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The congress was ready to hand him a no. not republicans. republicans and democrats. steve: we re in a weird limbo. rand paul refers to it as the goal currently being a stalemate. we re not going after assad. we re not going to destabilize. we have no plan for victory. in fact, to my mind, the obama administration is arguing for stalemate. and i just can t see committing my son or your son or my daughter or your daughter to a war when our goal is stalemate. steve: we don t have to worry about it now because we are in a diplomatic pause. brian: rand paul is the foremost republican right now in washington. meanwhile, new this morning, the director of the c.i.a. has announced survivors of the benghazi attack one year ago today will be made available to congress. this as america remembers the tragic deaths of ambassador chris stevens, glenn daugherty, tyrone woods and sean smith. their families continue to fight for justice. ....
Nation does not want to do in the first place. this is almost unbelievable. i think obama sees this as a way to negotiate, to pause, to draw it out and after a couple of weeks inspections, negotiations and there will not be a vote in congress, there will not be a strike and we will not have the removal of weapons out of syria. gretchen: i actually think this thing will go away. unfortunately it is kind of like the benghazi situation. if you keep saying the story is over, don t need to discuss it, then may be the story is over. i think syria is going to go back to in-fighting and the countries will fall off. brian: in benghazi, the president went to las vegas and never wanted to talk about it again. when mitt romney brought it up, he got blasted and refused to bring it up in final debate. this, the president made it front and center after the world demanded he say something or the country did. then he is the one who set this deadline and he is the one who promised military action an ....
Addressed over the last several weeks rather than ask for a vote in congress and ask it to be postponed. president bush, on the other hand, i think he was very deliberate about how he made his decisions and i respected how he made those decisions. and he had the courage to make them. and we worked very hard to make sure that his decisions once implemented lived up to his expectations. gretchen: i m sure you got into disagreements from time to time and that brings me into the next topic about this documentary coming out tonight 9:00 p.m. called the president s gatekeepers. let s take a peek. we re waiting for [inaudible] to protect us. the whole time the president is telling me we re going back to washington. the secret service is telling me we can t go back here until we know much more about what s happening. i just said, mr. president, i really can t recommend it. gretchen: he was angry with you; right? ñi yes, he was. he was pretty angry with me. i tried to stay cool, calm and ....
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Healthy. and good. weight watchers. join for free. because we understand. because we ve been there. because it works. hurry, join by september 14th and you ll get a free month. gretchen: good morning to you today. it is wednesday, september 11, 2013. i m gretchen carlson. president obama laying out a case for a strike against syria last night burks in the same speech, he also asked congress to postpone the vote. if we fail to act, the assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons. i therefore asked the leaders of congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. gretchen: so is the president sending mixed messages to the world? brian: one year to the day, four americans lost their lives, another explosion rocks ....