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Side. here it is. >> i wish he was more after commander-in-chief than community organizer. >> what does that mean? >> what i mean by that, is he was commander-in-chief for one year he said the red line was there and then, red line is cross and he sends kerry and hagel out to have an attack. >> how would you characterize how the white house handled this so far. >> confused. and maybe a reflection of how the president himself is confused. >> what do you mean? >> well everything was lined up for a ...

Against its own people in the suburbs of damascus. we know its a violation of international law. chemical weapons have only been used twice in the last 100 years, once by iraq in 1980 and now by the assad regime. >> now, there are those who said assad regime has used the chemical weapons at least a dozen times. >> absolutely. state actors deployed against their people. this is one collective set of instances. but we know that there should be consequences, or at least ive come to that conclusion....

That he doesnt want but theyre standing by. he has new a pellate attorneys because theres an automatic appeal and they file a brief that can reduce the sentences and he files another brief on his own saying he objects to the brief that was filed. what youre saying is very, very true. from this point forward, he sits and waits. they make their decision. what are his rights after the decision comes out? can he waive an appeal? >> if hes sentenced to death, he cannot waive an appeal. its going to b...

Behavioral issues may be at issue here. in terms of criminal responsibility, its always a question how do you handle children who intentionally kill. our criminal justice system in louisiana does not address that and other states its different. we have had children as young as 8 and 9 charged with murder in other states but not in louisiana according to their state law. >> according to investigators, the child was playing this video game, a violent video game game, grand theft auto 4. parents wi...

Woman saw her reputation allegedly destroyed by anonymous government officials? >> being in the position that mrs. kelly and her husband are in today is not certainly they asked for. they came forward to do the right thing, and everything that was unleashed from that point forward was a result of the governments lack of restraint and in protecting their privacy and dignity of the witnesses and victims here. >> the kelleys attorney explains the mess started in may 2012 when a four-star general, j...

Returning home what are the concerns the family might have and what should they be looking out for? >> i mean, this girl and this family has gone through an enormous amount of trauma over the course of the last week. right now, its all about getting used to the new normal. nothing will ever be as it was before and whatever the circumstances of this situation are, shes going to have a very difficult time reconciling this very recent past with a future of uncertainty. so its going to be a very lon...

Taken him something like six months to learn how to walk again. she calls him her hero. today they are heros for one another because theyre tying the night. and forever from this point forward, its going to be one of the happiest days of their life, instead of what it was a year ago, which is one of the saddest. we hear a lot of stories out here, including, i should tell you about, a young man whos a veteran of the iraq war. hes a single dad, and he was shot that night in the theater. he spent t...

>> well, i think eric holder is in a unique position to talk about this. he comes from a personal perspective, he comes to it as the first african-american attorney general and he will also obviously brings a legal perspective to it. when we started reporting on the stand your ground laws in the background of this case last year when the case came to national prominence, we discovered even some state attorneys in florida who are employed to uphold this law have issues with it. and it seems to me...

Getting it not so right. but salon, just like the rest of the washington media, didnt hear a word of what was said on this program. absolutely no one in washington took their guidance. no one in the washington media anyway took their guidance on the irs story from this program. and i never, ever expected them to. >> once the political media has latched on to the paradigm of a scandal, once theyve collectively fixed its frame around what they think are the relevant elements of that scandal, it is...

Of course having the largest audience of all. to accuse msnbc of getting it wrong, salon had to ignore the very existence of this program, which has the second largest msnbc audience. in fact, more people heard this program, getting the irs fake scandal right, every night than heard anyone else on the network getting it not so right. but salon, just like the rest of the washington media, didnt hear a word of what was said on this program. absolutely no one in washington took their guidance. no o...