anchor new york one news and co-editor of scandals, tragedies and trumps triumphs. senior ederter for politics and news at yahoo! news. she has become a weekend pal. thanks for being back with us, both of you. let s start with the debt limit, we re talking about the debt limit, again. do republicans believe this is their ace in the hole? i sure hope they don t. i think the president has the stronger hand on this. number one, he won the election. we re all discussing that. he has the stronger hand in general. the other thing is that everybody remembers what we went through two summers ago. the summer of 2011 when the nation went through default. people felt that the president handled the situation badly, but they felt the republican congress was much worse in that particular negotiation. i don t think the republicans in trying to reestablish their brand want to get back into that fight and look like they want to have the ability to hold up the debt ceiling and then potentially bri
there we go. that is president obama two days after taking office signing an executive order to close the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba, but it never happened. in fact, this week his administration gave up plans to try the self-proclaimed mastermind in a civilian court. instead, he ll face a military tribunal at yes, guantanamo. it s a story you might not have heard about with all the budget debate going on. we ll talk about both of these stories with a cnn contributor erroll lewis and political contributor for new york one news. good to see you again. did people who voted for barack obama, ever expect him to be bragging about spending cuts and holding military trials at guantanamo bay? well, the first, maybe the second definitely, definitely
there we go. that is president obama two days after taking office signing an executive order to close the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba, but it never happened. in fact, this week his administration gave up plans to try the self-proclaimed mastermind in a civilian court. instead, he ll face a military tribunal at yes, guantanamo. it s a story you might not have heard about with all the budget debate going on. we ll talk about both of these stories with a cnn contributor erroll lewis and political contributor for new york one news. good to see you again. did people who voted for barack obama, ever expect him to be bragging about spending cuts and holding military trials at guantanamo bay? well, the first, maybe the second definitely, definitely
fast in the middle east and parts of africa, it s hard to know what s next. there are conflicts boiling over in libya that america just isn t touching. i want to talk more about this with errol lewis, a cnn contributor and anchor for new york one news. it s true that america cannot use our military wherever repression occurs. given the costs and risks of intervention, we must always measure our interests against the need for action. but that cannot be an argument for never acting on behalf of what s right. even if you agree with the president, what makes libya different from, say, bahrain or syria at this point? well, it s a very good question. some of it is just purely geographic. libya is about 1200 miles from cairo, and cairo in turn being
i want to talk more about this with errol lewis, a cnn contributor and political anchor for new york one news. thanks for joining us. listen. it s true that america cannot use our military wherever repression occurs. given the costs and risks of intervention, we must always measure our interests against the need for action. but that cannot be an argument for never acting on behalf of what s right. errol, even if you agree with the president, what makes libya different from, say, bahrain or syria at this point? well, it s a very good question. some of it is just purely geographic. if you look at, say, libya, being about 1,200 miles from cairo. and cairo in turn being not that far from jerusalem. the question becomes, do you want to see regional