2014 with Maggie Haberman, Chris Cillizza and jonathan martin. Look, i was struck by the fact that geo politicalship in the house pointedly noted this was going to be a conscious vote. Thats a euphemism were not going to put any skin in the game here and were not going to actually deliver votes. So yes theres this symbolic power of the two top leaders, boehner in the house supporting the measure. But if theyre not going to aggressively try to secure the votes, that doesnt mean that much. Especially given, as chris said, the fact that even when they do try to go after votes and deliver votes, they arent always successful. Rose all about syria and politics when we continue. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin this evening with syria. President obama continues to push for congressional authorization for u. S. Military action. The administration firmly believes the assad regime is responsible for the august 21st
there is not a single issue i thought of where doing the right thing and 1% loses. that is a pretty amazing record. that is certainly not true from what i can think of. when you look a of the data, it says the republican electorate is not clear some people perceive it to be. i would like to move to questions from the audience. we have an audience watching remotely. what i call on you, please wait to be called on. wait for the microphone. a helpful person will bring you a microphone. please announce your name and affiliation to let our readers know a bit about you. in the second row in the sweater. my question is, everybody talks about gay marriage and everything but i think that another thing that has been talked very little about is equal protection, discrimination against gay people. in certain communities they still fire people if they are gay or do not like their lifestyle. in terms of equal protection, i hink that is a very serious thing to do even if you talk about
road, we have a downed tree that is blocking some lanes. thell find some delays in city. eutaw street is shut down between lombard and pratt street. this evening, pratt street will shut down. this is because of the grand prix this weekend. watch for heavy delays today. we will keep you posted on that. 11 minutes on the outer loop north east side. 11 minutes to give you south on 95 down towards the 32. back to you. i was going to go to some live cameras. according to b.g.e., they have restored nearly 75% of those customers who have lost power. they expect power to be completely restored within the next few days. progress is being made. b.g.e. is getting help restoring service. workers from chicago arrived last night. the workers are here temporarily from eight different states. they are deployed whenever there is a disaster. many have been here since late last week and had been fixing all lot of wires. nobody likes to be out of power. we tried to give people get their