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Only the we look at why the congress, democrats and republicans are shirking a vote on the obamaled air strikes. Our hardball roundtable will look at these questions and look at the way some on the right are using the isis threat to heat up the immigration fight. We begin only the with the breaking news in syria. The u. S. Military and arab partners carried another round of air strikes against isis targets. Jim miklaszewski joins us from the pentagon. What do we do today . Who did we hit . The intent of todays target was to hit isis where it hurts. In the pocket book. Tlrm 13 strikes with u. S. Military and our arab allies gel 12 modular Oil Refineries. They are easily disassembled, put on skids and put somewhere else. They produce up to 500 barrels a day. Just these 12 alone would have provided as much as 250,000 in income a day. It is believed that isis collects about 1 to 2 billion a day in their black market soil sales. Now, this was a much smaller strike than the first strike on monday which was about 20 targets. And aircraft and cruise missiles. So this was a more compact strike. But again, u. S. Officials think this is going to be hitting isis where it works. The big concern is so far, we havent seen any kind of reaction or retaliation from isis. Either against our allies in the region or elsewhere. One of the creedos is the enemy always has a vote. So everybody sitting back and waiting for isis to respond. Did we do all the bombing today or were we joined by real allies in the air . We were joined in the air by allies, both saudi arabia and united arab emirates. And on monday four out of five of our arab allies actually dropped womens. Qatar was the only one on the periphery. You know the problem with qatar. Sometimes allegedly, even indirectly, sunni extremists in the region. But qatar in fact was participating. What is interesting about this, even if none of them dropped a single weapon, the fact that their flying is very significant. In past operations, those countries have not even expressed support for u. S. Operations. So this was a huge step forward that was engineered. Not only by president obama and john kerry. But the centcom commander down will in tampa. Thanks for that great report. Today an algerian terror Group Released video showing the beheading a french tourist in retaliation for his countrys air strikes against isis in iraq. He call it a cowardly assassination and said he wonderful give in to black male by these barbaric acts. The Washington Post columnist eugene robinson. Ron, thank you for joining us. It seems to me were up against guys theyre willing to keep beheading. This will be what well watch. Were probably going to be with us for a lifetime. Thats what the president was steeling the country for today. I was struck by one of his best features of his presidency. It wasnt poetic. It was practicing matic. Wasnt soaring, it was searing. He put it in an historic context. To a commander in chief, from a hawk from a dove to practically a hawk and how we have to think differentbly the whole world. What do you make of the zombie like look. It reminds me of what a priest must put up with that people showing up. What do you make of the faces . The vagueness of the faces. Were they not allowed to express yes . These are professional diplomats. Theyre trained in this. And theyre not giving reactions. Support or opposition or whatever. What i found interesting, when president obama came into office, one of the things he wanted to do was to affect some sort of change in this conflictive relationship between islam and the west. And today, he sort of changed the conditions. He said we must do that. You guys have to help. And he points. He took a shot. He also took a shot at the fat cat who spew this. And supports the terrorist cede. Theres the shot. The money theyre giving to the terrorists. Some of the leaders over there who spew this religious extremism which undermines, it underwrites the arguments of the terrorists themselves. There should be no more tol ranls of socalled clerics who call on people to harm innocents because theyre jewish or because theyre christian or because theyre muslim. It is time for a new compact among civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source. The corruption of young minds by violent ideology. That means cutting off the funding that fuels this hate. It is time to end the hypocrisy and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down. The pro gand a turns students, young people full of potential into suicide bombers. We must offer an alternative vision. Prince bandar on years ago and i said the word we have, you will push your young people to blow up the world. Tunneled deal you dont do it inside. He said that was bull. His term, not mine. This is what the countries do. The president did something remarkable that we rarely see. Normally theyre speaking, when the president come to the u. N. Theyre speaking to americans. The folks out there are just promises. He was speaking directly to the leaders. He was calling them out unlike any president since george bush. What is it, dollars and cents, the deal we cut. He says im going to be keeping tabs on you guys. I want concrete steps to sign this. And he didnt specify. It is a complicated relationship. Obviously, now in term of the oil, we got a lot of oil and thats a card that previous president s havent had to play and it is something they worry about. The worlds depend yenlts on saudi oil is going to wayne and therefore, people will be less tolerant of that behavior. You can use that card against russia. Heres two things that might be working. Nobody wants to hear about the mideast peace process. Couldnt it be something going on, the targets of these makers is ultimately to overthrow government of jordan, saudi arabia, not overthrow government in texas. I think they can spook us a little but thats not what theyre going to get done in their life times. They get a shot at knocking off the governments. Theyre getting the message. This isnt about liking the United States. It is about the United States being the law magic here. Were willing to support because it is our neck. They are in the business of selfpreservation. The reason the president has a chance to rewrite the rules for the next century, they get the message. The president hasnt changed things. Lets talk about europe and the french. The little skedaddle in australia the other day. That they tried to behead somebody down there. Theyll try to get out their diaspora of beheadings. They could grab someone in oregon, not to mention that specifically. That could happen. One suspect thats the beheadings of americans, that we saw leading up to this. On the only lodgeeck was that they bring the United States in. Figuring they would get bogged down. In the edge, they would and you know and i know. The crusaders were there for 128 years. They probably thought they won 100 of those years. But they didnt win. Because they were waiting for them. And you see what happens. What could be different this time is participation of the arab states surrounding isil. That is different. He is right. The bombings wont work long term unless we get boots on the ground. They need them to be boots on the ground. He wornld today that the world must come together to confront isis. There can be no reasoning, no negotiates with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of america will work with a Broad Coalition to dismantle this network of death. Today i ask the world to join in this effort. Those who have joined isil should leave the battlefield while they can. Those who continue to fight for a hateful cause will find they are increasingly alone. For we will not succumb to threats and we will demonstrate that the future belongs to those who build. Not those who destroy. So well kill. Well kill as many arab whos have joined isis as we can. Weve warned them. Get out. Thats how far yeah. How many countries have we bombed that are arab and muslim since the beginning of the century . We just keep bombing them. What is our alternative . I know. It is our problem. The question is whether this president can hold the country together. Build a coalition, hold that coalition together and we can roll these folks back. Well watch beheadings. And the other thing, we dont know. Are we going to watch . Are we going to see boots on the ground that are not american . They come from elsewhere. Programs the arab countries in the coalition. You think thats an alternative to waiting for this oneyear Training Program which will ideally produce 8,000 Free Syrian Army recruits that will then turn their attention to isis, not assad. I think the president was right when emthats a fantasy. Thank you. If theres one thing Congress Wants to agree on, they do not want to take a war vote. They are all too happy to skip town. It can jeopardize their reelection. Then around tampa, digs into the politics of war. The republican candidates wasted no time creating antiterrorism ads that slammed both the president. You see with it scott brown. Take a look. Anyone who turns on the tv these days knows we face challenges to our way of life. Radical terrorists are threatening to cause the collapse of our country. President obama and senator seem confused about the night of the threat. I want to secure the border. Keep out the people who do us harm and restore americas leadership in the world. That was a cheem scare tactic. Trying to convince people isis will take over the United States. And bill clinton seemed relieved yesterday to avoid the question about whether the United States should be arming those syrian rebels. Thats now above my pay grade. The more i tell you the more likely i am to cause trouble for the decision. Cant be true. He is more now than he was as president. Certainly not above his pay grade. Hillary clinton said she supports the president. And let me finish with this failure of politicians to simply vote on war or peace. Martha has a wide lead now. Among likely voters she is 10 points ahead of charlie baker. 4636. He is not a bad candidate. You make a great team. Its been that way since the day you met. But your erectile dysfunction it could be a question of blood flow. Cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be Ready Anytime the moments right. You can be more confident in your ability to be ready. 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This is war time rhetoric from the white house because it is a war. Weve sent soldiers into combat zones to help arm and train syrian fighters, american fighter jets are leading a massive air campaign as we speak along with five other arab nations. Were dropping bombs on the enemy in two countries. Iraq and in syria. So wheres the u. S. Congress . Did they vote to approve the use of military force . After signing off on a measure to train, Congress Left town until after the november election. Harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell are rarely on the same page but they dont show any inkling to could that back and vote and the white house seem happy to have them gone. Isnt this why we have a congress . To take hard votes on whether or not to authorize a war . The British Parliament is set to be recalled to vote. President obama led the security council. Will president obama Call Congress back . This is also rhetoric on my part because obviously theyre not coming back paul, since youre new here, lets talk it over. Harry reid has gotten in trouble for fighting. Nobody really likes him much. I discovered theres something worse than not getting along with each other. It is getting along. When they said lets protect all the incumbent in the interest of incumbents. They dont want to come back and call people back. They dont really have a whole lot to say. I would call it constitutional. They dont have a lot to say. All they would be doing is the bombing thats already taking place. Thats consistent with the war powers act to get in there a little late. Spell for the left. Minority from a big city. A liberal from the bay area in new york or chicago. Why would a person in a deep blue Congressional District or state give a dam about voting for this. They wont get defeated in the general. It is progressives. They probably want the vote the most. They do believe in the war powers act and bringing that. I think a lot of them would vote against it. The one reason you dont want this on either side. Harry reid, they all want it is because it divides democrats and democrats and republicans and republicans. Where would rand paul he would vote against it. Marco rubio would vote in favor of it and ted cruz would be against it. And john mccain. And it would be loot of posturing on the republican side on the 2016 side. On the democratic side, nancy pelosi will support barack obama. Because . She supports the president. These are hard calls. There will be progressives who have. Said they dont like this call. There are some conservatives. Isnt that why we have a congress . The problem is, there is no you dont pay for not voting against this. 3 q if you dont have a vote. You dont usually do that. Youre not morally justifying it. Im explaining it. It is wrong. I think there should be debate. There should be a vote. Theres no way. What i know, the interesting thing. When we voted, the congress voted on whether to arm this Free Syrian Army. The northeast liberals, people like gillibrand, elizabeth warren. Bernie sanders. That segment of the neat which i like generally. They all said they didnt want to vote for that. Which tells you which way they would vote. This seems like a contradiction. Theyll have to have that vote again. Here they are. The vote armed and trained the syrians is something they will have to come back and vote on again. Theyll have to vote to fund this war. Sooner or later okay. Three months from now, they have to start writing the checks. Not their checks, our checks. They start running up the debt. How will he get, deal with that . He will get a majority of republicans and probably a significant portion of democrats to agree to continue to pursue this war because isis will keep beheading people. So he wont dance with the ones that brung him. It will be a war fought. Already out there today you have the conservative thought leaders. I hate to call them that. Rush limbaugh and others who are coming one conspiracy theories that obama didnt do anything by hitting cover sanl. This is all about midterm politics. Hows does Rush Limbaugh figure this out . It is bad and it has to be some hidden motive here. So the Tea Party Republicans in the house, rand paul republicans in the senate and the house who will vote against any of this. It will be a very messy debate. And it will cause problems for the 2016 president ial race on the republican side. Maybe even on the democratic side. The constitution grants the president the authority to Call Congress back into session. And he says he may under extraordinary circumstances convene both houses. This is a great moment. Harry truman failsly return to washington during his speech when he gave it at 2 00 in the morning with no air conditioning 2. A moment which won him an election. My duty as president requires that i use every means within my power to get the laws the people need on matters of such importance and urgency. I am therefore calling this congress back into session on the 26th of july. Now thats the reason why every republicans favorite democrat is truman. Im going on lose this election . No. Im going to win this election. A Political Convention he made a foreign policy. Do you know what he said . I invite them back to washington. I demand they come back to washington and pass their platform which they didnt do and they lost. America wouldnt want to see this Congress Come back to do anything. Why are you saying that . Suppose they did that. Obama doesnt want a Dysfunctional Congress looking over his shoulder. He is exploiting the fact that they cant get their act together. That they are abandoning their constitutional prerogatives so he can do this war without having to bother with the obstructionism. So this purpose here. That was never an american passion. Once these beheadings occurred. He could have called and the next day he passed. He could have done it right then. I dont think he could have gotten them. There was a lot of heat. Call the vote. Call the vote. I do think he should have them in every day. When it cools off like the nfl. Lets have a commission. Then well talk about it. They have a lot in common. They do. Like their jobs. Thank you. Up next, the brad pitt of the Republican Party. His hair style, wealth, custom made for a devastating attack ad. This aint serious but it is ludicrous. male announcer its happening. Today, more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about longacting levemir®, an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. And levemir® helps lower your a1c. Levemir® is now available in flextouch® the only prefilled insulin pen with no pushbutton extension. Levemir® lasts 42 days without refrigeration. 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Up next, i guess he likes to meet people. Up next the hardball roundtable and the politics of war. You wont believe it or maybe you will. How some republicans are stoking fear of isis to win votes. We have another race to watch. Governor tom corbett is fighting for his job. They faced off this week in a televised debate. Lets look. Everybody makes mistakes. Okay . Have i communicated the best . Probably not. Were in a much better position than when i took office. One thing to talk about specific things youre proud of. But overall, how are thing working out for us . What were doing isnt working. I am an unconventional candidate. I dont look like candidates youve probably seen before but i think these are unconventional time for a commonwealth. Welcome back. The gop, the grand old party, taking advantage of the radical Islamist Group by and by extension, Democratic Candidates as being soft on national security. Republicans say democrats arent up to the challenge of identified isis. The latest ad gene shaheen. Anyone who turns on the tv knows we face challenges to our way of life. Radical islamist terrorists are threatening our country. President obama and the senator seem confused about the nature of the threat. Not me. I want to secure the border, deem out the people who would do us harm and restore americas leadership in the world. Im scott brown and i approved this message because protecting the home lanl is the first step to america safe again. In georgia, david purdue says his democratic opponent favors amnesty and warns that isis could across the border from mexico. Shes from amnesty while terrorism experts say our border breakdown could provide an entry for groups like isis. If a country cant protect its borders, what can it protect . Secure or borders. Enforce our existing laws. And wugs and for all forget amnesty. Joining me, the contributing editor of u. S. News and world report. The senior political reporter with nbc news. It seems to me the republicans are turning this into an ethnic thing. Heres our way of bashing hispanics. Well, yes. They cant really go after the president very much on bombing syria because they dont disagree. Theyre trying to take this issue and finesse it into an immigration issue. They whoever they are is somehow going to come over the border. I think what he has to worry about, particularly that scott brown is that he is trying to use fear to get votes. What he doesnt understand is that people dont just fear isis. They fear getting involved in another long protracted costly war. He is trying to lump hispanics and isis together which is reprehensible. The idea of hoards too. New hampshire, a little state with white people, being overrun with guys with guns and knives and bombs. And basically ending its existence. Also taking it from immigration. Republicans were very excited about it. As much as possible, theyre excited. You want to talk about isis. We know people are gerd. That we have this issue that weve been polling. Lets jam it in. The biggest magnet for people coming here is not welfare. It is to get a job. The minute they stop the illegal hiring, which he this never mention, ever, it would stop the mass of immigration. Lets look at the ad. This is the old thing they did. Heres the kind of ad they ran in 2002. This is further back. This is when sacksby chambliss, while dont despite, but i do despise this ad. Lets take a look. As america faces terrorists and extremist dictators, max cleland runs Television Ads claiming he has the courage to leefl he says he supports president bush at every opportunity. Since july max kleeland has voted against the president s vital security efforts 11 times. He says he has the courage to lead but the record proves he is just misleading. he lost three limbs in vietnam and theyre attacking him for being not a patriot. That ad is infamous for this reason. Somebody in a wheelchair serving his country every single day as a senator. And that is a veterans guy. It was outrageous. It is being played to this day as an example of bad advertising. Exempt it worked. The fact that it is a red state had more to do with it. That add probably contributed. These are dangerous in part. Isis is not in mexico. Theyre not going to cross the border. So theyre very misleading. In sense. We dont want to scare americans if isis is coming over. Our intelligence does not suggest that they are going to attack on the u. S. Soil. It is a fear amongering and unhelpful to people. I never liked it. B9 we call at this time United States. Theyre coming to america. Theyre coming here. Civil defense. You dont need a new word. The word homeland is essentially ominous. Theyre going to hit the homeland. For scott brown to talk about, people are coming in and theyre going to take your jobs. Theyre going to cause the collapse of the United States. Thats the most apocalyptic language ive heard. Is he desperate . Yeah. Thats a tough race for him all the way around. To come in as an outsider. Where does he go next . If he loses in massachusetts to elizabeth warren. Then he goes out and loses. Too liberal. I think maine. He has to he wont go over in maine. It is really cold there too. We were talking about it before. Why dont they want to vote on it . If i were a member of congress,a i would say the reason i want to be a congressman or a senator. The big stuff. The stuff in the books, the movies. 55 and consent. I think thats why you see, it is not just one part. Hillary clinton voted wrong. Not because she voted. Theyre worried about voting wrong. Thats the thing. The democratic party. The howard dean effect. In 2003 howard dean opposed the war when everybody else supported it. And he was right. And he ran against every democratic candidate in the primary field against the war and it worked for him and then for obamacare. Wi the republicans dont want to vote on it. A lot of them dont because they dont want to align themselves with the president of the United States. They want to attack the way scott brown is. And there are some people who i think are general wently concerned about the vote in the sense, they dont know whether theyre looking at iraq 2. 0 or al qaeda 2. 0. Ive been listening to these guys saying, he is cutting us out of the process. He is not asking for our input and then they wont vote. I get the feeling were getting attacked by ail yengs from another planet. They would say, im not sure where he was born. Well be right back. Up next, as Hillary Clinton readies for a president ial run, she make her first Public Comments supporting the syrian air strikes. The latest quinnipiac polling has Teri Branstad leading hatch. Iowa thanes need to listen. It is the most scandal ridden administration in the history of the skate. Iowans know me. I have a press conference every week. They know im honest, straightforward, trans parent. I released all my taxes. They know these attacks are false. They are not correct. And the people of iowa know that. You want i fix this mess . A mess . I dont think whats that . Snapshot from progressive. Plug it in, and you can save on Car Insurance based on your good driving. You sell to me . No, its free. You want to try . I try this if you try. Not this. Okay. Da Hillary Clinton has the edge. Here we go according to a poll among likely voters in virginia. The challenge becomes as close to clinton. Paul ryan is next in line while he falls short of clinton. Hill is well ahead of the only guy that might be able to catch her if he doesnt get into big trouble. today Hillary Rodham clinton gave her First Support of the air strikes. She said the situation is demanding a response and we are seeing a very robust response. It is something the president is right to bring the worlds attention to. Whatever the debates might have been before, this is a threat to the region and beyond. I cant sit here and tell you that if we had done what i had recommended we would be a very different position today. I just cant. You cant go and prove a negative. I think you can argue back and forth what i was in the administration. We had some very good discussions debates on what to do and how to do it starting in syria. I was on one side of the debate. The roundtable is back. He was waiting for Hillary Clinton to make a statement so hed be in sync with her. I think she was look, she was burned by this issue once before. She voted one way, obama who didnt have to make a vote said he was opposed to the war. On iraq. On iraq, so she doesnt want to make that mistake again. Now shes in the position of not having to actually make a decision but to support or not support it. Bringing it up, if we had done what i suggested who knows if it would be different. It looks president ial and gracious. Who brought it up that they disagreed before . The questioner . I think so. I think so. It was, thats all right. The thing is its a very legitimate concerns about arming people we dont really know whos on what side. We still dont know if we have somebody to arm. Go for it. Shes damned if she does and if she doesnt in the fact that were all obsessed does she des like obama, does she approve, does she not. Did somebody Say Something negative about Hillary Clinton that you had to defend . Not at all. Were parsing everything she says. Well, we will. Thats what they get. Thats probably good. Who parses . I parse. Thats my job. Lets get back to what you said in the last segment. Hillary clinton back when they voted on the war in iraq decided that the cautious probably smart vote was to vote to authorize. Now she can say i authorize not for the war but to let the war go. But now whats the smart move . Whats the smart vote, for or against the president . I think probably the smart vote is for right now especially with this other terrorist group cropping up. People are worried this the another al qaeda. But in terms of we should have armed them a year ago when he dont know who they are. If they use weapons we gave them against us whats the smart vote. If youre running for president , the smart thing to do is oppose it. Because youll be running in a very liberal democratic primary, its generally an antiwar primary. You have Martin Omalley sitting out there who hasnt said anything. This is how howard dean went, he let everybody take the vote and. If himry doesnt run, gillibrand and warren will run and they voted against it. That tells you they thought about this. Why is the smart vote politically back in the iraq war to vote for the war and smart now to vote against it. Democrats were seen as being too weak and against defense. Now the policy is much different. But theyre beheading our people every couple weeks over there. P p how does that work . In a state like arkansas or a purple state, the smart vote is to be tough on anything. In a democratic president ial primary, the smart vote is to be a pacifist against the war. Even with the beheadings . Doesnt that change the gut reaction . I think it depends how this goes. Again, is this iraq or al qaeda . We dont know. Thats the problem. By the way, i, you know, i think that you can make the case that she did what she had to do secretary clinton. Yeah, but that doesnt mean she didnt create an opportunity for somebody on the left. The person on the left may not be successful but theres an opportunity on the left do you think somebody could actually beat her on the left . Somebody did before. Shes a better candidate now. She is, but by the way, i dont think anyone will beat her. Could somebody beat her . Absolutely. Bernie sanders somebody she could knock off. Nobody running right now. If she can knock them off, shows positioned herself in the general, could be a weird general if rand paul is running to her left on policy. Really weird. Susan milligan, my buddy forever. And all my friends. While every business is unique, everyone is looking for ways to cut expenses. And thats where pg es Online Business Energy Checkup tool can really help. You can use it to track your Actual Energy use. Find rebates that make equipment upgrades more affordable. Even develop a Customized Energy plan for your company. Think of it as a way to take more control over your operating costs. And yet another Energy Saving opportunity from pg e. Find new ways to save energy and money with pg es Business Energy checkup. Let me finish tonight with this failure to vote. Politicians regularly tell us to vote, so why dont they . They tell us its important that we vote because it decides major issues. So why dont they decide . The United States is at war today. Our president is asking the world to join us. He made this decision on his own. Is this the way its supposed to work in our form of government . One person deciding whether our armed forces go into battle or not . What if the president decided not to go to war against isis, would that have been rightfully his decision, his decision alone . How much power do we give our president s these days . Can they get up one morning and go to war or get up the other day and decide not to . Doesnt this strike you as strange, as undemocratic, as more befitting an ancient monarchy where one king goes to war with another and the people honor their wishes. What purpose does it serve that the congress abdicates its congressional power to represent the people in matters of war . Ill give you a motive. It makes it easier for them to get reelected. Ive heard it said that harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell dont get along. Whats worse, they dont get along or theyre in a quiet mutual agreement not to utter those two words lets vote that would make this government seem more like the Constitutional Republic it was designed to be . Thats hardball for now. Thanks for be with us. For those honoring rosh tonight, will the president s plan work . And at the British Parliament is called back to vote on war. What about our congress . Then no indictment for the police who shot and killed a young black man in a walmart. The state has released the surveillance video. Well get the latest from ohio. Plus big news on the starstudded concert to end extreme poverty and the protester polar bear arrested on monday joins me live tonight. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. President obama laid out his case for military action to World Leaders gathered at the u. N. General assembly today. For the third day in a row the u. S. And its partners carried out air strikes inside syria, this time targeting modular Oil Refineries that bring in a large share ofs