out how more than a thousand taliban fighters into syria and how well kind of members escaped from iraqi prisons and entered the country so there's international will to get all the islamists and terrorist elements into syria to change the military and political equation of the country downplay the syrian revolution we asked the foreign fighters al qaeda and down the nursery front to syria we won't allow any extremists or terrorists to dictate their agenda on the future of syria. are you certain that the f.s.a. really can control the extremist elements fighting alongside your movement we need help and that we need help to get rid of the syrian regime an extremist elements are against terrorism and massacres we don't want to kill people supporting the government because there syrians we want all extremists to get away from syria it posthaste syria there is no place for islamists in the country. and in the meantime damascus has agreed to allow the un to investigate three syrian science where chemical weapons have allegedly been used at the u.

syria so we have to deal with what been there once which is not what the obama administration wants and it's not what israel wants to have triggered different agenda virgine in syria the fact bunda are in these rallies i was writing for you know who the obama administration to fight a war for them ok there are right now not even a national unity paratime syria let's go to steven steven jump in go ahead. i mean you know one of the many consequences of a missile attack on by vision us on on syria may be an attack by the syrians and iranians on israel i mean speaking of you know an unintended consequence of going to happen and frankly that's something that i don't feel that this administration has really figured out the other thing i might mention is that a republican who i don't necessarily ever agree with on most issues the speaker of the house john boehner has actually sent a letter to obama asking him fourteen questions about exactly what his strategy is if we we bomb syria i mean including the question of what happens if a missile attack occurs and it doesn't change anything and you know assad continues to do what he wants to do you're going to then have people in this country demanding well if that didn't work we're going to you know increase our price we're going to put troops in there we've got to do all sorts of other things which wou

should intervene in syria, if it's proven that the syria government used whim call weapons. 68% of youaid no, and 32% of you said yes. ambassador, the numbers closely reflect the reuters' poll. why do you think americans feel this way? >> as i said earlier and as chris hill said, they are very wary and wary of the involvement in these sectarian ethnic struggles, and which cross -- which transcend boarders. you have iraqi sunnis backing different groups, you have shiites and alois working with iraq and iran. and the american people rightly understand that we don't have the answers to this. nobody does. >> one question i was asked was why would bash shard assad do this? knowing it would anger the international community and could bring retaliatioretaliation. >> because he feels immune. he did it on the one-year anniversary of president obama drawing a red line about chemical weapons. he feels safe enough to carry out this kind of atrocity. this was done on purpose. it was done to signal that he feels secure in his position, and the u.s. is an insignificant player in the region, and he wi

syria so we have to deal with what burned our once which is not what the obama administration wants and it's not what israel wants to have triggered different agenda virgine in syria the fact bunda are in these rallies i was writing for you know who the obama administration to fight a war for them ok there are a lot. of paratime syria let's go to steven steven jump in go ahead. i mean you know one of the many consequences of a missile attack on by the u.s. on on syria may be an attack by the syrians and iranians on israel i mean speaking of you know an unintended consequence of going to happen and frankly that's something that i don't feel that this administration has really figured out the other thing i might mention is that a republican who i don't necessarily ever agree with on most issues the speaker of the house john boehner has actually sent a letter to obama asking him fourteen questions about exactly what his strategy is if we we bomb syria i mean including the question of what happens if a missile attack occurs and it doesn't change anything and you know assad continues to do what he wants to do you're going to then have people in this country demanding well if that didn't work we're going to you know increase our price we're going to put troops in there we've got to do all sorts of other things which woul

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president knows that if assad re-establishes control over a unified syria, or if his enemies establish control over a unified syria, syriaill be governed by people hostile to the united states. that's a given. so there's things worse than a stalemate. >> and it's billions of dollars we're talking about once the united states -- we are already on the hook for humanitarian aid in jordan, turkey and other places. we're in afghanistan, the american people are war-weary. the president will have to explain it to the american people and the congress before the united states steps into this region once again. >> given that, this is a president who ran against the idea of unilateral u.s. military action around the world. that was one of the central planks of his rise to power. could you really see him going in another military campaign in the middle east without u.n. authorization? >> i don't see -- >> it doesn't have to be -- it would have to be international authorization, not necessarily the u.n. in the way it was in kosovo, they used the nato authorization. and to put together an international group, i don't think the united

syria out. the arab league has been calling for different kinds of action in syria. syria has no friends in the arab league. as we saw in libya a couple years ago, there are members of the arab league like qatar and saudi arabia who will probably want to join and who the president will want as a coalition of the willing going into any kind of military action. >> so this is enough diplomatic cover, if you will? >> it's a good amount of diplomatic cover. he needs a little more. he needs nato to sign on, which looks like it's happening. he's going to have to cite a couple international conventions on using chemical weapons, which his lawyers are probably working on as we speak. i think he's going to get enough cover. the question is, can he sell it to the american people? does he have cover in this country? it's very unpopular. the messaging will have to be very careful. he will want to make it clear to americans that there's a reason why he's doing this and that no american lives will be put at risk. >> michael, when we look at that thursday versus sunday versus a couple of

syria. syria is agreeing to allow u.n. inspectors to the full site suspected of a chemical attack. many people that died were women and children. the syrian government continues to deny its forces used chemical weapons and yet another sign the u.s. is moving closer to involvement in syria, two key members of congressional foreign affairs committees from both sides of the aisle say they expect the united states to strike syria following the reports of chemical weapons attacks. the pentagon has already sent four warships with cruise missiles to the region. meanwhile, rush why's ministry of foreign affairs is warning against jumping to conclusions on chemical weapons before the u.n. investigation is complete. so let me bring in cnn's pentagon correspondent chris lawrence in washington and cnn's frederi frederick pleitgen. when can we expect to see the inspectors at the suspected chemical attack site? >> reporter: the u.n. is saying they'll head to the site tomorrow. they didn't tell us what time tomorrow to head out there but they said that was a time frame they have because today it was agreed to have unrestricted access to the places where the alleged chemical weapons attacks happened. the syrian government gets them free passage up to the border of what the territory i