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This? we begin with breaking news. a winter storm that some fear will make atlantas recent nightmare look like nothing. this is what two inches of snow and ice did to the city a couple weeks ago. the storm thats getting ready to pummel the southeast tonight could be the worst in 14 years. take a look at it from space, stretching from texas through virginia, and farther north along the eastern seaboard. its in georgia, though, and the carolinas that will be the first to get the worst of it. not...

>> we dont want to be accused of crying wolf. because if we had been wrong, you all would be here saying, you know how many millions of dollars you cost the economy or the city of atlanta and the state of georgia by shutting down businesses all over this city and this state? >> wouldnt that have been terrible facing those questions? governor dele also called the storm in the south unexpected, was his turn of phrase. that does not seem to be true. over at the weather channel, a sister network to ...

Could meteorologists have been more forceful? i mean, is it -- you know, again, two inches in certain parts of this country is not going to have a measurable effect. two inches in other parts of this country is going to have the effect that we saw to a certain extent, obviously not to the extent that we saw in atlanta. in the future what can be done to prevent things like this from a meteorological standpoint if anything? >> yeah, well, i think you have to be careful about crying wolf. i think y...

Their cars in the ice and snow, that cant come soon enough. for most of the deep south, this freak winter snowstorm dropped mere inches. but that was enough to grind parts of it to a complete gridlock. as know and ice built up, traffic snarled. officials took some of that blame after schools and businesses and government all went out at the same time. >> we dont want to be accused of crying wolf. because if we had been wrong, yall would have been in here saying, you know how many millions of dol...

Sales go up, im happy. i ordered another pair. im happy. (both) im happy. im happy. happy. happy. happy. happy. happy happy. i love logistics. ♪ welcome back to "hardball." the ability of republicans to deny reality and operate in a fact-free universe of their own has extended from science to the economy. heres senator rand paul on "meet the press" playing down the economic catastrophe that would result after defaulting on the debt saying the president is crying wolf. >> i think its irrespon...

World stage right now. >> punked? >> thats the same thing i said. >> you said global support before. >> now people are tired of crying wolf. at this point we are very war-weary, but something needs to be done. >> thats the point. we are trying to figure out -- you watched how assad responded. we need to wrap up. >> we know hes working with iran, destabilizing, trying to destabilize iraq. somebody said we dont know if well get a democracy if he goes. we dont. but if he stays well have a dictators...

Michael scherer is "the o washington bureau chief. and josh rogin, senior correspondent for politics for "newsweek" and the daily beast. gentlemen, you watch and see how the boilerplate changes and how the regular conventional after its been added and stuff in the major papers and magazines begins to be written into our history. false case. the word false, not some would argue allegedly false. its false. so whatever it, its come down to bogus arguments for the war. crying wolf on iraq has led th...

Not would say unintentionally. its false. so whatever it is, its come down to bogus arguments for the war. crying wolf on iraq has led this president to have to fight off those who say he is crying wolf now. michael? >> its absolutely right. and has a global impact. and there is an enormous irony here that obamas entire career is based on opposing the iraq war. >> its how he got the nomination. >> its how he got the nomination. here he finds himself on the other side of the coin trying to push t...

Major papers and magazines begins to be written into our history. false case. the word false, not some would argue allegedly false. its false. so whatever it, its come down to bogus arguments for the war. crying wolf on iraq has led this president to have to fight off those who say he is crying wolf now. michael? >> its absolutely right. and has a global impact. and there is an enormous irony here that obamas entire career is based on opposing the iraq war. >> its how he got the nomination. >> n...

When youre dealing with a diplomatic situation like this and the prospect of ending up going to war or doing surgical strikes or whatever it may be, people need to be very clear in what you are saying that you will do and under what conditions and setting expectations and adhering to them. otherwise you end up with everything being a jumble. there is no predictability. thats going to make it very hard to actually go in and get people to do what you actually want them to do. because their assumpt...