keep that in mind. keep the umbrella close by and have a plan to escape indoors if you re at a picnic. arthel: that s a good plan. janice, thank you very much. you got it. gregg: many members of congress not all that convinced the united states should launch a military strike in syria. apparently neither are some big players in the international community. coming up, new reaction from world leaders on president obama s call for action against the assad regime. plus, the legal challenge to the pledge of allegiance. it goes to one state s highest court. more on the lawsuit over the words, under god.
parties. president bush famously was talking about a suicide bombing in israel. now said, watch this drive. then he vowed to stop playing golf although he was photographed still playing golf and went mountain biking. i also think presidents do have a right to get some relaxation and a have balanced life. but optics are bad. gregg: they do indeed. the optics on this thing don t seem that great. jim, national foreign policy crisis, you know, national security interests at stake and the president within 30 minutes is out on the golf course. one could argue shouldn t he be talking to foreign leaders or military leaders or trying to lobby members of congress? one could argue that. just for perspective, cbs s mark knoller is a enencyclopedia of these types of statistics, president bush played golf 24 times. president obama played golf 141 times. so there is a, change here. i mean look, what is so striking
will both testify. but first right now, brand new stories this hour. arthel: volunteers in oregon launching a new search for a boy missing for more than three years. why his mother is calling it a success. a popular street drug derived from ecstasy claiming the lives of two college students over the weekend. what you need to know about the dangers of molly. plus a legendary swimmer closing in on her long goal after five previous attempts. why diana nyad s team says she s closer than ever before. first breaking developments on the crisis in syria. the white house launching an all out political push to rally capitol hill support for a military strike against the asad regime. happy labor day. gregg: welcome to the second hour of happening now.
point of exhaustion and then let them die. the fact they transferred kenneth bay to a hospital indicates, look. we want to deal with the united states. so clearly we can deal with the north koreans but it should be all stick and no carrot. arthel: so how does that look? if they think we think they re in a weak position, we ll get further down the road in getting kenneth bay released without giving kenneth bay something. every time we release the hostages, we incentivize the north koreans to grab the next hostage. arthel: are you implying we get him? no. but we can make sure that the north koreans see in their interest to release kenneth bay. arthel: we ll be watching and i know you will as always. thank you very much. good to see you. good to see you. gregg: we re getting new details on the n.s.a. surveillance program, who the agency has been spying on now and why it could affect u.s. relations with two
all on happening now. gregg: president obama lobbying key leaders hoping to rally support for a military strike on syria. hello, happy labor day. i m gregg jarrett in for jon scott. arthel: happy labor day. i m arthel neville in for jenna lee. syria s civil war already claiming the lives of 100,000 people. secretary of state john kerry told our own chris wallace yesterday we now know hundreds of those victims were gassed by their own government in a chemical weapons attack. the fact is that yesterday, we have now learned that hair and blood samples that have come to us from east damascus from individuals who were enbeiged as