Kirsten Powers: Obama Should Return His Nobel Peace PrizeBILL O'REILLY: Should the president give back his Peace Prize, Powers? KIRSTEN POWERS: Yeah. He should have given it back a long time ago, actually -- for the drone war, for the escalating the war in Afghanistan, having all these people die unnecessarily. Plenty of civilians have been killed by his drone war, including children. So, I estimate 2
Syrian Woman Rips Into McCain At Town Hall For His Support For Bombing SyriaAt a Town Hall meeting a Syrian woman who lost a member of her family at the hands of the U.S. backed Syrian rebels that would benefit from a U.S. strike against Syria, one that AZ Senator John McCain supports, rips into him about spilling more Syria blood. "You need to listen to the majority of the American people who do not want you to go ther
Brit Hume: "Rand Paul Doesn't Know Jack About The Syrian Rebels!"BRIT HUME: I suspect that Rand Paul doesn't know jack about the Syrian rebels. I'm not sure that anyone knows enough about them. John McCain, who's been over there at least, thinks he knows them, and he says they're not a bad lot. At least that's the testimony of someone who's been there. but I, you know, a lot of what Rand Paul said there was stuf
Krauthammer: If U.S. Attacked Nations For Humanitarian Motives, We'd Be At War With Half Of AfricaCHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Look, I think it's wrong to make a decision about whether you enter a war or not purely on humanitarian motives. Yes, they're always part of the calculation, but the ultimate calculation has to be the national security interest of the United States, otherwise, we would be at war right now in the Congo and in half of West Afric
Letterman On Obama's Red Line For Syria: "The Guy Has Learned How To Bullshit"DAVID LETTERMAN: It looks like we're getting ready to teach Syria a lesson and President Obama is now saying that he never used the term red line. Remember when he was talking about if we find out that they used chemical weapons in Syria that that would be crossing the red line and if they crossed that red line, by God, we had to go in there and ge
Fireworks: MSNBC's Alex Wagner vs. Ron Paul On Syria, Liberty, Anti-SemitismFormer Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) joins Alex Wagner to give his take on the situation in Syria, how Obama has handled the situation, and why he thinks the "grand deception" of the Syria debate is that this is a question of national security. Alex Wagner: With your emphasis on liberty, I have to ask you about some of the folks that are in y
Kerry: If We Don't Strike Syria "We Will Have Lost Credibility In The World"JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: Our effort is to — is to preserve this international norm regarding the — the — the prohibition on the use of these terrible weapons. And people saw the other day, Chris, in the horrible scenes and in — in, uh, the social media of these children who were snuffed out at night in their sleep, parents, grandpar
Rep. Jeff Duncan: This Administration Has A Serious Credibility IssueDUNCAN: “You know I can’t discuss the possibility of U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war without also talking about Benghazi. This administration has a serious credibility issue with the American people. There are questions surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack almost a year. When you factor in the IRS targeting of conservative grou
Rand Paul: Bill Kristol Needs To Travel, Visit A Military Base And Talk To TroopsSEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): "Well, you know what? [Bill Kristol] needs to travel a bit, he needs to get out to the countryside. We're getting phone calls, better than 95% against involvement in Syria. What I would like him to do is come to a military base… Come to a military base, talk to a hundred GI’s that are allowed to frankly speak their minds,
Bill Clinton: Young People Level Out The Risk For Insurance CompaniesFORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: "A lot of folks are worried that not enough healthy young people will sign up, who are now uninsured. Why does that matter? Because if you let the relatively small number of people with severe pre-existing conditions buy insurance at the same price as everybody else, that will run everybody else's insurance policy up.
State Department: Nine Countries Support U.S. Action In SyriaState Department spokesperson Jen Psaki says Australia, Albania, Kosovo, Canada, Denmark, France, Poland, Romania and Turkey support U.S. military action in Syria.
Pat Buchanan: Syria Is Dress Rehersal For War With IranPAT BUCHANAN: And before this incident occurred, no one in this country, or almost no one besides McCain and his colleagues, a few colleagues, wanted to enter us into a Syrian Civil War where no vital interest of this country is remotely at stake in the outcome, except that we do not want al Qaeda in power. What this is behind the scenes… The Syr
Judge Napolitano: Syria Resolution Intentionally Vague So Obama Can Put Boots On The GroundJUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: It's a tremendous amount of wiggle room for a couple of reasons. As a practical matter, as your previous guest Aaron just said, when you send missiles into a country, you need boots on the ground to guide the missiles where they're going to land. So Secretary Kerry may very well shrewdly have been mincing words. The governm
Howard Dean Backs Obama On Syria: The "Only Person Who Knows All The Facts"HOWARD DEAN: I think we have engaged here in this conversation in a little bit of what I would call Washington hooey. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Give me a break, Howard. You know what? Give me a break. DEAN: It's Washington hooey. This is the blame game. SCARBOROUGH: Save it for somebody else. You know what? You're on the wrong show. You're on the w
"Daily Show" Rips McCain For Playing Poker On His Phone During Syria HearingDaily Show: As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considers America's response to the war in Syria, John McCain ponders his response to the river card.
"Special Report" Online: Will Congress Pass Syria Resolution?Steve Hayes, Juan Williams, Brit Hume, and Charles Krauthammer answer questions on Syria from viewers and discuss the fate of the resolution on war in Syria.
Fmr. Dem Sen. Bob Kerrey On Syria: Obama "Dithering" And "Creating Uncertainty"FMR. SEN. BOB KERREY (D-NE): The president, as he said last week, he had the authority to do this. He can make a case not to do it, he can make a case to do it. I don't think you can make a case to dither for another week. And when General Dempsey says it doesn't matter, let them know head of time, since when does the element of surprise not become
RCP's Scott Conroy On The New York City Mayoral RaceRCP's Scott Conroy and CBS News' Anthony Salvanto sit down to discuss the New York City mayoral election.
Blinken: Skeptics Of Syria Strike "See This Through The Prism Of The Last Decade"MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Obviously the support that you have from members of Congress is unequivocal, but the numbers don't appear to be there. What concerns do you have to overcome to get those numbers to get the votes you need? TONY BLINKEN, Deputy National Security Adviser: Here’s what I think is going on. When people around the country hear in a h
Dem Rep. Rush Holt: "It Is Not Up To One Nation To Enforce International Standards"CHRIS MATTHEWS: Congressman, your thoughts on that, just the idea we kill people to punish someone for killing people and basically we're killing the same people -- the Syrian people, which is so encrusted with irony, I don't know how to keep going here. Your thoughts? REP. RUSH HOLT (D-NJ): Well, I'm not sure that's what Mr. Gibbs is saying. He
Maddow To Rumsfeld: We Never Need To Hear From You About War AgainRachel Maddow compares the advisors who brought the Bush administration to war in Iraq and squandered the international credibility of the United States on questions of war and international threats, to the boy who cried wolf in Aesop's fable.
O'Reilly: Allowing Assad To Go Unpunished Will Cause Problems Down The RoadBill O'Reilly explains his take on the Syria situation.
Hayes: Embattled Sen. McConnell Noticeably Absent From Syria DebateMired in a tough bid for re-election, Mitch McConnell has yet to take a stand on Syria. McConnell's inner circle is instead lashing out at the senior senator's likely Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes. MSNBC's Chris Hayes talks with Louisville-based reporter Joe Sonka about McConnell's re-election prospects and how that fits into the cur