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Hes spoken to david cameron and hollande. the french will now be supportive. i think the president is still trying to gain public confidence. >> how much do you think the president when he takes to this podium is speaking to the world and not just the american people? >> reporter: absolutely both. you saw president putin, hes now trying to cast doubt. he said its a joke. theres no way that the assad regime would do this. they already had the upper hand. why would they do this? the president want...

New york, john geramendi from california, both of whom echoed the sentiments, which are the president needs to further consult congress and get congresss approval prior to launching any sort launching any sort of strategical attack. how do you feel about that if the president goes forward without that congressional approval? >> i have great respect for both colleagues. theyre both good friends of mine. i respectfully disagree with them. i think the war powers act gives the president the ability ...

Four to five ships in the mediterranean after congress says go ahead? i mean, the entire big picture whats happening here potentially, are you more comfortable with that if congress says go? >> certainly. thats the constitutional responsibility of the 535 members of congress, senate and house, that have that constitutional responsibility to declare war. and in fact, this is an act of war. we have done this in the past. it was done after 9/11 with the authorization use of force, it has been ignor...

Well be right back and take you to the president and his statement in the rose garden in about 20 minutes. come on back. ♪

With conversations from the very, very beginning, and tomorrow, there is a classified briefing at the capitol in washington to tell us some more information. so im very comfortable with the fact that the administration has been having robust discussions with members of congress and the senate, and i look forward to having more of those. >> with regard to that meeting that is scheduled for tomorrow on capitol hill that youre mentioning, is there a chance that that meeting could come after the fac...

Some point, if he feels he needs to use whatever weapons at his disposal to stay where he is, hell come back to this again which then makes the consultation with congress tomorrow vitally important because this is a characterized as a limited action given the response to the attack, chemical attack, but this is probably not going to be the last act. so if theres going to be the need for follow-on action, whether thats political or military, the sooner the president gets congress on board with so...

The administration does not deter assad from using chemical weapons then the president has an extraordinarily difficult decision to make. does he go back again. does he use more lethal force? what is the credibility factor of the united states if were looked upon as a paper tiger that has these naval assets and were unable to stop assad from killing all these people? >> what does the united states do if we what believe we may be undertaking is not successful. do we go in with a stronger strike? ...

Of the sabbath. israeli soldiers were not to take their home leave for the weekend. theyve been asked to stay on guard and be prepared just in case. alex. >> okay. thank you for that. were getting new reaction from one of syrias closest allies. russian president is responding to these comments by john kerry. >> because of the guaranteed russian obstructionism and action through the u.n. security council, u.n. cannot galvanize the world to act as it should. im. >> im curious if president putin ...

Staff is here, defense secretary chuck hagel is here, dempsey is here, so all the players sort of assembled as we have been reporting, they are going to hold a conference call with senators a little bit later on today. still, it is significant that president obama is going to make a statement about syria. we will be listening very closely. alex? >> just reading the tea leaves, kristen, given your experience covering the white house, does this indicate to you the president has made up his mind? h...

Flee into border lebanon. some residents fear a possible u.s. strike could be imminent. > were waiting to hear from the president in a quarter hour or so. lets go to kristen welker. what do you expect to hear? >> reporter: we expect to hear president obama update the american people on where he is in his decision making process about how to proceed in syria. i dont expect for him to map out his military plan for operations. having said that, president obama, secretary of state generjohn kerry we...