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Intervention of libya and spent time complaining, while president dmitry medvedevs decision to go along with this. theres also some population interplay between sere wyria an russia and putin has the sochi olympics coming up fast in 2014 as we get into the new year, the winter olympics in the southern part of russia and there are populations of peoples from that region who are expelled from the russian empire into the ottoman impeer into what is now syria, 150 years ago and theres been lots of t...

Moran for virginia who sees intervention right now in syria as necessary. in a system from jim moran, he says president obama was absolutely right in setting a red line against the use of weapons of mass destruction by bashar al assad. the united states has the only true ability to prevent the use and proliferation of such weapons. well, congressman charlie rangel and jim moran both join us, very different views. mr. rangel, if this goes down, if the president of the united states suffer whats t...

Charles de gaulle did in the 60s and late 50s? he wanted to make life difficult. that was the gaullest strategy. be difficult. is there a part that doesnt want to be friendly to obama, simply as that? >> absolutely. this plays extremely well at home. the whole story about sending out delegations of the russian doom and the russian parliament to meet with members of congress, this is just a piece . it plays well for the domestic audience who enjoy -- >> you know what they have now? enough money t...

Slow down the recovery. >> its says wall street only likes money, doesnt like anything that could disrupt that. is it your sense that syria could disrupt that a lot more than the administration is letting on? >> it could. if you ask me the worst worst-ce scenario this conflict spills over into iran, spills over into iraq, and oil instead of going maybe to 125, goes to 150 because the speculators all of a sudden come in and sky we dont know whats going to health dont want to be short oil week goi...

To make one party carry the war load when it doesnt believe it. >> right. >> peter, last word. why would a party want to carry the load of a war it doesnt believe in? >> i think its a principled decision for president obama. i think he thinks its good for american democracy to give congress this choice, but i think its also a very, very risky decision. >> i think this is a third election. i think its a tough one. thank you. coming up, dont be surprised if president obama needs democrats, lots of...

When i joined other voices on the committee and the senate and beyond, that advocated that at that time when assad was on the ropes the united states should identify moderate elements and equip them so they became the predominant rebel fort in -- force in syria. that didnt happen. the choice was made to lead from behind to watch as these thing up foldful. others advocated we should mind our own business and what were seeing now here is a proof that when america ignores these problems, they dont ...

That was of course president obama earlier today moments before addressing members of congress in a closed door meeting on syria. while congress has spent much of its time battling the presidents agenda, they now face the ultimate decision of involving the united states in a war. not surprisingly, there are divisions, infighting and political land mines everywhere you turn. while the president has typically enjoyed a unified caucus of democrats to support his agenda, he facing a daunting that mi...

Strike, but only one. for example, you have people, respected republicans like mccain and lindsey graham out there getting the president sort of tied in today with the idea, well, well support you, they said on sunday, but this means you got to help was the rebels too. in other words, its like chinese handcuffs. the president says ill do this. next thing he is committing himself to helping the rebels more than he is. isnt he being dragged into the war by the hawks, by supporting them? >> both pr...

In place can remain in place and when you ask us to strike, we will make those strikes effective. in other sessions in the principles committee, not with the president, the president we talked about some targets being more accessible than before, but to your question, there are in fact -- >> were trying to get a take on why the wait and delay is helping the cause to eventually attack or go after president assad. rebecca, i would imagine also strengthens a legal case, then they would have waited ...

Haha, thats a good one! haha! [ male announcer ] campbells chunky soup. it fills you up right. well, the situation in syria is not just a political and military crisis, its a growing human tragedy as well. catch this. the u.n. reports the number of syrians forced to seek shelter outside the country since the war began in march of 2011 has just passed the two million person mark. and that was today. two million people displaced. almost all the refugees have gone to neighboring countries -- leba...