Give us your analysis of that. Theres no question that he is not only mysteries but a president and an autocrat at the same time. Clearly, this is a very, very difficult situation. How do you remove a president who has functionally no term of office and the power of the state behind him, the power of the military behind him . That is a conundrum that we have not yet managed to figure a way out of. I would like to see a system where the International Community could in fact joined together to bring about a change in the regime such as assad. We are not there yet. We dont have a United Nations or any multinational contract in any fashion that has been able to successfully do that. That is really a major hole in the International System today. Is he being propped up by some of the most imperial president s currently in office, namely mr. Putin and the iranians . Certainly the iranians have helped out. We have a new regime in iran that is trying some kind of agreement with the west, or dem
Tonight at 7 00, we continue q ancore presentations of with columnist gregg easterbrook. He discusses his book the king of sports. Here is a preview. Areoday most politicians oleaginous hacks what brought all that on . Congratulations knowing how to pronounce oleaginous. You are in a small minority. Football has become a cult and you see some evidence of this trade i present it in the book. Coaches have become revered figures in American Life and in some cases justifiably. If all men were like tony dungy the world would be a better place. But coaches have become substitute father figures in american society. We dont believe in politicians anymore, businessmen, clergy. Coaches still seem like people who practice tough love, like a good father would be, and it has a lot to do with their high standing in society. See our discussion with Greg Easterbrook today at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Clock, highlights from our original history series first ladies. Tonight come a 20th century first
Modernizing conservatism. Here is a brief look. In 2001, before september 11, one of the big issues that the new president faced was whether and how the federal government should fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research that involves the destruction of human embryos. To all of us, this means of the taking of a human life. Whether it was moral to spend money on that public research. The president made a decision that said you could spend money on cells that already existed but not new ones, you would not be using federal dollars to encourage the further destruction of human embryos. He said these kinds of issues are going to stay with us, they are not going away and we need help in thinking about them. He called together the bioethics commission, a group of 18 scholars, almost all of them academics. They would come together several times a year and consider a bioethical question with how it Public Policy applications and provide advice to the administration and the country in the form of repor
Washington journal continues. Host joining us now to talk about political stories to watch in 2014, Shane Goldmacher of National Journal. He is their congressional correspondent. Good morning help new year. When it comes to the agenda when Congress Gets back in session, whats on the list . Guest they are coming back. They are coming back after three years of the at least productive legislative work in congressional history. Theres a lot on their agenda. Unfinished business. The first thing the senate will be taking up, is the effort to reextend Unemployment Insurance which expired at the end of this last year. 1. 3 americans lost their long term Unemployment Insurance. Democrats trying to push to reextend. They will be taking up confirmation of janet yellen as the next chairwoman of the federal reserve. She will be the first woman to hold that post. Because he rewrote the filibuster rule, shes almost guaranteed to be confirmed. They took the key procedural vote. In the house, its not c
Involved in efforts to demonstrate are we replacing u. S. Jobs here . We are just not paying enough or something is wrong and therefore, we are turning to foreign workers. It has been proven time and time again, study after study, that is not the case. They will not do this work. Without this workforce, again, Food Production will go off seas and crops will be left unharvested in the u. S. Why are we tying the pathway to citizenship to a Guest Worker Program . I am not going to give 11 million Illegal Immigrants a path way until i get something i want. I want a new immigration system. I would not trust them to give it to me. Our democratic friends are not going to trust us to hold everything up until we are satisfied with Border Security. You live on the border. I know you are as sincere a this as possible. We have to talk about the elephant in the room. Every time we have this debate, theres always a reason the border is not quite secure enough. We spend billions of dollars and we got