the 77th anniversary of hitler becoming fuhrer of germany and the 47th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. so this could very well be a muslim nazi vietcong conspiracy to keep america fiscally solvent unless there's something even more sinister! yesterday texas g.o.p. congressman and human fence post louie gohmert unveiled the most shocking theory of them all. >> i can't help be a little cynical here because we find out the president has a big birthday bash scheduled for august 3, celebrities flying in from all over. and lo and behold august 2 is the deadline for getting something done so that he can have this massive... maybe the biggest fund-raising dinner in history a birthday celebration. >> stephen: of course! obama just wants to raise the debt ceiling so he can raise the roof! (laughter and applause) and folks, it's his 50th birthday bash so he's going to be partying out with his hollywood buddies like beyonce, george clooney, matt damon, brad and angelina, skinny jonah hill. dumbledore. (cheers and applause) meanwhile, meanwhile, me and louie gohmert aren't even invited. i

it will cross over the island and over the gulf of tonkin, make another landfall in northern vietnam.nd it will become a tropical depression by sunday night. but it will still bring torrential rain in some parts of the area even up to 300 millimeters or more in the next 48 hours. now, the system will be bringing lots of rain towards southern china around the guangdong province and also taiwan as well. it's going to enhance the southwest monsoon. and so it will bring lots of torrential rain and allows vietnam and also thailand, also philippines as well. torrential rain will up the risk of flooding and mudslides. now, we had torrential amount of rain in the korean peninsula as well. but floos a band of very heavy rain in central china and all the way up to the north. now this one around beijing will be bringing lots of heavy rain again to the korean peninsula. no more rain is welcome there, but unfortunately into your weekend, the korean peninsula will be seeing another heavy downpour again. tokyo, we're looking at 26 degrees. another -- again, the heat wave is afecting chongqing, 37. s

and also as president chun sen had to lie about the gulf of tonkin incident to get the american congress to buy into the villa now more and held roosevelt told a lie to get isolationist america into world war ii. the american people are not that enthusiastic. the leaders tend to be much more therefore this would be a serious temptation to deceive. >> host: is it dangerous for presidents to lie to congress? >> there is a potential danger for sure. one can tell a story where it makes good strategic sense for a president who believes he has a smart policy to tell a lie to congress lowered to the american people and if he proves to be correct, but often what happens in these cases is the reason the president has to lie is the policy is not very smart and the people are congress to revisiting the president. if you think about the iraq war president bush thought he had the other side of the story and could deceive the american people and in the end would be proved right but in the end was not. the iraq war turned out to be a disaster. it was the ill-conceived scheme. all of that resistance in

went to great lengths to convince people and what president johnson had to lie about the gulf of tonkin incident in august, 1964 to get the american people and the american congress to bite on to the vietnam war and it's why as we talked about earlier in the conversation president roosevelt had to tell a lie about the incident in the summer of 41 to get isolationist america into world war ii. the american people are not that enthusiastic about fighting a the war. they tend to be a much more enthusiastic and therefore it's going to be a serious temptation to deceive. >> is it dangerous for presidents to lie to congress? >> there's a potential danger for sure. first of all, one can tell a story where it makes good strategic sense for a president who believes he has a smart policy to tell a lie to congress or the american people and if he proves to be correct, then that's a smart why. but often what happens in these cases is that the reason that the president has to lie is the policy is not a very smart one and it's actually the people or the congress resisting the president who had the be

now, i don't think you can make a case that someone who was stationed on a ship in the gulf of tonkin somehow has a connection -- and many miles from any agent orange -- that you could make a plausible case that agent orange was the cause of this disability. so what this amendment tries to do is give a realistic set of programmer terse -- of parameters for the rewarding of disability or payment of disability for those who actually were exposed and not -- not only exposed but also that there is a direct connection between exposures to herbsides and the outcome. so there are many needs amongst our veterans. they're there every single day. and the purpose of this amendment is to make sure that there is a legitimate need for compensation for those who were exposed to agent orange and a direct connection between that exposure and certain disabilities, particularly heart disease, parkinson's disease, hodgkin's, et cetera. so what we're trying to do here is make sure that those who were actually exposed and there is a direct connection are we warde , and adequately so, but at the same time n