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Spokesman in the obama administration, co-founder of fenway strategies. he was back in the white house today to help the president win support for intervention in syria. ben dominic, at think tank the heartland institute. he co-founded "red state" a conservative blog. eli lake, senior national security reporter from "newsweek" and the "daily beast." explain this to me. i found the moment in the hearing today that was most interesting was several senators saying, if you think you have the authori...

Showing public support. in other words, as the idea of military action against syria has become less abstract, the public seems to be less supportive. it is also notable that today in a press conference in new york, the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon essentially said a u.s. strike under these circumstances without u.n. approval would be illegal. >> the use of force is lawful only when an exercise of self-defense in accordance with article 51 of the united nations charter and/or when the secu...

The opportunity to try to reassure a wary public. >> military plan that has been developed by our joint chiefs and that i believe is appropriate is proportional. it is limited. it does not involve boots on the ground. this is not iraq, and this is not afghanistan. >> immediately after that private meeting, house speaker john boehner and democratic leader nancy pelosi were quick to announce their support of war authorization. >> the use of these weapons had to be responded to, and only the united...

Keep obsessing on it in private meetings. you have to imagine he was kind of seeing all of this through a personal lens. and this was all happening while there were protests exploding -- >> of course now were in the situation with syria. russia has quite famously blocked any u.n. security council action. even the most basic condemning of the human rights, you know, violations of the regime. very basic stuff. theres an anecdote in bakers story in which the firm time that the presidents national s...

>> the president said on saturday he would go to congress to decide whether to execute a punitive strike against syria. he immediately stepped into uncharted territory. space where liberal and conservative lawmakers will line up on the same side in the normally divided house of representatives. its already apparent a congressional vote on whether to strike syria will scramble traditional alliances in the house. one of the first hints of this came last week when 186 lawmakers including 50 democra...

At that time to take that action seriously. we failed eed on that effort. its not that it wasnt noted and it wasnt that there werent voices urging action at that time. >> empb in the absence of that action, my point being, as a historical matter, in the absence of that action, it was not the case that failure to act in a punitive way after that opened the flood gates on the use of chemical weapons. >> very little attention was brought to it at the time. thats not the case here. the whole world i...

President to have the authority hes seeking and codify what the president, himself, said is limited in terms of this action. it isnt designed to be an all-comprehensive approach to syria or the syrian crisis. its designed to address this tragic event with this remedy on a limited basis. >> congressman gerry connolly, democrat from virginia. >> thank you, chris, for having me. >> joining me, director of the middle east studies program at george mason university. hes a scholar who specializes in s...

Argument. the debate right now centers around the idea that taking action is less risky than not taking action. this way of framing the debate is actually extremely problematic and off.ways, firsts eliminates the possibility that there is another action. it absolves the u.s. from taking another action or another choice because the debate is being framed as action versus inaction. no, there is another course of action, and that is as we have been listening to many people saying, ive been saying s...

House. one of the first hints of this came last week when 186 lawmakers including 50 democrats signed letters calling for the president to seek authorization for any military action. what were seeing this week is a sharper bifurcation within both political parties. house speaker john boehner said today he would back the president on a congressional vote to authorize a strike against syria. so did congressman elliot engel, top democrat on the house foreign affairs committee who said if we didnt r...