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>> thank you very much. before we get to beirut, lets find out where the senate and house stand on u.s. air strikes in syria. im joineded by senator bernie sanders. thank you for joining me. >> my pleasure. >> you released a statement last wednesday expressing serious reservations about air strikes if syria. has your opinion changed at all since then? >> no. the call that are coming into my office are overwhelmingly against getting involved in a bloody and complicated civil war in syria. the ame...

Of war. little wars start big wars and we have to remember that. >> we have all angles of the story covered for you with nbcs peter alexander at the time white house and were in beirut, lebanon. well start with the latest from the white house. peter, whats the reaction your hearing from the new assad interview? >> we reached out to the white house a short time ago and we got a response from the spokesperson with the national security council here who says -- it doesnt surprise us that someone wh...

A lot of those in this country reflecting similar sectarian lines that exist inside syria. some support al assad and others against him. the concern is that if theres a military strike the violence in this country can explode as a result. this country has seen -- lebanon has seen car bombs, assassinations, many of them link and blamed on the conflict just across the border. and thats why youre seeing these types of spontaneous protests. many of them against either u.s. embassies like we saw on f...