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City near you are we flying into all sorts of problems. Hello, im antonio mora, and welcome to consider this. Here is more of who is ahead. The Supreme Court delivered a unanimous rebuke to president obama, saying he succeeded his Constitutional Authority when he made three appointments. The Supreme Court unanimously agreed with us. The new Iraqi Parliament is scheduled to meet next week. The ournt inquiry must be to inform an inclusive government. The hope is a unified government will stop the advance of Islamic State of iraq and levant. Nouri almaliki says hes the only man that can lead iraq out of the crisis. The Supreme Court turned down the appeal of a New York Times reporter. He could go to prison for doing his job. This is the worst time for press freedom. We have transferred ourselves based on fear. We begin with two big Supreme Court rulings, one a victory if the u. S. Senate in a struggle with president obama over president ial power. The other a win for antiabortion protestors. The court ruled unanimously in favour of limiting a president s authority to feel availablingansies with temporary recess appointments. President obamas claim that he acted within his powers was rejected. That was in january 2012. At the time the senate was taking a 20 day break. Going into session every three days. The Supreme Court justice said the president cannot exercise his power when the Senate Declares that it is in session and ppss the capacity to conduct business. In in a ruling the court struck down a Massachusetts Law when it put a buffer zone around abortion entrance, and smaller buffer zones in other states might be okay. Im joined by scott us blog editor amy howell who argued cases before the court. Joining me from washington is bill shschneider, an al jazeera contributor, senior fellow and professor at george mason university. Amy, every president since George Washington used the recess power to make appointments. Thursdays ruling is described has a blow to the president s power. Is it. It is in one sense, and it will depend on basically the balance of power, who controls the white house, and who controls the senate, and whether they are the same party. It was a decision by Justice Steven brier, a lawyer for the senate, before he became a judge. In the opinion he gave the president fairly interoed powers to make recess appointments. Basically the president can do it if theres a vacancy that needs to get filled, and the recess is long enough. The caveat was that the senate can start the clock over on the length of a recess by sending someone in every couple of days to gabble the senate into a session and then closing in a few minutes later without doing any work. So if right now it doesnt have a lot of significance in the sense that the president is a department, the democrats control the senate. This could be a different story as soon as november if the ub cannes retake the senate. Theyd be able to block appointees and prevent him making appointments by having the pro forma sessions where no work gets down. It limits the power of the presidency, but not the power of this president right now, because she controls his Party Controls the senate. That could change in the future. Yes, theres an election in november, and the expectation is the republicans have a good chance of winning the majority in the senate. It takes a majority to confirm the president ial appointment. He wont have a majority any more. Republicans will be in a position to block appointments, and he will not be able to make recess appointments as he and others have done in the part. The court was split 5 to 4 on how broad the ruling should be. The most conservative fashion, Justice Anthony scolya accused the authority of adventurism, adding the majority bends over, ensuring that recess appoints are a powerful convention. It was said theyd render thousand of recess appointments illegitimate going back to George Washington, if they had their ways. Everyone agreed the three appointments, the National Labour Relations Board violated the constitution, then they parted ways saying there was five led by justice brier, who was reading the constitution. One thing that should the Supreme Court never determined the recess clause before, but it is what is the practice been, and president s have been doing this for hundreds of years. The senate never acted to block it. We are not going to upset the apple cart. The concurring opinion justice scolya read from the bench, which is something that is rare for a dissenting justice, much less when you agree to the result in the case. Justice scolya says this is riddic u lourks the fact that youve been doing this for a long time. And it can affect the interpretation of the words of the constitution, and he would have read it narrowly. If you look at the words of the constitution, theres an argument that you could have made it tougher than what was decided. Could we see a signal here about where the court stands on the division of parliament, given that the speaker of the house says congress is going to sue the president for overusing any orders. He announced that this week. He announced that. Its not likely to go far. It would be unprecedented for the house to sue the president successfully in court. I think i know what john boehner is up to. Hes trying to invade the issue of impeachment. If the senate goes under republican authority, therell be pressure from grassroots conservatives for the house to vote to impeach president obama. They imbeached Andrew Johnson on trumped up charges. Therell be pressure for them to do that if the senate is controlled by republicans. This is John Boehners way of saying dont talk about impeachment, knowing that it would be damaging to republicans, as it was in 1998. Hes saying were suing the president , lets see what happens there. And the Abortion Clinic buffer zone, chief Justice Roberts wrote a 35 foot zone burdens speech more than it needed to and he said the states should consider what new york city was, making it a crime to harass a person within 15 feet of a medical facility. Prochoice advocates say it is needed for safety. Exactly. This is brought by a massachusetts grandmother who says i dont want to process, i want to counsel women considering an abortion, this law prevent them doing it. Some of the plaintiffs wanted to counsel women, and he said you cant take away their right to do this on a public side walk or roadway when you havent tried something else. There are other laws in effect right now that you can try. They are targeted at abortion clin e, and tress clinics, and trespassing. What does it mean. We see buffer zones for political conventions, world trade organizations, meetings that have turned ugly. Its hard to say. This was a decision, an interesting lineup. The chief justice wrote for a majority. What we think of this, the liberal justices voted to strike down the massachusetts buffer zone. The thinking is this was a ruling. The other four justices, scolya and kennedy and thomas would have voted to reverse a 2,000 decision by the Supreme Court, that upheld another buffer zone out in colorado, drawing a line 100 feet around Abortion Clinics, saying you cant go within eight feet of anyone, within that clinic, that buffer zone. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. The elephant in the room is a buffer zone around. I want to end with someone i am sure you knew well. Regan chief of staff, howard baker of tennessee, he died, may be remembered for his role on the committee of watergate asking what did the president know and when. It seemed lick capitol hill could use a howard baker. Could a sent rift like him have a shot. It would be tough. Howard baker was a pro, a politician that makes the government work. He knew the art of making, compromise. President regan believes in that too. Nowadays politics in washington is tribal. Candidates, the officials with the most attention are people like ted crews. And of course the grass roots are more militant. I think politicians like powered baker are becoming extremely rare in washington. Thats a sad thing. Pleasure to have you both on the show. Thanks for having me. Turning to iraq where fighting continued on thursday as Government Forces launched an assault on rebel held positions if tikrit. Risk by helicopter Iraqi Special forces engaged militants in clashes in and around the citys university. Iraqs parliament announced it would meet to elect a new government, coming as members of nouri almalikis party suggested he may not be a viable candidate. In a day after syria launched air strikes targetting i. S. I. L. , maliki said thered been no coordination between the two countries but welcomes the support. Translation we welcome the action and any serious fight against i. S. I. S. The group target iraq and syria. Joining us from boston is colonel, a veteran of 23 years in the army, including service in vietnam. Hes professor of history and International Relations at boston university, and is an author. Great to have you with us, col them, good to see you again. I. S. I. L. Moves through iraq seemingly with impunity. Nouri almaliki, the prime minister, yesterday rejected calls for a unity government, despite pressure from the u. S. And others. Many are calling this a civil war leading to a split of iraq into three countries, sunni, kurd and shia. The u. S. Committed a group of the military advisors, and is trying to replace nouri almaliki. You think both attempts at solving the problem will not work. I think we have limited leverage in the situation. Let me focus on the military question. I think there specifically the issue is whether or not the problems of the iraqi army reflect the lack of skill or a lack of will. 300 advisors can, to some degree, make up a deficit of skill. I dont believe any number of americans can make up for a deficit in will. At the end of the day ricky soldiers are willing to fight and die for their country or they are not, based on the performance against the i. S. I. L. Forces offer the past couple of weeks, many seem not to be willing to fight and die for their country. I think its a huge problem. With regard to the politics, we have limited leverage, and we shouldnt deceive ourselves. And a further point there if the United States were able to arrange for nouri almalikis departure from the scene, the big question then becomes who replaces him, and im not sure that we have the wisdom and the wit to choose a leader for iraq who would be more effective. I know you wrote that you dont thing the u. S. Should be drawn back into iraq, but what happens then . If we dont get involved, we could see a failed state. We could see ungoverned territory. Arent you concerned it would become a haven for terrorists . You bet. I mean, there are multiple outcomes here, very few of them are desirable, but when you are confronted with a problem, one of the first questions you have to ask yourself is this a problem that we can solve, and despite the chest thumping about america being a great superpower, there are a few problems that we cannot solve. My judgment is this is one of them. To attempt to do now what we dont do over 8. 5 years after 2003 would arguably be a waste of resources. You are concerned that not only will sending military advisors in not solve the problem that we could see mission creep, we may go down a slippery slope that would require us to be drawn back in. Yes, that is a concern. The president and secretary of state john kerry said boy, this is a big problem, these are important stakes. So the president is the laying down a modest military marker. The advisors and the threat to use air strikes to turn things around on the battlefield if this limited effort doesnt succeed, the president is faced with the problem of either acknowledging failure for which he will be held politically accountable or upping the ante and thats the slippery slope to greater escalation. Hes put himself in a fix if the advisors dont turn the tables and if the i. S. I. L. Forces continue to do well in the battlefield. You compared whats doing on in iraq to vietnam and you talked about how president nixon got out after johnson went in, and vietnam fell apart and became a full communist state. You say nixon used the exit to open relations with china. We wont get a strategic advantage out of whats happening in iraq, unless president obama can figure out how to improve relations in iran. What im suggesting is the iraq war, compared to the vietnam war, in the sense that both were unnecessary and produced catastrophic failure. Nixon, to some extent. Redeemed that failure through his opening to china, which had fast centraled eegeic benefits for the United States. By putting the soviet union at an advantage. What im suggesting is we need similar creativity and boldness on the part of the Obama Administration. My own sense is trying harder to fix iraq is not likely to produce a positive outcome. Maybe we can examine this longstanding isolation of iran as something that should be revisited and perhaps there to theres a chance to make a strategic gain that offsets the war. You are critical of the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration. You talk about bush being reckless in iraq, and obama being naive, listless. Do you think he will be able to do what nixon did. No, the president is obviously a very intelligent man. He is not a reckless man, but hes not particularly creative in the sense that whatever else youre thinking of nixon. Nor, unfortunately has our president been created by advisors. My sense is the inner circle consists of people who are very conventional thinkers, and not particularly able, therefore, to provide him with the new ideas. The larger point here is so much of the chatter tries to fasten the blame on obama as if everything that happened before obama was hunkydory. What we have is mistakes made by prior administrations, compounded by mistakes made by this administration, and, therefore the deb bait over what debate over what ought to be done ought to be one this avoids partisan overtones. Really interesting perspectives. We are grateful this you brought them to us. Thank you for having me now for more stories around the world. We begin in washington d. C. Where the washington announced its seeking 500, to aid moderate rebels in syria. The aid will be used to train and equip appropriately vetted elements of the armed opposition. This represents the most significant action by the u. S. In the syrian conflict, and the first time the u. S. Committed to arming and training the opposition using the public budget. Next to brazil where the u. S. Advance to the next round despite a 10 loss to germany. Luis suarez was kicked out of world cup. Fives Disciplinary Committee decided that he did bite an opponent. He was fined more than 100,000 and banned from soccerrelated activity. We enter spain, fossils found, a 150,000yearold speaksman. Teeth and animal speaksman. Earlier studies suggested that neanderthals were carnivores. Now its shown that they ate vegetables. 50,000 years ago they knew about a balanced diet. Thats some of what is happening around the world. Coming up i. S. I. L. Has thrown iraq into turmoil for ignoring the writings of Osama Bin Laden. Is this justice. A New York Times columnist risking gaol time to protect a source. Harmeli aregawi is tracking the stop stories, what is trending. We are not showing our true face on facebook. That may be hurting us more than we know. While you are watching we invite you to join the conversation. You can share your thoughts with us on twitter and facebook and google . Release. Thousands calling for their freedom. Its a clear violation of their human rights. We have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. Journalism is not a crime. In a few weeks i. S. I. L. Has become the worlds most feared terrorist group. After taking over a big chunk of syria, they moved to iraq. They claimed victory after victory, threatening baghdad. I. S. I. L. Successes may be short lived according to my nest guest who believes the group is making mistakes that Osama Bin Laden warned against. Joining us to explain how i. S. I. L. s tactics in syria and iraq may lead it down the path to self destruction is the National Correspondent for slate. Com. William, great to have you was. You viewed letters and journalists in Osama Bin Ladens compound when he was caught, as to the best ways to run a terrorist organization. Yes, these are things that he wrote at the end of his life some of which he practised, and some he learnt through bitter experience, failures. Lets go through the directives you compiled. The first you mentioned is dont fight civil wars. Battling for territory against local governments will have negative consequences for an insurgent group. Basically, if you want a theo accuratic state the long drawn out battle doesnt favour you. Osama bin laden says there are real People Living in these place and the way to solve it is a deal. Another rule is dont kill civilians, ironic coming from a mass murdering. Basically hes saying dont kill muslims, because you can alienate your constituency. Muslim is not a great guys, im not saying that, he didnt consider christ christians, jew shiites fundamentalist. Me made the point that they have ended up, al qaeda offshoots killed everybody and eventually the wrong people, members of a sunni tribe, for example, and iraq, and they turn against them. It happened in more than one country. Its happening in iraq. Its happening in iraq just as everywhere else. Thats why he was t