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Moment. it seems like its groundhogs day. every time we get up in the morning bill kristol, john mccain and lindsay graham have a war they want us to start. im making it light and sarcastic because i am sarcastic about this. they always want us to go in. once we go in, its never clear how the hell we ever get out. were just in. your thoughts? >> robin wright said, chris, theres no quick fix to the syrian problem. im not even sure theres a slow fix. i actually dont think theres necessarily a fix ...

0 so please continue to use our facebook page. or tweet us @bashirlive. thanks for watching. chris matthews is next. stop the guillotine. lets play "hardball." good evening, im chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. there are people in this country, believe it or not, who believe the best way to get rich people to work harder is to give them tax benefits. the best way to get the poor to work harder is to cut their benefits. got it? give the carrot to the better off, gi...

0 third alternative is to actually fix the problem by coming up with a broader, larger deal. but, you know, jonathan, youve seemed to suggest that somehow these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. thats their job. >> well, thats what probably drives the republicans on the hill crazy, right, michael? its my job as daddy, if you will, or mommy, to make them behave, because the president under our constitution doesnt control -- okay. >> clinto...

>> we go to the floor, im still hopeful that what i call the sweet spot, background checks, can succeed. >> debate on the measure by the full senate could begin as early as tomorrow. secretary of state john kerry is in israel this morning. trying to revive peace talks that stalled back in 2002. he just finished meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. abbas says he will not negotiate until israel stops construction in the west bank. meanwhile, tensions in the region have r...

Presidential candidate, also robin wright of the u.s. institute of peace and former diplomatic correspondent. welcome to you both. robin, let me start with you. the question keeps being asked how serious is this. weve had this kind of bellicose threatening from north korea as long as ive been alive. is it any more real now? is there a particular threat because we have a new young certainly unpredictable leader there, or is it just the same old stuff? >> i think you always have to worry about nor...

This is "piers morgan live." a lot to get through tonight. we will start of course with the rising tensions in north korea. the eyes of the world are on that region tonight, looking at the demilitarized zone, no mans land between north and south korea. we learned today that the north may be planning to launch a mobile ballistic missile, possibly in a matter of days. thats according to a u.s. official who told cnn communications intercepts the plans. u.s. officials have seen movement in missile c...

Something happen to try and reduce the volume of guns in america, and the answer appears to be its not going to happen. only today, we heard about james holmes, the aurora shooter. new information coming out about him, including this devastating fact that his therapist reported him to university of colorado police on june 12th, 2012, saying that he was quote, a danger to the public due to homicidal statements. he sent threatening text messages. the same day she reported him to campus police, the...

Peninsula at a time when you have a new leader, emerging in south korea who is also part of a political dynasty. and hes also jockeying in the international community. he wants something out of this. its very unlikely that well see a major military confrontation, but does he engage in some kind of small, smaller scale provocation? thats quite possible. >> i mean, the real problem is it could just be a mistake. you get somebody whos young, inexperienced, wanting to impress, he does something a li...

Because he was really and a lot of people dont know this about him, such an intellectual. he lived a life so much inside his own head. he loved ideas, he loved books, he liked philosophy, he liked thinking about things, so as long as he had books and he had movies and he could write, he had this urge to communicate, as long as he could do that, i think the disability was perhaps somewhat less painful for him, losing the ability to speak, than it would have been for other people because he had so...

Losing the ability to speak, than it would have been for other people because he had so many other things right down to tweeting and his blog and the internet and writing reviews. so he was able to be very much present despite the fact that he was really unable to speak. and a kind of interesting thing, two years after roger lost his ability to speak, "forbes" magazine listed him among the top pundits in the united states. he loved that. this from a man who hadnt said a word in two years. >> ama...