Passage . Talk to both sides including the congressmen leading the fight against reform. End of an era. The venerable the Washington Post is sold to amazons jeff bez bezos. Was what does it say about the future of traditional media . Inside analyst from the Washington Posts David Ignatius and david gross of the New York Times. All of that ahead on memeet th press this sunday morning, august 11th. Good sunday morning. President obama is on vacation, congress is out of town, and although we are in the dog days of summer, the battle to win the hearts and minds of the American People on a range of issues is is in full force. The Obama Administration is finding tough opposition to its agenda, while the gop is divided as well on how to move ahead. Friday, president obama announced changes to the u. S. Surveillance program so many people are talking about, including a change in how the nsa collects phone records, more transparency by the secret foreign intelligence court, thats the fisa court
Funny man, funny man were going right to the international situation. For years now syria has insisted that not only has it not used chemical weapons laughter what you talking about . laughter so after a recent chemical weapons incident in syria the United States decided to see if we could bomb the truth out of them. laughter somewhere on the way to the munitions depot the plan hit a snag. Russia suggested that perhaps if syria were to give up the chemical weapons it does not have, and wouldnt you know it. The u. N. Has confirmed to us that the Syrian Mission here has sent to them a letter in which they ask to acede to join the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. The terms of that basically say a country has to get rid of all its stockpiles of chemical weapons. Jon oh, oh, you said sarin sarin gas, oh, yeah, we have that. laughter we thought you said give up your stockpiles of saran wrap. laughter we dont have that, were a tupperware people. laughter now while this development puts a
My name is jon stewart. We have a program that we have put together tonighting tonight we have with us the man, the myth, the legend, mr. Billy crystal is going to be joining us tonight. cheers and applause funny man, funny man were going right to the international situation. For years now syria has insisted that not only has it not used chemical weapons laughter what you talking about . laughter so after a recent chemical weapons incident in syria the United States decided to see if we could bomb the truth out of them. laughter somewhere on the way to the munitions depot the plan hit a snag. Russia suggested that perhaps if syria were to give up the chemical weapons it does not have, and wouldnt you know it. The u. N. Has confirmed to us that the Syrian Mission here has sent to them a letter in which they ask to acede to join the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. The terms of that basically say a country has to get rid of all its stockpiles of chemical weapons. Jon oh, oh, you said
Times. Saying u. S. Military action in syria would hurt civilians and spread conflict. Jon first of all, New York Times, thats how you reach out to americans . laughter youre not familiar with buzzfeed or maybe, i dont know duck dine steerx i dont know, right there second of all y are you [bleep] on news the New York Times. Just moments after we saluted your statesmanship . You had to say one more thing. Youre like the larry david of international diplomacy. laughter but look, reasonable people can disagree on syria. Vladimir putin is entitled to his opinion on our political strategy. But now putin is taking aim at obamas claims that america is an exceptional nation. Jon oh no you did not. laughter what part of butter elvis dont you understand . laughter stating it is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. We are all different, but when we ask for the lords blessings, we must not forget that god created us equal. Jon [bleep] i
In new york city and all across the nation to make sure that our new york city neighbors have access to good nutritious food they need. Leslie gofrdon, thank you. That really underscores that were just at the beginning of this. Thanks so much. Sure, yeah. This is cnn breaking news. Hello again. Thank you for being with me. Im fredricka whitfield. A federal judge ruling today that former National Security adviser john boltons book can hit store shelves, blocking a Trump Administration push to stop its release. Bolton and the president now reacting to the news. This as another legal standoff is unfolding. U. S. Attorney general bill barr making a latenight announcement that Southern District of new york prosecutor Geoffrey Berman would be stepping down. But berman is disputing that saying he has no intention of leaving. Bermans office has been in charge of prosecuting several of President Trumps allies. Lets get started at the white house. Kristen holmes is there. Despite john boltons bo