Monday Morning Politics: Syria Intervention, Iran Election

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 17, 2013

The US is arming rebels in the Syrian conflict -- how slippery of a slope towards war is Obama standing on? David Sanger, New York Times chief Washington correspondent and author of Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (Broadway, 2013), discusses the administration's calculus. Plus: we open the phones to get reaction to the election of cleric Hassan Rouhani as Iran's next president from Iranians and Iranian-Americans. Call 212-433-9692 or post your comment here.

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