To act with impunity can contribute to his realization that he cannot gas or shoot his way out of his predicament. But assad must be held accountable for using these weapons in the international community. So will president obama get the votes he needs from the congress . I believe we cannot close our eyes to this clear violation of longstanding International Norms. Lets have a real debate in this country and not a meaningless debate. The clock clearly ticking tonight, showdown syria. Were going to begin with the big story, critically Important News with one senator who was front and center at the hearings today before the Foreign Relations committee. Listen this Heated Exchange between chris murphy and secretary of state john kerry. Now we have this most recent use of weapons of mass destruction and contra vengs of nearly 100 years of prohibition of their use. Thats not the dispute but the dispute is the ability of the military to be influenced no, no, the dispute is what are you prep
Today his spokesman is out with a nasty attack on his female opponent, which is probably not going to help. We are one step closer to obtaining the stamp of approval as the Senate Foreign relations today voted to approve u. S. Military action against the Syrian Government of bashar al assad. The tally, 10 to 7 in favor of military action. The ayes were compromised of 7 democrats and 3 republicans. The nays, tom udall and chrisser if murphy and five republicans, jim riche who was on this program last night. The white house quickly reacted with a statement reading in part, we commend the senate for moving swiftly and working across party lines on behalf of our National Security. The military action authorized the resolution, would uphold Americas National security interest by degrading assads chemical weapons capability and deterring the future use of these weapons, even as we pursue the broader strength of this strategy in syria. Earlier today in stockholm, the president defended his de
Actions will be even more effective. I respect the views of these call for caution. What message will we send if f a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price . I know well that we are weary of war. But we are the United States of america. We cannot and must not turn a blind eye to what happened in damascus. We lead with the belief that right makes might. Not the other way around. Im ready to act in the face of this outrage. I am acting congress to send a message to the world that we are ready to move Forward Together as one nation. We continue to follow the breaking news from this afternoon in washington where president obama surprised many when he announced he will now seek approval from congress before launching any military action in syria. Heres my question for every member of congress and every member of the global community. What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price . Whats t
The presidency. President obama marshalling big guns trying to make the case for a strike on syria. Forcing assad to change his calculations about his ability to act with impunity can contribute to his realization that he cannot gas or shoot his way out of his predicament. But assad must be held accountable for using these weapons in the international community. So will president obama get the votes he needs from the congress . I believe we cannot close our eyes to this clear violation of longstanding International Norms. Lets have a real debate in this country and not a meaningless debate. The clock clearly ticking tonight, showdown syria. Were going to begin with the big story, critically Important News with one senator who was front and center at the hearings today before the Foreign Relations committee. Listen this Heated Exchange between chris murphy and secretary of state john kerry. Now we have this most recent use of weapons of mass destruction and contra vengs of nearly 100 ye
Pulitzerprize winning historian jon meacham. Mike barnicle, something about the home run derbies hard to take your eyes away from. I like the home run derby better than i like the allstar game actually. You see the players interacting with their kids, their children on the field. Its a nice night. No doubt about it. And al hunt, bryce harper, second place. Bryce harper second place and batted against his father which i thought was good. It was a nice touch. His father hit him with the snich and he didnt charge the mound. And Gene Robinson, how exciting to have this going on so you didnt have to watch the nonsense going on on other news channels where everybody was doing their best to try to divide sides, one side trying to inflame, the other side trying to grant absolute ab solution. It was a respite. I watched the home run derby last night. I think, you know, i had been all day, you know, wrote a column and was deep into the Trayvon Martin case and it was good to watch baseball. It wa