coming up and sort of wanting to provide some cover for some of the republicans who may be up for re-election. so that they can feel comfortable signing on to a larger budget deal and some of the more contentious issues that they ve been talking about. he was quite defensive. one of his quotes, he said americans should take, you suggest that it s my job to get them to behave. talking about members of congress. but that s their job. so certainly defensive. and interestingly enough, the one thing he brought up first, immigration, sorts of signaling he thinks that has the best chance of actually passing. kristen welker, nia malika, thank you very much and mark murray, thank you for being here. the thin red line. former national security adviser, stephen hadley about what to do with syria and the debate over closing guantanamo. this is andrea mitchell reports. diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues.
are going to have a place if you defect and also i think the business community in syria that, hey, this you know, you are going to be opened up to a world, this going to be a positive for you, getting them behind this. i want to ask you about yemen since we are in the region anyway. you just got back from there. there s some similarity insofar as, again, it is a nonviolent revolt against the regime. brutally repressed and shot down in the streets. they began to arm and became then a violent essentially the presidential palace was shelled. right? and how has it played out after that? i think at the point the presidential palace was shelled and the president came to the u.s. if i m not mistaken for medical treatment, the story dropped off the map. some some ways it bears analogies to what s happening in syria. i m curious to what s happening there now. none of these done trees are identical in the way that this sort of uprising in the arab world has taken place. yemen just had
it is an offshoot of the shiite sect. a minority sect within the country of syria. associated with shias somehow not exclusively. it does bring more complexities to the situation. brings a civil war element of it. in iraq, i think that the idea this we are all iraqis never stopped existing. i think i would argue that the idea that everyone is a syrian and is against an oppressive regime is not definitely is highlight. the banner where everyone is demonstrating. that s one thing. i tend to agree that america should just leave it alone and i don t think that s your argument. no, i don t. i m not. i do think that america should leave this alone. it is a very, very complex but i do agree that turkey s intervention, qatar s other arab neighbor and in a way that s
op-ed on thursday, how to fault butchering in syria. she writes simply arming the opposition in many ways the easiest option would bring about exactly the scenario of the world she feared most. roxy war that would spill over along sectarian lines. there is an alternative. friends of syria some 70 countries scheduled to meet in tunis today should establish no kill zones now to protect all syrians regardless of create ethnicity or political allegiance. ann marie, maybe we should start on this idea for, first of all dash article in the new york times today about the sort of complexities you are quoted in. essentially it is a long article. it has the one byline and reported by 15 other people that says that basically what a total mess, what a complete amount of 10 and con mikt and conflagration that can be
here. core argument about american foreign policy and american vision of america within i would say broadly the center left in the post iraq era and one that extends back from the balkans and place you have been reporting. which is about what that phrase means on the ground. right? and the efficacy of using the implements of violence when we are talking about arms. that s what we are talking about. and as a as a means to protecting civilians to humanitarian intervention. elise, you are someone that is was in the bush administration and and i m curious what you make of that, someone that s not necessarily within this sort of center left coalition of this but how you see it. i m just very cautious about ever advocating for this because we are not necessarily that great at it. with syria, i think that there still are a lot of diplomatic measures we can use such as the opposition as to do a better job of telling them you will have a place in post-assad syria and telling the mil