but fdr had seen in ernie king a real scrapper. king was so tough that fdr used to joke that he shaved himself with a blow torch. [laughter] in some respects fdr was ahead of his navy chief. in 1942 the sinkings of merchant vessels which were keeping great britain alive were severely threatened by u-boat attacks which were sometimes sinking three and four ships in a single day. roosevelt wanted a convoy system where warships would track -- would protect the per chant vessels -- the merchant vessels. king just didn't move along fast enough on that, and roosevelt literally dragged him into the convoy system which resulted in the fact that ship sinkings started to plummet soon after the adoption of the convoy system. now, there's another naval officer that, in my judgment, would have been every bit as good as ernie king as the navy chief, and that's admiral chester them in miss. just -- nimitz. just days after pearl harbor,fbr summons him to his office and says, chet, i want you to go out to the hawaiian islands, and i don't want you

was fdr uptight about mcarthur? was fdr inherently hostile towards mcarthur? i mean, i ask this in a certain context. when the japanese attacked pearl harbor, the commander and chief of the pacific fleet, when the japanese attacked the philippines, mcarthur was not only plucked -- as you put it -- out and taken to australia, he was given the congressional medal of honor of all things for his role. what can you elaborate on? i realize it could be the subject of an entire talk, but what can you elaborate on in terms of the relationship, the psychology between fdr and mcarthur and perhaps particularly in terms of mcarthur's inordinate compulsion to retake the philippines? >> well, as i pointed out in my remarks, the two men circled each other like wary lions. mcarthur, i think, behaved with a considerable amount of disloyalty and a lack of appreciation for the fact that the president rescued him in the philippines, gave him this very important command even though mcarthur was driven out of the philippines, and the president undoubtedly as we try to read his mind

one, fdr's mother give him a hard time. number one. he was in college when i think they began courting. >> yeah. >> and two, it was pretty wonderful for fdr to be able to see her -- i'm not sure everybody considers her beautiful. he did. what does is say about him? >> that he was smart. [laughter] [applause] anybody else? [laughter] wait, wait, wait, we have to share it. okay. >> switching gears. i've read that eleanor was a dry, for prohibition. is that correct? >> i'm sorry? >> that eleanor for was prohibition. >> yes. a dry. i'm sorry. hearing aids sometimes -- umm, her father was an alcoholic, he died of alcoholism and addiction to narcotics. her brother, her beloved brother was an alcoholic. she was not a fan of alcohol. as the daughter of an alcoholic, i get that. does that mean that eleanor wanted -- after -- did eleanor try to change fdr's mind on this? no. did eleanor have alcohol served in the white house? yes. as the first press conference. she was the first person to announce that the white house is going serve 3.2% beer. s

what fdr except that insight? i don't think so. fdr had nothing to gain from a debate and he let his pit gold secretary of the interior, harolda keyes put the ac down the cake. commented that if wilkie was the weaker for it to be coming here should debate the isolationists in his own party, including his own running mate, senator charles mcnary of oregon. the conventions are over the prices had taken place the both of them, democrats with a two-term tradition and nominated fdr for your turn. the republicans nominated a newcomer who had never before held public office and never participated in gop affairs. and that both conventions, the delicate made waste releases. fdr and wilkie were intelligent, principled, courageous and skilled men. they shared a commitment to social justice. they had a clear understanding of the mortal fascist threat. they loathed everything that fascism stood for. despite their weasel worded campaign promises not to send american boys into foreign wars, they both wanted to protect the world from the proto- fa

keynes talked to fdr as though he were a student, and fdr wasn't going to follow the way a student would follow. franklin roosevelt didn't know a lot about economics, but he knew which whiskey wasn't working. he was ready to shop around in a way that herbert hoover, by temperament, could not have done... uh, and try one method or another. if the president had little time for keynes' mathematics, he showed interest in numbers that told how many americans were still without jobs. in the first four years, the roosevelt administration launched the nra, ccc, wpa-- a virtual alphabet soup of programs to relieve unemployment. newly employed workers spent more money, creating more jobs. by 1936, it appeared that the depression was ending. it was time for a balanced budget. central revenues are increasing. emergency expenditures are decreasing. a balanced budget is on the way. does that sound like bankruptcy to you? roosevelt won a landslide re-election, but the celebration was brief. he cut spending. in october 1937, the stock market took another dive. unemployment began to rise once again. sudd

he actually called fdr a war monger. the polls tighten dramatically. roosevelt had to start. he had five dramatic speeches in the last two weeks. he hooked up a lot of momentum. he thought he was going to lose. the secret service agents said it was the first time he saw him lose. he saw something in the early return. >> well, i started and it's very good. so many of you writing great campaign books right now. a whole series about the campaign. i'm so excited about that. congratulations on the book. >> thank you. >> update for you. mayor booker's campaign confirms that today's event with the chicago mayor rahm emmanuel has been canceled following the overnight shooting. the mayor is immediately returning to chicago. up next, unlike fdr, there modern day politicians that don't wait a week before the convention to start showing off. they do it pretty early. hillary clinton and rick perry and others are approaching this invisible primary period of the daily race. you are watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. is just a tap away. ♪ introducing at&t digital life... ♪ ...pe

of fdr and played a huge role in the nomination in 1932. she has developed relationships with what we would, you know, five years later call zionists. and she is appearing in sin -- synagogues especially in communities where there have been violence. what she's doing is this dance. you know, this dance between using, you know, not assailing of the government's tamarty in refugee policy. in my day, but she's making it very painfully clear on the ground where she stands. ..

fdr was actually on a cruise. i guess we can't really blame him, probably well-deserved vacation. three years earlier fd rrk refused to include medical coverage of the social security act. he didn't want to antagonize the american medical profession. he did send a message of support to the health con -- conference, not long after the outbreak of world war ii forced his attention elsewhere. five years later in the state of the union address, roosevelt spoke to the american people about the war, and especially about the kind of peace the allies plan to establish after the defeat of fashionism. he said the one supreme objective for the future can be summed up in one word, security. that mean not only physical security, which provides safety from a tax by aggressors, it means also economic security and social security. the individual political rights upon which the united states had been built, roosevelt argued, were necessary but not sufficient to guarantee true freedom and security. fdr then announced an economic bill of rights, which is sometimes called the second bill of rights th

i am the education specialist at the roosevelt presidential library and museum and on behalf of the fdr presidential library museum welcome you in our audience, those of you at home watching on c-span to the tenth annual roosevelt reading festival. franklin roosevelt's plan for the library to become a premier research institution for the study of the roosevelt era, the library's research room is one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year's group of authors reflect a wide variety of research done here. let me go over the format for the festival's concurrent sessions. at the top of each hour session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a 10 minute question and answer period of. than the authors go to the new deal store where you can purchase books and have them sign them. at the top of the next hour the process repeats itself again. today's attendees can visit the exciting program exhibit in the presidential library museum free of charge. ask one of our staff members for the admission button and the program we will have free to go over. i would like to r

it's remembered as one of fdr's most popular political moves. but, richard gill, was it really necessary? what had happened to the money supply? well, the money supply shrank drastically between 1929 and 1933. by money supply, we mean not just coins and currency, but also our checking accounts in the banks. since we make most major purchases by checks, rather than cash these deposits are the most important part of our money supply. commercial banks can actually create these deposits, actually create money. this seems a bit much, but it's a simple consequence of our old friend, fractional-reserve banking. let's follow a million-dollar deposit in the banking system. let's suppose a rich widow frightened by the panic of 1907, has been keeping her million in cash under her mattress. now, in the twenties she deposits it in the bank. the bank has $1 million more in cash, and she has a million-dollar demand deposit. here's the fractional part. the bank lends out $800,000 to businessmen. the businessmen withdraw this money. our bank now looks like this.

. >> she was to the left of fdr. >> it made it easier for him to govern. eleanor becomes his contact with and he can tell everybody else, i cannot do anything without my wife. >> i cannot imagine another first lady being entrusted with in 1940, fdr decide he wanted another vice president and it was kerry wallace. -- henry wallace. the party did not want henry wallace.who does he sent to the convention? eleanor roosevelt. she goes to the convention, and she totally recast the mood of henry wallace old his nomination to her will stop -- owed his nomination to her. it just suggests the clout and stature she had. >> franklin was seeking at third term, which was unheard of.he did not go to the convention unless he looked too self-aggrandizing.he sent eleanor what he was not in the position to do. >> weber talk off. about the personal lives. we know there are so many biographies, but it sounds like their political partnership. >> who knows, nobody ever knows the inner workings of a she was surprised when he died. she was furious when she found out her daughter h

here's a guy himself, that's actually a light bounce off of fdr roosevelt. this was his chakra. this was march 4th, 1933. he made the statement and he made it, i didn't understand a long time. the point i was making, people were terrified. because it seemed like the economy had no bottom and the banks were going down and there was no federal deposit dollars. so imagine a time when we actually had a president who told us we should be courageous rather than trafficked in fear. to his own advantage. there's been a long war on the new deal. it was when roosevelt got started. almost immediately, the more than great realized the lengths he was willing to go. at the beginning, roosevelt didn't understand how far he was going to go. the dupont family and the ones that set up the american liberty league. that was successful because they have unlimited amounts of money. there were so popular, they were not able to stop it. they began to finance right-wing think tanks. they have been successful to the university of chicago economics department and notable fraud such as milton freed man. th

you sit in the same office where lincoln, fdr and reagan sat, but you are no lincoln, no fdr and you are no reagan. to most of us, 2016 can't come soon enough. and coming up, we'll have much more on syria and russia, and has america lost respect on the world stage? and vote in the instapoll, was president obama played by president putin? facebook or tweet me at judge jeanine. we'll read your answers later in the show. ♪ >>> the world will now expect the assad regime to live up tos it public commitments. >> secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart announcing a deal to destroy syria's chemical weapons. fox news contributor john bolton. good evening. >> good evening. >> is it realistic to expect the assad regime to live up to these commitments? >> certainly not. especially when it comes from russia which hasn't lived up to its obligations under the chemical weapons convention since it came into force in the 1990s. the russians most experts believe did not fully disclose the stockpile back then or working on the chemical weapons. the idea that russia is going to help w

you sit in the same office where lincoln, fdr and reagan sat, but you are no lincoln, no fdr and you are no reagan. to most of us, 2016 can't come soon enough. and coming up, we'll have much more on syria and russia, and has america lost respect on the world stage? and vote in the instapoll, was president obama played by president putin? facebook or tweet me at judge jeanine. we'll read your answers later in the show. ♪ >>> the world will now expect the assad regime to live up tos it public commitments. >> secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart announcing a deal to destroy syria's chemical weapons. fox news contributor john bolton. good evening. >> good evening. >> is it realistic to expect the assad regime to live up to these commitments? >> certainly not. especially when it comes from russia which hasn't lived up to its obligations under the chemical weapons convention since it came into force in the 1990s. the russians most experts believe did not fully disclose the stockpile back then or working on the chemical weapons. the idea that russia is going to help w

you sit in the same office where lincoln, fdr and reagan sat, but you are no lincoln, no fdr and you are no reagan. to most of us, 2016 can't come soon enough. and coming up, we'll have much more on syria and russia, and has america lost respect on the world stage? and vote in the instapoll, was president obama played by president putin? facebook or tweet me at judge jeanine. we'll read your answers later in the show. ♪ >>> the world will now expect the assad regime to live up tos it public commitments. >> secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart announcing a deal to destroy syria's chemical weapons. fox news contributor john bolton. good evening. >> good evening. >> is it realistic to expect the assad regime to live up to these commitments? >> certainly not. especially when it comes from russia which hasn't lived up to its obligations under the chemical weapons convention since it came into force in the 1990s. the russians most experts believe did not fully disclose the stockpile back then or working on the chemical weapons. the idea that russia is going to help w

when fdr was in it was part of the soviet socialist republic. we thought the visit was not technically in russia. it was under the control of russia. all of it inside the soviet union. so if you said fdr was the first sitting u.s. president to visit, you were right. nixon's trip was the first state visit. thanks for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> hello. i hundreds of people are trapped by raging flood waters in colorado. rescues are going on right now. >> i think what we have going on here in the last 24 hours is the greatest number of americans rescued by helicopter since hurricane katrina. >> some desperate people can't be reached just yet and the rain shows n

when fdr was there in 1945, it was part of the soviet socialist republic. outside of the borders of its russian counterpart. we thought the visit was not technically in russia. it was under the control of russia. all of it inside the soviet union of course. if you said fdr was first u.s. sitting president to visit, you were right. nixon was the first state visit. thanks for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. stay tuned for "reliable sources." >>> just one week ago the syria story changing on a daily basis seemed destined for a congressional showdown

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when fdr was there in 1945, it was part of the soviet socialist republic. outside of the borders of its russian counterpart. we thought the visit was not technically in russia. it was under the control of russia. all of it inside the soviet union of course. if you said fdr was first u.s. sitting president to visit, you were right. nixon was the first state visit. thanks for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. stay tuned for "reliable sources." >>> just one week ago the syria story changing on a daily basis seemed destined for a congressional showdown over the president's plan to strike syria but then -- >> there's an important late breaking development on syria. >> syria news is breaking fast and furiously. >> a dramatic turn of events as russia becomes the center of that story. we'll ask deborah amos about how that news is playing in the region and new comparisons to the buildup to the iraq war and we'll check to charlie rose about his exclusive interview with syrian president bashar al assad. plus, if you thought syria was the on

but critical lessons from liberties greatest champions of the last 2,000 years, your previous books, fdr, willson's war, the truth about roosevelt's legacy -- why is this one -- this is an update on a previous book. >> there will probably be a paperback edition. the idea was time for liberty was more of a basic resource about a quarter of a million words and the fault was number one, to make it shorter and more accessible. that was published in 2000 and people are accustomed don't give me anything launder. so the fault was first of all to make it much more accessible but in addition to a lot of updating, several of the people i'd written about had died in the last 12 years. it's quite interesting that i have about 10,000 books. estimate in your personal profile? >> i've accumulated them over a long period of time and a lot of them were out of print so when i have used copy will last five years i have no idea what's going on, that a great deal of these things i had to search for are achievable in the most common paperback editions but there's been a lot of things that are now readily avai

to increase the fdr in some cities you have programs that compete with t dr like other payments and in places where you have those people take the lowest cost options. in new york city due to the complainants t dr can become expensive it's about 25 percent of land value and the prices go as high as $800 interest some t dr creates revenues through tax. new york politics the transfer taxes on t dr sales. so in terms of our recommendations for publicly owned t dr we're suggesting that t dr for city buildings be certified for eligible for t dr programs and the 10 year capital plans. we suggest that the department of real estate be allowed to transfer those t drs and the department of real estate will do this based on the tractions. and we also suggest that the board of supervisors considered designating properties owned by port to be eligible for t dr. those 3 piers and one important thing is to set the t dr for the port properties. other remthsdz, you know, we noticed there's a need to balance you know the historic preservation goal paid through by impact fees. you know the t dr program w

(laughter) >> stephen: of course when fdr came into office he changed the law so the president merely married whatever cousin could lift the largest pallet of bricks. now last night the miss america pageant was held in atlantic city. so of course the judges were steve buscemi and mr. monopoly. (laughter) now i am proud son of south carolina. and this year miss south carolina represented our state admirably. >> from our home that's how we roll, miss south carolina. >> stephen: that's right. 20% of our homes are mobile, which means they could leave south carolina and yet they choose to stay. that is palmetto pride! (cheers and applause) or, or, or possibly a lack of gas money. (laughter) >> but miss south carolina has some tough competition this year from contestants like miss kansas who boldly sported a serenity prayer on her rib cage. not everyone was thrilled by it as piers morgan learned after this neck stapping mid broadcast subject change. >> a complete segue from one red line to another, a red line with crossing the world of beauty pageants in miss merck we had teresa veil who sp

fdr would have been cautious because he didn't oppose 85% of the people. second, as a republican, i want to say it bluntly, as a republican i'm sick of this president and his allies miss stating history. the congress voted to go into afghanistan, iraq, john kerry and hillary clinton voted to go into iraq. let's not pretend there was no legislative branch involvement in the last decade. >> the thing that struck me tonight about the president's speech was as jake said, he went through all the cons, okay, and the big proof course, national security but he made the moral argument about why america is exceptional. we are different from everybody else. we have the burden of leadership in this country when it comes to people gassing their children, and he said there by saving our own children in the process, but i think the moral argument is something nobody would sort of quarrel with him about. we -- right? we all understand that, but the question that i have is did he explain the back and forth in his own mind about this? because if we do have this moral need t

fdr took only tentative steps because of pressures to keep america out of war. in 1940, congress agreed to only token increases in defense production. roosevelt waited until after the presidential election to make his move. on december 29th, he called for a lend-lease program to aid the allies and $1 billion for arms production. we must be the great arsenal of democracy. for us, this is an emergency as serious as war itself. allied losses in europe mounted. plans for american aid increased. special envoys were dispatched to london and moscow to discuss war materials. at home, mobilization committees were set up, bringing together business and labor. robert nathan, the chief economic planner for the arsenal of democracy, recalls that the first problem was convincing depressed industries to expand. the steel industry, with great impact, said, "you're silly." we were down to 15% to 20% of our capacity utilization for some years during the depression. i don't think we would have convinced them if we hadn't had the gnp to demonstrate what a fully employed economy wou

this is my third time at the commonwealth club, going back to 2006 when my book about fdr came out. and this has to be the most literal -- literate audience on my book tour. no disrespect to the other cities i've been to. but i didn't leave my heart in san francisco but i think my writer's heart belongs to you, after chicago, which is where i'm from originally, born and raised there. relevant perhaps for this evening is that i come from a political family in chicago, and my mother was the first woman elected in cook county in the chicago area, 40 years ago, 1972, and when she was in public office and county office, she knew a young community organizer named barack obama who couldn't get his phone calls returned by the other politicians because he was nobody, and after she died, just five days after the 2008 election, and he was president elect, he had a few other things to do, but everyone else -- whatever else one says about him, he was very nice to our family, and remembered. so, some people like to say he doesn't have much gratitude and it's true he doesn't reach out to other pol

he was brought there during the chicago world fair 1933, fdr was the president. they even broke out a cake for them that has yellow squash, green peas, shrimp. >> "way too early" starts right now. >>> i do get concerned that this becomes a ritual that we go through every three, four months where we have these horrific mass shootings, everybody expresses understandable horror, we all embrace the families and obviously our thoughts and prayers are with those families right now as they're absorbed in this incredible loss. and yet we're not willing to a take some basic actions. >> with the navy yard shooting, the debate is good guns, but also about mental health. just how did aaron alexis get gun s and security clearance wn he had so many mental problems. >>> and we have an incredible rescue from a good old samaritan. we'll take a closer look at how the miley cyrus lee am helms worth breakup was reported. i probably would have done the same exact thing. this is way too early. >>> good morning. brian shactman here. we have a few bizarre tidbits for you in sports. you

fdr was president. a new airport opened in new york called laguardia. gm unveiled a new invention called automatic transmission, and the jefferson memorial was not yet built. yet when movie-goers first laid eyes on this technological marvel, they thought they had seen the future. >> it was a revolutionary film. it did things with color, sound and story telling that movies had not done before. this was a fantasy blockbuster. >> reporter: just like its cast members, the movie had heart, and brains and courage. a young girl from kansas named dorothy gale. a good man who was a bad wizard. a good witch and a very bad witch. there was a tornado that would today be an f-5. there was auntie em and the ruby slippers and the flying monkeys and toto too. there is also the great oz folklore. the barely visible equipment and technical slip-ups. the fact that w.c. fields was originally supposed to play the wizard and buddy ebsen was the tinman until he had a nearly fatal reaction to the aluminum skin. it's estimated the wizard of oz has been seen more times than any

. >>> learn about the huge public works project that fdr tried to create in east port, maine, almost 80 years ago. visit "newshour."pbs.org. >>> this is the fifth anniversary of the collapse of layman brothers, the biggest bankruptcy in american history that convenient helped trigger the greatest economic crisis in the united states since the great depression. have we taken adequate steps to prevent a recurrence? more about that we are joined in our studio by heidi moore, a finance and economics editor for the guardian newspaper based in new york. what have we done so far to prevent another banking collapse like we saw? >> we flailed a bit. we have done things supposed to prevent another banking collapse like passion the dodd frank act, an omnibus regulation bill supposed to prevent wall street from becoming too big to fail. and that really has been kind of the major effort that has happened there, were of course, the bailouts at the time, tarp bailout and there was the quantitative easing stimulus by the fed which is also a result of the crisis at that time. >> things we said he wou

so that stems from sort of the new deal and fdr's war on the rich. so it is leading, called for greater compression. so this major redistribution of wealth as the two groups coalesce in the middle. the media notices this, that this is different and exciting and surprising. businessweek in 1952 said the economy is making everyone middle-class. fortune initiatives the united states is becoming a one class market of prosperous middle income people. so it's very clear at this point that something really interesting, perhaps revolutionary, is happening, that you this new enormous class of people that were not wealthy, okay, not rich, not the upper income group, the elite are yet they can afford to buy a lot of things. and fortune that you called the american the class public most sensational economic story of modern times, which i don't think is too much of an exaggeration. that's the biggest weaknesses. what's driving the social trend, the baby boom, driving this new money middle-class, these are young families typically and a high consumption mode your

>> guest: well, i think--i think in my own lifetime, growing up with fdr. i can remember back in the early '60s how exciting it was to--simply to be in the city with john kennedy and to be a reporter. of course, it was something quite different, and you--it was very hard not to--to--to catch the contagion, to maintain some distance, because he was r--you know, of your generation and it was very difficult to--to keep the cordon sanitaire between you and the--and the kennedys. i--i would not call him a g--a great president. he wasn't there long enough to--but i think probably--having read about lincoln, i think probably lincoln. and you hate to s--you hate to leave out wilson, but sometimes there's something about wilson that--that bothers me. he's sort of--he's kind of persnickety and fussy and, you know, overly presbyterian. that sort of disqualifies him from being the great leader. but he was in his way, i think. but i th--i would say lincoln and roosevelt were the two that i would find. c-span: on the lincoln front, your relationship from a family standpo

. >> host: conrad black has written biographies of fdr and richard nixon, a matter of principle was the book about his time in prison prison, mr. black did you write that book in prison? >> guest: yes. it connects to a previous autobiographical book that i wrote but it covers approximately 20 years and three were in prison but it does cover that period and ends when i return to home in canada that i had not seen in five years because of the authorities in your country. >> host: he writes for the us "chicago sun-times", the national posting canada canada, finally mr. black in "flight of the eagle" you dedicate to a boil american friends in particular. tina brown, an aunt ann coulter, henry and nancy kissinger, peggy noonan, , etc., etc.. why were you specific about using the word allele in that dedication? >> in this sort of crisis that i went through with the onslaught against me, people went out of their way to be supportive and some a few defected in became antagonistic so i wanted to show those recognition to those that were conspicuously supportive because the way the system works n

we know about the relationship between 'uncle joe' and fdr. but clearly, to me, this is - this is the worst personal relationship of a u.s. and russian leader in history. and i think that's obviously not a - not a good thing. let's look a little bit more at the recent history. now, the obama administration made an effort in the - in the spring and early summer to engage russia, to try to put the relationship that was obviously, for a number of reasons that i think are clear to everyone in this room, that was - that was on the rocks and getting worse. but basically, mr. putin was not interested in what the obama administration was trying to sell them. and i think, essentially, what the effort to engage mr. putin was principally around the issue of further cuts in offensive nuclear arms tied to some kind of agreement about their modus vivendi on missile defense. and that was that was a, like i said, that was a deal that mr. putin had decided he just was not particularly interested in. i think that is what the effort begun with the trip of former

fdr was president. a new airport opened in new york called laguardia. gm unveiled a new invention called automatic transmission, and the jefferson memorial was not yet built. yet when movie-goer s first lai i eyes on this technological marvel they thought they had seen the future. >> it did things movies had not done before. this was a fantasy blockbuster. >> reporter: just like its cast members, the movie had heart, and brains and courage. a young girl from kansas named dorothy gale. a good man who was a bad wizard. a good witch and a very bad witch. there was a tornado that would today be an f-5. there was auntie e m and the ruby slippers and the flying monkeys and toto, too. and there is the oz folklore. barely visible equipment and technical slip-ups. the fact that w.c. fields was supposed to polythe wizard and buddy epsen was the tinman until he had a reaction to aluminum skin. perhaps that's why some are wondering if it need ed to be in 3-d. the imax version will run for only a month and requires special glasses. the original film will always be a

fdr. ronald reagan. margaret thatcher. it seems that we, not the pr policemen of the world, but the moral authority of the world. you're not getting it from russia. what does that mean for our future and what will happen in congress in the coming week. >> gene kirk patrick used to say at the u.n. it was like the europeans would see a truck that had lost its brakes speeding downhill toward a playground filled with innocent children. they'd start arguing what to do about it. they couldn't come to any conclusion. so at the last minute they'd throw the united states in front of the truck. that's always what happens. that's always what happens. the problem here is that president obama can't make up his mind to lead. does he want to overthrow assad? does he want to send a signal of deterrence against the use of chemical weapons? does he want congressional approval? does he want international approval? what does he want to do? i think here a delay really does undercut the united states. it shows weakness and lack of resolve. it's