Identification. Kansas secretary of state chris kovach among our guests. And the end of the road is near for the self selfproclaimed hugger. San diego mayor. Bradley manning wants to be chesley as he pursues tax payer funded gender reassignment their peak from is leavenworth prison cell. The ateam takes the ball of that and a great deal more. We begin tonight with another possible reason the president s Foreign Policy is so incoherent and ineffective that members of his own administration seem uninformed. Todays state Department News featured a shocking contradiction from spokesperson jan saki. Take a listen. The red line is the use of c. W. Cover chemical weapons. That was crossed a couple of months ago. The president took action which we talked about the time. Lou confident in her assessment that syria had already crossed that red line. The Obama Administration and responded. Until a few moments later when she offered up this blatant contradiction. We still believe that they dont have the capability to use chemical weapons. That is not changed. Again, looking into the facts on the ground. Theres no reason if there is nothing to hide for the regime not to let the Investigative Team and. Lou what is going on . The statements tested department is not seem to know either way. President obama announced after that he has directed intelligence agencies to find out what happened. Again, joining us now, fox news military analyst. Lets turn first if we make to this confusing series of remarks by the state department in which they have one moment have a knowledge that they believe there is chemical weapons available to the president , he has used them and within moments the spokesperson saying that they dont know whether he has them and doubt that he does. Even as the president says he is a signing that question to our intelligence agencies. That is a stunning revelation. The fact of the matter is that the International Community has verified that he has chemical weapons and also that he has used them in the past and this conflict against the rebels. It appears at least looking at videos and all the other Empirical Data that is out there that he probably has used them here. A suburb of damascus, and these were fired by rockets is what people on a grounder saying. An area where the rebels have just made some advances in to damascus and also in a place where the rebels have just received a new shipment of arms. So all of this ties together. I hope we can verify it quickly. I would hope that the president finally is decisive. Lou we are showing some very graphic video, and i would like to encourage our producers deny if they would commit to retire that from the screen. We apologize. Some of that certainly not suitable for viewing at this point. We will bring other representative video on the broadcast. Again, i just want to apologize. The president is faced with a clear choice and creating great ambiguity around that choice. He can acknowledge with other nations leaders have a knowledge which is the chemical weapons had been used in syria and then formulate a policy or he could continue, as he has to talk about red lines and seek further investigation. What would be your counsel to the president . Clearly now given the outrage and that the International Community is going to feel about this, it used this as a catalyst to bring together some reluctant members of that community, to bring together the Arab Coalition and finally taken the steps that unnecessary to topple the assad regime. That would mean significant warming of the rebels. Listen, it is a misnomer that the rebels and assad are all intertwined together. The fact is, the assad radicals are consolidating their efforts. They have not been involved in the recent major efforts. The cia has recommended there are moderates we can arm without fear of significant adverse consequences of these weapons falling into the wrong hands. As number one. Number two is you have to conduct at least a minimum air strike against the significant air force that assad is using comma is airfields in airplanes and the infrastructure surrounding. We can do that with standoff weapons. That will lhe right direction. Would bring the coalition to support our efforts and to the best of the capabilities that they can provide and start turning the momentum in syria are around once and for all. If we dont do that assad will do with the chemical weapons what he has done with artillery, attack helicopters, and fighter aircraft. Gradually increase and increase until its devastating. He is reestablishing the use of chemical weapons modestly initially in this is a significant introduction of it. He will go even further as he is pushed. Lou lets turn to agent if we may quickly. Today mubarak, the former president of the tips deposed two years ago by the Muslim Brotherhood amongst other elements of egyptian society, now is back in hospital, released from prison. What is your judgment about the appropriate course for u. S. Policy toward egypt, whether it should support the secular military that is now leading this government . Of course that is a tough question. My judgment is simply this, i huge power struggle is taking place between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood. The fact of the matter is, that power struggle is not about democracy but the future stability of egypt and who is going to run that country. Overwhelming majority of the people have rejected the Muslim Brotherhood a government that was in place because it is moving toward an islamist state and may rebel against that. Theyre not doctrinaire. They certainly did not have that kind of tolerance. I believe this suitable course of action for us, and these are tough choices to be made with a National Interest are at attention with your values. In my mind the National Interest trumps. Thats a harsh reality. The move through the suez canal and the support for terrorism. The only hope that egypt as, the military generals bring this to an end quickly, stand up a civilian interim government and strengthen the government buys support for civil society. We should help in that endeavor. That in my view is the appropriate course of action. Anything that strengthens the Muslim Brotherhood is going to lead to further chaos and instability in egypt. Lou you know, that tension as you put it so eloquently between our values and the National Interest can lead to a great deal of mitigated and conjoined because as you say, the egyptian people are a diverse society. They are not the word you used was doctrinaire, but they also represent one of the best opportunities for the United States to pursue our values in that relationship and to exhibit them prominently without trying to enter or intervene in their political affairs. As always, instructive to talk with you. Thank you for being here. Great talking to you. Lou attorney general eric holder announcing the Justice Department will sue the state of texas over its new voter i. D. Law. The Justice Department will allege a law violates section two of the Voting Rights act which bans discriminatory voting practices and procedures. Section two among the elements of the Voting Rights act that remain in effect following a Supreme Court decision in sharon that struck down much of the law. The Justice Department will also, it says to intervene in a separate lawsuit in taxes over the states redistricting , arguing that it should still be forced to submit separate clearance by the Justice Department. Ordered released from prison. The Muslim Brotherhood calling for a day of violence. Former ambassador to egypt joins me next. Right now, 7 years of music is being streamed. A quarter million tweeters are tweeting. And 900 Million Dollars are changing hands online. Thats why hp built a new kind of server. One thats 80 smaller. Uses 89 less energy. And costs 77 less. Its called hp moonshot. And its giving the internet the room it needs to grow. This is gonna be big. Hp moonshot. Its time to build a better enterprise. Together. Lou president obama sent our next guest to cairo to me within the egyptian president mubarak at the height of the uprising back in 2011. Today he is stressing the need to keep ties with egypt from further deterioration and to maintain a relationship with those responsible for its future. Joining us now, frank is held numerous diplomatic posts in a career that spans eight president s serving as former u. S. Ambassador to egypt, india, the command the philippines. Ambassador, good to see you year. Thank you. Lou this is a frightful moment for the United States in this administration. It seems that every initiative that this president has taken in libya, egypt, and toward syria has been disastrous. In fact, not only not supporting the interest of the United States, but making bad situations woefully worse. What you think . We have to be a low bid fair about it. Lou i want to be utterly fair. I want to be straightforward about it as well. The middle east is going through revolutionary transformation. Since 2011 we have seen governments across the region fall, at this citys turn on one another. Religions turn on one another. Theres only so much the outside world, any power can do. Lou them why would that outside power and the United States not recognize the reality you have to spoke of . I would like to think we have trying to find a set of policies that is going to stick in turbulent seas really doesnt. That said, the United States has a couple of objectives that has to maintain. These to be certain it is on the side of peace to protect the borders of israel. It is to be on the side of democratic transformation. Even when that is rough and it has to be a longterm objective we stick with it. We need to be on the side of the eventual economic recovery of the region if there is ever to be stability. These broad principles ought to guide our policy. Lou wise principles, but stay see insubordinate to one that is a traditional first practiced policy of the United States and diplomacy, to pursue the interest of the United States itself. Democratic transition in which should dealing with the authoritarian in the logical groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, we are encountering still a force that is throughout the region growing in power which this president , to be fair, as you suggested, has basically implied has been on the run for the past year, yearandahalf. In fact, we find quite the opposite to be the case. Wire we seeing so many confusing, confounding statements and policies emanating from this administration . We understand the complexity. Why a search our policies if we cannot, in fact, i implement them and pursue our interest as well as those countries . Each of the principles that i mentioned earlier are and the american National Interest, but we wanted to make certain that the United States is basic interest in the flow of oil, security of israel, privileged position and the region is protected. That goes without saying. Where we are today is really important. A rare moment of reflection. A new government backed by the military is taking control. I am absolutely of your view if understand you correctly, the United States need to support a real stabilization of egypt and in the balance and to see this government succeed and get on with this work. News today is beginning to get a little bit better, but were going to be faced with more violence. We have to have the grit to stick with it, see this new government through, and make certain that we can work with it, not tear our ties to it to be the first to oppose the day was as a way to work with egypt is to breaker economic or military assistance. Lou it we are hearing precisely that from a number of prominent democrats in the white house disputing it. They convened again today. Nothing was forthcoming. We are looking at, without question, if there ever is a tinderbox of seems to be egypt and right this moment. An Inflection Point is at hand, and yet there is great confusion. Does this president s support the general . Does the general support a secular military . Does the general support the Muslim Brotherhood in trying to cast some sort of rhetoric around it as if it were not simply of fundamentalists Islamist Organization but rather a club for democracy that just happens to reside in egypt. I dont think its quite that would like to think it easier to spin a steady priority of the United States since the early 1970s when we first began brokering a deal between israel and egypt. We produced piece. That peace is stock. Egypt is been a terrific pprtner throughout the gulf war. It keeps its canals open, the skies clear. We supply our forces in afghanistan. Thanks to our support that we have received. We need a steady policy. Not with one government or another. The policy of cooperation in the policy that permits the egyptian stability and economic development. Stability can flow from a consensus government. Lou i could not agree with you more. I just want to add two points. One is that it is certainly not constructive to have a number of republican socalled prominent republican senators at large calling for the end of eight and a breach with this secular military government. Ii is peculiar at best. The president who does not articulate or explain his policies. I hope you would agree with that. Secondly, the Inflection Point previous to this over two years ago when this president sided with forces he did not understand, nor did he know. He threw away a 30year ally in the form of president mubarak. Its a difficult thing to rely on the judgment of an administration who has done that and participated in throwing this egyptian country into chaos why should we expect better . There is much of what you say that i can find agreement with, but i do recall and i was in cairo in the spring of 2011. The egyptian people that asked the board to step down. It was not barack obama. The egyptian people decided he should step down. Lou if i may, he was not first. He followed that call it is on. The egyptian people of a strong voice. They also spoke about the rule of the muslim brothers and what kinds of distortions and commitment they made to the development of democracy in egypt, millions of egyptians on the street and theyre for the army to try to sort this out and move back into a sustainable position. Lou i would hope that it would get your counsel. Defeat the thank you for being with us. Thank you. Lou up next on republicans and democrats at odds over much more than policy. In the chalk talk, the differences every day preferences on display, whether television show, food, cars from the differences between republicans and democrats, conservatives and liberals. Its for real. Were coming right back. Lou i dont know about you, but i get tired of people saying we really ought to be watching these two parties work together. There is not any real difference between democrats and republicans. They ought to be able to settle their differences and move ahead well, not so easy, especially after taking a look of some of the new studies talking about the differences between republicans and democrats. One group loves to taxandspend. The other advocates for lower taxes, fewer regulations, smaller government. Beyond the policy differences, there are cultural differences. One of the studies found that republicans and democrats cannot agree on which is their idea of the very best decade. Democrats want to go back to the 1990s was slick willie was in his prime. And the republicans love the 1950s, eisenhower was president. We should point out Marilyn Monroe was in her prime. Believe it and not studies have shown that a weaker man are inclined to be more liberal. More likely to vote conservative. Examples, arnold schwarzenegger, bruce willis, all republican, party of choice affect what cars they buy and appears that we drink. Imagine, the democrats go for economy, little tiny hatchbacks. Republican more than likely to drive suvs and pickups. I said pickups. Democrats or a little fancy. Republicans go for sam adams and miller lite and porcelain. What about tv shows . Democrats, a lot of people a partial to curtains. And republicans tend to go for reality shows. Theyre going to have to live this down. Amazing grace, american qaeda. Democrats prefer to watch both republicans and democrats. The democrats like the nba. Republicans like college basketball. Also golf, of course. Nascar. Parses it influences baby names. They love to choose those democrats. Um, names with different spellings. This is my favorite. Jasmine. I like that. Julie. Republicans go for those traditional names, harder sounds. Just some observations for you tonight. Parsenia influences. We report, you decide. He says he is a harder, but he has been given the heave ho. The ateam on the democrats history of sex and scandals. Next. Boys used double miles frm their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. You must be gars father . Hello. Motr. Mother traveling is easy witthe venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. Two words. Double miles this guy can act. Wanna play dodge rock . Oh, you gu and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fun. Beard growing contest and go win whats in your wallet . Lou joining ups and announcing they arent dropping spousal Health Care Coverage because of obamacare. The university saying the changes are necessary because the laws projected to add more than 7 million to the cost of the Health Care Plan in 2014 alone. Earlier this week ups says it was dropping its hostile coverage affecting roughly 15,000 employees. Tough stuff. Former viceepresident al gore yesterday compared Climate Change deniers to racists, homophobes, alcoholics. Joining us now, the ateam. Lets start with you. Finally leading. That means Anthony Wiener and eliot spitzer. Are we watching an uptick in moral standards across the country . I dont know because we have bill clinton in a blue dress. We can even go back. Listen, this guy in san diego is sick, and its time for him to resign. He has a problem. Lou your thoughts . I think he should have done it long ago. Im glad to see that someone has finally come to their senses. Lou lets talk about al gore. He has decided i guess he is giving the nazis a break. These are bizarre comparisons to people who disagree with them about global warming. I read this interview. Does the name Tommy Flanagan ring a bell . Lou not at all. Is old character on saturday night live. Here are some other interesting things. Al gore says the World Trade Center memorial site was filled with water on october 209th just as i for told in an inconvenient truth. Well, no. If you watch that clip he did not say there would be a storm surge causing a flood in Lower Manhattan. What he said was that large parts of Lower Manhattan would be permanently inundated by rising sea levels along with huge highly populated swamps of florida, california, china, india, bangladesh, and the netherlands. He is misrepresenting. Lou i have to say this, just to interject, shocked. I am absolutely shocked. It gets better. Then he says that there are plans afoot to expand the hurricane warning levels, the strongest hurricane is a category five. Theyre adding a category six. Somebody cleaned up, called the National Weather service and reported that this was Washington Post reporting on its own interview, a patently false. By the way, he did not ask a single tough question of al gore, challenge him on any of these outlandish statements. He has to be the most gullible guy in journalism. Lou perhaps compatible. There is also the matter of those pinocchios that they throw around. I dont know if it has ever been done before, overwhelmed the fellow. Theyre fact checker is on vacation. The did the fact check. Lou that explains the timing. Lets turn to what is happening. The have been talking about this, analyzing it and assessing it for over two years now. We are looking at horrible video now of the victims of what appears to be a chemical weapons attack. That is the client. The president of the United States to is talked about red lines for every year has said that they have used chemical weapons and is now saying that the cia must investigate after saying the United Nations must investigate to determine whether or not he has chemical weapons and has used them. His own state Department Spokesperson contradicts herself today before the assembled reporters and says they still doubt that they have them. What in the world arent these this administration is going places that are absolutely unthinkable. It is august and theyre on vacation. There are no Fact Checkers left. The one thing we dont know is clearly somebody used something that made people to rule, twitch, the highest dilate, all the symbols to be the problem is we dont know for sure who used it, and thats why. Lou this president has already called upon the United Nations to investigate. Theyre not just being made aware of the circumstances outside damascus. The fact is, this administration has a responsibility to have deployed intelligence agencies to know what is going on. Lou and theyre is a team in syria that is actually trying to determine that. Lou our intelligence. They may have already rendered a verdict. We dont know. We do know that this must be responded to if his red line has been crossed by the government or anyone. Lou i dont know that i want this president making a decision if his administration is this confused, this incoherent, and contradictory amongst themselves he is still the leader of the free world. The International Community told us that something has been used, but this administration and president , going back to the clinton days, when he oversaw the genocide in rwanda. We need to do something. If it is proven that chemical weapons of been used we should do something. So he is still the leader of the free world and our commander in chief. In the system but to the plate. Lou well what is going on is the administration is reluctant to get involved. Perfectly understandable, butt3 saying that there are red lines when youre not prepared to carry out your threats is a weakness of the world. That is the real problem. We have all identified as the problem, the drawing of a red line about which youre prepared to do nothing. Lou im going to say thank you. Up next, dont mess with texas. Attorney general eric holder does not get the message. He has lost nearly all of the cases that he is brought against texas. His department of justice, the Obama Department of justice going after texas voter i. D. Laws again. Lou a fascinating, and interesting legal development. Kansas and the state of arizona yesterday filing a lawsuit against the Obama Administration , accusing the administration of preventing states from enforcing laws that require proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote. Joining us now, the man who filed the lawsuit, kansas secretary of state. Good to have you with this. This case the attorney general is making it pretty clear that he does not like the variety laws. Your thoughts . Its interesting. The holder Justice Department has gone on all war against the states. Is not just texas. In a state that they can find a way to bring some legal action against. They take action. But in this lawsuit that we filed were suing the federal agency known as the election assistance commission. This lawsuit was actually invited by Justice Scalia when he wrote the majority opinion this summer. He basically said states do have the right to require proof of citizenship for of their voters. And the way to do this is says to this agency and make this agency chains the federal Registration Form which is exactly what were doing. We are following the blueprint that justice pallia clearly laid out. Lou the aclu has already threatened do with legal action stay ahead the proof of citizenship law prevents thousands from registering to vote. How are you going to defend if you must . Well, the arguments have very little merit. They cannot show the people of being prevented from registering to vote. In fact, the socalled thousands are just individuals who started the process but have not yet provided their proof citizenship they have not shown any one who is unable to read our law was drafted so that even if you lost your passport and you cant get your birth certificate we still have a way you can submit affidavits and get the proof of citizenship to the stacey can register. So the argument is not really have any merit. That usually does not stop the aclu. They go the court anyway. Lou youre not backing down. Are you coming together as a group in court . Well, and this case in texas we will stand ready to assist in any way. We provided assistance when taxes went up on the photo id love the first time by giving them statistical evidence. The argument that he is trying to make is ridiculous. He is planning that photo id somehow hurts people of ones skin color mooe than another. The evidence does not support that. We have photo i. D. In kansas, georgia, and the evidence coming out shows that it affects all of us equally. We cannot get a free drivers license our state dougie if we dont have a drivers license. Lou attorney general greg abbotts has shown that minority participation rates have actually risen. Participation rates are higher than that of white citizens which in validates everything that the obama just as to permit a sign. Memo we have resolution . We are hopeful that we can get some action out of the District Court quickly. It would like to have this change may so we can have our proof of citizenship laws in effect without any loopholes before the 2014 election. I dont know how quickly the lawsuit against texas will move, but im confident the one in kansas and arizona should be able to move. Lou again, the issue is whether or not states can move to change the federal forum which is a foundation. Great to see you. Thank you so much. Up next, president obama continues to defy reason, refusing to call egypt a coup. It was an over throw. Apparently there is a pretense. At least he is saying that. Does he really think that . Two leading experts psychoanalyze the Obama White House next. Right now, 7 years of music is being streamed. A quarter million tweeters are tweeting. And 900 llion dollars are changing hands online. Thats why hp built a new kind of server. One thats 80 smaller. Uses 89 less energy. And costs 77 less its called hp moonshot. And its giving the internet t room it needs to grow. This is gonna be big. Hp moonshot. Its time to build a better enterprise. Together. Lou if you ever wondered what those people in north career thinking, new report tries to answer it. The wall street journal report is that north korea is dealing with the serious crystal meth epidemic. Researchers say at least 40 to 50 percent of adults in Northern Areas of the communist country are addicted to the drug. North korea. President obama trying to divert attention from a number of scandals, meeting today with the 1972 miami dolphins, joining us to take a look at the president s refusal to take responsibility. Joined bb psychologist. Thank you both for being with us. Well, lets start with what is this president thinking. What is going on . He as a contradiction over a major issue. Aid to egypt with one of the leading democratic senators. Being called out on it. Scandals everywhere. The economy, he seems to be completely out of touch. It is simply the lame ducks and drum. He is almost on free. If you can get through this presidency without a major scandal and many people have been reporting that there will be a scandal. Something will happen between themselves and other members of the white house. He is saying, let, let me go ahead and take care of the business. Let me get through this. Lou ignore reality. We know as the president , as president s before him, trying to get through unscathed and protecting the legacy. That is what every lameduck president tries to do. Lou you can argue with that. Give us some insight, if you are willing to. What is well, is anything motivating them . The man is not exactly getting a reputation for being the hardest working president in american history. That is for sure. But let me tell you, it is human nature to avoid responsibility for difficult situations and pass the buck. I think he is trying to just get out, avoid taking their responsibility. That is human nature, but its not responsible. Lou responsibility is the essence. There are seeking to serve the people again. Give us a little insight into their minds and hearts. They obviously care about as deeply. [laughter] you know, i think people go where theyre comfortable. In spite of the sex scandal. Lou apparently more comfortable alone than with. Lou comfortable in the public eye, and the political scene. So its not surprising that theyre going to go back where theyre comfortable. They can get the attention and praise. And if they give reelected, doesnt that mean as scandal is behind them . And i agree with that. I think a lot of what is going on clinically with these individuals, especially spitzer and winners of their getting a chance for a do over before they really screwed up. Now they have an opportunity to try to save their reputations, go back into it the right way, protect the legacy. He is still not able to do that because of this impulse control issues. Lou have not heard it put quite that way. That sounds right. A problem with photography. The have seen something that i have not seen before, three new york newspapers coming out and saying this weekend, denouncing spencer for being a cheat and a liar. The New York Daily News, turning in a dismal performances. He was a lousy. He was also unsuccessful as attorney general, winning nine of his prosecutions and being interested only in feeding his insatiable ego. Do you think that will have any influence . You are amazed that three newspapers, two of them at least, the New York Daily News and the New York Times for boosting every step of the way. What happened . You know, i kind of think that there is a part of us that kind of wants redemption, somebody to rise above their mediocrity or their poor choices. I dont understand why some of these folks are still in the public eye. Lou you like it will were reading, what were watching, who would become as a people, we have retreated to the lowest common denominator in this country as a society. We dont have an aspirational set of leaders. And what is going on, people are disgusted by the fact that with his history teeseven the have to look at it as a shrink, he does have some very severe emotional issues that he has actually begun to work on and try to become a better person. I have spoken to him. Met him and always and talked about it. The look dispenser. He is done all the right things. They feel that it is an injustice. Lou thank you very much thank you for being with us. Good night from new york. Neil it is the unofficial last week of summer. Do you know where your congressman is . Still on vocasion. When most of america gets backtoschool next week, where do you think they will be . Still on vacation. If you think there is a sense of alarmo the hill, hell no, among pressing items that congress is taking up whe when they get baco work for 9 days, a hearing on the environment, pardon me, that is not the storm i was talking about. Glad to have you i am neil cavuto, say what you will of a president who likes