maybe what she said wasn t the full picture. although, again, it was a pretty chaotic situation, but that was six, seven months ago. i thought we had been through that, and yet congresswoman, those same things that we were hearing back in, you know, october were being trotted out again today. you re right, they just kept bringing up all these attacks, these partisan attacks. what i don t understand is, after 9/11, republicans and democrats came together and we were united and determined to protect our homeland security, to change our intelligence system, and we worked together to implement many, many reforms to make our country stronger and our intelligence stronger and to protect our citizens. that effort isn t there now. it just seems to be a partisan attack. americans were killed, americans were attacked, and yet their response is to attack americans. attack the state department. attack the military. we should be united in
with the violence either. kofi annan told reporters today syria is at a tipping point. he urged both sides to lay down their weapons and find some type of peaceful solution. that recommendation doesn t appear to be carrying much weight in syria. the rebels are talking about retaliating for the violence over the weekend. the syrian government has continued to attack civilians in that country. now, over the weekend, more than 100 people were killed in the town of houla and town of hama. 41 were killed. that attack came after the u.n. security council condemned president assad s regime for the attack in houla on friday. the diplomatic effort isn t having much of an impact on president assad and syrian regime. bigger question now is what happens next? there are calls for military intervention in syria. right now the u.s. and many other countries are simply
there are some concerns about the teachings of the koran. do you have problems with some of those teachings? well, i m certainly not an expert, to put it mildly. but there s something there that teaches some very negative vibe. there s a lot of hatred there someplace. now, i don t know if that s from the koran. i don t know if that s from someplace else. but this tremendous hatred out there that i ve never seen anything like it. okay. he goes right for the erogenous zone. now, here s romney on monday. let s listen. i believe in america, the freedom, opportunity and principles of our constitution that have led us to become the greatest nation in the history of the earth. this effort isn t about a person, it s about the cause of american freedom and greatness. you know, he talks with that wonderful st. paul s accent of dr. bob arnot, wonderful upper-class accent, i recognize the breed. and the other guy comes on like a street hustler who s good at
mitt romney is finally in, just as his opponents are highlighting today s fifth anniversary of that controversial massachusetts health care bill that he signed into law when he was governor. romney announced his presidential exploratory committee on twitter and online video. i believe in america. i believe in the freedom and opportunity and the principles of our constitution that have led us to become the greatest nation in the history of the earth. this effort isn t about a person, it is about the cause of american freedom and greatness. jonathan martin is senior political reporter for politico and joins me now. first of all, the way he announced it, the timing, and also, you know, the video and what challenges he faces ahead. we haven t seen very much from mitt romney in the last couple of years. this is his big debut, his
here s trump with christian broadcasting i say that as a diabetic. let s listen. there are some concerns about the teachings of the koran. do you have problems with some of those teachings? i m certainly not an expert, to put it mildly. but there s something there that teaches some very negative vibe. there s a lot of hatred there someplace. now, i don t know if that s from the koran. i don t know if that s from someplace else. but this tremendous hatred out there that i ve never seen anything like it. okay. he goes right at the erogenous zone. here s romney. i believe in america, the freedom, opportunity and principles of our constitution that have led us to become the greatest nation in the history of the earth. this effort isn t about a person, it s about the cause of american freedom and greatness. you know, he talks with that