than president obama did in his speech which is what peggy noonan says in her op-ed? well, hardly shocking that this former kgb operator would take several verbal shots at least at the history of american intervention in the middle east over the last 12 years. as far as a better argument, it seems to me that putin has the administration in a box to some degree. he can be provocative this was basically sort of pompous propaganda, taking at obama policy but right now president obama needs vladmir putin because he offered an escape hatch by coming forward with this plan to inspect and confiscate the syrian chemical weapons at a time when our president could not get much public support or support on capitol hill for his plan for airstrikes against syria. gregg: i want your reaction to how the media has been reported this story and in particular, you know, the op-eds, the editorials and so forth. they have been highly critical
supreme court ruling on campaign finance rules. i said for a long time it sounds like lois lerner probably should not have been at her job and should be relieved of her job permanently as soon as she can be. but to say this has some sort of connection to president obama as katie implied. i don t see it. i see no evidence of that despite the leaks chairman issa of the oversight committee has leaked. there has not been any connection to anybody in the white house. i said this for months. as an independent prosecutor who can go in and look at this matter. somebody who is not affiliated with the political sea general today as i think chairman issa is. it sound like democrats are claiming and other e-mails have shown not just tea party groups fan pro questionsive groups are targeted. let s get to the bottom of it. let s get to the bottom of this once and for all.
it s crunch time for obama-care. 3:35 eastern time, the president, vice president, richard trumka will be getting together in the roosevelt room because labor wants changes to obama-care. they want tax subsidies. the background is labor provided lots of money and campaign workers for the campaigns of 2008 and 2012. there is an implicit threat. if you don t change obama-care we might not turn out the way we did in 2014. i ll quote the labor union s cleave. 550,000 u.s. members. they say if you don t fix obama-care, repeal it. that s a heavy duty threat. 3:35 eastern, roosevelt room, white house. gregg: there have been a myriad of delays and exemptions and
of president obama calling his syrian policy, i took some notes here, inept, accidental, calling the president himself confused, indecisive, vacillating. have you been surprised, howard at the severity and the harshness of the criticism in the media? i ve been surprised at how widespread it is meaning even on the left you have liberal commentators who either oppose military intervention in syria or think the president has been inconsistent or confused because he brought us to the brink of war and then pulled back, then gave all the network interviews, and then gave a speech he said there s a moral case for war but we re not going there yet. it has been right, left, center, straight news accounts. at the same time if somehow this process leads to confiscating those chemical weapons without any shots being fired perhaps people will look at back at it and say the president stumbled into a decent policy it is too early to say that now. at the moment on syria, he seems to have almost no f
these assessments. i did talk to the acting director of the department of homeland security this morning and they are committed again to provide all the support we could possibly need and make sure that we get people out of harm s way. the one overriding thing i tell martha: lost two people already in these floods. they don t want to lose anymore. he is urging people to stay out of your vehicles in these areas. there s a look at boulder, colorado. boy, unbelievable. keep an eye on it. gregg: russia s president vladmir putin facing withering criticism from inside the washington beltway after his controversial new york times op-ed urging president obama not to launch military strikes against syria without backing from the united nations security council among other things. writing, quote, no one wants the united nations to suffer the fate of the league of nations