this is an interesting combination. we think this is going to be a smooth season getting through the holidays. but they re already lining up for the gun fight at the ok corral, if you will. sometimes between march and spring, they can shut down the american economy. and these guys say they don t want to do it. then they say we re going to threaten to do it. mitch mcconnell is worried about being defeated. thad cochran is worried about getting defeated. shutdown which means default. it kind of reminds me of godfather iii when he says every time i get out, they pull me back in. what s pulling them back in is the gravitational pull of the party. with those states that you went through but throughout the board. so while i saw jack lew the other day and i asked him if the budget agreement means that maybe there won t be a default fight.
david corn and ryan grim. both are msnbc contributors. let s start david and then go to ryan. this is an interesting combination. we think this is going to be a smooth season getting through the holidays. but they re already lining up for the gun fight at the ok corral, if you will. sometimes between march and spring, they can shut down the american economy. and these guys say they don t want to do it. then they say we re going to threaten to do it. mitch mcconnell is worried about being defeated. thad cochran is worried about getting defeated. shutdown which means default. it kind of reminds me of godfather iii when he says every time i get out, they pull me back in. what s pulling them back in is the gravitational pull of the party. with those states that you went through but throughout the
at some point you keep pouring more and more whether it s human resources, military resources, economic resources and you re just not going to get a return in any way on your investment. it s hard. it s hard sometimes to stand back when you see bad things going on. there s a great line in godfather iii where michael goes, every time i want to pull away, they keep pulling me back. and the united states, though, has to resist the temptation to allow the middle east to totally dominate. it s done it now for more than a decade. there s big stuff going on elsewhere in the world. in asia, where the great powers of the 21st century are potentially colliding. in north america, where we ve got 450 million people and we re on the cusp of a massive energy boon. we ve got to focus on rebuilding the bases of american power just so we can be effectively involved in the world. so sometimes leadership is putting ceilings, putting limits on what it is you do. and that s what the united states needs to
resistance is gone. what comes next could be worse. the eye witnesses are gone or dead, meaning government forces now have free reign, and the fear is they ll use it to move in and keep killing while their leaders keep lying. the regime has told lie after lie about what they re doing. we have documented this on the program over the last year. the latest lie, that one of the eye witnesses who just escaped from homs who you re going to hear from on the program tonight, they say he s dead, he s not, and what he s going to tell us could be the last, best account of the destruction in baba amr. opposition fighters in the free syrian army have pulled out of homs, and the army could be poised to go in. the syrian army, after what our sources say were the two bloodiest days of fighting they have ever seen. in the end, light weapons are no match against heavy artillery and forces willing to target apartment buildings, houses, and mosques. you can hear the anguish in that man s voice a
shells into homs have gone quiet, but only because the resistance is gone. what comes next could be worse. the eye witnesses are gone or dead, meaning government forces now have free reign, and the fear is they ll use it to move in and keep killing while their leaders keep lying. the regime has told lie after lie about what they re doing. we have documented this on the program over the last year. the latest lie, that one of the eye witnesses who just escaped from homs who you re going to hear from on the program tonight, they say he s dead, he s not, and what he s going to tell us could be the last, best account of the destruction in baba amr. opposition fighters in the free syrian army have pulled out of homs, and the army could be poised to go in. the syrian army, after what our sources say were the two bloodiest days of fighting they have ever seen. in the end, light weapons are no match against heavy artillery and forces willing to target apartment buildings, houses, and