Brothers on issues and they said terrible things but at the end of the argument it always came down to whether it was the tax bill in 82, the Social Security in 83, northern ireland, tax reform, russia, they always the end up being together. On some issue they found not common ground, they found a deal. Rose tell me about the tip oneill you knew. Three tip oneills, like a lot of people are three people. One is santa claus. He is what everybody thought he was. A big liberal, look out for you if youve got a brother, somebody in trouble, he will be your best friend. Especially youre a poor kid or old sick person. If youre some rich kid from harvard he hasnt got time for you. Second, black irish which is that he resents a lot of people on the other side, resent of people who had it made, i think, and the third guy was the politician. The pure politician. Ive always said the pure coalition between the politician and santa claus ran the show but the other black irish guy was there. He talked
Brothers on issues and they said terrible things but at the end of the argument it always came down to whether it was the tax bill in 82, the Social Security in 83, northern ireland, tax reform, russia, they always the end up being together. On some issue they found not common ground, they found a deal. Rose tell me about the tip oneill you knew. Three tip oneills, like a lot of people are three people. One is santa claus. He is what everybody thought he was. A big liberal, look out for you if youve got a brother, somebody in trouble, he will be your best friend. Especially youre a poor kid or old sick person. If youre some rich kid from harvard he hasnt got time for you. Second, black irish which is that he resents a lot of people on the other side, resent of people who had it made, i think, and the third guy was the politician. The pure politician. Ive always said the pure coalition between the politician and santa claus ran the show but the other black irish guy was there. He talked
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os captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Getting ready. By military forces it would be some change in the chemical weapons whether they wanted to move them or whether they plan if syrians have always said they will not use these weapons on their own people. Do they now go ahead. Thats right and president obama in august clearly delineated those red lines that if they were to move these out of their storage site or to employ them against the Syrian People or anyone else that would be a trigger point for some type of western action. Now, depending the pentagon has drawn up preliminary plans to send as many as 75,000 troops into syria to secure these chemical weapons sites, but as of just today there have been no signs that any of those forces have been put on alert or there was any detail planning to do this. So there was some question here of whether assad may be calling t president s bluff. Rose and what exactly do you thin
os captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Getting ready. By military forces it would be some change in the chemical weapons whether they wanted to move them or whether they plan if syrians have always said they will not use these weapons on their own people. Do they now go ahead. Thats right and president obama in august clearly delineated those red lines that if they were to move these out of their storage site or to employ them against the Syrian People or anyone else that would be a trigger point for some type of western action. Now, depending the pentagon has drawn up preliminary plans to send as many as 75,000 troops into syria to secure these chemical weapons sites, but as of just today there have been no signs that any of those forces have been put on alert or there was any detail planning to do this. So there was some question here of whether assad may be calling t president s bluff. Rose and what exactly do you thin