Laptops. Thank you for your time this evening. And certainly, were got go continue watching as the world deals with this threat to the United States homeland and other parts of the world. Well, thank you for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Targeting evil. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Another beheading. This time a french citizen by an isis ally in algeria. The killers call it retribution for France Joining the u. S. Air strikes in iraq. This come as president obama calls on the world for action against isis demanding the country stop giving money and stop spewing the hate filled ideology that fuels the
terrorist group. Obama used all of his skills at the u. N. Today. His goal was to recruit a global possie capable of degrading and eventually destroying isis. He made clear today he wants country to takes concrete steps and will be taeg keeping tabs on whether they may be delivered or not. Only the we look at why the congress, democrats and republicans are shirking a vote on the obamaled air strikes. Our hardball roundtable will look at these questions and look at the way some on the right are using the isis threat to heat up the immigration fight. We begin only the with the breaking news in syria. The u. S. Military and arab partners carried another round of air strikes against isis targets. Jim miklaszewski joins us from the pentagon. What do we do today . Who did we hit . The intent of todays target was to hit isis where it hurts. In the pocket book. Tlrm 13 strikes with u. S. Military and our arab allies gel 12 modular oil refineries. They are easily disassembled, put on skids and put somewhere else. They produce up to 500 barrels a day. Just these 12 alone would have provided as much as 250,000 in income a day. It is believed that isis collects about 1 to 2 billion a day in their black market soil sales. Now, this was a much smaller strike than the first strike on monday which was about 20 targets. And aircraft and cruise missiles. So this was a more compact strike. But again, u. S. Officials think this is going to be hitting isis where it works. The big concern is so far, we havent seen any kind of reaction or retaliation from isis. Either against our allies in the region or elsewhere. One of the creedos is the enemy always has a vote. So everybody sitting back and waiting for isis to respond. Did we do all the bombing today or were we joined by real allies in the air . We were joined in the air by allies, both saudi arabia and united arab emirates. And on monday four out of five of our arab allies actually dropped womens. Qatar was the only one on the periphery. You know the problem with qatar. Sometimes allegedly, even indirectly, sunni extremists in the region. But qatar in fact was participating. What is interesting about this, even if none of them dropped a single weapon, the fact that their flying is very significant. In past operations, those countries have not even expressed support for u. S. Operations. So this was a huge step forward that was engineered. Not only by president obama and john kerry. But the centcom commander down will in tampa. Thanks for that great report. Today an algerian terror Group Released video showing the beheading a french tourist in retaliation for his countrys air strikes against isis in iraq. He call it a cowardly assassination and said he wonderful give in to black male by these barbaric acts. The Washington Post columnist eugene robinson. Ron, thank you for joining us. It seems to me were up against guys theyre willing to keep beheading. This will be what well watch. Were probably going to be with us for a lifetime. Thats what the president was steeling the country for today. I was struck by one of his best features of his presidency. It wasnt poetic. It was practicing matic. Wasnt soaring, it was searing. He put it in an historic context. To a commander in chief, from a hawk from a dove to practically a hawk and how we have to think differentbly the whole world. What do you make of the zombie like look. It reminds me of what a priest must put up with that people showing up. What do you make of the faces . The vagueness of the faces. Were they not allowed to express yes . These are professional diplomats. Theyre trained in this. And theyre not giving reactions. Support or opposition or whatever. What i found interesting, when president obama came into office, one of the things he wanted to do was to affect some sort of change in this conflictive relationship between islam and the west. And today, he sort of changed the conditions. He said we must do that. You guys have to help. And he points. He took a shot. He also took a shot at the fat cat who spew this. And supports the terrorist cede. Theres the shot. The money theyre giving to the terrorists. Some of the leaders over there who spew this religious extremism which undermines, it underwrites the arguments of the terrorists themselves. There should be no more tol ranls of socalled clerics who call on people to harm innocents because theyre jewish or because theyre christian or because theyre muslim. It is time for a new compact among civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source. The corruption of young minds by
violent ideology. That means cutting off the funding that fuels this hate. It is time to end the hypocrisy and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down. The pro gand a turns students, young people full of potential into suicide bombers. We must offer an alternative vision. Prince bandar on years ago and i said the word we have, you will push your young people to blow up the world. Tunneled deal you dont do it inside. He said that was bull. His term, not mine. This is what the countries do. The president did something remarkable that we rarely see. Normally theyre speaking, when the president come to the u. N. Theyre speaking to americans. The folks out there are just promises. He was speaking directly to the
leaders. He was calling them out unlike any president since george bush. What is it, dollars and cents, the deal we cut. He says im going to be keeping tabs on you guys. I want concrete steps to sign this. And he didnt specify. It is a complicated relationship. Obviously, now in term of the oil, we got a lot of oil and thats a card that previous president s havent had to play and it is something they worry about. The worlds depend yenlts on saudi oil is going to wayne and therefore, people will be less tolerant of that behavior. You can use that card against russia. Heres two things that might be working. Nobody wants to hear about the mideast peace process. Couldnt it be something going on, the targets of these makers is ultimately to overthrow government of jordan, saudi arabia, not overthrow government in texas. I think they can spook us a little but thats not what theyre going to get done in
their life times. They get a shot at knocking off the governments. Theyre getting the message. This isnt about liking the United States. It is about the United States being the law magic here. Were willing to support because it is our neck. They are in the business of selfpreservation. The reason the president has a chance to rewrite the rules for the next century, they get the message. The president hasnt changed things. Lets talk about europe and the french. The little skedaddle in australia the other day. That they tried to behead somebody down there. Theyll try to get out their diaspora of beheadings. They could grab someone in oregon, not to mention that specifically. That could happen. One suspect thats the beheadings of americans, that we saw leading up to this. On the only lodgeeck was that they bring the United States in. Figuring they would get bogged down. In the edge, they would and you know and i know. The crusaders were there for 128 years. They probably thought they won 100 of those years. But they didnt win. Because they were waiting for them. And you see what happens. What could be different this time is participation of the arab states surrounding isil. That is different. He is right. The bombings wont work long term unless we get boots on the ground. They need them to be boots on the ground. He wornld today that the world must come together to confront isis. There can be no reasoning, no negotiates with this brand of
evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of america will work with a Broad Coalition to dismantle this network of death. Today i ask the world to join in this effort. Those who have joined isil should leave the battlefield while they can. Those who continue to fight for a hateful cause will find they are increasingly alone. For we will not succumb to threats and we will demonstrate that the future belongs to those who build. Not those who destroy. So well kill. Well kill as many arab whos have joined isis as we can. Weve warned them. Get out. Thats how far yeah. How many countries have we bombed that are arab and muslim since the beginning of the century . We just keep bombing them. What is our alternative . I know. It is our problem. The question is whether this
president can hold the country together. Build a coalition, hold that coalition together and we can roll these folks back. Well watch beheadings. And the other thing, we dont know. Are we going to watch . Are we going to see boots on the ground that are not american . They come from elsewhere. Programs the arab countries in the coalition. You think thats an alternative to waiting for this oneyear Training Program which will ideally produce 8,000 Free Syrian Army recruits that will then turn their attention to isis, not assad. I think the president was right when emthats a fantasy. Thank you. If theres one thing Congress Wants to agree on, they do not want to take a war vote. They are all too happy to skip town. It can jeopardize their reelection. Then around tampa, digs into the politics of war. The republican candidates wasted no time creating antiterrorism ads that slammed both the president. You see with it scott brown. Take a look. Anyone who turns on the tv these days knows we face challenges to our way of life. Radical terrorists are threatening to cause the collapse of our country. President obama and senator seem confused about the night of the threat. I want to secure the border. Keep out the people who do us harm and restore americas leadership in the world. That was a cheem scare tactic. Trying to convince people isis will take over the United States. And bill clinton seemed relieved yesterday to avoid the question about whether the United States should be arming
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could that back and vote and the white house seem happy to have them gone. Isnt this why we have a congress . To take hard votes on whether or not to authorize a war . The British Parliament is set to be recalled to vote. President obama led the security council. Will president obama Call Congress back . This is also rhetoric on my part because obviously theyre not coming back paul, since youre new here, lets talk it over. Harry reid has gotten in trouble for fighting. Nobody really likes him much. I discovered theres something worse than not getting along with each other. It is getting along. When they said lets protect all the incumbent in the interest of incumbents. They dont want to come back and call people back. They dont really have a whole lot to say. I would call it
constitutional. They dont have a lot to say. All they would be doing is the bombing thats already taking place. Thats consistent with the war powers act to get in there a little late. Spell for the left. Minority from a big city. A liberal from the bay area in new york or chicago. Why would a person in a deep blue Congressional District or state give a dam about voting for this. They wont get defeated in the general. It is progressives. They probably want the vote the most. They do believe in the war powers act and bringing that. I think a lot of them would vote against it. The one reason you dont want this on either side. Harry reid, they all want it is because it divides democrats and democrats and republicans and
republicans. Where would rand paul he would vote against it. Marco rubio would vote in favor of it and ted cruz would be against it. And john mccain. And it would be loot of posturing on the republican side on the 2016 side. On the democratic side, nancy pelosi will support barack obama. Because . She supports the president. These are hard calls. There will be progressives who have. Said they dont like this call. There are some conservatives. Isnt that why we have a congress . The problem is, there is no you dont pay for not voting against this. If you dont have a vote. You dont usually do that. Youre not morally justifying it. Im explaining it. It is wrong. I think there should be debate. There should be a vote. Theres no way. What i know, the interesting thing. When we voted, the congress
voted on whether to arm this Free Syrian Army. The northeast liberals, people like gillibrand, elizabeth warren. Bernie sanders. That segment of the neat which i like generally. They all said they didnt want to vote for that. Which tells you which way they would vote. This seems like a contradiction. Theyll have to have that vote again. Here they are. The vote armed and trained the syrians is something they will have to come back and vote on again. Theyll have to vote to fund this war. Sooner or later okay. Three months from now, they have to start writing the checks. Not their checks, our checks. They start running up the debt. How will he get, deal with that . He will get a majority of republicans and probably a significant portion of democrats to agree to continue to pursue this war because isis will keep
beheading people. So he wont dance with the ones that brung him. It will be a war fought. Already out there today you have the conservative thought leaders. I hate to call them that. Rush limbaugh and others who are coming one conspiracy theories that obama didnt do anything by hitting cover sanl. This is all about midterm politics. Hows does Rush Limbaugh figure this out . It is bad and it has to be some hidden motive here. So the Tea Party Republicans in the house, rand paul republicans in the senate and the house who will vote against any of this. It will be a very messy debate. And it will cause problems for the 2016 president ial race on the republican side. Maybe even on the democratic
side. The constitution grants the president the auth