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Supporting the presidents effort has a photograph thats riveted this my mind as a father and grandfather of the children on the floor in shrouds, victims of this chemical agent and gas attack. what the administration is asking for is military authority to launch additional attacks. what have you been charged with in terms of the issue of collateral damage, from those attacks, as it would effect innocent people and civilians in the nation of syria? >> senator, the guidance that weve received on t...

Then ill stop. will the region be more stable or less stable? we all stay we want stability in the middle east and its a national interest for our country. will it be more stable or less stable? i frankly think there are equal arguments on both sides of that. will israel be more likely to suffer an attack on them, a gas attack or otherwise or less likely? i think theres a valid argument for saying theyll be more likely to suffer an attack if we do this. will russia be more or less likely to supp...

And worked hard over the past 48 hours or so to fall lock step with the president. >> what does the united states -- what does the president need to clearly state to fortify the united states credibility abroad at this moment you believe? >> richard, i think the president needs to do -- not just the fact we have the proof of the actual gas attack but theres unequivocal proof that convinces lawmakers, as well as international parties, that assad himself or his commanders ordered this attack. numb...

This is what membership is. this is what membership does. all right. bottom of the hour now. welcome back. im fredericka whitfield. five things on the cnn news desk right now. the arab states according to reuters news service is reporting that the arab states are now calling on the international community to take action against the syrian government over that chemical gas attack that president obama says killed hundreds of civilians. the arab league, foreign ministers also saying that those re...

Detailed, the associated press had a story where they used slam dunk where they had anonymous intelligence officials telling them that assads inner circle having ordered the alleged chemical weapons attack was not a slam dunk. so the aps skepticism was quite clear but they were arguing against the case the administration wasnt making, which was that syrian forces did it. it doesnt matter if assad ordered it or not. >> but the enabling that i think happens with especially cable tv, media, and the...

And this information just in. according to reuters news service, the arab league is now calling for the u.n. and international measures, no further response coming from the u.n. or any other countries, but this information were just now getting from reuters that arab league is calling for u.n. and international measures against syria over that gas attack or the series of gas attacks that have now been proven by the weapons inspectors who are just now returning from that country. all right. wel...

Questions that people have been asking since the presidents statement is this, what would a delay mean for assad and syria? might he take advantage of it and how would the u.s. be willing to respond to that? >> well, weve been talking to sources here at the pentagon about just that question, john. not a lot of good answers just yet. one that senior official who has been very involved in all of this say i want to quote here, says if the syrian regime thinks they will gain by any delay, they will ...

Certain, that the facts on the ground will justify the response. >> the american intelligence community has high confidence, high confidence. this is common sense. this is evidence. these are facts. so the primary question is really no longer what do we know? the question is what are we, we collectively, what are we in the world going to do about snit. >> as the intelligence, the white house put out a summery including a death toll from last weeks gas attack outside damascus. 1449 killed. they p...

>> and if you didnt know whether or not a gas attack in the next couple of hours would lead to horrific death of you and your own children. richard engel, thank you very much. thanks for being with us. and coming up next, we will go inside syria for the reaction of the regime in damascus. stay with us. t you like you

Jon: fox news alert. all eyes are on washington and particularly the state department right now as we await secretary of state john kerry who is expected to step up to the bank of microphones there and talk a little bit what we know about the gas attack in syria, whether it came from government forces or not. of course, the syrian situation is consuming washington right now, especially, in the wake of the vote in britain. great britain has decided not to use military force in response to that ga...