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>> but not right away. the president would first ask congress. the next day, sunday, the administration begins to make its case, that the regime ordered a gas attack, and on monday the president makes his pitch to mccain, and he sounds supportive. >> we have to bring assad down. >> and then house leaders talk about a strike. >> were not going to tolerate this type of behavior. >> he crossed a line kwraougz chemical weapons. >> but when the officials face a senate panel there is a mixture of supp...

Success. >> the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets. >> but not right away. the president would first ask congress. sunday, the administration begins to make its case that the syrian regime launched a poisoned gas attack and that its in americas interest to respond. monday, the president makes a pitch the senator mccain. mccain sounds supportive. >> we have to bring bashar al assad down. >> then on tuesday at a white house meeting, the president presses top la...

Mounting these attacks on their own people in their own country. in addition to his current work for amnesty international, hes a former policy adviser for democrats on the senate relations committee. thanks very much for being with us tonight. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. good evening. >> how much room do you see as a former policy staffer in this field and as an advocate with amnesty, how much room to you see between military force and nothing? are there other meaningful choices for interv...

Good evening. >> how much room do you see as a former policy staffer in this field and as an advocate with amnesty, how much room to you see between military force and nothing? are there other meaningful choices for intervening in syria that arent military action? >> there are important options that are available both to address the humanitarian crisis which is truly staggering in its scale. its a third of the syrian population thats been displaced, as if 100 million americans had been driven fr...

>> who is it the opposition, stewart. >> are you walking away from principle? >> excuse me. 30 months ago, when there was a more secular proamerican opposition force there, we could have done something positive. that moment came and left. now, the most likely successor as i predicted in egypt. in this case, its radical islamists with al qaeda connections. you want to help those guys out here? i do not. >> i do not. but you cannot walk away from principle. its in americas interest to do something...

Ended up killing a lot of iraqis -- rather al qaeda in iraq. here this is going to give al qaeda the upper hand here. we have gone through decades, absolute proof that saddam hussein had used mustard gas, sarin gas, vx gas against his own people more than ten times, 50 times more than assad has used. what is our proof here by the way, they wont be able to tell us -- >> the bbc did publish a photo -- well show it to you, and its hard to watch for those of you at home. rows of dead children saying...

Iraqis -- rather al qaeda in iraq. here this is going to give al qaeda the upper hand here. we have gone through decades, absolute proof that saddam hussein had used mustard gas, sarin gas, vx gas against his own people more than ten times, 50 times more than assad has used. what is our proof here by the way, they wont be able to tell us -- >> the bbc did publish a photo -- well show it to you, and its hard to watch for those of you at home. rows of dead children saying, this was the syrian chem...

To launch another chemical attack. i have a few of them, then ill stop. will the region be more stable or less stable? we all want stability in the middle east, and thats a national interest for our country. will it be more stable, less stable? i think there are equal arguments on both sides. will israel be more likely to suffer attack on them, gas attack or otherwise or less likely? theres valid argument to say theyll suffer in attack. will russia be more likely, less likely to supply more arms...

Senator, is it more or less likely that assad does it again? you wa been to answer that question? >> i dont think its no. >> is it more or less likely that he does it again? >> i think its unknown whether you have the attack. >> senator, its not unknown. if the united states of america doesnt hold him accountable on this with our allies and friends, it is a guarantee assad will do it again. a guarantee. >> you looked a little skeptical there. how do you feel now? did secretary kerry win you over...

Nancy pelosi spoke about her 5-year-old grandson. i have a 9-year-old who asked if they have table tv in syria so they know what were going to do. it should be wider rather than narrow. jon: you are on the intelligence committee. how confident are you of the intelligence assessments or how confident should the president be? the french apparently are saying that the gas attack killed maybe in the low hundreds of people, not more than 1,000. she just said 1400. >> 1400 is the official number theyr...