they are saying all of obama big government programs except for obama care. you have the scale here. obama care here all of the other stuff that he wants here. why is it that when it comes to compromise only republicans give. >> hang on. let me go to sasha. >> i have a question for you. republicans pass a continuing resolution that funds or debt, our obligations o-funds military ocean security, medicare runs the whole government except for obama care. how do you explain the accusation republicans are shutting down the government? >> obama care is the law of the land. that is the reality. >> that is -- it is the law of the land. it was passed by sue houses it was upheld by the supreme court. there was an election that withheld in which the republicans couldn't repeal if the americans turned that down. >> congress has a duty to thwart the president's health reform. it is not what the congress passed in 2010. >> explain. let her explain. >> this is obama care now. gone is em employer mandates. gone is the cap on out of pocket expenses. gone are over half of the

and we have these challenges of obama care. we need to make major progress on all three. >> it's not a take it or leave it from your end about killing obama care? >> listen, i believe it's the right policy. we have two opportunities there to do it. and i think frankly that the president when the american people make it clear in the next several weeks, he will step forward and at least delay this law. listen, this president's known for drawing lines he doesn't keep. i think there's a potentially -- >> do you ever gamble, sir? privately? >> i really don't -- no, i really don't like gambling. >> go to the track or anything? because i'm available if you want to call me afterwards. i'm ready. the president's not going to give up on obama care. congressman fattah, if you want give bookie advice here. what do you think the odds are the president of the united states will give up on the one sure thing that will get him in the history books, obama care, 40,000-some people waiting in the emergency room right now, your thoughts? >> there'

you leave obama care. the whole reason with this, he said he would take a look at it. >> that's my point. the caucus will probably not -- if you're leaving obama care in, a whole group -- >> take obama care out. >> no, leave obama care in the senate bill. even throw in all the other goodies. >> there is an apocalyptic view to this which is appealing. the only way to kill big government is to let it kill itself. right now, the government is approaching fat elvis during the years in the '70s right before he croaked on the toilet seat. basically obama care is a huge tray of bacon and banana sandwiches. >> as it happened to elvis. that was very well put. >> we are running out of people -- running out of people to support this kind of program. >> "the wall street journal" had an interesting art will. if you all believe what you believe about obama care. i don't. it will fall on its own. >> that is my feeling -- >> why do you want to have this battle -- >> the argument behind it that very rarely or ever has that

obama care! >> obama care! >> all all of obama care. >> i'm the one that's going to get rid of obama care. we're going to stop it on day one! >> remember 2012, the presidential election about how obama care just never came up? it's like it wasn't even an issue in the campaign. so nobody ever expected that that election would have settled anything about obama care. >> you had said next year that you would repeal the health care vote. that still your mission? >> well, i think the election changes that. it's pretty clear that the president was re-elected, obama care is the law of the land. >> well, now the latest republican argument for shutting down the government in order to stop obama care is that it was never addressed as an issue in the presidential campaign. this is the point where the way your friend told you that you should calm down, use deep breaths, this is the time for deep breaths. president obama today went to maryland and gave a speech about health reform, and he has given a million speeches about h

obama care separately. that is what the poll was about. that is what is being miscited. because it implicates democrats. >> we'll be right back, dana and leslie, we'll continue to monitor and dip in right now as a matter of fact, we'll take a look at what is going on at the senate floor with ted cruz. take a look. >> if we're standing and fighting and walking the walk, our believes should be self-evident. d.c. responds, the d.c. establishment responds, anyone who tries to tell the truth -- look, i promise you. my observations right now that there are some republicans who would like a symbolic vote and then would like to lose so they don't have a risk of it actually being defunded, i promise you those comments are not getting me invited to any cocktail parties in washington any time soon. >> all right, we'll s"!]contin. mr. cruz goes to washington. don't forget, we want to hear from you, the companion site, fox news, hannity.com, you follow the live show. you get to pick about obama care. the heritage found

defunds obama care is dead. dead. >> and right at the center of the debate, republican senator ted cruz who's threatening a fill buster. >> i will do everything necessary and anything possible to defund obama care. >> senator cruz joins us live. it's a fox news sunday exclusive. then, syria submits an inventory of its chemical weapons program as secretary of state kerry calls on the u.n. to act. >> this fight about chemical weapons is not a game. it's real. it's important. >> we'll discuss what happens next with former weapons inspector charles duelfer. plus, lawmakers are calling for aggressive background checks. we'll talk with claire mccaskill who is leading the charge. >>> and our power play of the week. iylana trump. all right now on fox news sunday. hello again from fox news in washington. well, the clock is ticking. the government shuts down in just eight days unless congress agrees on a bill to fund federal agencies. on friday, the house passed a measure to keep the government going until mid-december bu

peace prize. >> let's not forget that barack obama is a noble obama peace prize lariat. the united states has started several conflicts in various parts of the world. but did that solve any problems? afghanistan, iraq, libya, there's no democracy there now which is what the u.s. claimed it tried to bring. there's no civil peace or balance. all of these have to be taken into account before making the decision to stop bombing syria which will lead to civilian casualties. >> so russia continuing to stand in their position that the world needs to wait for the u.n. investigation to take place. the world needs to act globalably. it looks like now that president obama will be sending it back to congress. and so we will wait to see if that spirited debate that happened in the u.k. parliament will also happen in the united states. >> sean thomas there. for more let's go live to our correspondent, director of the institute. she's written on the middle east and the u.s. foreign poll schism joining us live from washington. obama, he's really under public pressure and he's acknowledg

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harry reid said to president obama, we don't want the obama care. i had an exchange with dick durbin, who argued we should stick the american people in coach. i think his own analogy shows what is wrong with this system, at a minimum, members of congress shouldn't be treated better than the american people, and should he be willing to compromise he would agree what the house has done to delay all of this saying it is not ready for prime time. it is not working, and we'll treat the american people at least as well as the others. >> you are talking about democrats, it is hard for them to get a word in edge wise, because there are members of your party who are so critical of what you have done and how you have done it. you have colleagues who accused you of putting on a show. congressman peter king said you're a fraud, lying to the base. george will, who has been a conservative columnist for "the washington post," who has been great, supportive of you in the past. but he wrote this past week, and i want you to respond. those people who deceive others f

under obama care, a similar plan is 195 bucks a month. we are paying more so other people can get health care and never going to get benefits. >> you have to talk $75 to $195, when you make it real, i think they'll respond. talk about the coolness factor, you talk about younger voters, they think obama is cool, leftism is cool. obama and mom jones, not cool, leftism, not cool. nanny state is not cool. i think there are a lot of kids if they thought about it are natural libertarians. they hate the fact the nsa is spying on texts, calls, internet usage. that's a real opening for us. how do we craft that message that freedom is cool. >> i think anti-establishmentism is cool among young people. don't want to be part of the status quo. it is providing a lot of young people their hook into libertarianism or conservative principles. a lot of young people are starting to hear the message and like it, they don't think it is cool moving into their parents' basement, went to college, try to make it on their own, and a third of people are moving back

you don't have to vote for obama, you don't have to like obama even. you have to go on the website, look at the prices and so on. if it worbz fks for you, you probably will buy cheap insurance. if it doesn't, you probably won't. i think the politicians will be less important in the next six months and the actual details of the health care policy will at some point begin to matter more. the polling numbers of obama care in december will not matter if you sign up for governor of california and that's what you're doing. >> i think there is a flip side to that that does affect the political -- the political popularity of obama care of the affordable care act. and i think it affects the political future. i'll get into that after this break. ♪ ♪ save your coffee from the artificial stuff. ♪ switch to truvia. great tasting, zero-calorie sweetness... ...from the stevia leaf. from nature, for sweetness™ if you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution that's right for you. with easy step-by-step guidance, we're here to help you turn yo

defunding obama care is not going to stop obama care. this is just a false choice. >> but don't you agree there are a number of things that could in fact could be fixed and improved in the way the current bill is working? if you end up with big corporations getting a waiver, but the individual doesn't, it looks to me like that's the opposite of what democrats used to stand for. everyone knows the individual man dade is the glue that holds everything together. getting rid of the individual mandate is just another substitute. >> senator joe martialing said it was reasonable and sensible to get rid of the individual mandate. >> look, i can find more republicans that think that the right ring you've got one, right there, one. >> you cherry pick the parts of obama care that you like, but don't want the individual mandate. >>> have you now become the pro-moocher? >> no. everybody agrees on the angle. >> how will you pay for it, though? everybody agrees on the end result. republicans say we can aswain them by handing out tax kretz. >> all those

obama care online. signup starts tuesday. a conversation with two doctors who know a thing or two about politics. senator john verasso and howard dean. and -- >> just now i spoke on the phone with the president of iran. >> it's been more than 30 years between calls. our power house political panel weighs in on whether a short chat between the u.s. and iran can lead to a new dynamic in the middle east. this is "state of the union." unless a deal is reached by tomorrow night, the government will shut down. early this morning the house passed legislation that would delay obama care for a year and repeal the medical device tax. they will reject the bill and to undercore the resistance, the white house issued a veto threat. dana bash is with us now. dana? where does this leave us? >> it leaves us at absolute genuine stalemate. there are no negotiations, no bipartisan discussions going on of any kind or even plan to try to get them back from the brink. now senate democrats are so determined to make their point that they believe hou

remember, obama care kicks in october 1st. if the headlines are really bad it's possible they might be spooked but i think will take a couple of months of bad headlines. what the republican debt strategy requires though is a separate piece of legislation like what senator toomey had last year which says no matter what happens, if the debt ceiling isn't raised, our bonds and our obligations will be paid first and that will quiet down wall street and foreign investors. i think that has to pass at least the house in order to make the other part, a one-year delay of obama care possible. >> i want to see the debt ceiling raised because i don't want to mess with that, never believed in that. having said that, can they get, is there a legislative way to get a vote on a one-year delay of the individual mandate? let me say this again, john fund. congress and its staff exempting themselves from obama care, that is really unpopular. the lack of verification, really unpopular, the lack of security for personal information, really unpopula

we had a 2012 election on obama care. obama won. the country said over and over we are going to support the form. the republicans have never given an alternative that controls cost to everyone in the country. it improves quality. we have obama care and have the o fordable care act and it goes into law. what you are worried about is people are not going to like it. it will solve the problem of access and cost. that's why we have all this rhetoric. >> that's not true. since the health care passed, 3 1/2 yores have gone by and this is ready for prime time. >> wait a second. he is acknowledging lots of things. >> delaying the income verification part of this. i realize you are a smart guy. i don't think you know how to take over and do it well. that's the reason i'm opposed to this thing. this will do great harm to health care and bankrupt further. that's why i'm opposed to this thing and republicans put out a number of alternatives. a lot of things you are saying is each the unions are demanding change and calling for the repeal. this

what does it say about obama care? it's like the only people who support it are the people who don't have to endure it while the rest of us go through hell with it. it's just unfair. dana. unfair. >> one of the things -- >> it's unfair. >> it's unfair. turnabout is fair play. juan, one of the things that the unions basically said they want to do is they want to double dip. they want the employer contribution and they want to get the subsidies and looks like the white house, i think, they are going to be hard-pressed to try to carve out unions from this. but what do you think? >> i agree with you. >> you really think that they're not going to? >> i don't think they can do it. i think it's too big a carve out and i think it feeds in to the kind of opposition to obama care that is so rampant on the right. >> and on the rise. >> what the -- >> by the way. >> what the unions have said is they're not interested in the right wing agenda, which is repeal obama care. they just want to fix this so that they get benefits. because

obama a lifeline. the way out of the mess that mr. obama created. they join us live. wall street seemingly ignoring the chaos and the incompetence of washington posting a triple digit rally. the dell regaining 15,000 again today. we begin tonight with a series of events today resembling the absurd. for more management of the foreign policy of the world's only superpower, president obama's victory of state john kerry made this seemingly offhand comment on how syria could avoid an attack to the united states. >> turn over every single chemical weapons to the national community in the next week, turn it over, all of it. without delay and allow a full and total accounting for that, but he isn't about to do that and can't be done, obviously. lou: and then tried to downplay the secretary's comments saying secretarsecretary kerry was maka rhetorical argument about the impossibility and the unlikelihood of assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied he used. but just moments later russian foreign minister made it clear that the russian government to the comment seriousl

president obama is president. what else is there to say than that? we're nitpicking over words here. >> you were playing a game, once again, of trying to somehow make him not quite the president. he got into the office, you're admitting that. but he doesn't it legitimatelyh did he? just say he did. >> he's president. he's president. >> what more is there to say? >> can you repeat after me. he was edlegitimately elected president. >> president obama was elected president. >> the people elected him. >> he's a natural born citizen. >> i didn't make that judgment when he was brought in. >> everybody watching knows what you're doing. you're dodge balling. let me ask you about the united states government. what's your view about the continued resolution, funding the government beyond october 1st. do you want that to happen or not? >> absolutely. we voted to fund everything but obama care. of course we want to keep funding the government. >> the law of the land. >> and we're -- congress, gets who gets to change the law o

♪ >>> five days before enrollment begins for obama care, president obama took a stand against republicans threatening a government shutdown. the president went to maryland and began by explaining why he won't consider defunding obama care. >> in fact, for the past few years since i signed the affordable care act, a lot of you have been enjoying new benefits you didn't have before even if you didn't know they were coming from obama care. because the affordable care act, more than 100 million americans have gotten free preventative care. because of the affordable care act, 3 million young adults under age 26 have gained coverage by staying on their parents' plan. [ applause ] because of the affordable care act, millions of seniors on medicare have saved hundreds of dollars on their prescription medicine. 8.5 million families actually got an average of $100 back from their insurance companies. insurance companies can no longer put lifetime limits on the care your family need or discriminate on pre-existing conditions. starting january 1 they won't be able to charge women more for their insur

we've taken many votes to repeal and defund obama care. seven pieces of legislation have actually gotten through the senate onto the president's desk. a recognition bipartisan that portions of this law arelj[ not seeing that. there's growing concerns. just yesterday, home depot -uh to be on their health insurance plan no longer will be. we have other major companies making similar announcements. people that thought they were going to have health insurance and the president said he said if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. all these promises although they sound good are not being -- he can't follow through on it. and people are growing in their concerns. they see it as unworkable. i believe when you look at the polls, when you ask the american people, they would like to see this law delayed, defunded. and they applaud the action that we're taking in the house. >> those 20,000 people at home depot and others will be eligible under the new system to get health insurance through the federal government if you will. but one final

he outsourced obama care. he had nothing to do with it. >> the only time president barack obama compromises is when he waves you through. he never compromises ever. while you're talking and talking, i have stuff to say. i zone out. >> i'm keeping a second count on everybody talking to see who talks the most on the show. >> you know what you're going to find out? >> i'm going to show it to you. >> which week are you doing? >> starting next monday. >> you can't tell people beforehand. >> i'll wait and see. >> we've got to go. i think republicans should push to delay this all together instead of defunding it. when the house -- get more seats in the houlse and senate and wi the white house back. you've got to win elections to defeat obama care. >> the government collected more in tax than the history of the government. it's like a fat buy buying larger clothes and saying i've lost weight. it's never going to change. >> true. >> the leaders of syria and iran are making a pr push by doing interviews with american jo

president obama is. he's pointing the finger at assad. >> it is a insult to human reason to suggest that anyone other than the regime carried out the attack. >> it is the u.s. mulls over to the next move in syria many americans will ask themselves what is sarin and is it something to worry about here at home. a warning that the images you are about to see are graphic. >> created in the germans, sarin is a clear colorless and odorless and tasteless liquid and low concentrations of sarin can affect the human body central and become lethal and resulting in blindness and vomiting and suffocations. and once released in the air, it evaporates and spreads. it can be swallowed and absorbed in the skin. it can lead to death in just minutes. nazi, germany mass produced it and never used it in world war ii. saddam hussein killed 5,000 kurdish people in northern iraq. and seven years later, a terrorist group unleased it in the subway system killing 13. and in august a sarin attack in syria killed more than 1400 peop

you cannot live with obama care? >> well, of course, mike lee and ted cruz and the advocates in the house, they never, ever, ever supported shutting down the government. what they said was that obama care wasn't ready for prime time. the president himself has acknowledged that it's not ready for prime time. sort of arbitrarily delaying the pieces that he doesn't like. every republican said they would repeal obama care. a lost democrats have described it as a train wreck. so what mike leigh and his house counterparts have suggested is let's fully fund every part of the government except this one piece that's not ready for prime time. there's nothing about a government shutdown in that strategy. everybody's freaking out so much i've got to believe we're on to something here. >> why would the united states senate, which is governed by the democrats, and the president of the united states, who is a democrat and the one who put this bill into action, who got it through the congress, why would he sign legislation which wou

146%. >> jon: i'm not saying obama care is perfect. it's not. it was designed by congress. nothing designed by congress is perfect. you ask them to design a puppy, you'd get something with no face, two [bleep] and a semiautomatic. that's fine. [laughter] take that down. that is really disturbing. do you have a more foundational critique? >> obama care is the biggest job killer in the country. small businesses have been hammered under obama care unlike ever before. it's shattering the country. >> jon: as of now, i'm unaware of the specific growth of impact on jobs that it's had given the sign up doesn't start until next week. clearly economic growth is an issue. just the possibility that obama care may be hurting the economy is enough to get you on your feet for 21 hours. i congratulate you on that, sir. but i can't think of another thing that came out of washington recently that is hurting economic growth right now. according to the congressional budget office, the spending cuts from the sequester are costing millions 3 million jobs a

you need to fight obama care. i think in many ways he's raised obama care up as an issue. but i think his short-term strategy is obviously failing. we were never going to defund obama care through the -- >> okay. let's go back to where i'm at on this guy. i watched this guy's debut. i know first impressions don't tell you everything, but they tell you a hell of a lot. i watched him in the hearings for chuck hagel who is a patriot. he fought for his country unlike a lot of us. he fought in vietnam for real, just like john mccain did. for real. not chicken hawks here. real soldiers who fought and suffered for it. and he accused him in his joe mccarthy fashion of taking money from the north koreans. he said he could have taken the money from the saudis. all this loose talk that even lindsey graham came out and said out of bounds. that's why i call him mccarthy. not just because he looks like the guy. he acts like him. he has contempt for the american political system. he's not a member of any political party i can tell. he got elected, fair enough. but his behavior has been t

. >> this whole fight is centered on obama care. one way or the other the president still promises it's happening tomorrow. >> all of that plus the story that would have been grabbing all the headlines today if not nor the shutdown. ♪ >> the bangles indeed are right, we're on a manic monday heading towards the first government shutdown in 17 years. right now the senate is back in action or back to inaction just nine hours, less than nine hours before the shutdown. once again, they have punted the ball back to the house. wall street is bracing for impact and even a one-week shutdown will cut a tenth of a percent off the economy. they are more concerned about the october 17th debt ceiling deadline that is fast coming and president obama met with senior staff this weekend to discuss the potential shutdown, but unlike past shutdown showdowns, aides say this time there's no back room talks happening between the president and capitol hill. the president says he expects to hear from congressional leaders later today. there's still time o

at the heart of fight, obama care. we've assembled our congressional summit with four key lawmakers from the senate and the house. my key question, what is the end game? plus, another mass shooting. this time at the navy yard here in washington. what can be done to prevent these tragedies in the future? in a meet the press exclusive, nra executive vice president wayne la pierre joins hee and i'll speak with the mother of an aurora, colorado, shooting victim. >> plus our roundtable on the budge ept battles, the split within the gop an president's policy with iran. weekly standard bill kris tol, tavis smiley, robert gibbs, call spreet journal's kim stras he will. i'm david gregory. all that ahead for meet the press, sunday, september 22nd. >>> good morning. we'll get to the government shutdown in a moment. the breaking news we're tracking in nairobi, kenya. one of the deadliest acts of terror in east africa since the u.s. embassies were attacked in 199. ron allen is on the phone where the hostages are still being held. h

republicans are divided on this obama care strategy. some senators, including senator buhr and senator mccain, don't agree with senator cruz and senator paul that they're going to get what they want. democrats, on the other hand, they're at odds with each other on sequester. they don't want to pass any funding bill that continues sequester. fasten your seat belts. it's going to get pretty ugly over the next week. they're nowhere close to a deal. >> you mentioned senator ted cruz. he's doing an exclusive interview on fox news sunday. he's been vocal and adamant about defunding obama care by any means necessary. what do you make of the senator's all-or-nothing approach? >> house republicans have been upset with him. they did not want to go with this strategy. they came up with an alternative strategy, but conservatives in the house said no, we're not going to go along with it. and democrats weren't going to vote for that bill, so they had to shell that and embrace the ted cruz strategy. now, they have passed a bill through the house. they

and the historic phone call between obama and rouhani. and our american power player of the weekend. >> when i looked out from under my helmet, all of these marines were looking at me. >> hello again from fox news in washington. we're just hours away from a potential government shut down. the house passed a revamped spending bill, but added conditions that the senate democrats call unacceptable. kevin mccarthy is joining me, the senate whip. now you sent a measure to the senate to keep funding obama care, but with a year delay in -- keep funding the government with a year delay in obama care and a repeal on the tax on medical devices. now harry reid says that is dead on arrival when they come back into session monday afternoon ten hours before the shut down. i know you want them to pass it, but i assume they don't. what do you do then? >> you assume they won't, but there were 79 senators that voted to end the pacemaker tax. you have the president this year every single month delaying a portion. i think let's have the debate. let's allow t

is the -- obama care is the law. we will not bow to tea party anarchists who refuse to accept the supreme court ruled obama care to be constitutional. >> we are for cutting spending. rewe are for reforming entitle thes. not we what we are not for is negotiating with people with bomb strapped to their chest. >> talking points believes there should be a compromise. senator joe manchin democrat from west virginia says he would support a one-year delay for folks who do not want to be forced into the obama care arena. but the truth is, the senate and the president will never never going to do it. physical a compromise is not reached. >> break down essential services across the board a place completely out of control. there are some americans who don't care. but most of us do care. we don't want scorched earths and we don't want a government shutdown that would directly hurt many of our fellow citizens. so, it is that president obama and the republican leadership in congress must sit down and hammer out a deal. both sides

obama. now, mr. putin. quote, a new opportunity to avoid military action has emerged in the past few days. the united states, russia, and all members of the international community must take advantage of the syrian government's willingness to place its chemical arsenal under international control for subsequent destruction. judging by the statements of president obama, the united states sees this as an alternative to military action, unquote. >>> question. does president putin read president obama right? are the three leaders, including bashar al assad willing to diffuse the crisis over the use of nerve gas in syria? obama, putin and al assad? >> there's a lot of self interest going on here. the president said they crossed a red line. he needs to deliver on his, his warning. putin doesn't want loose chemical weapons in that area of the world, because they could find their way into parts of russia. he has a vested interest in a stable syria with assad surviving. the only way assad survives is he gives up che

they don't want obama care to go forward. and the question is, it's not going to pass the current legislation in the senate. will those republicans in the house of representatives be willing to see the government shut down in order to try to defund obama care. it's a matter of principle to a lot of those conservative republicans, tea party supporters and others, because they hate it so much, they think it's a disaster for the country and they want to make this powerful statement. the problem they have, and even a republican political analyst like karl rove, the so-called architect of the bush years, he wrote a piece in the "wall street journal" saying this is disaster for the republicans if they go ahead and they link obama care to a government shutdown. it would just be politically a nightmare for them in the midterm elections next time. just as it caused the republicans so many problems, the two government shutdowns in '95 and '96 during the clinton administration, it helped propel bill clinton to get re-elected in '96 desp

obama came to him on bended knee. he said we will give up our missile defenses in europe if you work with us on iran. week, russians announced they would provide sophisticated mobile air defenses to the ran and the second nuclear reactor. he got the cooperation on iran. he got nothing on syria, nothing on northern europe. it is a debacle. with looks at this guy contempt. >> i have news for you. newton has contempt for all of hasall the time -- putin contempt for all of us, all the time. if there were a republican president, he would be doing the same thing. the op-ed shows me that his own status is in jeopardy. back on capitol hill, the debt limit ceiling debate looms. >> we have 20 days between now fewseptember 30, just a weeks. >> senator ted cruz. on the house side, john boehner and eric cantor having trouble keeping their troops in line. where is this going? is hard to tell, because for the be over a cliff gop. i admire the passion and sincerity of those who do not want to pass a budget unless you get rid of obama

i add one word about why it is about obama. a month ago putin was a propriety. putin now is a statesman, partner in peace and in a position to lecture the united states of america. >> since we're going down that road, you may remember in the election governor romney saying this to cnn. without question our number one go political foe. the idea he has more flexibility in mind for russia meaning president barack obama is very troubling. he was asked about that at one of the debates. >> russia is a go political foe. russia battles us again and again. i'm not wearing rose colored glass when it comes to russia or putin. i'm not going to give him more flexibility after the election. that will give him more backbone. >> it's interesting to listen back to that. >> i think the president's response at the time was to say terrorism is the number one threat to the country now not a diminished soviet union, no longer even the soviet union, russia. i want to come back to the heart of this today. assad actually having a stronger stand as a result of what's going on, i think th

it was the opportunity to lead obama who was way out of a limb into a cul-de-sac where obama now is where his only alternative which is to assure that asass saad remains in power or do something incredibly out of power and unconstitutional. >> more on his speech and secretary kerry and on syria. keep it here. . [ male announcer ] these days, a small business can save by sharing. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ male announcer ] ...office space. yes, we're loving this communal seating. it's great. [ male announcer ] the best thing to share? a data plan. at&t mobile share for business. one bucket of data for everyone on the plan, unlimited talk and text on smart phones. now, everyone's in the spirit of sharing. hey, can i borrow your boat this weekend? no. [ male announcer ] share more. save more. at&t mobile share for business. ♪ >>> he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week, turn it over, all of it. without delay and allow a full and total accounting for that, but

ted cruz fought obama care. the history of this matter, i think, where we are today where republicans are today. if you go back to late spring, early summer, you have conservatives in both the house and the senate pushing leadership in both bodies to embrace making obama care at least part of the debate this fall, the budget and that debate. there was resistance among some members of leadership, not everybody. it wasn't clear at all that would be part of the debate as we were approaching the october 1st sign-up dates as obama care was about to be implemented it was entirely possible that republicans were going to not be talking about obama care at all and what you had from senator cruz and senator lee and others were attempts to make it part of the debate. i think they've chosen the wrong vehicle or vehicle not likely to work now but at least it's part of the debate did a few seconds. one-year delay, is that the off-ramp? >> well, you know, they can try that. that will not fly either. i think it's to tie this to

president obama taking time is pushing both sides. the free syrian army disengaged from any kind of democratic agenda or process, we've seen soldiers eating hearts and other things and the regime who is slaughtering their own people. we will push winning pause both sides to come together for a political settlement because the end of this this conflict has to be around a table, negotiating political settlement. >> this is one of the reasons talking about chemical weapons is so much easier than humanitarian intervention, influencing the outcome of the civil war. you can say there's international law, yes, 100,000 people, chemical weapons to point to and the possibility of punishing, showing you're doing something without actually trying to get involved in this extremely difficult civil war, proxy war, with so many different actors. i think that's another reason, you don't hear the administration, secretary kerry or president obama talking about. >> regime change. >> regime change or intervene with the civil war. >> it's the elephant in

now, the senate says no, obama says no, obama care starts tomorrow. it's already funded. they can't do anything about that. the question i think, it is about obama care, but it's really about keeping the government open or closed. the other thing i think when he talks about, he sent a message out about the debt ceiling. we're still 17 days away from the debt ceiling. >> his last line was, he said we should never keep -- put the full faith and credit of the united states at risk. jedi ya, your thoughts on president obama's speech? >> the line that i love is when he talks about the shutdown and he says it's a real economic impact on real people. yes, guess what, so is obama care. that's what this whole fight is about. the never economic impact on small businesses shifting workers from full-time to part-time status because of obama care. when the right has something to say, it's presented as a ideological battle. when the left has something to say, it's always presented as a tangible practical battle. that's simply not true. we're talking about policy. we're talking about ba

>> on that issue i think we have to make a distinc distincttion n obama the president, and obama the politician. on one hand quite the politician. lou: i would have thought given his record there is no way that just a blank line on the ballot he could have prevailed. stunning stuff. >> it really is. it is sad. lou: ed klein, always delight nul to see you. >> thank you. lou: we invite you to take a second go to our web site fox business.com, how feds stance is affecting forth quarter investment. right here, president's agenda looks something like an obstacle for a number of his good friends in the democratic party who are in a perilous position for 2014 my customers can shop around-- see who does good work and compare costs. it doesn't usually work that way with health care. but with unitedhealthcare, i get information on quality rated doctors, treatment options and estimates for how much i'll pay. that helps me, and my guys, make better decisions. i don't like guesses with my business, andefinitely not with our health. innovations that work for you. that's health in numbers. unitedhe