elliott spitzer and anthony wiener gone. sent home despite $10 million spent. spitzer lost his bid to scott stringer. 52-48. as for wiener, he got crushed. getting just 5% of the vote. who were those 5%? hang your headsday, kids, in that primary race for mayor. how is he taking it? we might have come up a little short in this campaign, but we are all unified in that fight. and if we keep fighting, and i hope you will, if you keep fighting, i m going to keep fighting because we re going to keep new york the capital of the middle class for years to come. thank you very much. brian: promise me you won t keep fighting and go away. after his concession speech, wiener gave a local reporter the one finger salute, which wasn t saying you re number one. steve: no, it s not. good-bye, anthony. new hope in the fight against breast cancer. the f.d.a. has green lighted a
nation does not want to do in the first place. this is almost unbelievable. i think obama sees this as a way to negotiate, to pause, to draw it out and after a couple of weeks inspections, negotiations and there will not be a vote in congress, there will not be a strike and we will not have the removal of weapons out of syria. gretchen: i actually think this thing will go away. unfortunately it is kind of like the benghazi situation. if you keep saying the story is over, don t need to discuss it, then may be the story is over. i think syria is going to go back to in-fighting and the countries will fall off. brian: in benghazi, the president went to las vegas and never wanted to talk about it again. when mitt romney brought it up, he got blasted and refused to bring it up in final debate. this, the president made it front and center after the world demanded he say something or the country did. then he is the one who set this deadline and he is the one who promised military action an
addressed over the last several weeks rather than ask for a vote in congress and ask it to be postponed. president bush, on the other hand, i think he was very deliberate about how he made his decisions and i respected how he made those decisions. and he had the courage to make them. and we worked very hard to make sure that his decisions once implemented lived up to his expectations. gretchen: i m sure you got into disagreements from time to time and that brings me into the next topic about this documentary coming out tonight 9:00 p.m. called the president s gatekeepers. let s take a peek. we re waiting for [inaudible] to protect us. the whole time the president is telling me we re going back to washington. the secret service is telling me we can t go back here until we know much more about what s happening. i just said, mr. president, i really can t recommend it. gretchen: he was angry with you; right? ñi yes, he was. he was pretty angry with me. i tried to stay cool, calm and
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healthy. and good. weight watchers. join for free. because we understand. because we ve been there. because it works. hurry, join by september 14th and you ll get a free month. gretchen: good morning to you today. it is wednesday, september 11, 2013. i m gretchen carlson. president obama laying out a case for a strike against syria last night burks in the same speech, he also asked congress to postpone the vote. if we fail to act, the assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons. i therefore asked the leaders of congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. gretchen: so is the president sending mixed messages to the world? brian: one year to the day, four americans lost their lives, another explosion rocks