president of the united states already lost this controversy. political disaster. right. he looks weak and putin has taken the whole thing over. if assad isn t punished. if he is not punished and i don t believe is he going to be bombed now, switzerland thing they are going to find some kind of face saving measure. if is he not punished. don t you believe that emboldens putin in iran? of course. all right. so you believe that? of course it does. don t you see when this kind of arrogance that there is going to be more and bigger problems than maybe giving a few al qaeda guys some arms? don t you see that? i think you are minimizing the al qaeda and muslim brotherhood involvement. we do not know the exact number. we know between 15,000 rebels. i don t see it at the same level as iran and hezbollah and syria. and putin. i don t see it on the same level. the reason we are
president of the united states already lost this controversy. political disaster. right. he looks weak and putin has taken the whole thing over. if assad isn t punished. if he is not punished and i don t believe is he going to be bombed now, switzerland thing they are going to find some kind of face saving measure. if is he not punished. don t you believe that emboldens putin in iran? of course. all right. so you believe that? of course it does. don t you see when this kind of arrogance that there is going to be more and bigger problems than maybe giving a few al qaeda guys some arms? don t you see that? i think you are minimizing the al qaeda and muslim brotherhood involvement. we do not know the exact number. we know between 15,000 rebels. i don t see it at the same level as iran and hezbollah and syria. and putin. i don t see it on the same level. the reason we are
if this delay is perceived in the region or spun as weakness, that forces more time to, they are more emboldens. what signal does that send to people like iran or hezbollah? it sends a signal that the president is essentially politically weak at home. that he doesn t have, until this vote occurs, until they can prove that he has the power, that all of the crescendo that the strike is imsent in backing off. they will all look at david cameron s plight and say, aha! you see? there are leaders that don t have the support of their people. and there is a better chance that he will be voted down than voted up. the regions don t understand american democracy and they ll say that this is a problem. iran will construe this the way it always will construe this. the way assad will construe it. as hesitation by the american people to live up to their claims indeed assad was
down the government over obamacare and then republican commentators saying, well the president looks weak because he has to deal with these crazy people. you re a republican commentator, do you agree? i think there s an underlying issue here in the government shutdown fight which is that the health care bill is still very unpopular. the reality that emboldens someone like ted cruz and emboldens is republicans to pick this kind of fight is i m sorry that thank you very much. listen, this just shows that this is a very important and interesting debate and we will continue. ross, carnel and carly thank you very much. when we return, we re going to go to something that is very important happening here in washington this weekend and the man who s the you congressman john lewis is next. and the man who inspired is ted
should not be involved. yet senator john mccain said this is not a humanitarian issue strictly. he says it s also a national security issue. if russia and hezbollah and iran succeed in keeping assad in power, that only emboldens iran and other groups of terrorists which threaten the united states. what do you think of that? i have agree with that. every time we take action in the middle east and act geopolitically we have to keep our focus on the mission. that s the iranian march to dominate the region. that s why they want nuclear weapons. syria is their number one ally. it s so extraordinary since the iranian regime came to power. for them to put boots on the ground to assist the syrian military. they are all in here because of