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Strategically placed figure leaf. the bill doesnt match the statue and finds them unsuitable for children. it echos a growing conservatism in the russian government. the parliament unanimously passed anti-gay legislation banning propaganda of nonsexual relations to youth. who knows what the law means, but what we do know is that the fine for a person breaking it is steep, up to 100,000 rubles to be paid in denominations other than hundreds, i guess. thats about $3,000. president putin has strong...

Theres the nontea party republicans that want out of this, anyway out of this but they need a figure leaf but harry reid and the president arent ready to give them one. >> the latest nbc/wall street journal poll doesnt bode well for republicans. 53% of americans blame republicans for the shutdown. senator ted cruz was asked if his movement to defund obama care has done damage to the republican brand. here so. >> the polling has varied. the polling was very heavily weighted with an awful lot of d...

In the middle of the road on the senate side. and i think theres an opportunity today to brick that to a conclusion and to begin moving something off the senate floor in a bipartisan way. >> lets bring in chief political analyst gloria borger. the key is to get something past the senate so it can go to the house. >> theres the question of what can get through the house. >> if it passes the senate with extensive bipartisan -- a lot of republicans are on board. that will put enormous pressure on b...

So 100,000 -- the president andd maybe it was by accident, maybe it was by design, said that it would be a, quote, red line. and then he was stuck with those words and were trying to convince the american people that were going to take these actions because bashar al-assad violated a chemical weapons treaty. >> neil: now were not. either russia provided a figure leaf to to go ahead and not do that, but you think that would a mistake, right? >> i think the best way to bring this thing to an end i...

Congresss redline. some of the things, including the attitude of putin and his deep backing of syrian has changed the dynamics. i would look at this as a crisis of the moment, not an ongoing trend. >> what do you think, was it a mistake? a lot of people say whats wrong with waiting? >> every time a president acts without congressional authority, there is a legal opinion that the president down the road will use. in this case there were no figure leaf no, nato approval, no u.n. resolution and bef...

Trend. >> what do you think, was it a mistake? a lot of people say whats wrong with waiting? >> every time a president acts without congressional authority, there is a legal opinion that the president down the road will use. in this case there were no figure leaf no, nato approval, no u.n. resolution and before obama made the announcement, both people on the left and people on the right, both constitutional professors said that this was the biggest overreach of presidential military power in his...

Stunning absence of partisanship. i didnt hear the words mitch mcconnell or ted cruz or donald trump, not once, not one reference to those who have derided and mocked this president for four and a half years. not a word about those who called him an illegal immigrant. thats trumps word on the american voter. a three-card monty going at the corner. not a word about the efforts of the rights to nullify the law of the land on health care, or to impeach obama, as i said at the outset tonight, a figu...

This comes amid the claim that manziel got thousands of dollars from this. mike, does this really eliminate the hypocrisy that mark was talking about? >> no. what i think this move does is take about the thinnest figure leaf in amateur sports and adds a thickness to that figure leaf. what im saying is that college football is amateurism only in that the players dont get paid. everyone else gets paid. the coaches make money, the schools make money. but it adds to the fact that the players dont ge...

>> theres fear if the house pass as security bill the senate and house bill goes to conference. out of conference comes a bill more closely aligned with the senate. >> oh, yes. >> speaker boehner would be over if he didnt enforce the haster rule. designee wont bring a bill to a vote unless a majority of republicans vote on. it >> they dont have to do it. >> its like these endless repeals of obama care. god bless them but we get the point. you want to repeal obama care. nothing will happen. nothi...

>> theres fear if the house pass as security bill the senate and house bill goes to conference. out of conference comes a bill more closely aligned with the senate. >> oh, yes. >> speaker boehner would be over if he didnt enforce the haster rule. designee wont bring a bill to a vote unless a majority of republicans vote on. it >> they dont have to do it. >> its like these endless repeals of obama care. god bless them but we get the point. you want to repeal obama care. nothing will happen. nothi...