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Right choice. you determine hot wars during the cold war era. and a majority of americans agree with that idea as were faced with another conflict in the middle east. what should we learn from as we now debate this crisis in syria? >> well, i suppose the -- we ought to learn we shouldnt and try to impose our political systems on other people, least of all on societies whose complexities we dont understand at all. whats slightly different from the cold war is that there wasnt this type of moral o...

$7,000 a year. that last figure is really important, because its at the heart of eric holders brand new policy. that policy, all about the mandatory minimum sentencing laws for drug possession. those who are nonviolent. they came into play back in the 80s and the prison population just exploded right across the country. were bursting at the seams, folks. no other way to say it. here to talk more about this is cnns legal analyst and hln legal analyst. a lot of people got freaked out when they hea...

Stop the bill? let me go to keith boynkin and republican strategist and publisher of mullings.com good morning. >> immigration reform has brought public support and it looked like it was in the bag. theres a political imperative, i think, many republican strategists would agree for republicans to move forward. so why isnt it happening? >> keith might disagree with this, but i think it has not much to do with the substance of whichever bill or series of bills more likely that will go to the house...

This could theoretically. >> that is because they werent there? >> thats a whole other thing. although he was claiming they were. >> they werent. maybe thats why it took so long. >> theres a danger here also of making it seem too simple, right? were going to strike. were going to find the chemical weapons. and were going to get rid of them. and that will be it. that will teach assad a lesson. so theres kind of a danger when you talk about the moral imperative, then you have to also be able to sa...

Presidents closest allies that they wish he said more of is talking about the regional interests. not just the moral imperative to deal with this, any dictator using chemical weapons, but also why it matters for national security interests in the region. and thats something that it seems that the senate majority leader harry reid picked up on this morning. listen to what he said. >> as the president said, we have to send an explicit message to not only syria but the rest of the world. remember, ...

>> david kay said this takes a long time in iraq it took years. there was a deal well let the inspectors in it took literally years before the conclusion was drawn, okay, saddams not really actually serious about this. this could theoretically. >> that is because they werent there? >> thats a whole other thing. although he was claiming they were. >> they werent. maybe thats why it took so long. >> theres a danger here also of making it seem too simple, right? were going to strike. were going to ...

Right before that he was explaining why the u.s. has the moral imperative to act and if the united states does not act, wmd will be used again. so what will it be? alan colmes, host of the alan colmes radio show, fox news contributor. tucker carlson, editor, daily caller, host of "fox & friends" weekend. good morning to both of you on september 11th. last night, tucker, did it change anything. >> i couldnt understand the point was. most americans give the president any president benefit of the d...

Four and a half years. >> bill: nobody has allegiance to the administration except zealots and people like reid and pelosi. >> right. >> bill: why do you in the face of opposition support punishing assad? >> america for decades has put down basically a red line on chemical weapons. we have never faced chemical weapons on the battlefield since world war i. we had a northern and southern no-fly zone over iraq 12 years under bipartisan administrations because we abhor the use of chemical weapons. i...

Easy to do for the last four and a half years. >> bill: nobody has allegiance to the administration except zealots and people like reid and pelosi. >> right. >> bill: why do you in the face of opposition support punishing assad? >> america for decades has put down basically a red line on chemical weapons. we have never faced chemical weapons on the battlefield since world war i. we had a northern and southern no-fly zone over iraq 12 years under bipartisan administrations because we abhor the us...

Easy to do for the last four and a half years. >> bill: nobody has allegiance to the administration except zealots and people like reid and pelosi. >> right. >> bill: why do you in the face of opposition support punishing assad? >> america for decades has put down basically a red line on chemical weapons. we have never faced chemical weapons on the battlefield since world war i. we had a northern and southern no-fly zone over iraq 12 years under bipartisan administrations because we abhor the us...