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Ear at best buy. >> thats amazing. and that orange and grey tent is huge. its like a family of gypsies in there. >> reporter: this is bigger than a new york apartment right here! come on, right! >> theyre doing it with style and class. if youre going to camp out for five days, you do it right, you do it with a tent. i give them that. >> reporter: no open fires, though. no open fires. >> we do this a little bit tongue in cheek. this is a very serious issue now. there are people waiting for black ...

It is not what our founders envisioned. >> joining us is gregory meeks, democratic congressman of new york. thank you for joining us. we understand that the laws and rules and regulations that apply to fill busters in the senate do not apply in the house. what did you think of the president calling out the kind of obstructionism that hes basically been the victim of for five years? >> hes had enough. i think it is clear from his tone hes been conciliatory, he has reached out, tried to do everyth...

Not in the bag with the corporate interest, per se. does this break that alliance between big capital and the busters on the right? >> 100%. if you talk to the people in the chamber of commerce or the roundtable, they are furious with the party. they dont know what to do. there is part of them that desperately wants to try to put up other candidates against people, like a ted cruz. hes not up -- hes not going to be up anytime soon, but they desperately want to do that. but theyre so worried that...

Youre all going to get killed. how many times, jim, can you put that word to the passengers and they still get on the freaking plane again? i wouldnt get on that plane again? >> its not the full faith and credit, its the partial faith and credit. its the partial faith and a lot of credit. the japanese, day dont know where to go. the chinese they dont know where to go, but chinese were really angry. and ive got to tell you, these are smart people. dismay will figure out over the next five to seve...

Republicans, standing in solidarity with ted cruz while mitch mcconnell is opposing what hes doing on the senate floor. that, as one republican aide said to me, was more of the establishment ranks, looks deeply dysfunctional to our chief donors and shows the party from where we are right now. democrats sit back dumb founded. democrats know theres a lot of political liability with this bill but as long as ted cruz does this, the focus is on him, his ego, whatever hes doing here in washington, d.c...

Syrias capacity to use such weapons in the future, explain from the military perspective what that suggests to you. >> well, thats a very difficult passage because i think the chances of going after the chemical weapons delivery systems, which were rocket launchers and hes got thousands of them all over the country, were going after the weapons themselves will probably be too difficult to do. the chemical weapons are a valuable asset for the syrian regime. they got them stored in very hardened f...

From the military perspective what that suggests to you. >> well, thats a very difficult passage because i think the chances of going after the chemical weapons delivery systems, which were rocket launchers and hes got thousands of them all over the country, were going after the weapons themselves will probably be too difficult to do. the chemical weapons are a valuable asset for the syrian regime. they got them stored in very hardened facilities that a cruise missile wont be able to do. you nee...

From the military perspective what that suggests to you. >> well, thats a very difficult passage because i think the chances of going after the chemical weapons delivery systems, which were rocket launchers and hes got thousands of them all over the country, were going after the weapons themselves will probably be too difficult to do. the chemical weapons are a valuable asset for the syrian regime. they got them stored in very hardened facilities that a cruise missile wont be able to do. you nee...

Of these assets into civilian areas? >> well, we have to decide what we want to do. if you want to go after the chemical warfare capabilities, thats going to be very, very difficult, especially with the land attack missiles that are on these cruisers, these destroyers. theyre very effective weapons, but theyre not bunker busters. they wont be able to hit the hardened sites. theyre great for taking out air defense. if we were going to mount some sort of a combined campaign where we would be using...

It? >> rand paul. >> paul rand, yes. it was a beautiful sight. now they think fill a busters are good because of that. >> when youre talking about politicians that, you know, an issue that is important to ted cruz and mike lee and rand paul may not represent the party more broadly and what we are seeing a number of republican senators are saying thats not for me, not for me. >> simple minded republican, can you please? >> i didnt mean to do a label, mark. i know youre no label. im so sorry. >> t...