pete williams with a new development related to florida s early voting impacted by hurricane matthew. after holding a hearing this morning, a federal judge ordered the state to extent the deadline for voter registration by a week. it was to expire originally yesterday. the judge initially on monday extended it until today so he could hold this hearing. now he s ordered the state to extend it until next tuesday. so that gives an extra week of early voting. both the florida democrats and the league of women voters asked the judge to extend the voting deadline in light of the disruption caused by the hurricane. they said that the governor put the voters in a tough spot by, on one hand, ordering an evacuation, shutting down state offices. on the other hand, refusing to extend the registration deadline. and now the judge has ordered the state to extend that deadline until next tuesday. the state does have the option now of going to a federal appeals court if it wants to
saddam was overthrown. and the pandora s box opened up. we weren t able, perhaps understandably, to control it. what do you make of the decision by the white house to ask congress for $500 million to train and arm moderate syrian rebels who are opposed to bashar al assad? i think it s overdue but it puts the united states in the position of trying to provide sophisticated weaponry in a very porous environment to groups whose interests may not be its own. think about this, we re going to be supplying sunni moderates with sophisticated weaponry, on one hand, which will weaken assad, but we may end upped striking isis targets in syria, which will strengthen him. i think all of this attests to the fact that we re going to have some very strange bedfellows in this enterprise. we re already cozying up to the iranians and recognizing a certain reality that they, in fact, are the most important external power on the block now. we learned today martin
today and, you know, that he would draw a red line, if you will, over this air defense identification zone. and clearly joe biden is trying to send signals that to the chinese that it s a bad mistake to make this situation worse. don t expand these zones. let s stop and pause. but at the same time no one s demanding that china withdraw that zone either. did biden or anybody traveling with him address this sort of mixed message that the obama administration sent by, on one hand, having the pentagon do the unarmed b 52s flying right through the zone, not telling the chinese, essentially finger in the eye a little bit, but then at the same time the faa does something different? did biden explain this contradiction? it s been a huge and confusing story here, and joe bide en in his comments to the public did not address that.
standard. kirsten powell, and charles krauthammer. steve? i think this is clearly a serious threat, the fact that you re having high level discussions and that we know about the high level discussions between the leader of core al qaeda as the obama administration describes him and the one that runs aqap. i would say this is a problem for obama administration s conception and description of how al qaeda operates. if you go back to the president s speech at national defense university in may, he separated core al qaeda on one hand and al qaeda affiliates on the other, this is exactly the way the administration has approached the broader threat from al qaeda, broadly understood. going back really years. critics call it the disconnect the dots theory, the idea that the affiliates are their own operators, don t take direction much from core al qaeda, not associated much from core al qaeda. what this revelation tells us that that s not true.
characterize obama administration to obama care, dodd-frank, for big business, government, not good for middle class america, small savers, small businesses. bob, your thoughts about bernanke s comments, what it says about the economy, the reaction from the markets? first of all, the strategy is a risky one. five years effectively zero interest rates. let s face it, it is an experiment, no one has ever done it. i think within the fed, they re saying geez, we re going to have to get out of it at some point in a tentative, sounded like greenspan, on one hand, on the other hand you didn t know what he meant. the idea it is not going to last forever sent a real shock to the markets. and the question is, and this is the looming one, what s the real condition of the american economy? this is an artificial boost to it.