We know exactly what happened afterwards. Heres what the time line looks like. The first hearing in the senate is expected to be held tomorrow. The full congress is not scheduled to return until next week. So far, the only consensus in congress is there is no consensus in congress. Im hoping by the time next week comes around and hopefully the president can make his case, that he will be able to get a majority of the house of representatives. I think its at least 50 50 whether the house will vote down involvement in the syrian war. I think the senate will rubber stamp what he wants but i think the house will be a much closer vote. With congress in a holding pattern, the Administration Says proof is building by the day that syrias bashar all ac assa used sarin gas against his own people. Nearly a third of that countrys population being displaced by the civil war. White house officials reportedly say theyre flooding the zone. The president has meetings today with republican senators grah
Writing and reading history is one of the greatest joys of life. Writing about Ronald Reagan and WWII has been singularly pleasurable for me. What was it the philosopher Erasmus said, “When I have a little money, I buy food and clothes. But anything I have left over, I buy books.” Now, we study history for many reasons: for the sheer joy of reading; of knowing more than the next guy, or as the noted teacher George Santayana said, just to learn about not repeating failures - “Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.” Teddy Roosevelt said much the same thing.
which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing. welcome back shgck, fox new coverage of inauguration day. we re looking live down the mall as people are clear down there. and right now luncheon is underway inside the capitol and soon, after that luncheon, the parade will start and there on the right side of the screen you re looking at the parade route and people already lining up on both sides. and the president will make the walk and then will have a lot to show you throughout the afternoon right here on fox news channel. fox news sunday host chris wallace is sitting down with one of the nation s leading public historians. hey, chris. thanks, bret. we re fortune to have with us presidential historian jay winnik who has written a number of books, my favorite,
something that could have been written 50 years ago. last question, when people talk, there s been a lot of talk in the last few days, about the curse of the second term and that that certainly can be overstated, a lot of great things accomplished in second terms as well, but the problem that presidents tend to run into in the second term when they re no longer these politicians seeking reelection, is hubris, overreach. did you see seeds of that in this speech? i expected for this speech to have a limited agenda and for him to show what his handful of guidelines are and what he really wants to accomplish. and this was a very wide expansive speech covering everything from healing the planet to the evidence of inequality at home. i was surprised by it, but i think we can end up with a final happy note. an inauguration is a day when all americans can celebrate democracy and that s something we should remember from this day as well. presidential historian jay winnik, thank you for yo
bickering over legislation, and your thoughts about the reaching out, some of the things that chris talked about with jay winnik and some of the things we talked with brit and chris. the partisan side of it and whether the president is really sending a signal. i ve been listening to the coverage and heard this analysis. i was struck by the contrast between this speech and the speech that president george herbert walker bush gave in 1989 when he reached out to the democrats who were seated on the dias schls and said to friends in the loyal opposition and i do mean friends and i do mean loyal. there was no such grace note in this speech, bret. bret: james, thank you. megyn: you watching the folks lining up along the parade route and this is one of the moments everybody has been waiting for and a lot of folks have been waiting for, reminds me of times square on new year s eve, 6 a.m. a lot of people were walking over to make sure they got a good spot on the mall. it s pretty nice da