look great to send weapons and ammunition but here is what they need. they need you to bomb the syrian airports that allow iranian planes to come in and bring bashar al assad the ammunition and weapons and sometimes the troops he needs. we need someone to enforce a fly over. we need a protective zone in northern syria. the critics will not be satisfied and the president is in a box. if you re in for a little do you then allow it to go on and maybe your side lose because right now on the ground we are told that bashar al assad is winning. if you get in, how far do you want to get in? that is going to be the pressure on the president. that s right. ron brownstein, i have to ask you, once the president starts moving in this direction is there really any exit strategy for president obama for the united states without bashar al assad leaving power?
and it becomes deeper and deeper. i just hope the administration if they are going to take further action has a clear idea what the mission is they want to accomplish and what the exit strategy is. you have been on the record saying you prefer a cautious approach when questioned about that back in april. as we think about where it stands now, the u.n. says yesterday 93,000 have been killed in this two-year-old conflict, 152 people killed by chemical weapons that the administration is confirming. if the red line has been crossed, isn t it subjective to think whether the line was crossed minorly or majorly by uses of chemical weapons? it has been crossed now, doesn t that force the hand of president obama? i think, i don t know if it forces the hand. he is the one that created that so-called red line. i am not sure it forces his hand, and whether or not it does, whatever the reality is, i just think we need to go in here
able to escape, safely. you know, we see the video coming from tornado choicers like yourself. but it s interesting that you point out, you know, you do know what type of safety precautions you do need to take. you know when you need to get out. caller: yeah. oh, absolutely. that s one of our primary concerns for ourselves is to always have an exit strategy. today, we had an exit strategy and fortunately, it panned out. but there were others the tornado s movement itself became very erratic at times when it was south of el reno. unfortunately, you know, it s part of the territory. it is not always going to be always a safe exit. you know, that s when things can things can unfortunately go the wrong way. yeah, erratic and a lot of them in a short amount of time, apparently? caller: yeah. it changed speed and direction very. quickly, several times.
nothing was accomplished. nothing happened. can you help kimberly and i? ink stained? what does that mean? in the press. ink stained. this was like wrapped in a newspaper. we thought you meant that thing that we no. we re bringing them all together so we can get it back to the way it was before. let me say what eric said here. i think this may well be a part of the strategy to get himself out. in other words, i think he needs to be able to say i tried to explain what i was doing, here s the new guidelines, and at some point i ll say my predecessor will pick this up. i cannot imagine if this goes into another week that it doesn t end up this way. it s too bad. i ve known eric holder a long time. he s an honorable man. i don t believe he broke any laws here, but i think he s becoming a liabilit liability. i think this is part of an exit strategy. one of the things they said in this meeting is that the department of justice says that eric holder did not lie under
sort of consistent with how casual they are. odd. the behavior leading up to the attack. didn t try to hide. weren t staying away from people and afterward with the four days we had in boston with their you know, the fact that they had no exit strategy. but you see tamerlan. he s you know, we know now from his biography, he was a bully. very belligerent. that martial arts is consistent with that. and the fight he leading into the gym seems to be part of the narrative. so interesting. you talk about the manager of the gym saying, you know, he didn t want to ask him about the beard being gone, didn t want to get into a long, drawn out conversation that could be contentious. and the argument about taking his shoes off. it almost seems as though this is a guy walking around with a big chip on his shoulder.