we re not going to war. we will be able to hold bashar al assad accountable in a very limited, very targeted, very short term effort without assuming responsibility for syria s civil war. unbelievable small limited kind of effort. so watch out bashar al assad, america is going to bring down the unbelievably small hammer. [ laughter ] but to be clear, to be clear, we re not looking to affect the course of the nail. [ laughter ] welcome back to morning joe. it s the top of the hour. nicole wallace and harold ford jr. is still with us and joining us from san antonio former chief of staff to george w. bush andy card back on the show. good to have you. from san francisco, pulitzer prize winner bob woodward. big show this morning.
to a president have a candid relationship with the president where they can kind of talk without worry about the veneer of how things look from the outside. it s more these are the options you have, mr. president. describing the ugly and the good and helping the president make impossibly difficult decisions. but the job is very difficult, and i hope people will watch that show on the discovery channel. speaking of the ugly and the good i ll promote the show by showing this portion. here s andy describing the heated moments aboard air force one as the staff decided what to do in the moments following 9/11. we re flying waiting for fighter jets to come up and protect us and the whole time the president is telling me we re going back to washington. the secret service is saying we can t go back there until we know more what s happening. president bush was adamant.
thanks to joe. i like that. come on this show. i ll be in the caribbean. exactly. up next money party. i love that. that s a money party. up next the top stories in the politico playbook. but first here s bill karins with a check on the forecast. good morning. on this tuesday we re at the peek of hurricane season. this marks the period where we expect the most activity and right on cue we have a storm off the east coast. this will not affect any of the lower 48. bermuda will get hit and then our friends up in canada. this is tropical storm gabrie e gabrielle. it s dissipated and now reformed and again should only be a tropical storm. not expected to become a hurricane. it will clip nova scotia and newfoundland. humberto is expected to become a
marital battle when rupert murdoch said on the charlie rose show that they would not have the same voting rights as the other children do, and whether they will revisit it, we will see. they had that fight when things were well. and what about the timing of this divorce, because a big split of murdoch s empire right here, and could their split affect the big corporate split? well, the company has assured nae the timing was coincidental and of course, everybody says that murdoch is readied for the two big splits, and the company is divided, and he is spending time with the new publishing company, and people say he is invigorated with this, and spending the time doing it, and could be that he is cleaning up his life right now. and amy, thank you is much. appreciate it. we hope it goes well for both of the murdochs. so you are have been probably singing the happy birthday song since you were a kid, but if you were doing it publicly, you could owe hundreds of thousands of copyr
chemical attack. the u.s. is worried about the motivation for that allegation. we would also warn the regime against making these kinds of charges, as any kind of pretext or cover for its use of chemical weapons. reporter: in an interview on the charlie rose show, the chairman of the house intelligence committee insisted bashar al assad s forces have used chemical weapons. there s a body of evidence, a body of reporting that leads me to believe, as of yesterday, that the syrians have in fact, throughout this conflict, that in a small number of times, used some quantity of chemical weapons. one more finding by the u.s. intelligence community, senior administration officials tell our jessica yellin in israel that the united states is deeply skeptical of those regime claims that the rebels launched a chemical attack. they say there is no evidence to date that rebel forces have their hands on any chemical