Foreign policy

Guest host Mark Thompson, author David Cay Johnston, "The War Room" contributor Brett Erlich, Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson debate whether Barack Obama's time in office has been a "lost presidency" for protecting the civil rights of American citizens.

"It's nowhere near wintertime yet, but with all the complications, controversies and kerfuffles that have been plaguing the Obama administration all week, it's been like Christmas for the tea party." —John Fugelsang

"These are not hard ‘scandals’ to do battle with — we’ve seen much worse and we’ve seen presidents come out of them way better." —Rick Ungar

"Some people are qualified to criticize Obama on Mideast policy, as long as it's not anybody who ever supported the Bush administration on Mideast policy." —John Fugelsang

"Sometimes it takes a perpetual warmonger who's been wrong about everything to unilaterally ignore the U.N. and world opinion, guarantee the safety of all U.S. troops in a hostile civil war, and still find time to vet every single Syrian [...]

"We investigated every lead, every question that came up in the press." —Thomas Pickering, co-chair of the Accountability and Review Board, on the board's report on Benghazi

Cenk Uygur, David Sirota, Glenn Greenwald and Michael Hastings debate whether the Obama administration lied about the Benghazi attack not being an act of terrorism for political gain.

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"Just one pill in the morning gives you that sense of righteous false equivalency, with none of the pesky awareness that you’re actually exploiting four tragic American deaths." —John Fugelsang

"Israel has the capacity to strike, and it’s not clear whether Assad has the capacity to respond to these types of pinpointed strikes." —Joel Rubin

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