not ever be a strike. this is a vote to authorize a strike that may never happen because the diplomatic track, the administration is now really grasping onto this and going forward with it. and all of them saying they're very hopeful but skeptical. so here you're going to press if you're the president. you're pressing liberal democrats in your caucus to vote for authorization. some of them facing constituents 80/20 against. you're going to vote for authorization, and it may never happen. it's a tough vote for a lot of these members. bill: yeah. and we'll see whether or not that happens in the end. john kerry saying we will not fall for stalling tactics on chemical weapon withs. we will see now, we await his answer there. thank you, bret, bret baier in washington. more later tonight. martha: very interesting watching what secretary kerry had to say, and at one point he said there's no military solution to this, but we need the threat of a military strike in order to carry out a political solution. so we're going to untangle that