trafficking in human trafficking, things that ice fight. so it s important, let her keep saying that. melissa: want to point out to people that are watching, we are just moments away, you can see they turn on the lights and we are waiting for the president to come out and make his remarks to the veterans of foreign affairs wars of the united states national convention. he s going to be taking the stage and we do actually really truly expected to happen any minute. we re going to bring it to you live when it happens, as to the discussion we are having now, i want to go back to the pole that we saw the very beginning. when i get from that as our regular people think politicians are out of touch. with americans. to me, that said everybody hates both parties and educate people in washington. marie: that will help democrats in a midterm because we are not in power. when anybody is mad at the establishment, it helps the party out of power. dagen: i love seeing these democrats like kris
they are responsible for embassy security but he won t do it. jimmy, thank you. the other reason that the rice fight matters host of escalating tensions throughout the middle east. israel is feeling heat today from europe over its decision to expand settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem. at least three countries summoned israeli ambassadors to condemn the action. in egypt new protests today against president morsi and massive protests are called for tomorrow. syria bomb rebels today. secretary clinton says that country is considering using chemical weapons. this is a red line for the united states. i m not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence. joining me now is former state department egypt officer joel reuben. good to have you here.
i was running for president. and i m proud of our progress towards that goal. we ll talk about that in a little bit. i have to be honest we ve run into the same political gridlock, the same inertia that has held us back for decades. that has to change. that has to change. we cannot keep going from shock when gas prices go up, to transe when they go back down. we go back doing the same things we were doing until the next time there is a price fight, then we are in shock again. we can t propose to do something about gas prices when they are high and hit the snooze button. we can t keep on doing that.
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