going? >> yeah. >> kroft: as you'll see tonight, president obama was happy to keep going, taking questions about politics, putin, trump, hillary's emails and a lot more. >> what else you got? >> my failure to say something can only be described as cowardice. i was a coward. >> whitaker: that's former prosecutor marty stroud apologizing for sending an innocent man to death row for 30 years. last year, glenn ford was finally exonerated and released by the current district attorney, who still defends the system. have you no compassion for what mr. ford has been through? >> well, you don't know me at all, do you? but you have no problem asking that question. >> whitaker: no, i am asking because i am seeking an answer. >> i'm not in the compassion business. >> kroft: i'm steve kroft. >> stahl: i'm lesley stahl. >> safer: i'm morley safer. >> whitaker: i'm bill whitaker. >> pelley: i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." why pause a spontaneous moment to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction like n

, mets fans break my leg when i'm spotted wearing my gojer jersey. obama said the u.s. sent money to train just 5 fighters in syria, that is $100 million each where are we getting these guy, whole foods? seriously. and i sit down for ice cream with house minority leader nancy pelosi. as the old saying goes i scream, you scream, we all scream about congressional gridlock in our partisan political system. this is the nightly show. happy columbus day, america! (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> larry: thank you very much.a! >> larry: thank you, welcome to. such a great crowd tonight. thank you very much. please, i appreciate it. so nice. we have to, rapper jeezy is joing our panel later. dheers plaws (cheers and applause) definitely stick around for that. and you know, before we start, have i to talk about this mets dodgers thing. so i was on the one train coming to work. (laughter) (cheers and applause). >> larry: no, no, no.but here's. people are upset because the other night chase utley layed into ruben tejada, a controversial play t changed the game, tej

hands president obama a blank credit card. it says to the president, you can add whatever debt you like for the remainder of your team with no constraint from this body. we are abdicating any and all congressional authority over the debt that is bankrupting our kids and grandkids. now, you and i both campaigned telling the citizens of nebraska, telling the citizens of texas that if we were elected, we would fight with every breath in our body to stop the spending and debt that is bankrupting our kids and grandkids. how, pray tell, does handing president obama a blank credit card for the remainder of his tenure do anything to follow those commitments? and let me note for the remaining 15 months, we are going to see a binge from this president that makes the preceding 6 1/2 years pale. for 6 1/2 years, we've seen an assault on rule of law, an assault on our constitutional rights, a retreat from the world stage, all of which i think will pale compared to what's coming in the next 15 months. the next 15 months abroad, i have said before, we are essentially in a hobzian state of nature, wher

muslim out of president obama on "60 minutes." last night, specifically for his take on syria and russia. >> you said a year ago that the united states, america leads were the indispensable nation. mr. putin seems to be challenging that leadership. >> in what way? >> larry: did you guys see that? kroft, i think you just got obama's stank face. can we see that again in slow motion? (laughter). >> larry: the [bleep] let metel, obama has got this middle east thing under control. you can't trip him up. ask him any question. >> you got a half a billion dollars from congress to train and equip 5,000. and at the end according to the commander of centcom you got 50 people. most of whom are dead or deserted. he said four or five left. >> larry: okay, first of all,th. and secondly, you're saying our president spent $500 million and ultimately only funding five people in syria. you know what, i see what is going on here, i see it, our brother is about to leave and they have to find a way to cut him off at the knees just making [bleep] right? huh-uh, i need to hear the truth. i need to hear f

after obama for his weakness against russia. but to be fair here, fox can go ( bleep ) itself. ( laughter ) i mean, to be fair. ( cheers and applause ) obama and putin also shared an awkward toast at a u.n. luncheon. things only got worse when putin illegally annexed obama's side salad. ( laughter ) not good. that was not cool. and rush limbaugh claims that nasa has been corrupted by the left. you know, he's just mad that nasa recently reported rush limbaugh is visible from space. greetings, earth lings! this is "the nightly show." captioning sponsored by comedy central >> larry: welcome to "the nightly show." you're a great crowd. thank you verthank you very muc. thank you very much. i am larry wilmore. big news with the u.n. general assembly in new york this week. i like it when all these world leaders get together, you know, with all these strange accents mixed with awkward interactions between rogue leaders. so nothing as awkward as last week. do you remember last week when biden tried to strike up a conversation with the pope tes worst possible time. ( laughter ) horrible

!" ( laughter ) ( applause ) not good. what i'm talking about is yesterday's sit-down between barack obama and vladimir putin, the russian president and noted beastmaster. occasion for monday's meetings was to figure out how to exwam isis in syria. now, unfortunately, obama and putin can't even agree on whose side to take in syria's ongoing civil war. >> president putin, who wants to increase his political power in the region is propping up dictator bashar al-assad by sending in warplanes and equipment. of course, the u.s. has been insisting assad must go for four years now. >> larry: okay, so obama wants assad gone but putin is supporting assad's regime with military equipment and all three men want to defeat isis. the saying-- the enemy of my enemy is sort of my friend, but not a close friend. not a friend who would help you move. ( laughter ) more like the work buddy you invite to your birthday dinner after two other people canceled. ( laughter ) sorry, mark, that's just how i feel. anyway, syria and isis are complex issues and obama and putin need to come together to try and solve them

watching us tonight. let's get right to our top story. the fbi livid at president obama over his comments over the hillary clinton email investigation. the "new york times" reports today that the bureau's agents are mad the president down played the situation during his interview with "60 minutes" on sunday. >> did you know about hillary clinton's use of private email server? >> no. >> while she was secretary of state? >> no. >> do you think it posed a national security problem? >> i don't think it posed a national security problem. i think that it was a mistake that she has acknowledged. i do think that the way it's been ginned up is in part because of politics. >> was president obama trying to sway the final outcome of the investigation into hillary's private server? joining us now with reaction from washington ron hosco a former senior fbi official. ron, the "new york times" reporting today this week that the fbi agents are very upset with president obama what can you tell us? >> well, if that's an accurate portrayal of it, eric. it's completely understandable. this is not the first ti

% think president obama has a clear strategy in the conflict. >> president obama may be reconsidering the commitment to get all but a few relative few american troops out of afghanistan. correspondent doug mcelway at the pentagon says conditions on the ground may force a change in plans. the tweet from the editor of the respected military blog, the long war journal was unusually blunt. quote how the hell does al qaeda operate two camps, one that is 30 square miles inside afghanistan if it is a spent force? it was a reference to a major operation this month by u.s. air and special forces as well as afghan ground forces against two al qaeda training camps. one of the camps outside kandahar, an area half the size of washington, d.c. >> this is a significant security development. these were two huge terrorist camps, within taliban territory. material to make ieds was found, anti-aircraft weapons, machine guns. this confirms recent report that there was a larger al qaeda presence in afghanistan and they're more spread out across the country than at any time since 2001. >> a press release f

, as theyy give credit should, to president obama and his administration. [applause] i believe the president's leadership and the hard work of the american people pulled our economy and nation back from the brink. in fact, we could have had a great depression, not a great recession. as i travel across the country, i try to tell the stories of what president obama inherited -- the worst financial crisis since the great depression. is standing again, but we are not yet running the way we should be. families are still stretched in a million different directions, and so are their budgets. costs keep rising, but most people's paychecks have not moved in years. but corporate profits and ceo pay keep rising. childcare costs more than college tuition in many states. and the minimum wage is a poverty wage. millions of americans are held back by student debt. at a time when more women than families' main too often they do not get equal pay. and women of color earn less than others, right? and just this week, the department of labor released new data showing that as our economy gets stronger,

bill clinton, george w. bush and barack obama. and i think that if you read her book, you'll find that it's a compilation of a lot of yores of observation -- a lot of years of observation and a lot of years of immersion in that world of the american presidency, and she's learned a lot, for sure. but i think at least from my vantage point what is most important about april is not the reporting itself, but sort of what she does with her reporting. she is one of 42 journalists assigned to the white house beat, but she has been intent on bringing news to communities that are also too often ignored and marginalized by the conventional news media. and over the years she literally has become herself a news outlet, a resource for millions of americans who might otherwise be left in the dark about how events in the news are affecting and shaping their own lives, their families and their communities. but i think a lot of these journalistic awards, we should be giving you a public service award. really. [applause] [inaudible] and, you know, it's not, it should be far -- be recognized at a far hig

. president obama's new plans for delaying the u.s. troop drawdown. >>> off-target, lead documents on the success rate of u.s. drone strikes. >>> escalating gun violence, laughing it off. and comedians respond to donald trump. >> and we begin with america's longest war, and the announcement that withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan is on hold. president obama said that the situation in the region is too fragile to stick with his plan for an outright troop pullout by 2016. 9800 troops there will remain through at least next year. >> while america's combat mission in afghanistan may be over, our commitment to afghanistan and it's people endures. as commander in chief, i will not allow afghanistan to be used as a safe haven for terrorists to attack our nation again. >> it will now be up to the next president to determine the fate of the troops there. and national correspondent, jamie mcintyre is here. >> reporter: president obama said under the advice of his top commanders, he's scrapping his plan to bring virtually all u.s. troops home from afghanistan by the time he leaves off

- solving syria. vladimir putin takes decisive action as president obama takes a back seat. it's america versus russia in a cold war-style struggle for influence in the middle east. russian fighter jets are dropping bombs in syria. they are upping the ante in the 4.5 year war. russia's moves are laying bear how many the united states is losing the initiative in syria, and by extension in the broader middle east. >> for over a year president obama dropped bombs pon i.s.i.l. in both iraq and syria, simultaneously he continued to help rebels fighting to unseat i.s.i.l.'s enemy, syria's president bashar al-assad. now russia entered the fray in support of bashar al-assad, bombing i.s.i.l. and rebel targets. victoria gatenby has this report. >> reporter: russian jets attacked the town near idlib. the town is not an i.s.i.l. strong hold. they are mainly in eastern syria. the area is dominated by groups deposing president bashar al-assad, a russian ally. also hit, the town, during the second day of russian air strikes. there are concerns as to whom they are targetting. this, according to activis

vladimir putin launches air strikes in syria. he's really gotten obama's attention. though if you asked me a giant edible arrangement could also have worked. just saying. a lawsuit says donald trump's college trump university may have been a total scamment which probably explains why i'm such a horrible surgeon. (laughter) i didn't know. i didn't know. and former students are suing trump for failing to provide them a real education. meanwhile, millions of inner city kids are like wait, you can sue for that? what the [bleep]! those are stats in america. this is the nightly show! (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> larry: man, thank you very much! welcome to the nightly show! i'm larry wilmore. >> larry, larry, lar's! >> larry: i appreciate it. such a good crowd here tonight. man! such an amazing crowd. you know it's a good crowd when you're not going to do any hurricane jokes and they don't care. they just don't care. (laughter) that's the kind of crowd we have, that's the kind of crowd that is tonight. but so you're welcome. >> are you going to do any hurrica

. >> the address is aljazeera.com. president obama and african americans many should he could he have done better to lift them up. the long arm of slavery over the american south. >>> barack obama's election in 2008 gave hope to many african americans that a black man living in the white house would mean better lives for black men, women and children living in houses across america. but with just over a year to go in the president's second term some of those hopes have been replaced by criticism that barack obama hasn't done enough for blacks. sure, enough data on income inequality and childhood poverty, supports a view that black americans have not narrowed their gaps with whites. i'll talk to america's first elected black governor about why he finds fault with the president. but some of the criticism of obama is misguided or ignores what he has done, that has benefited blacks as well as other americans. benefits like obamacare, the affordable care act, brought health care insurance to millions of african americans. the nonprofit urban institutes institute says that by 2016, 2.9 mill

dobbs. president obama today speak out against putin's direct military intervention in syria, mr. obama's first remarks since russian airstrikes in syria began wednesday. obama's critics for three days have harshly criticized him saying president obama has outmaneuvered the middle east. mr. obama defended himself and flat foot the administration trying to spend the russian military intervention is an act of putin's weakness, not obama's. we'll discuss why russia does appear to be the stronger not weaker state actor in the middle east, and whether putin intends to extent russia's power and influence around the globe? >>> former pentagon official fox national security analyst k.t. mcfarland is with us tonight. also tonight president obama reflexively pushing gun control after the tragedy at an oregon community college. the president reiterated that he wants to politicize the issue because he said he had to contend with the national rifle association stirring up fear and scaring, scaring politicians. the president also dismissed a change in mental health treatment in this country be

president obama is a diamond encrusted coal in the dark american express card. and it has a special feature. .. spend it and it's somebody else's problem. but, you know, not only is this bill spending us deeper and deeper in a hole, but it's chock-full of gimmicks. and these are gimmicks that everyone writing it knew were there. for example, it contains a spending gimmick that targets single-employer pension plans while ignoring the oncoming union multiemployer pension plan funding tsunami. beyond that, this bill also addresse addressess o obamacare, but what does it do? it provides a targeted obama care fix for big business. those with more than 200 employees. by repealing the law's automatic enrollment provision whiches requires employers to automatically enroll, new full-time employees with one of the company health plans unless the employee os out. what does it say, mr. president? states exists to provide special exemption for giant corporationa but turns a blind eye, turn as deaf ear to the small businesses that being driven out of business over and over and over. again by obamacare. d

and it's a wonderful journey. >> god bless you. >>> president obama ends a failed program to train syrian rebels. while russia continues to rule the skies over that country. this "special report." good evening, i'm chris wallace in for brett baier. if at first you don't succeed -- quit. that apparently is the obama administration's fillfy when it comes to training syrian rebels. the president is abandoning a half billion dollar program that produced only a handful of fighters. this comes as russia continues to expand its military role in syria. correspondent doug mckelway reports from the pentagon. >> more than three weeks after centcom's general made the admission that only four or five rebels have been trained. the administration pulled the plug on the army's training program. >> i wasn't satisfied with the early efforts in that regard and so we're looking at different ways to achieve the basically the same kind of strategic objective. >> a new program to take its place will quote provide equipment packages and weapons to a select group of vetted leaders and their units. >> what

promised fights against the obama agenda or anything? name one concession. and let's go back to the substance of this deal. one of the things this deal does is it utterly makes a mockery of the budget control act. it abrogates the caps, the budget caps. it wasn't too long ago that republican leadership was touting the budget control act as one of the greatest successes of republican leadership. indeed, when asked, why does it matter to have republicans in control, typically the answer would be, well, look at the budget control act. indeed, another quote from majority leader mitch mcconnell quo quoap politicians regularly come to washington promising fiscal responsibility. but too often they can't agree to cut spending when it counts. and that's why the budget control act is such a big deal. mind you, a big deal that right now the republican congress is abrogating. since congress passed the b.c.a. with overwhelming bipartisan majorities in 2011, washington has actually reduced the level of government spending for two years running. this is the first time that has happened since the k

then. >>> tonight, president obama bashes christians once again and takes a shot at fox news. 2016 gop presidential candidate senator ted cruz is here to respond. >> if you become president, will a woman make the same as a man and do i get to choose what i do with my body? >> then a volunteer for jeb bush confronts donald trump at a town hall event. >> i knew i shouldn't have picked her. >> and do these internal gop feuds help or hurt the party? >> we finally, once and for all, have to make sure women get equal pay for equal work. >> plus, hillary clinton claims to be an advocate for women, but a new book claims that she's anything but that. author roger stone is here with the shocking details. all of that plus former speaker of the house newt gingrich weighs in on who should next speaker. "hannity" starts right here, right now. welcome to "hannity." tonight president obama lashes out at christians and the fox news channel. now audio of an interview that the president did in mid-september has just been released. listen to him as he takes major shots at christians. >> the united sta

the obama administration, especially dealing with race. he said "read new york magazine for minority disappoint us with potus. >> it's an interesting article talking about whether the president has disappointed african-americans, whether the president has done enough for african-americans. you've had that conversation here on the program before but the tone of the tweet, and we all know 104 characters things can get taken out of contacts, but the way murdoch wrote that tweet, "real black president" -- >> that's right. we know carson is the only african-american president. we know murdoch is supportive of carson, has conservative tendency. he's a republican cane maker and has been for decades. to have this tone, i think there's a lot of people shocked. >> i want to bring in "the washington post"'s phillip rucker and republicans strategic rich wilson and gabriel sherman. van, what's your take on this? is he saying barack obama is not a real black president? >> first of all, it's just completely outrageous and disgusting that someone in charge of fox news who has done more to undermine

jobs and obama once again defending his failing foreign-policy in syria as evidence mounts that vladimir putin has taken the lead in the middle east with the administration plan to trade the syrian bubbles is now working and putin mocks the president to say that president obama should have given him half a billion dollars because he could have used it more effectively to fight terrorism and the middle east. with former pentagon official with k.t. mcfarland also iran claiming it did not break said deal by test a ballistic missile but it says the bars them from developing those warheads we will discuss that move and obama led dismiss it -- as mrs. donald trump tuesday he is just a reality tv character seeking publicity he says he cares more about climate change than all of the problems we have had a we will have a full report coming up. the top story obama defending what critics say is a feeling for policy in the middle east it was supposed to be an aggressive as steve crawford pushed back of the choices calling the trading of syrian rebels an embarrassment to the president said h

. hillary clinton won the debate. focus groups, online money went to who? they went to barack obama. >> wait and see what my you'ves record is after the show. it's a long race, isn't it? >> it's a long race and we're in the first inning. >> inkeyed. usmg, nice to so you, mr. chairman. >> you wet. s which for candidate k the streets lining in vegas. >> american people are sick and tired about peering about your damn auto males. >>, thank you, me too. >> every life in this fun tri i haves. is it wrong that 5' pert of the income is p coming to the -- >> it's our job to reign in the ache excesses of capitalism. >> you voted in bill that make it bigger. >> my dad had died in office. i wpb appointed to the office. >> are you saying you didn't know what you you everywhere voting polar for. >> the viewszv in. >> have you ever been to the eastern shore and western maryland? >> you have not been in the united states congress and when you want to check it out. >> it's time that the entire country stood up against the nra. >> >> people at high levels in this country government does no have body

president obama said it as much. my interview with donald trump is great, going air tomorrow. our prayers go out for the families and we want to salute first responders. right now tom sullivan is in for lou dobbs, live for the next hour or two filling in with the breaking news on this tragic event. >> good evening, everybody, i'm tom sullivan in for lou dobbs, breaking news out of oregon where a gunman opened fire today at a small community college about 180 miles south of portland killing at least a dozen people and wounding 20 others. it happened at umpqua community college in roseburg, the gunman is a 20-year-old male who was killed. we'll have the details, the latest details for you. >>> also tonight russian warplanes carrying out a second day of airstrikes in syria. strikes that contrary to russia's claims appear to be targeting rebels seeking the ouster of syrian president bashar assad, not the islamic state, and the obama administration scrambling to respond to the air campaign which caught it off guard. and the pentagon launching talks with russian counterparts in an effor

obama about it on saturday. they decided not to do a final run through. bubble sides were comfortable they had been dealing with one another four months. transition people dealing with white house staff but then president-elect abominating tuesday or early enough that they could work together read the people who were sitting in the offices before they left to get information and how it worked and that was an excellent part of the transition to give people paper end of memoranda so with the national security council after general jones was elected was to be heading in the national security council working together side by side so they read their for several weeks and advantage is you can talk about what is in the paper but then he was telling me the memoranda that there read there was not a lot of mistakes but he said once you sat down to say you might want to organize geographically this way and it didn't work for the following reasons. that is important to have that time that obama appointed people early enough that is important as a national security advisor for bush he

evidence has emerged, showing that eight weeks before president obama's reelection, the administration, including clinton, worked to steer the public narrative away from the terrorist nature of the attacks, security shortfalls, and the lack of a military rescue. it is the night of september 11, 2012 and while the benghazi attacks are under way, top officials at the a aqaeda-linked -- top officials at clinton's state department t know that an al qaeda-linked islamic extremist group has taken credit. within minutes, that alert goes to the white house, fbi, and pentagon. four hours later, clinton's public statement invokes the idea that the attackers were spontanenes protesters responding to inflflmatory materials posted on the internet, and anti-muslim youtube video. last year, clinton was vague on whether she and president obama discussed blaming the video instead of terrorists that night. >> i don't know that i talked about with him at that conversation. >> it was the very next day. sharyl: republican jim jordada will question clinton thursday in this hearing room as she testified to t

when it comes to charter school vouchers and the like. and believe me, this is obama administration policies to promote charters schools. so does this mean that hillary clinton is opposing obama and opposing so much in terms of school reform efforts that i think are maybe the civil rights issue of our generation? that's where i would go. >> i like speaking of obama, he something to say about hillary -- i think it was "60 minutes" -- about the e-mail scam. >> i think it was a mistake that she's acknowledged, and as a general proposition, when we're in these offices, we have to be more sensitive and stay as far away from a line as possible when it comes to how we handle information. i do think that the way it's been jimmed up is in part because of politics. >> is he supposed to be commenting on investigations? can't he just say i can't comment on an ongoing investigations? or is he above that? >> he was probably given a pass on answer it iing it, and he cho answer it. he said, well, they're doing the investigation, and it's political but wouldn't be appropriate to do but he's unsure a

obama this morning. he said the situation in afghanistan had grown too fragile to move ahead with next year's planned withdrawal. >>reporter: president obama announced today that taking the advice of his top commanders, he is scrapping his plan to end the u.s. involvement in afghanistan by the end of his term. instead, he is slowing the withdrawal of u.s. forces to a trickle and leaving more than half the force in place until sometime in 2017 or possibly beyond. the president's about face comes days after the talibans take overof kunduz exposed the shortcomings of the u.s.-trained afghan army. but the pentagon insists kunduz was not a tipping point and the president says his new timeline has been months in the making following extensive consultations with the afghan government, nato, and u.s. commanders. >> figure out what's working, what's not working. make adjustments where necessary. obamas revised plan keeps most of the current force of 9,800 u.s. troops in afghanistan through tend of 2016 instead of slowly withdrawing them over the course of the next year. and only to underta

now have to sit through a little bit of a press conference with me. [laughter] president obama: make yourself comfortable. [laughter] president obama: i warned the kids ahead of time. i said "try not to look completely bored." i will take a couple of questions from the press, but first, a few additional pieces of business. that we'veearned created another 118,000 new jobs in september, which now means we've had 67 straight months of job creation. 13.2 million jobs in all. the unemployment rate has fallen from a high of 10% down to 5.1%. these long-term trends are good news, particularly for every american waking up and heading off to a new job. but, we would be doing even better if we didn't have to keep on dealing with unnecessary crises in congress every few months. this is especially important right now. although the american economy has been chugging along at a steady pace, much of the global ed.nomy is soft and -- soften we've seen a decrease in our exports, which was a major driver in our recovery. our growth could slow if congress does not do away with some of the counte

, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. president obama spent much of the day scolding this nation's enemies and insisting they haven't outsmarted him, while he appears outwitted, he says the strategies will one day fizzle. mr. obama's say he lacks the strategy and no strategy is failing faster than the strategies of russia and iran. during his news conference, this is -- this is what passed for a strong rebuke. president telling iran there are, quote, costs to bad behavior, and telling putin that his policy in syria will, quote, not work. we take all of that up with former ambassador to the united nations john bolton. >>> also tonight, reports that president obama angered the fbi when he spoke out about hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. federal agents still investigating the classified information on clinton's personal server when the president went on "60 minutes" and downplayed the scandal. i'll have a few thoughts tonight on the president's pension for injecting politics into ongoing investigations, hardly the stuff of a harvard lawyer and university of chicago constitutional scholar. >>> an

journey. >> god bless you. >>> president obama ends a failed program to train syrian rebels. while russia continues to rule the skies over that country. this "special report." good evening, i'm chris wallace in for brett baier. if at first you don't succeed -- quit. that apparently is the obama administration's fillfy when it comes to training syrian rebels. the president is abandoning a half billion dollar program that produced only a handful of fighters. this comes as russia continues to expand its military role in syria. correspondent doug mckelway reports from the pentagon. >> more than three weeks after centcom's general made the admission that only four or five rebels have been trained. the administration pulled the plug on the army's training program. >> i wasn't satisfied with the early efforts in that regard and so we're looking at different ways to achieve the basically the same kind of strategic objective. >> a new program to take its place will quote provide equipment packages and weapons to a select group of vetted leaders and their units. >> what they're going to focu

fund all of obama's big-government priorities for the next two years. some of the media blasted me and said you don't know that. and i know exactly what it meant. you look at what happened in the house of representatives. every single democrat in the house voted for this, because it is a blank credit card for barack obama. only a handful of republicans voted for it. and now mitch mcconnell, who is allegedly the republican leader, is ramming through a vote at 1:00 tonight, he'll have every single democrat there. and again he'll have a handful of republicans. now why do the so-called republican leadership force through votes that all the democrats agree with and a majority of republicans oppose. it's why people are so frustrated. >> do you support raising the spending caps for defense? or should they stay flad flatt? >> of course we should increase defense spending, but we ought to pay for it by cutting elsewhere. >> okay. here's what some of the people on twitter, we asked for questions on twitter. peter carlson wrote in. why should we elect a one-term senator who can't get along wi

debate stage aren't the only ones ready to dismiss the issue. with president obama telling steve kroft on "60 minutes" clinton's use of a private server didn't pose a national security risk. >> i can tell you that this is not a situation in which america's national security was in danger. we don't get an impression that here there was purposely efforts to hide something or to squirrel away information. >> is it clear sailing for hillary clinton from here? let's ask "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, assistant ed tor james freeman and washington columnist kim strassel. you wrote this week, kim, you thought bernie sanders comments about the e-mails were bad politics. despite the big applause she got in the room and a handshake from hillary clinton. why do you think that? >> it was political malpractice. look, hillary clinton was up there and was basically coronated. you had four other men who gave her a pass on her greatest vulnerability and a legitimate issue, by the way, for the public to understand what's gone on. they were largely unfit to debate with he

obama... the united states gives up on one key strategy in syria... and a polarized supreme court sits down to argue again... i'm john harwood in for gwen ifill tonight....on washington week. >>i think i shocked some of you huh? shhh. >> chaos in the house as the presumed successor to speaker john boehner drops out of the running. >> we should put this conference first. and i think there's something to be said for us to unite, we probably need a fresh face. john: but who might that fresh face be? all eyes are on this man. meanwhile, hillary clinton again distances herself from the president, this time on his pacific trade pact >> what i know about it, as of today, i am not in favor of what i have learned about it. john: flip-flop, evolution or political calculation? overseas, the u.s. admits training syrian rebels against the assad regime isntme working,while at the same time, russia steps up its engagement eff upsetting the u.s. ands its nay toe allies. >> it's unacceptable, it's dangerous and it's reckless behavior and it adds to the tensions. john: the strategy shift in syria n

in the mid 80s when he got fabulous tax cuts. president obama is not willing to compromise. i wish biden had been successful in having obama obey what he suggested. >> you have a slightly different view about the goodness for america and our economy of politicians working together. explain. >> yeah. i think friendship and compromise and working together vastly over rated when it comes to politics. this is what got us obviously where we made ceos criminals. got us the bailout of banks that weakened the economy and the banking sector. annually gets us a spending bill that reduces economic growth and robs us of liberty. it is better when they don't work together. they're not doing us harm. >> it also got us the reagan tax cuts which were cut as a result of cooperation between the two parties. >> right. >> clinton's welfare policies which with newt gingrich in the house resulted in ending a lot of welfare dependency programs. >> right. the problem is if you have continued political grid lock everyone looks to the reserve as the savior. like we are suffering from post bubble amnesia. we