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President especially if youre a democrat the time to do this diplomacy, youre not helping. its only creating more reason for the hard liners in iran to say we cant trust the americans. we cant deal with them. and talking to people who know whats going on behind the scenes, this is all being driven by apac. >> is it hawkish? does it represent a particular brand of israeli politics at home? >> it tends to be more hawkish. always more supportive of lacud. i would think they would not be doing this ...

To find out if their daughter is alive. >> daylight owner-of-over there and get more progress. >> they believe their daughter rolled out the storm with her job with apac customer service. instead of heading back to her home in haro, she was in this area. >> she decided to stay there because the last text message we got from her is just her asking if her mom is okay. >> for nino, the pictures of the aftermath of the typhoon hit home. >> looking at the images and looking at the people there, i cou...

Take the word of the american people on and they wont because its done on a district by district basis where the nra pumps a lot of money in. >> you can argue that. heres what i say. people say like they teachers, dont like teachers unions but the unions are representing the teachers. they say apac is too hard lined yet the people support apac. and i think the people who buy guns support the nra. you can say what you want about the leaders, but theyre leaders for a reason. because people follow ...

>> the more i hear the threat to the neighborhood and we know that apac here, the group that in lobbying efforts mirrors always the israeli governments desires, working very, very busily here today on capitol hill that there is as much regional dynamism in the white house decision here as there is a specific reaction to chemical weapons. >> thats right. you see the regional dynamism. israel, a lot -- >> saudis and israelis agreeing is unusual in the white house. >> they were hearing all of these...

>> as has been emphasized many times and i did so as secretary of state, the broader conflict in syria is a threat to regional stability and security of our allies and partners. as well as a humanitarian catastrophe for the syrian people and the neighboring countries atemtempting to absor hundreds of thousands now, more than 2 million refugees. >> the more i hear the threat to the neighborhood and we know that apac here, the group that in lobbying efforts mirrors always the israeli governments d...

Israel wants a strike. apac will be flooding the hill saying this should happen. the israelis have said dont worry about retaliation, he wants to say iraq, iraq, iraq. hes saying we can handle whatever retaliation comes towards us. >> simple strikes, the way the president want to do it will not help and will not tip the balance of power on the ground. it will not actually topple assad. israel has done these strikes. they did it three times in the last two years. it didnt change anything. but ass...

This idea. theyre not publicly talking about it. theyre not beating the drums publicly because they understand the way that theyre perceived in that region, particularly by arab countries and they know that wouldnt do any good. i can tell you that the american/israelis public affairs committee here in the united states, very powerful pro-israel lobbying group is being very proactive about trying to get members of congress who are undecided to vote for this. i talked to several of them who said t...

>> do you support the resolution? >> i do -- >> let me ask you this. heres the problem. the president is trying to square a circle here. he wants to keep the progressives with them that are skeptical of the involvement in the middle east. at the same time he wants to bring in mccain and win the support of apac and neocons. then we have this language -- now, may be refined in the process of being refined, but basically enough to get the mccain crowd to support this resolution out of the senate fo...

Man, syria, we have to show assad. it is what are we doing there? going to another war? >> i agree with chris. the dynamics inside each caucus is going to be interesting. you have people on each side suddenly want to do less. some that want to do more. i will say this. i would much rather have nancy pelosi, her on my side in this vote than i would john boehner. i think nancy pelosi has the ability to bring people with her. john boehner doesnt have a huge impact on about 90 members of the caucus ...

The gulf countries, uae and and saudi arabia in particular will do some things the. but where is the arab league in all this? >> they have said the assad regime should be held responsible, but stop short of saying there should be a military strike. now the obama administration is declaring that a victory. but theres a lot of constraints within different arab systems and societies about u.s. intervention. a year ago or two years ago, it might have been a very different case at the beginning. but ...