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President seems to say that even if congress says no to him that he has the authority to do it anyway. >> which i believe he does. if you look at successor presidents -- >> that can be debated. thats -- a lot of people have a very different view of that, whether the president has authority. but in light of the fact that if our military service does limited strike, sends off 150 cruise missiles, 24 hours goes by, what do we have? >> well, that i think is the question. i think the president used t...

Up winning this civil war. and then you factor in the religious connotation in this civil war and you really do have a real problem. we do have a real problem on our hands. my concern is now specifically we want to do something to punish mr. bad guy assad. no question about it. hes a bad guy. hes wasted good air breathing. were not going to shoot him. were going to shoot a shell over the bow. were not going to take him out because we dont want to destabilize the civil war going on between two di...

John mccain go that route? >> reporter: they knew he was concerned in one direction here that the president is being squeezed as you say. on one hand he has antiwar democrats from the left saying, why are we intervening at all? then you have folks like john mccain, saying intervene but dont make this a symbolic strike a shot across the bow as the president said last week. decimate assads military. the presidents team fanning out on hill. you saw secretary of state kerry and defense secretary hag...

>> here with us ralph peters and general thomas mcinerney. do either one of you agree with whats going on here. do you think this is a good idea? >> no. >> why? >> for many reasons, one, i still do not see the vital u.s. national interest in this. and two, theres no sign of a serious strategic plan with a clear goal, allocation or means to get there. a cost benefit analysis. and most important of all, sean, the lesson we should have taken from staying in afghanistan, baghdad, libya, is that you ...

Had not been done since hussein had done it in iraq. and thats the difference. thats what he talked about. his red line was about using chemical weapons and thats what he was doing. let me ask you this, i understand the resolution they sent to the hill has been changed now by members of the congress. do you have any idea what the change until the resolution is? >> sure. some of the changes as i understand it and talking to democratic sources on the hill is they felt on the democratic side that i...

That would guarantee the following outcome and embolden assad and iran, increased instability in the country because portions of the countries will still be ungoverned and send a message to the world there is no red line they should fear crossing. iran will move forward toward nuclear weapons. north korea can act crazier. our allies may start to doubt their security arrangements with us. israel may decide it needs to strike iran unilarly. iran will move towards the bomb which will be a turkey bo...

Difference is this is chemical weapons which was not done since hussein did it in iraq. thats the difference. he talked about the red line. it was about using chemical weapons. thats what he was doing. let me ask you this. i understand the resolution they sent to the hill has been changed now by members of congress. pat leahy in particular. do you have any idea what the change is? >> sure. some of the changes as i understand it in talking to sources on the hill, is they felt on the democratic si...

Had not been done since hussein had done it in iraq. and thats the difference. thats what he talked about. his red line was about using chemical weapons and thats what he was doing. let me ask you this, i understand the resolution they sent to the hill has been changed now by members of the congress. do you have any idea what the change until the resolution is? >> sure. some of the changes as i understand it and talking to democratic sources on the hill is they felt on the democratic side that i...

We want to vote for this because it doesnt go far enough, its too little, too late, not going to be effective. they came out of the meeting say, you heard john mccain saying it would be devastating if congress voted no and also say we see the beginnings of a strategy to degrade bashar al assads strategies, to upgrade the situation and if the president goes out there and ups his game and explains why syria matters, why this is also about iran and about israel, if he explains that to the american ...

Incidentally, the fact that he has waited now and gone to congress, in my opinion, has given the syrians the right to disburse their assets and require him now, not just to take a shot across the bow, but hit the bow and to hit the bow where the leadership of syria is which ordered the chemical weapons attacks that we have evidence killed 1,500 people and 426 children. i will do everything i can, including my amigos. dont let them fail. >> does a limited strike after a delay serve a useful purpo...