strong solidarity with turkey and condemned terrorist attacks against that country. john huddy live in middle east burr rewith more on this. john? reporter: turkey requested the rare emergency meeting, by the way the fifth in nato s history under article iv of its treaty. article iv essentially allow as country to call for emergency meetings, consultations with other countries if that particular country feels its security is in danger. that is obviously the case here with turkey today. nato alliance members met in belgium to discuss the isis and recent terrorist attacks. secretary-general expressed condolences with the victims of those attacks and nato stands in solidarity with turkey. part of the discussion focused on turkey attacks with the kurdish rebels, pkk, kurdistan workers party in northern iraq. pkk says turkey has been
otherwise they would have acted. poland, right next to ukraine, called for article iv which a country can do when it feels its security is threatened. countries like poland, they re feeling this just based by their position on the map much more than the countries to the west of them. and that s driving a different reaction to this. what i heard today from both the president and the secretary of state is immense frustration about this referendum. and, you know, they re calling it illegitimate, unconstitutional. we heard nick burns call it farcical. my question that i have is are they doing what we call in politics a prebuttal knowing what the result of any such referendum would be, would be pro-russia. and are they trying to put the genie back in the bottle here? and will they be able to do it? or has russia, and this is a big question, effectively through the kind of ambiguity of where crimea now is nixed it one way or another.
apples and oranges. qualify when you were talking about it as a few in the group of debt ceiling deniers. because it is a small number of people who are saying that they re making noise. but it s a small number. and they re not going to win this battle. maybe not. a former u.s. comptroller general head of the government accountability office, founder and ceo of the comeback america initiative. david good to have you on the program. good to be back here. how big a deal would this be if this did not pass, debt ceiling was not raised? first i m embarrassed to be an american today. the fact we re even having a debate about whether or not we should pay our bills is rather ridiculous with the world s soul superpower. but let s talk to the ground troop. the article iv of the 14th amendment of the constitution guarantees u.s. debtholders. the treasury department has the ability to make sure that debt is serviced on time. believe it or not, this country
part of what he was trying to achieve by going to nato is bring the u.s. and the other western countries more on his side in this. send a little message to russia, which is obviously the biggest power on the other side, if you mess with me, you are messing with the united states and so forth. we are a long way from any kind of u.s. intervention. notably, he did not go to nato under section five of the treaty, the mutual self-defense. but the other article iv, which is a matter of mutual consultation. so he hasn t really ratcheted this thing up as high as he could. bret: bill? i talked to several veteran policy experts and they had contradictory views of what is happening there. one is appalled at the failure of leadership that we are letting turkey pursue the outage here. where is the u.s.? can you imagine, he said henry kissinger, or madeleine albright being this absent from a major crisis and nation where we have an interest in toppling the government and ally of the greatest thr
attorney general, an attorney day for your time, i m sure you know the country and perhaps the world will be watching as you implement this law going forward. we start the 11:00 hour here on the east coast. several important decisions from the united states supreme court today. this headline, the big health care decision will not come until thursday, that will be the final day of this year s supreme court term, including the charge of the president s signature first term initiative, also called obama care. but a most important verdict in the arizona immigration case, several provisions thrown out as unconstitutional. the justices saying the state of arizona was trying to essentially police immigration which is a federal purview, but one very controversial show me your papers provision left in place. that is if a police officer stops somebody for some other reasons and has suspicion that they re here illegally, they can ask for their papers. take us inside the room. again, e