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Something and i dont think that the drones were accomplishing anything. i know you love the drone war. >> i dont love any war but i understand that its degraded al qaeda to the extent that they may not be able to kill you, powers. >> its created more terrorists actually. >> bill: thats your opinion. >> its the opinion of many military leaders, many international experts. >> yeah, okay. so we dont use drones against al qaeda and we just let them build their power and sanctuaries that makes a lot ...

By the syrian government in the conflict in syria and two, deter syrias use of such weapons in order to protect the military security of the interests of the united states and protect our allies and three, degrade syrias capacity to use such weapons in the future. are you going to vote in favor or against the resolution? >> that text is only a few minutes old, so i think ill take the evening and morning to review it. as you heard in that chapin x change with secretary kerry, im a skeptic this is...

Limited action to deal with syrias actions, and to degrade their ability to do so, no boots on the ground. thats what this is, its not iraq, its not afghanistan. not even libya. its understandable that peoples immediate reaction is concern this would somehow lead to war. it would not. i believe as people understand that, theyll understand the imperative of enforcing this norm and responding. i cant tell you exactly what the president will do. i can tell you he will be speaking to this both with ...

Need s to connect the dots and explain what the attack will be? >> sure. >> and what it will not be? >> i think you have to do two things. they are playing an inside game trying to convince congress. no doubt they had a good day yesterday with the leadership in the house of both the democratic and republican side which is tremendously important. i think as they play the inside game it is imperative for them to play an outside game. not simply to explain why this strike will be limited, to reiter...

Order to protect the military security of the interests of the united states and protect our allies and three, degrade syrias capacity to use such weapons in the future. are you going to vote in favor or against the resolution? >> that text is only a few minutes old, so i think ill take the evening and morning to review it. as you heard in that sharp exchange with secretary kerry, im a skeptic this is the right way to go. i think secretary kerry made a strong case we have probably a national sec...

Think a filibuster and they need to clear the bench at 60? >> senator rand paul hasnt ruled out a filibuster. its up to the senate par men tearian how many votes are needed for this resolution. as far as getting to where they need to be in the senate and the house to go back to what chuck was saying about depersonalizing this from the president, i would say there are some lawmakers up here who are urging him to, in fact, personalize it. house democrats in some ways have the opposite imperative a...

>> congressman, do you they this the united states has a moral imperative here? >> look, it took 18 years to old saddam hussein accountable for his use of chemical weapons. the moral imperative may take longer than a weekend to play out. heres the problem, jake. i dont see how youve made anything any different with a strike thats been proposed. what will make a difference is if you enforce regime change in syria. apparently thats not an option. boots on the ground isnt an option. so sending crui...

Strong case we have probably a national security imperative in syria. the second question you have to ask is still outstanding for many of us, including me, can we really make a difference? is an air strike going to make the situation better for the syrians and can we stop the situation from escalating into the region? ultimately, i dont know that you can answer question to the second question. ive been a skeptic and ill look at this language overnight. im still yet to be persuade that we frankl...

Have national security interests in jeopardy, and we have interests in the region that must be protected. i certainly dont want israel to be next or jordan or turkey to be next and have the stability of the region further degraded. and then there is the moral imperative that we have, as the strongest nation on earth, to respond when a dictator like assad violates a nearly 100 year international norm against using chemical weapons as a legitimate weapon of war. there were yesterday, as a mother, ...

Or as a legitimate weapon of war, will have a certain and severe response. and that he has to be held accountable for atrocities like that. what president obama has said, and decided that although he knows he has the authority to act without congresss authorization, were going to have a more unified and stronger response when congress authorizes the presidents proposal. the strength of the united states response with unity is going to be far more impactful, not only on asads, but the region as w...