all 100 senators passed this before the holiday and we re going to open up the government. the clean cr, which everybody, bipartisan, agrees on. but he refuses to do that. he could stand up to the president and say, enough is enough. there s 800,000 people who are suffering who can t pay their mortgage, who can t send their kids to school or pay for day care. can t put gas in the car! let me bring mark lebowitz back in. mark, i heard from a close trump ally who before the holidays said the shutdown was always the end. it wasn t a means to an end. the shutdown was the end. and he didn t have an exit tragedy before he shut down the government, he sure doesn t have one now with the numbers plunging and numbers declining and waning. we showed rush limbaugh and ann coulter because they are, for better or worse, running this president.
that he s not considered vice president. and in this particular era, what s interesting about that to me is it demonstrates a different type of bush. george h.w. tells him back, you don t know what you re talking about, nobody owes us anything. jeb bush has run this campaign like america owes us something. he is not, absolutely not well, donald trump has played into that sense, among rank and file republican voters, just brilliantly, i think. and it s been devastating for jeb bush. you re talking about a potential exit tragedy for jeb bush. i think back to his father, against bob dole in 1988. his brother, george w. against john mccain in 2000. the lesson of those two campaigns is they got dirty to win. and jeb bush is in a situation right now where he s got to make that choice. do i want to take one more shot at this, where i go after rubio with everything i have. i spend against him and go after all these people who are in my way? i think the problem is, he s gotten a lot of pu
obama. what are we going to do about it? so let s go back to this exit tragedy. i would just lake to say quickly, we are where we are today, with the regime that s using chemical weapons as another tool in its arsenal, simply because the credible threat of the use of force has been lacking. so it was a peaceful protest, a movement for six months, assad militaryized the process, escalated from live rounds, use of tanks and heavy artillery, helicopter gun ships, fixed wing aircraft, scud missiles, and now because of no consequences, assad believed that the world doesn t have any business in this area, and it has escalated. so now i think if no action is taken, this would be tantamount to a blank check to assad and other dictators around the world that the world would continue to stand by and watch. this is the question. here we are. we find ourselves in this moment, as the president says, if we strike, particularly in the very limited way that secretary of state kerry is saying, then
are raising the same issues of going to war without a vote by congress. this is we are having the debate. they are not doing that in libya. joe, joe we joined a coalition. this president told how is it possible he s subcontracting american forces to the british and french? look what happened at the nato conference they had the other day. nato doesn t want any part of this thing them. president has no strategy, and yet committed our troops. heather: let me ask you, on the campaign trail, president obama said he would not commit troops in this kind of way without a defined entrance and exit tragedy. and, by the way, without talking to congress. joe, the president has failed to do that, how do you answer that? we have there are no ground troops on the ground, we re not at war, we are helping enforce a u.n. resolution. and, some of that language has to be vague because you have to have vague language to get the
anti-regime uprisings in the 1990s and then he merged his forces into al-qaeda. on march 18, while denouncing the united states, france and britain, killed on his forces to overthrow qaddafi. this is the leader? if it is, it s not good. he s running an al-qaeda group denouncing the united states. is it possible that that is who we are helping? yes, it s certainly possible. what christopher is saying speaks to the overarching problem, in that we went into this situation so haplessly, so unprepared, unaware of what s going on that we not only don t have an exit tragedy. we didn t have an entry strategy. and people that we re looking alt mustafa abdul jaleil was the justice minister for moammar qaddafi and he s one of the guys that we re looking to to replace moammar qaddafi.