bankrupt, republicans, medicare four years, that s hogwash. it s not, it s not. got to leave it there. ladies, both sides, thank you so much for being with us today. see you soon, kelly. kelly: could chemical weapons from syria fall into the wrong hands? we ll talk about it, and what the united states may or may not be doing about it. that interview coming up with general jack keane to explain. this is the plan that revolves around you. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. and a single pool of sharable data that powers up to 10 devices. the first pl of it s kind. share everything. only from verizon. add a smartphone for just $40 monthly access. lord, you got no reason
year s protest near capitol hill and activists are fighting back against regulations that say the roadside stands violate health and safety laws. and paul ryan making a visit at the villages a complex in central florida, where the new vice-presidential account made a pitch for his plan and governor romney s to overhaul medicare. syria s conflict. intertense phiing, concerns specifically over what could happen to syria s chemical and biological weapons, if president assad s regime loses control and whether or not u.s. forces could be called in. and syria reportedly holds the fourth largest stock piles of chemical weapons in the world and believed that syria has been developing the weapons program since the 1980 s. syria s suspected stock pile includes must standard gas and sarin gas and nerve gas,
it hasn t closed obviously. a matter of trying to prove he is tough. i don t understand that point. i think the president has proven is that he is very tough. when it comes to prosecuting the war on terror. he has gone after our enemies at every quarter. bret: why leak it? i don t know that it was a leak. could be aggressive reporting or partly a leak. the point is not about making obama look tough. with regard to negotiation with the iranians, negotiations are in fact moving steadily ahead. as evidenced by the fact they re willing to sit at the table and talk about their uranium. these are all positive things. i don t see a take that this is somehow a weak president. syria is a separate matter. but this is a proxy war with iran. most americans, last time there was a poll on this. most americans i think three-quarters said they don t want any part of a war in syria. i agree with juan on one thing which is this wasn t a leak. this was explicit briefing of the reporters.
going to attack or not? he said he makes this reminds us of lyndon johnson. the pictures of him in the situation room where he picked actual targets for the war in vietnam. everybody agrees in retrospect it was the worst possible way to run a war. he is not a military man. he chose them by emotion, seat of his pants. way to do it, for a president to give the guidance and then the military decide under him. this is a replay of that with a high-tech weapon instead. the hypocrisy here is staggering. he went around the world apologizing for america s action in iraq, which was in dealing with the prisoners far less than what is going on now. bret: quickly, bill, kofi annan, former u.n. secretary-general says syria is at a tipping point. you heard a number of things over the weekend. your sense of whether there is increased possibility of military action. there should be but this administration is desperate to
what happens if this was during the bush administration? and this story. it would have been a lot different. we can understand why obama is doing this. why they clearly leaked this to the press. they want obama to look tough, hawkish. part of that is what is happening around the world. look at massacres in syria, he is standing by. look at negotiation with iran over the nukes. there is a collapse in baghdad. look at the way that the russians are treating the united states. putin dissing obamaly by not showing up at the g-8 summit as a way to slap obama in the face. he does this without any reaction. so here is a story that shows he is a tough guy and kills by remote control. there are a few problem with this. number onebe, military strategy. we have aren t getting intelligence. this is the past of least resistance. we are living off intelligence