Indecisive. Feckless. Feckless. On the left, sally kohn, on the right, Newt Gingrich. In the crossfire, senator ben cardin, a democrat and lindsey graham, a South Carolina republican. Is the president being undermined by republicans or by his own decisions . Tonight on crossfire. Welcome to crossfire, im sally kohn on the left. Im Newt Gingrich on the right. In the crossfire tonight, two key u. S. Senators in the ukraine debate. More breaking news out of russia today. Vladimir putin spent his day staging large scale war games near the Ukrainian Border and had the russian navy sink a ship to block in the ukrainians. How did President Obama spend his day . Imposing symbolic sanctions that
will prevent russian thugs and oligarchs from vacationing at disney world. He could get rid of the symbolic liberalism and boost Defense Spending. That might start to convince put than the u. S. Is serious. Look, newt, the president has been taking serious steps all day, but no step seems to be enough t
my problem is the way the president engages not just putin but the world. i think the big problem with president obama, i don t think he has a vision of foreign policy. i think he s uncomfortable with the idea that we re an exceptional country, the voice for freedom and that putins of the world have to be dealt with. so i appreciate what he did today. thank god he s upping his game. but here s the test for president obama, at the end of the day with the crimea in russia hands in a direct or de facto way let me ask you two follow-up questions. sure. given the last 24 hours big improvement. you will stop criticizing him? i m not going to stop criticizing the president for foreign policy that s a failure from one corner of the world to the other, nor should i. when he was senator obama did anybody ask him would you stop criticizing president bush? look at president obama s foreign policy successes. he s gotten more support for our policies in iran, a coalition
including mine. i think putin believes that obama is really all talk and no action. if you disagree with the president substantive, fine. disagree. dissent is indeed patriotic. but the latest insults against the president not only smack of petty partisan opportunism, it s niece baseless insults that is under mining the president and the our nation s role in the world. senator graham, don t you think these petty personal attacks are beneath your office as a u.s. senator? as much as i like me, which is quite o lot, i don t think the world revolves around what i say, but i do believe my criticism of the president has been justified and in our democratic society, criticizing bush, bush made his fair share of mistake. whether you agree with snowden as a hero or traitor, when you tell the russians don t give him asylum or there will be
president finds himself in the position in the middle east with another nation exactly how he got elected president, by criticizing bush for doing it. tucker: exactly. not only has he lost great britain, our most reliable ahall, he s also losing members on his own caucus, democrats outraged by this. they re saying so out loud. you don t see that very often. anna: we re going to take a look at the way things unfolded this week. here is a list of what has kind of happened over this week. august 26, secretary kerry says he will hold the syrian government accountable for moral obscenities. on the 27th, the french president said france will punish those who took the heinous decision to gas the innocent. he said use of chemical weapons is wrong and the world shouldn t stand i dley by. 28, president obama says the decision has not been made. on the 29th, yesterday, prime minister david cameron says it woulden unthinkable to take military action against syria without approval.