0 grease to have you with us tonight. thank you. that is "the ed show." "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. rev? >> yes, ed. thank you. and thank you for tuning in. tonight's lead, president obama wins the first vote on syria late today. a key senate panel voted to approve a resolution authorizing the use of military force against the syrian regime. it sets up a vote with the full senate expected early next week. it came just hours after president obama speaking overseas in sweden insisted the world must take action. >> first of all, i didn't set a red line. the world set a red line. my credibility is not on the line. the international community's credibility is on the line. and america and congress' credibility is on the line because we give lip service to president that his intention at this moment is no boots on the ground, no quagmire like in iraq, how's that going to happen? if we're not going to have political change on the ground in syria, then essentially we're sort of putting off, you know, an on-going failed state that creates a real problem in the region. >> now, richard, i agree with the president going to congress. even though i don't deal with the military intervention. i think it's the right thing to do. but it's gotten ugly first day that the congress is getting involved. some republicans tried to make this debate about the president, not about syria. listen to congressman joe wilson who infamously shouted "you lie" during the presidential address in 2009. listen to joe wilson. >> with the president's red line, why was there no call for than that. >> yeah. it was the irs. we may as well throw up our hands and say it was all about the irs. he's going to military strikes to the irs. you wonder if joe wilson could actually go lower than he did before? it turns out even when he's reading from talking points, he can go lower. i do think that if you look at the totality of house republicans, this is an interesting dynamic about how this is going across the party lines and the fault lines -- exposing those fault lines within the party. you've got the house republican leadership coming out here along with nancy pelosi saying yes we agree. joe wilson is even more of an outlier to what's left of the republican party than he was before. i don't think it's challenging on a political basis for the president. what looked like a tremendous gamble over the weekend now looks a lot safer in the politics and foreign policy. >> the politics is much different. richard wolffe, karen finney, thank you for your time tonight. and watch "disrupt" with karen finney weekends at 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. coming up, look out america. donald rumsfeld is trying to give you some advice. the gop's convenient amnesia when it comes to iraq. plus the secretary of explaining stuff. former president bill clinton today selling president obama's health care law. we'll tell you what he said about the republicans. and the stunning suicide of ariel castro. how could this happen? and what are the victims saying tonight? also, what's on your mind? e-mail me. friend or foe, i want to know. reply al is ahead. hero: if you had a chance to go anywhere in the world,