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History, and quite frankly in world history. >> but just trying to -- the benefit of the doubt. you cant blame the leadership. they feel that iraq -- we got rushed into it. you can say that everybody had the same information, no one doctored anything. but in retrospeck the search for weapons of mass destruction, even though we knew in the past saddam hussein used chemical weapons, that reading for getting involved in war was wrong. your saying the world doesnt understand our hesitancy. >> well, ...

Region of the world. i think we have to be very cautious and understand completely what all of the possible implications are of military action and particularly if its not in concert with other nations around the world and to think what message that sends to the world as well. so i think this is a hard question. there is no easy answer but we -- i applaud the president for proceeding with caution for engaging with congress, for consultation and look forward to the hearing tomorrow to have more q...

Question about military action, half are against it. 42% support an attack. when the scope was limited to just cruise missiles launched from warships, those numbers were flipped. 50% would support that action. 44% would be opposed. joining me, nbc news senior political editor mark murray. lets walk through this a little bit more. weve seen a resistant in the wake of iraq and afghanistan, of the american public, to involve our country in other conflicts. explain the difference between the basic o...

Editor-at-large jonah goldberg telling bret baier that the presidents hesitancy says a lot. >> this is the most reluctant war i think weve ever seen a president get us into, whether it is, you know, a sustained war or military action, he clearly does not want to do this. alisyn: and walter pincus writing today in "the washington post" that syria is a no-win situation for the president. he says, quote, already critics have lined up. they say whatever military response he authorizes will expand th...

>> neil: the speaker and mitch mcconnell that could change. what do you think of that? >> one thing i would say is interesting and my hesitancy to think they well have the exact same success as 2010, we havent he a ton in terms of the primary races from the big elected officials, tea party representatives like senator cruz and senator paul, and you publish -- >> neil: too early. >> senator paul said he did not have any intention to get involved in the south carolina primary which is a big race. ...

Calculation, part of the hesitancy that this white house has is because of those. in addition to, you know, deciphering or figuring out how this reshifts in the entire regional power system. iran has made a bunch of threats to the united states if we were to put any pressure on the assad regime. so its not so simple as to say, if we put in a few cruise missiles and get rid of assad were fine because theres a whole host of contingencies there and the other thing we need to consider, how much is t...

Cost, would force more of an enthusiastic reaction now from the united states. all right, were ready to be all in. the president very deliberative and we played out those sections long to show where his process is. whats your read into that, why its not just about jumping in what the latest is? >> capital h hesitant and capital c cautious when it comes to egypt and syria. weve talked about this before, there are no good options and the presidents quite clear in saying that. what does he do when ...

Next chapter or day looks like. so very cautious and you can see the hesitancy, the pause in his eyes. >> the president said he knows the relationship with egypt is not going to go back to business as usual, is he as you said not clear what the next step for the u.s. is in involvement in both situations. he talks about at the same time the time frame narrowing and when something needs to be decided. how do those two things go hand in hand? is he just troying to be koi an not going to tell us wha...

Leverage do we really have here. what can the united states do. i think david hit all of the hot-button issues on what is at stake for the egyptian people but also for the region. >> the big question, too, for this administration is, and i think david brought this point up as well, which is, you know, america has learned and doesnt seem to have the stomach for, trying to force its will on countries that dont want to do it themselves. >> absolutely. i think that one of the reasons for the hesitan...

Now, juan is going to lose the argument in the court public opinion and is he going to lose the argument legally, i believe. i dont think -- i think there is going to be a special prosecutor appointed. do you agree with that? >> well, i dont know if it will be a special prosecutor. i think there is a hesitancy, certainly on his part, holders part to take that step, because, once you do that you have basically said to the world this is big, this is different, and im not capable of handling it and...