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We are writers, academics and political activists who have long disagreed about many things. that is the first line of an open letter in defense of democracy published today with an impressive list of 48 signatories. the coauthors are jeffrey isaac and william crystal. the letters says "some of us are democrats and others republicans. some identify with the left and some with the right and some with neither. we have disagreed in the past and hope to disagree productively for years to come. but r...

>> the white house admitted today that isis capture of two major cities this week are a major setback in the international effort to degrade and destroy the extremist group. >> i would acknowledge that we have seen a setback in ramadi. i think you could accurately characterize the situation in palmyra as a setback. we have experienced progress and setbacks as well. >> it comes on a broader reexamination of the entire iraq wore prompted by jeb bushs inability to state whether the war was a mistak...

Have seen a setback in ramadi. i think you could accurately characterize the situation in pal my ra a setback. we have experienced progress and setbacks as well. >> it comes on a broader reexamination of the entire iraq wore prompted by jeb bushs inability to state whether the war was a mistake. his eventual mission that it was seemed to signify a new consensus on the issue until weekly standard editor william crystal, that broken clock who somehow manages never to be right published this op ed ...

Major cities this week are a major setback in the international effort to degrade and destroy the extremist group. >> i would acknowledge that we have seen a setback in ramadi. i think you could accurately characterize the situation in pal my ra a setback. we have experienced progress and setbacks as well. >> it comes on a broader reexamination of the entire iraq wore prompted by jeb bushs inability to state whether the war was a mistake. his eventual mission that it was seemed to signify a new ...

To arms in the new republic. its been old home week on the network green wars with the iraq war pushers like paul bremer, william crystal, david frome. joining me is michael steele who is an nbc political analyst and joy reed, host of the reed report. thanks for joining us. having been through this fight many years ago, in fact, i have been review aring my old columns in 2001, 2002, 2003. the long wind-up to war was paved by these voices. everyone spoke with authority about how it would be a cak...

Voice. thats why we believe were a better party. we have a lot of different voices and big party with several different policy ideas and we have robust debates and come out with the best policies for families and businesses but i dont think you have to have everyone marching in lock step, as far as if you look at the other side of the aisle, theyve all kind of coalesced behind the failed policies of the last six years and look where thats gotten us. >> lets talk about immigration. william crysta...

Thanks very much for watching. im wolf blitzer at the united nations. "crossfire" starts right now. tonight on "the cafferty file" tonight on "crossfire" i believe nothing is hurting the american people more than obama care. >> as the battle brings the government closer to shutting down, should the presidents health care reform bill -- on the left, van jones. on the right, s.e. kipp. cornel west, and william crystal, who would repeal all of it. obama care, does it go far enough? has it already...

right-wing revolt against romney? the "politico" reporter who lost his job after making racially charged comments on more than. well talk to joe williams about what happened. plus, we all thought we knew the story of barack obamas early years. but thanks to four years of relentless reporting, david mariness has cost it in a whole new light. >> what obsessed me were two things to start with -- the world that made him. sort of the randomness of his existence, and the ability to write...

Hillary clinton is waking upright now. lets see if she can pull it off in the next 12 hours or not. >> william crystal obviously a communist. kidding. the 12 hours that he was talking about yesterday when he said that or last night are just about up now. this is a fast, fast moving crisis. the politics around this will continue to reverberate. in terms of understanding the resolution to this, we are turning to a man thats been involved in many crisises like these is a former ambassador and vkt v...