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Of that decision-making process. rachel, i remember the debate we had on going into iraq. i voted against going into iraq. there the justification was whether iraq was involved in the attack on our country on 9/11 and we were talking about using ground troops. here were talking about no ground troops and talking about preventing the use of chemical weapons. its a different debate than we had in iraq. a lot of my constituents are calling saying this is another iraq. i dont think thats the case. >...

Ball in foreign policy and he seems to fumble it whether it is the draw down in iraq or afghanistan with the surge and libya or egypt. people are saying we seem to have a problem with understanding what is to be the goal and how we are to approach these. i think the president didnt want the responsibility on his shoulders so therefore in what he decided to do -- >> put it on congress. john mccain said a no vote from congress would damage the office of the presidency and it would be catastrophic....

Weapons must never again be used against the words most vulnerable people. >> at the pentagon, relief given about the level of indi decision coming from the white house. >> i think all of my contacts in the pentagon, that they are breathing a huge sigh of relief. they are still incredulous about the decision making process. but i think theyre all relieved that we backed off a little bit and are taking a more strategic, rather than a tactical look at striking syria. >> in the wake of the presiden...

Pointing to the presidents speech yesterday as a validation of sorts of the prime ministers own decision-making process, the decision, of course, to take the vote to parliament regarding potential military intervention in syria, a vote that was shocking to many a shocking defeat. members of his own party calling it a botched rushed job. the vote also calls into question the special relationship between the united kingdom and the united states. fears that the president put to rest yesterday in hi...

Question, melissa, the decision-making process here at the white house, were learning more about that. senior administration officials say president obama was sort of internally torn about this all week as you know back in 2007 when he was a candidate. he said that he believed that congress needed to authorize military action unless the united states was being directly threatened. so those words sort of haunting him to some extent. by all accounts it seemed as though this white house was moving ...

George mason university, a big thanks to awful you for sticking around. i want to get to some of the conversation we are talking about in just a second. p.j., the president working the phones, and makes the announ announcement and then goes out for golf, and that strikes me as odd. >> i am a golfer, so i can appreciate a nice day on the golf course. i think the white house has a challenging message here, and there is no forced error throughout the week in terms of allowing the rhetoric to get ah...

Flee into border lebanon. some residents fear a possible u.s. strike could be imminent. > were waiting to hear from the president in a quarter hour or so. lets go to kristen welker. what do you expect to hear? >> reporter: we expect to hear president obama update the american people on where he is in his decision making process about how to proceed in syria. i dont expect for him to map out his military plan for operations. having said that, president obama, secretary of state generjohn kerry we...

Coming in to nbc news fast and furious, but the news from the white house that in about 45 minutes, the president will take to the rose garden to make a statement on his decision-making process, whether he has come to a decision. we will find out in 45 short minutes. keep it here on msnbc. nascar is ab.out excitement but tracking all the action and hearing everything from our marketing partners, the media and millions of fans on social media

Of what we just heard from the president, ivan. >> reporter: well, i am getting some turkish reaction. one turkish official texting me, actually, and saying that calling this a firm expression of u.s. determination to act, and very much in line with what secretary of state kerry said yesterday about syria, and that the turkish government appreciates that, that turkey really isnt in a position to comment on the interior decision-making process in the u.s. and that turkey will continue to stay in ...

Decision-making process when it comes to taking military action, so the president made this decision here, and people are already start to go ask ting to question, what about libya? libya was a different situation, senior officials say, and that came up in the briefing. theyre saying in the situation with libya, there was a big humanitarian need, an immediate ne need, that rebel positions and towns where the rebel positions were being held were at risk of being wiped out. so time was of the esse...