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Denis McDonough as the chief of staff for the white house he wuz
on every a sunny morning show
a blanket the airwaves and he's was trying to convince us that we have
enough evidence
he is done the exact opposite the show you one click here
he he said at one point the interview
if the United States has the evidence show the evidence
well i've you know if you've seen these terrible videos bob and others have seen
these terrible videos and I hope that every member of congress you're saying
that's evidence and I'm saying that I hope every member of congress looks at
those
those videos before he or she makes up his or her mind
and how they're gonna vote on this resolution because to hold him
accountable
for this terrible action we need Congress to vote yes for that resolution
now that's that's meant that of course irv responding to a bush Charles Saud
said in the interview with CVS so you don't have enough evidence that he says
just look at the video
all boy that and makes me go in the opposite direction because the video
shows
that there was a chemical weapon attack it doesn't show who did
if that's your best evidence well look there was a attend we already know there
was an attack
that is the question so thats
horrible evidence as to who did
and why we should attack the regime he gets much much worse
he also said in one of the show's the administration likes quote
irrefutable beyond a reasonable doubt evidence it lacks it
it lacks it well I'm not to go to war
if you're your top you know salesperson for this the white house he was that
comes out and says
now we don't have we don't have irrefutable beyond a reasonable doubt
evidence
well before we go to war or we sent tomahawk missiles are B-fifty two
bombers or whatever old
other things we said I would like that I would like really really solid evidence
not a kind of not a maybe it only gets worse from here
he also said look this is not a court of law and intelligence does not work that
way
okay but I'd like you to have some intelligence
I'd like to have at least a good degree of certainty at the very least
and you could make an argument that this is more serious than a court of law
or 21 balls one person guilty or not guilty now that's very important
but we're talking about a warrior we're talking about when we do the bombings
we get the right guys the bad guys we're talking about 100 s maybe 1000 s
much as one case I V should be better evidence that in a court of law
and obviously by their own admission they don't have it yet it gets worse
and now McDonough had said well look we give evidence to the congresspeople you
some say that in that clip there
and they all agree that we have enough evidence well it turns out
thoroughly true represent them just in a marsh
from ottawa michigan is a republican says quote
the evidence is not as strong as the public statements
the president and the administration have been making there are some things
that are being
embellishing the public statements the briefings have actually made me
more skeptical about the situation now look is bipartisan there's a lot of
democrats are also expressing doubt about it when you one more Republican
here but McKeon
are from California and he says they haven't linked it directly to Assad
in my estimation and he says he thinks
that may think Assad probably did
you gonna go to war are probably
especially after what we did in Iraq DAX
sanity look even if you think my god we have to help the people who love
a Syrian you think the regime likely did
come on even you gotta concede this is not good enough evidence
look I'm inclined in direction of helping but
I got to have good evidence that they did now is is totally unacceptable
I'm tell you every step of the way it gets worse so then the speaker which
we go to you back to Denis McDonough any says
about as evidence other material referring to the weapons was delivered
by rockets which we know this i'd regime
has and we have no indication the opposition house
I'll for Christ's sake that's the best you got
it was delivered in a way that we know that they have but
we don't think a position as a way to deliver it
this may be worse in Iraq evidence
and remember they're exposed his was of course a disaster
probably we speak we don't have a beyond a
a reasonable doubt all right way to get a little us to cause
he also said well look the
this sick the common sense test says he is responsible for this
he should be held to account. talking about a son
like common sense test there's no common sense test
that's basically say I don't have it I don't have it
I don't have evidence but come on I and it was probably is
yeah I'm that's common sense no that's not common sense
they don't have it we'd definitely
should not go to war we should not drop bombs and yes dropping bombs another
country
his by most definitions an active war even if you don't think it's a knack to
work as we've changed definitions
we still shouldn't do it you know go base on this BS
finally sector see John Kerry who's been beating the war drums
louder than anyone else also says when asked about the evidence quote
the evidence speaks for itself ok what does that mean
that means I don't have it I'll look at the video this is that looks really bad
I know John I know McDonough it looks really bad
the question is who did is like you put on a case in you say
look at this grisly *** okay you that's horrible so obviously that guy
must have done it
that's not obvious at all it's your job to prove that guided
otherwise we're going to go and put the wrong guy in prison a winner execute the
wrong guy
and here you have made a case at all that we've got the right guy
not good enough not remotely good enough don't drop a single bar