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Congress doesnt vote for this very limited request the president has put before you. iran is hoping you look the other way. our enact would surely give them a permission slip for them to at least misinterpret our intention, if not to put it to the test, hezbollah is hoping that isolationism will prevail. north korea is hoping that ambivalence carries the day. theyre all listening for our silence. and if we dont answer assad today, we will erode a standard that has existed for those hundred years...

Tentative support they got from the key republican senators yesterday, lindsay graham and john mccain, they feel this extraordinary level of outreach that that i have seen from president obama and his administration that it is working. its still unclear whether the votes are where they need to be at this point. theres still a lot of winning over to do and the white house says that they realize that. officials say that the president is prepared to be engaged in this as he heads overseas and heads...

I think whats interesting though is they failed to realize thousand they brought this on themselves. it couldnt be clearer that neither president obama nor prime minister cameron or international community wanted to intervene in syria. for two and a half years they have not. it is the syrian regime with the accusations and most people believe is their use of chemical weapons that has brought the international community to this point where we are right now, wolf. >> very, very sensitive moment, n...

Only the most willful desire to avoid reality can assert that this did not occur as described or that the regime did not do it. it did happen and the assad regime did it. i remember iraq. secretary hagel remembers iraq. general dempsey especially remembers iraq but secretary hagel and i and many of you sitting remember iraq in the special way because we were here for that vote. we voted. and so we are especially sensitive, chuck and i, to never again asking any member of congress to take a vote ...

Dont mean, sometimes, we dont mean somewhere. never means never. so this is a vote for accountability. norms and laws that keep the civilized world civil mean nothing if they are not enforced. as justice jackson said in his opening argument at the nur berg trials, to make statesman responsible to the law. if the worlds worst des pits see they can go without prohibitions against the worlds worst weapons then those prohibitions are pieces of paper. that is what we mean by accountability and what w...

>>ton i dont know. what im wondering is why does it take 1,400 days for the democrat to pass a budget in the senate? if your job, you get elected, people give you a job. its your job to go to washington and come up with a budget and get the government working and continue to work. 1,400 days is a long time to go without working. >> youre old-fashioned. they havent found it politically necessary and despite pressure some from commentators to come up with one and they have a big problem. we talk a...

Thats the way it is in our state. its a pretty -- its a tough issue for people in our state. but i think for me the criticism or the impact of that criticism will come over time. >> you assumed the governorship after having been district attorney in philadelphia and mayor of philadelphia. on any given weekend you could see three to five homicide. >> true. second highest nra of any state in the union is pennsylvania. but bob took a lot of courage and he did it for the right reason and not hurt hi...

Of it where he can support it with some others who are in both parties to try to be on the side of doing something they think will make things better but also very clearly mark pryor says cant do an assault weapons ban isnt supporting of weapons, ammuniti ammunition limitations. you have the same democrats we are talking about who voted against the budget the other night. they are really at the center of these issues which will divide not only the race going forward but some of these big social ...

Mike bloomberg optimistic about the vote during an appearance on "meet the press." >> we are going to have a vote, for sure, on assault weapons and we are going to have a vote on background checks and if we were to get background checks only, it wouldnt be as good as if we got both, but look. we demanded a plan and then we demanded a vote. we have got the plan and we are going to get the vote. >> the mayor announced a new $12 million ad campaign that will challenge senators in 13 states from ari...

Chicago alone, if we cant do it at this moment, there is a real sense that it wont be done. so it seized the time right now and get as much done in terms of gun control and many of us have been ab vo indicating for years right now while the attention is there and you have such overwhelming public support. the only thing that i would hasten to add to what was said, i would want senator reid to be very careful on the changing demographics in some of those states. we learned from last years electio...