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Bhupesh Baghel urges Himachal voters to vote for Congress and attacked BJP over inflation in essential items

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday appealed to the people of Himachal Pradesh to make the Congress victorious in the upcoming Assembly polls in the state.

Theres a whole lot of crazy going on this week, and its only Monday. • The latest issue of the New York Review of Books, which I read so that you dont have to (its opposition research) always offer a fill of amusement. Theres a James Mann review of yet another new book on Robert Welch and the John Birch Society, and you can just guess the theme of the

The presidents speech. >> thats right, reaction is pouring in from capitol hill, and john baoehner, and eric cantor said they were pleased with the presidents decision, and representative peter king, republican of new york just released a statement opposing this decision by the president, and in very strong terms. i will read you part of the statement. he said, quote, president obama is be a dough indicating his responsibility as commander in chief, and i will skip ahead to the end of the statem...

In congress that this vote to authorize could fail? >> i think there is a real chance that it could fail. its a fascinating moment. the president in a sense is completely reversing direction here, and he says he has the aauthority to do cyber surveillance and now he is stopping and saying i need congresss support. i think its a positive step. its a hugely divided country about when you spoke about earlier, about the war on terror, about americas role in the world. we are haunted by iraq, and i c...

Behind the scenes working the phones, and of course vice president biden who does have strong relationships with a number of members of congress, i anticipate that he will be quite active in the behind the scenes negotiations as well. and one more point i would like to make, craig, as we were awaiting president obamas remarks, you will recall that i said he was in the oval office on the phone, and we are now learning he was on the phone with the president of france alerting him about his decisio...

In the same way that we have previous debated issues like iraq, its going to -- its going to create a dynamic where it will -- the perception that syria and iraq will be enhanced, and the administration spent all week long describing by syria and iraq are different, but now you are going to have the next two weeks arguing about why syria and iraq are the same. >> stick around, guys. i want to continue the tkeconve on the other side of the break. >> all members of congress of both parties, i ask ...

Looming budget deadlines as well, and oh, now, by the way, starting september 9th there is going to be quite the vigorous debate, and then a vote on military action. >> to me, there were two extraordinary aspects to the presidents remarks there. one, and behind the scenes they have been dealing with this problem for all week which was what is the hurry? they could never come up with a rational publicly to satisfy whether it was ban ki-moon at the u.n. or whether it was a member of congress of wh...

Politics and all the corridors of power, three years ago today president obama made an announcement about the end of the war in iraq, and now he is asking congress for the authority to wage a military strike in the middle east against syria. its really striking where we are and where this president is, and who was opposed, he said, to dumb wars, who wanted to with draw from the conflicts of the bus bush era, and now is confrontsed that if we see chemical weapons being moved around, that would cr...

The request going up this afternoon is going to be narrow in scope, and president obama asking congress to authorize force to prevent and detour the use of chemical weapons in syria, the future use of chemical weapons in syria, and its also -- i would imagine, its going to be interesting, the political bedfellows made in the debate. >> absolutely, one person that will be more important or should be put in the spotlight because the influence is here, and thats the new united nations ambassador, s...