Some real news im joined by my guest mark sloboda hes an International Affairs and security analyst we also have alex chris so far hes the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have Dmitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst with Sputnik International rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it mark lets first go to this authorization for the use of military force the pentagon says. It doesnt need any kind of authorization because the authorization that the u. S. Government gave to the military to intervene in iraq still holds though isis didnt exist in two thousand and three. Under International Law this is just a blatant violation there is no there is no United Nations Security Council resolution the country involved syria has not requested for help and on top of it you you have. A military presence in a country where you possibly could go into a military coup. With another mate a nato country turkey and of course its a face down wit
When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for Common Ground the. Hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered im Peter Lavelle are you are confused by washington syria policy rest assured youre not alone trump says one thing while his generals do otherwise also brinkmanship with north korea isnt working and why moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem is still a bad idea. Across talking some real news im joined by my guest mark sloboda hes an International Affairs and security analyst we also have Alex Christopher our oh he is the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have Dmitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst with Sputnik International rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated mark lets first go to this authorization for the use of military force the pentagon says. It doesnt need any kind of authorization because the authorization that the u. S. Government gave to the military to intervene in iraq still hol
yesterday. i think yesterday s events showed that in cases like this, they have very, very limited leverage. luisa lovelock, global post reporter, thank you for your courage and thank you for sharing your insights with us. let s bring back in steve clemens, washington editor at large for the atlantic to give us a little more perspective. we talked earlier in the hour. we talked about should president obama say something. you left the studio. president obama plans to say something. i call it the power of steve clemens. what should he say at this point? we know something is coming roughly in 30 minutes. what should he say going forward to sort quiet the situation if that s possible? the president should come out and say i think what he has been saying is we re deeply concerned about what s going on. we support a completely inclusive political process that brings in all facets of egyptian society. that is not happening.
0 building here, near the capital, cairo. it is in a district called giza, one of the major metro areas. there, dozens of protesters attacked the governor s office. they used molotov cocktails and set the building on fire. we understand fire trucks trying to get to the scene were block from doing so by the protesters. hundreds of employees in the building itself have been evacuated. police are using tear gas to push back protesters. these are initial reports but it does highlight the volatility of what is unfolding here. where supporters of the muslim brotherhood are continuing their protest despite the crackdown that took place yesterday on those two major squares that you were talking about. so a tense situation. keep in mind that the country is under emergency law. that effectively means that no public demonstrations or protests are allowed to take place. so it is going to be a quick test for the government here how it plans on dealing with these acts of disobedience by supporters o