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Airstrikes are not getting the job done. A poll released today shows people think our military strategy is failing. Well dig deeper into the numbers coming up. Meantime this afternoon, arab states are stepping up their attacks against isis. Egypt now wants the u. N. To step in and not iraq and syria but in libya where the 21 christians were beheaded by an isisinspired group and additional christians were kidnapped overnight. The 2011 nato mission that helped remove qadhafi is not finished and alouped the allowed the militants to gain footing. They said the arab nations need to do more to fight the extremists as the isis atrocities continue to astound us. We were surprised by the jordanian pooilt set on fire. And it is said to believe they burned 45 people alive in iraq. From the council on foreign relations, steven thank you for being with us and the big question is should aaron nations take the lead on this . They need to step up and it is clear the jordanians and the egyptians are doing so. They dont have the military capacity to do so completely. But the jordanians and the egypt reasons are wellequipped and are undertaking airstrikes respectively. But what the arab nations and the muslim nation at large needs to confront the isis nation. You can put war heads on foreheads as they say at the pentagon, but this is a political problem. This is an issue that needs to be solved within the islamic world. The United States really doesnt have that central role in combatting a deeply dark and twisted interpretation of islam. That is up to arabs and muslims to do . What is the United States role here. Do we take a step back . I dont think we take a step back. The United States is a backbone of the fight in iraq and syria. There is no indication that the Obama Administration is going to undertake strikes in libya. But nevertheless without the United States, which has accounted for more than 80 of the airstrikes, this would not be as effective as it has been. Why does isis want to aning to onnize the west but so many arab states . You have to understand the way in which isis views the arab world. First they want to intimidate washingtons partners in the fight against isis. And then there is a deep belief amongst the leadership al baghdadi, the primary figure there, despite these being arab and muslim countries that these are not muslim societies and not correctly muslim societies and an aspect of purifying these societies so in a sense they dont care. The acts of violence that we recoil are from their perspective a way of purifying their society to make them more muslim. And we here the adage of the enemy of my enemy is my friend and there are different states getting involved in this fight. But there seems to be a very fractured advance here. Weve got the egyptians doing some stuff and jordan moving in and iran taking some steps. Do we need more cohesion in the coalition trying to fight isis now . That is exactly the type of thing the United States can do. The egyptians are undertaking airstrikes in libya without the coordination of the United States. The jordanians have taken the lead among the arab states in iraq. But there needs to be a mow cohesive a more cohesive fight to be more effective in going after these guys. Isis is spreading throughout the region. Extremist groups that pledged allegiance to al qaeda are now pledging alisance to isis and allegiance to isis and we need a Cohesive Strategy that is overseen and by the United States in which the United States is a primary participant. Steven in this country we thought the end of dictators in the middle east would mean democracy in the middle east and instead weve seen two power vacuums that lead to massive fights that are a problem for us. Do you think we should look back and say that were we are actually better off when we have dictators in the middle east . It is hard to say that were better off with dictators in the middle east. But if you look objectively at the situation in the middle east, we are looking at instability, violence resurgent authoritarian authoritarianism that will plague the region for many years to come. If you look back at the gauzy days of the winter and spring of 20 1erks everybody thought that democracy was breaking out. There was no real expectation that we would run into these kinds of problems. Of course everybody understood there were different outcomes. But this is really unprecedented. You have fires burn in iraq in yemen, in libya, and in the signi peninsula and these places are overwhelmed. And if you could give us a comparison on the propaganda front which we think about watching these videos. Osama bin laden used videos but they were videos that put him forward on par with World Leaders and on par with president bush and turned him into a huge force throughout the world, a force of evil but a force. And wellknown face of evil. The isis strategy seems not to put forward al baghdadi rarely captured on film or anyone else a positive in their view representative, but only putting forward the lethal attacks. What the strategy behind that and is there any comparison to bin laden strategy . There is something to point out. But the fact that bagdadi hasnt been futured only adds to the mystique about him and the videos released are intended to intimidate the arab world or to intimidate the west. What they are trying to do is to create a passive acceptance of isis presence in the heart of the middle east particularly in the places where they already are. If you intimidate enough people it makes it easier to control the territory you are in. Isis has been compared or has been referred to as an outgrowth of al qaeda. But actually these are two organizations that have very different world views in terms of what is the problem in the middle east and what is the solution. To Osama Bin Laden and to the leader of al qaeda, it was undermining governments that they saw as unislamic and that was to go after the governments primary sponsored the United States. And here what al baghdadi is doing, is to do it through violence. The differences are becoming more apparent. Steve cook joining us from washington. Thank you so much. My pleasure. So besides steve, d. C. Is a ghost town today, shut down by nearly a half foot of snow. That is leaving plenty of time for members of congress and the white house to digest interesting new poll numbers regarding isis. Well have those up next. And then raffi will be here to tell us about the next winter storm coming our way. Really really, guys more snow. 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But if the poll numbers are any indication, they are getting an avalanches of anxiety from constituents. Three quarters of those poll ss want authority for the u. S. And big marker at the huffington post. Mr. Howard fineman. Welcome back to the cycle. Happy fat tuesday. Well played. So in the polling, 57 of americans favor sending troops and 50 oppose. And given the margin given that we are a war weary nation and that isis is not a proven direct threat to the homeland and why are they comfortable sending troops to deal with isis. I dont know they are comfortable but i think what is influencing them is video. What is influenceing them is the media defining our world today and that is what isis is playing to. They are baiting us into it and slowly but surely doing it with the theatrical brutality that they are visiting upon the world. That is what is going on. And howard usually in times of war and anxiety and uneasiness, the American People want to come together and support the president. But yet when you look at the latest poll that tori was reading, 57 of americans disaproof of disapprove of how america is handling the war of isis, and this is a steady number and people cannot come around and support him on Foreign Policy . Partly because the president like the American People is more ambivalent than he might appear at first glance. Yes, he asked for that authorization to use military force, but the document itself is as am am biff lent as the American People and it shows the brutality of isis and given the actions in his own words in his own resolution amount to what george w. Bush used to call evil that it would be a limitless war to the end. But instead expressing the caution that Many Americans feel, he says yeah but were not going to have sustained ground contact or a sustained military operation and enduring is the word he used and the limit is three years. So what should he do differently now . What should he do differently . Well i think he has to he has to choose more than he has. One way or the other hes got to either say, look this is a battle of drones and airstrikes and propaganda and were going to wage it to the utmost in a way the world has never seen. Or he has to say, were in this and were going to destroy them on the ground minute by minute. And you cant have it both ways in this kind of situation at a time when isis every day is putting out a piece of video or a picture designed only for black and white thinking. And howard, you mentioned that ambivalence. It is a point youve been making very well at a time when there is sincere confusion about what we are exactly trying to get into. I wanted to play what you said briefly on hard ball. This lays out the horrors Richard Engel was described in graphic detail but says were going there only for three years and not having enduring offensive Ground Combat operations and we dont think that largescale military involvement is the right way to do it so the president is expressing the ambivalence the American People have. So the next logical question is isnt that a problem, understandable how the public feels ambivalence and torn but sunt the president stand up and tell us were going to war, and going to the American Congress and making the case in primetime and hitting this with the full force or if that is not the solution to Something Else then not ask for new war powers if we are not going to war. I agree with you ari and that is the problem. Often it is good for the president , for the leader of the nation like ours to reflect the thinking of the American People but there are also times when the American People are i would say they are ambivalent. They are not confused. They are of two minds about this. Not the same as being confused. It is up to the president to lead. And weve said before and the president s own aids have said that barack obama is very shrewd and leads from behind. That was said ironically about libya which is now a failed state. But you cant lead from behind in this situation at a time when isis is daring us to think more aggressively. And howard we have today a new member of our military Leadership Team ash carter just sworn in as defense secretary. Can we expect him to stay the course or will he bring different views . I dont think ash carter is in control of a strategy. I think he is more of a technician and an expert on weaponry and the mechanics of the pentagon. Le try to get he will try to get a handle on the never ending mess of the pentagon but my sense is the Strategic Progress is being made in the corridors of the white house and in a lesser sense in the state department. Dont forget the state department has been given the job of coordinating a global propaganda war against isis. The guy running that is richard stangel, a long time editor of Time Magazine and a friend of mine. And there in drone and airstrikes and those are being coordinated by the cia and by the National Security counsel as they are by the pentagon itself. The pentagon doesnt do a darn thing without direct direction from the white house. I find myself wondering why isnt Howard Fineman running for office. The answer is i would hide under the table first. No you would be a great leader. Howard fine man, thank you so much. And we want to know how you are keeping warm today. Tweet us a picture using the toasty tuesday. I came up with that myself. 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In West Virginia a fiery explosion on tracks derailing in heavy snow and a massive fire burned for hours and no one was seriously hurt. And the Nations Capital was blast sand the national zoo picked up 5 inches of snow and it has been a wild wild winter. Kate parker is in washington for us. And what is happening right now . Reporter folks are enjoying their snow day. Everyone is off of work. Federal government is closed and schools are closed and the roads were cleared so quickly. Right inside of the district. The main thoroughfares cleared this morning because the snow stopped falling this morning. The air is dry. And no moisture on the ground. But we do have snow on the ground behind me here on the mall. About five inches or so. It is nice and powdery. It is not heavy or wet. So shoveling isnt a big problem. But people have been out trying to help neighbors get shovelled and get back to normal because it looks like everything will be back to everything tomorrow. But you have to hold on tight here in d. C. Because had you a snow day and out enjoying it. But guess what happens by the end of the week . You could see the coldest air youve seen in more than 20 years. That is right. 20 years. The last time the Nations Capital was below freezing was back in 94. So there is a real possibility for us here on friday dangerously cold. Windchills and below zero. If you do know anyone homeless call 211 and get transportation for those people to shelters. That is crucial information into the next few days. The white house looks beautiful surrounded by the snow. Case parker in the Nations Capital. Thank you so much. Are you ready for more winter because the cycles Weather Authority says there is more. No. Boo. Dont say it is coming. Okay it is not coming. But unfortunately it is coming. The coldest morning since 2004. But it is going to be even colder. And we will outdo what weve had already. And more than this morning. Thank you, raffi. And here is a look at the plaza downstairs. The skaters were down there. And they clean up the snow so fast. But there is evidence of ice on the camera there. A very snowy start around the tristate this morning and still snowing at this hour at boston and cape cod where they dont need more snow. And this is light stuff falling now and light stuff on the jersey shore. Lets look at canada. This is the polar air locked in canada. The current temperatures. 2 below in winnipeg and 20 below in churchill. This is what is spilling down in the next few days. You think it is cold now. It gets worse toward the end of the week. This is tomorrow morning and the frigid air returns. 6 6 below in minneapolis. Teens feeling good compared to what is coming and light air with the arctic front. Watch what happens on thursday. That spills south. These are the thursday morning low temperatures even in miami it is 47 degrees. And for them that is fur coat weather. 47 in orlando. Temperatures well below zero in minneapolis and chicago. And then the worst on friday and snow coming for the weekend. So here is the new york city extended forecast. Near 30 tomorrow. That is your day to enjoy because down from there. 18 for high on thursday. Friday morning in new york city forecasting a low of 2 degrees. That would break a record going back to 1950. And again there is a chance for snow on saturday. So no sign of winter letting up. Next week has a little bit of promise will you dallas a little bit of winter potentially lurking there as well. So well keep you posted as time going on. Raffi, the only good news is there is only 31 days until spring. And the defense just began presenting the case in the socalled american sniper trial down in texas. The prosecution rested this afternoon. Iraq war veteran Eddie Ray Ruth is charged with killing kyle and littlefield at a texas shooting rage. And the kyle story is a blockbuster but for the family it is all too real. And charles is out front for us and it is now day five of the trial so catch us up so far. Well the prosecution has just wrapped up after five days of testimony. More than 25 people took the stand including kyles widow who talked about their marriage and his attempt to help other veterans including ralph who did kill the men. And his defense was that he was insane at the time. Did he make crazy statements but the state will try to prove that ralph may have been a troubled marine and may have had other issues. He may have had drug and alcohol abuse but he was not insane. The defense will now begin its case. They will try to build a case of avenue man who did have mental problems. In fact he was in a Psychiatric Hospital just eight days before the killings. He was diagnosed as psychotic. But released with medications. So the defense is going to try to present that case. And that is going to be key to the defense because they are trying to get not guilty by reason of in sanity but the state is going to try to push for life without parole. The two the two are the two decisions the jury will have to make in the coming days. Back to you abby. Charles had lock in texas, thank you so much. Lets bring in caleb mason. When you have a client who video taped a confession what do you do . Well in this case the defendant make some significant statements. What you would look at if you were the defense trying for a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict, is distinct wish the admissions that were made in that statement from the relevant inquiry which is what was his state of mind at the time of commission of the murders. And the inquiry is at the time that he pulled the trigger and killed kyle and littlefield, was he because of a severe mental disease or defect unable to perceive that the act was wrong. I think the only viable way that this could be argued on the facts of this case as we know them so far would be to argue that ralph had severe ptsd combined perhaps with preexisting schizophrenia that led to a psychotic break or a dissociative state in which he perceived that he was factually not in texas with two men who were trying to help him, but rather in a war zone perhaps in iraq, and that he was fighting enemy soldiers. And let me pick up that point, caleb, as our reporter mentioned, the widow did testify. We have some footage of her speaking on the cycle earlier, but responding to that idea that you mentioned, that ptsd could come into play as a defense, take a listen. Chris and i were blessed enough to know a large number of men in many different justicerelated fields bighearted men who experienced something traumatic and many of them have ptsd. They dont go around talking about it. They dont use it as money excuse use it as an excuse. They carry guns. They struggle with sleep or mood swings like a lot of people do with their internal struggles but it doesnt change their character or make you a murderer. That was her response there in 2013. And also more broadly speak to us about her testimony might come into play in the minds of the jurors in this case. I think with respect to the latter question a juror in this case would see a horrific event that really should not have happened and happened to a person who was trying to help a troubled veteran, a juror might have a hard time applying the instructions that they will be given with respect to the insanity defense. But i would emphasize that it is irrelevant whether 80 , 90 , 99 of people who have ptsd do not commit violent acts. Im sure that is true. But what is relevant is going to be, if these are the facts that are proved through medical testimony that the defense is likely to present, if he had, if the defendant had a mental disease, namely ptsd or schizophrenia or some combination there of that resulted in a dissociative state that he didnt realize what he was doing or didnt realize he was shooting his friends or benefactors and believed he was shooting enemies on a battlefield, if that is the testimony presented by his doctors, then as a matter of law in texas, he is not guilty. That does not mean he would be set free. He would be confined to a Mental Institution and for some time. Presumably a long time a period of years, until he was deemed no longer a threat. But i would i would emphasize, any were the defense, that while the vast majority of people who suffer from these conditions may not end up committing violent acts for those that do it is indeed a defense as a matter of law. 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A new book titled the age of acquiescence, argued wealth and power argues that americans instead of uprising have surrendered to the 1 . So what is happening here . Here to make the case in the guest spot is the book author steve fraser. Welcome to the cycle. Thank you for having me. You are comparing two time periods. The latest few decades with a decade about 100 years ago and looking at the relative movement in terms of worker rights. When i look at the early when you look at the earlier period of 100 years ago, no five day workweek and child labor laws and is it fair to compare the two and uprising today . It is fair to compare them and the governor of new jersey has made that case. The broad middle class and working population has not just recently but for the last 25 or 30 years suffered a downward trajectory in their well being and material well being and the sense of real secure and they have been living in an economy 40 Million People work and make Poverty Level wages in america today. There is a vast Surveillance Network that surveils what you are doing at work. We all work 24 you guys probably do 24 7 and all sorts of people do. Meanwhile, the skewed distribution of wealth and income in america is even greater than it was in 1890 or 1880. Crony capitalism of the sort that mark twain made fun of in the guilded age is back of us again today. So i think and there are many other reasons why i think it is useful to ask and interesting to try to figure out why there isnt the same degree anywhere near the same degree of mobilized resistance to that concentrated wealth and power, especially when you recognize the sub version of Democratic Institutions which our guilded aged an seventy seventiors been ancestors were angry about. And you write about the language of talking about inequality has completely changed and become very vanilla. You talk about fdr and Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt talking about inequality with truthful and honest language. And you write several decades have come and gone during which weve learned 23409 to mention carl marx andin Polite Company or vocabulary and exiling suspect or nasty phrases like class warfare or the preserve army of labor or even something as apparentlyin oculus as working class. It has to do with the loss of a kind of alternative vision of how so site might be Society Might be working. And our ancestors were up in arms and had a vision of how things might be worked differently and various visions and they have known something other than industrial capitalism as a way to live. They were independent farmers, handy craftsmen or peasants from eastern and southern europe. They were small store keepers, petty manufacturers that lived in a different world and they knew they were both angry and knew capitalism was not their fate and they could imagine a cooperative commonwealth or the social gospel imagined a christian commonwealth or socialism or alternatives. 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We should use shaming to hold the powerful accountable. And while most countries have stopped shaming like tarring and feathering and it can address everything from pollution to tax evasion. California threatened to name people who owed over 100,000 in unpaid taxes and found that fear of being shamed motivated them to pay up more than many other state laws. Programs collected over 300 300 million. And when people told their voting will be shown, they turned out. And this new book is shame necessary, from jennifer jacquet. Why is shame a new tool for society. I should caveat that saying it is a tool. It is good or bad depending on the tool who use it and for what reason. We can use it against the strong and it can be used against groups institutions and in fact entire systems. So you talk about the strong. How would you use shame as something to hold the powerful or corporations accountable as opposed to normal government . We could talk about the shaming that the media has been so important to shaming corporations for having tax havens abroad or funneling minutes elsewhere. And this is interesting, when shame can be used against big corporations evading the law. And sometimes the citizen playing the role of government in that case. So what is the difference between guilt and shame and why is that important here . Imagine trying to guilt the system of capitalism or tax havens. This is a silly concept. But we can shame those things. We can shame entire systems. That is what was nice in the last segment, the fact that shame could be used even against groups against governments. So professor, i love the chapter, the seven habits of effective shaming. What are the best ways to shame people who have gotten out of line . Well shame is always competing for our attention and our attention is finite so it has to consider the form and that is why unconventional media out lights like jon stewart are successful because they capture the they capture that sort of artistic shaming and capture our attention in ways others it has to be specific to the transgression, right . Yes. In the case of voting, whats interesting is that overwhelming majority of people think you should vote. Over 90 of people and yet in nonpresident ial elections you have less than 50 of people turning out to vote. How do you shame people to vote . They would reveal your voteing preference in a mailer alongside your neighbors voting record. What should i say to abby to get her back in line . The threat is more valuable than shame itself. I would have a conversation behind the scenes before you went public. I want to publicly shame her. What you talk about is examples where there is behavior where some people think is bad but we dont criminalize. Theres this example of people who use too much water in droughts. It becomes a social problem. We would never pass a law in this country sending someone to jail just for watering their lawn. Is this a middle ground . We think about immunization being a hot topic. Mississippi has 100 compliance because they have a law. Other states are considering shaming more because they have so many open possibilities of people getting out of it. It serves as an interim between those things. Are there instances where shaming doesnt work . We talked about corporations. When toure tries it, it doesnt work. Wait. The large Oil Companies may be not so susceptible to changing. Reputation is one of the things that has a lot of value throughout our society. Have you gotten any pushback from some of the corporations you name in the book . 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Mrs. Winslows soothing syrup was an elixir that sold very well in this country. It contained alcohol, opium and 65 milligrams of morphine per fluid ounce. The company sold over 1. 5 million bottles annually. Mrs. Charlotte winslow had been a nurse for 30 years before she came up with this concoction. At that time before drug prohibition, there was also a very popular wine that contained six or seven milligrams of cocaine per ounce. Queen victoria and ulysses s. Grant took it. Cocacola contained a small amount of cocaine. Small amounts of serious drugs could be acquired legally at the local pharmacy. Then came decades of alcohol and drug prohibition that led to the most dangerous members of society controlling the drug trade, thus creating a drug economy that is too large to be stopped by force. Clinton spoke about his administrations success did not actually stop the drug trade. Dont forget that. You have everything you need here. I know youre frustrated. I wish you had no narco trafficking, but it is not really your fault. We did too good a job of taking the transportation out of the air and water, and so we ran it over land. I apologize for that. I wish you didnt have any problems. Everybodys got problems. Dont forget your assets. Ever since clinton left office, hes been very critical of the drug war. While he was president , he helped expand that water and unwittingly helped narco traffickers. Some of the administration saw that happening and they say they were forbidden to even speak of it. Phil jordan once told a reporter we were prohibited from discussing the effects of nafta as it related to the matters of drug trafficking. A white house report found in the early 90s 250 tons of cocaine were smuggled through florida each year. By the end of the 90s, 200 tons came through. The market is too big and lucrative to be stopped by force. We need to cripple the power of that market through decriminalization and legalization. We need to give the drug market back to the mrs. Winslows. Privately opened dispensaries could do more to hurt the big underworld drug dealers than an army can. Alcohol prohibition created a huge underground market. Aside from some moon shiners, no one sells illegal alcohol anymore. Thanks for watching the cycle. Have a great day. One conservative judge in texas has just thrown a major wrench in the president s plans for hundreds of thousands of immigrants here in the u. S. Its tuesday, february 17th and this is now. Hours ago the Obama Administration was forced to suspend implementation of the president s sweeping executive actions on immigration after a federal judge in texas temporarily blocked them. Andrew ruled that the president failed to meet the procedural requirements necessary to carry out the slate of relief programs announced in november. The first of those programs deportation protection for up to 270,000 dreamers over the age of 30. The decision, a setback to