the kosovo operation. i just think that if we are to undertake strikes, they ought to be effective and what s being considered now is really more symbolic than it is significant. jon: going after air force targets, for instance, may be cratering runways. i m all for cratering runways, okay? then don t tell the syrian regime we re going to hit these runways where your republican guard units are stationed, where your soviet attack helicopters are stationed. they re just going to move them. it s the most extraordinary thing. i ve never seen an administration so precisely leak what it intends to do with a military strike. it could be a great head fake and if so, all power to the administration. what it seems they re doing is telegraphing our war plans to hur enemy. jon: isn t the problem here iran? iran is supporting the syrian
as it should be, all options should be on the table, the president would only be stepping in because congress is failing to do something. and, you know, that s on the house republicans. many don t have to answer to their own districts. doing something on immigration reform is not something that s helpful to them politically. but that doesn t mean that it wouldn t be good for the country. even grover norquist and the institute agree comprehensive immigration reform would be good for america, good for the economy. and house republicans, really, i mean would be dropping the ball by not doing something. so putting this on the president, that s only after congress fails to do the right thing. and i think people would agree with that, that there does need to be comprehensive immigration reform. both sides talk about the need for that. but, matt, the majority of americans seem to support securing the border first. that s right. this is the problem. that s part of the bill though. this
about what constitutes reasonable. sometimes i joke if you have don t know the answer to a legal question, the answer is the reasonable standard. but what s reasonable to you may not be reasonable to me. what s reasonable to somebody if they are down, if they are being physically assaulted may not be reasonable to someone else. it s definitely a every broad and somewhat vague standard and subject to interpretation. i was going to say isn t the problem, though, in this case for the defense that george zimmerman claims initially he was having his head bashed on the concrete but at some point he shimmied maybe even some 25 feet to the grass. with trayvon martin on top of him. it s a lot of shimmying. now his head is on the grass. he s no longer having the danger of his head being broken open by the concrete if you believe his story. now the reasonableness of his
the number of of students who don t graduate. look at the impact this year, for example, of summer pelberanpell gran grants, where it wiped out loans. 15,000 black students in black colleges alone could not go to school this past year. the impact of student loan debt with credit card debt, we have profound issues in education. when you look at the representation of african-americans and women in higher degree institutions, colleges, they seem overrepresented, isn t the problem now earlier on in the system? when people are younger? well, it prenatal care, daycare, does merritt. it s one thing to be in institutions and another to graduate from those institutions. we underrepresented as doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists. much of it starts, a lot of it has to do with the idea of not
we have no idea how widespread these programs are. what we ve heard about the internet providers and about verizon may just be the tip of the iceberg. basically the president is saying, take a look at this, trust me. and we certainly didn t trust it under president bush for very good reason. these reforms were put in place. it appears this has now mushrooms and metastasized in some way that needs to be dana, he isn t just saying trust me, is he? he s also saying congress has access to all of this. there have been subsequent amendments to the fisa legislation, and there has been an oversight ongoing, albeit completely in secret. but he isn t just saying that s the problem. you have, like senator wyden, senator udall saying we have a problem with this because we know exactly what s going on here, and americans would be stunned to know it, but we re not allowed to talk about. now, the krcriticism, john myer is a legitimate one about reports. it s not just that.