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0 ten years, four wars let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me get it started tonight with this. the united states is now committed to an act of war against the government of syria. okay. let's get the tally up to date. we attacked and went to war with afghanistan in 2001. we attacked and went to war with iraq in 2003. we helped to overthrow the of libya in 2011 and now targeting the government of syria. it's an interesting pattern when you think about it. in 2001, george w and the committed hawks he brought into our government with him including dick ch...

>> one preliminary detail to the release of these 100 e-mails is there's some question about one of the e-mails of ben rhoades, speech writer turned foreign policy analyst in the white house that may have been misinterpreted by one news organization. it's not as damning as it migh have been. let's put the rest out so people can see this was an honest discussion kno discussion. nobody was talking about how will this affect the campaign. don't forget this did take place in the middle of the campaign. one of the president's key arguments was he has vanquished al qaeda. it would have been inconven...

0 down. i just spent the whole afternoon listening to eric holder saying, oh, i don't know. i was recused. it was my deputy. what can i tell you? you know what? he recused himself from this particular case involving leak. he didn't recuse himself from being a defender of the constitution and the first amendment. it just seems like everybody's free to say and do whatever they want. they're not afraid of repercussions from this coming from the top. >> you know, if you think about running a little business, a bakery, someone's stealing the doughnuts or something, alex, something simple, any met t...

0 i'm going to get a follow. that's messed up. >> that is messed up. we've been following -- we get all the feeds in the back, these tv screens back here. a.j.'s girlfriend has been in the lower right screen for three hours. which means she's on the rotation. she must have been on all the other morning shows this morning but ours. it's a shame. i wanted to ask her about pakistan. i'll have to wait. >> what did you learn today? >> tomorrow matthew from downton abbey is coming. >> no way! >> disastrous booking. lady mary should be coming. >> talk to matthew about lady mary. >> it's like musburge...

it seems the answer to that question is no, that the court says this case can go ahead now. and here's the reason. this issue was 150-year-old federal law sa says you cannot challenge a federal tax before it goes into effect. now, what does that have to do with the health care law? the answer is this. if you don't get insurance, there is a penalty. you pay a penalty if you don't buy insurance. you pay the penalty to the irs. on your tax form, based on your income. and several of the courts below said you know, that's a tax. so this is a tax law. you can't hear it now. but i think the...