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Indeed, id ask every member of congress and those of you watching at home tonight to view those videos of the attack and then ask, what kind of world will we live in if the united states of america sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas and we choose to look the other way? >> president obamas glum message to members of congress tonight. i want to go back to washington now where wolf blitzer is with senator rand paul, one of the toughest critics of president obamas syr...

Friedman said if he lands at any airport, big guys when you get them outside of syria, grab them. do you think that would work? >> do it all. do it all. but dont go to war until were ready to state our objectives up front. put pressure on the russians to get the weapons back that they gave them. cut a deal with putin. use that. we need to be smarter here. we have all of these things left to do before we have to use military action. i think petraeus is selling him himself and us short if were not...

13 nations, is quickly becoming the vehicle of choice, if you will, for international consensus to act in syria and hold the assad regime accountable for the use of chemical weapons. >> all right. elise, labott, thanks for joining us from london. >> president obama is getting ready to make a major pitch to congress and the american people why the u.s. congress should make attacks on syria. tomorrow, he will give interviews to six television networks including our own wolf blitzer and tomorrow he...

Friedman said if he lands at any airport, big guys when you get them outside of syria, grab them. do you think that would work? >> do it all. do it all. but dont go to war until were ready to state our objectives up front. put pressure on the russians to get the weapons back that they gave them. cut a deal with putin. use that. we need to be smarter here. we have all of these things left to do before we have to use military action. i think petraeus is selling him himself and us short if were not...

Multiple reports whether assads regime or syrian leaders claiming credit for the gas attacks as well. were talking about sending our men and women over there and adding that to the attacks, it bears some hesitancy. >> a no-win situation all tl way around. whether we go or dont go, this one is very difficult. dana, thank you. >> thanks, greta. coming up, what is obama care costing american workers. the vice president of white castle says obama care is hurting his business. also rush limbaugh li...

Said, that we will strike. that a strike will happen. and that he wants their authorization. a lot of people question why he would do done it in that order. here is john boehner for his meeting at the white house as well. given the circumstances do you think the congress members will not give him that authorization? >> i think it is absolutely possible that congress will not and theres a reason for it. as horrific as these gas attacks were, the president got way out of front of something he coul...

Think ron paul is right or do you think president obama is right? >> well, let me just say this, it is clear to me after being briefed that gas attacks took place and as the assad regime was responsible. what do we do now? i have every faith the administration was honest and forthright about this process. this is an extraordinarily messy sectarian struggle. it is not exactly clear to me at this point that our involvement will help the situation and perhaps not create unintended consequences. i t...

Show us. >> the most important thing right away is to take out the air fields here represented by red airplanes. there are a number of significant airfields and they are the first targets for any attack. to the extent there are planes on the ground, theyll go as well. here we have represented a couple of brigades of the fourth armored division commanded by bashar al assads brother in which we think is probably the source of the gas attacks on the civilians. the latest gas attacks which killed al...

About their work to try to collect -- to verify and further independent the samples they collected. and the samples were hair, blood, urine, some items that were gathered at the sites of these alleged chemical weapons attacks that now the u.s. says absolutely took place and killed more than 1,400 people on august 21st. the u.n. mission already, by the way, has hinted that there were poisoned gas attacks. it looks likely a poison gas was used. inspectors havent come out with definitive findings y...

Action, 58% said yes, 35% said no. in the media last week, the media was facing questions of how they would react to the striking images of gas attacks on victims, to the same voices of being skeptical on taking military action. michael, it really is interesting here. it seems like the president has faced three stages in the media coverage since the incident in syria allegedly happened. the first stage was look at these horrible pictures. doesnt the u.s. have to respond right away? the second st...