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Be tough enough. but theyre concerned that whatever we do, it cant be about saving face. and then you have ted cruz, the tea party cadre attacking, like we shouldnt go in at all because we really cant be there to save face. so they are unified on their attack on the president. >> david, i understand that you have spent several months traveling with secretary of state john kerry working on an upcoming later for "the atlantic." one of the things thats really struck me throughout the day is here yo...

Policy. >> you know, one thing i would share with you, craig, from my time in the clinton administration and when we went into bosnia, remember that the process of convincing the american people, laying out your case, i mean, that cant -- some of us may not like it, but that can take a week, nine days. thats not unreasonable. because remember when we started yesterday was with an affirmation in the confidence in the documents that we had. trying to brush off the coasts of iraq, if you will. but ...

President obama today says he will await a congressional vote before striking in syria. how does this line up with what secretary of state john kerry said yesterday? lets listen to the secretarys speech. >> president obama has spent many days now consulting with congress and talking with leaders around the world about the situation in syria. last night, the president asked all of us on his national security team to consult with the leaders of congress as well, including the leadership of the con...

And ultimately, ultimately, we are committed, we remain committed, we believe its the primary objective, is to have a diplomatic process that can resolve this through negotiation, because we know there is no ultimate military solution. it has to be political. it has to happen at the negotiating table. and we are deeply committed to getting there. so that is what we know. thats what the leaders of congress now know. and thats what the american people need to know. and that is at the core of the d...

His words yesterday juxtaposed against the presidents today. colonel jack jacobs. medal of honor recipient. and our msnbc contributor and journalist. jack, let me start with you. there you had john kerry making that compelling, impassioned case, moral case, if you will, for war. and then you have the president today essentially saying, ok, lets wait on that. did the president hang john kerry out to dry at all? >> i think so. the whole sequence of events was astonishing, even surreal. that was pr...

For barack obama. and again, this vote matters. i said this earlier. kerry is the point man. he is the hawk on this clearly. i want to see what barack obama does in the next nine days, how hard he makes the case for this vote. is he really committed personally? >> david, always enjoy your insight. karen, you as well. see you back here tomorrow on "disrupt." thanks to you. and what a difference a day makes. youve seen the presidents comments on syria today, yesterday. again, it was his secretar...

Continuing coverage of the crisis in syria. and also tune in to nbcs "meet the press" tomorrow when secretary of state john kerry will sit down with moderator david gregory to talk about the latest on the crisis in syria. lots more tomorrow. have a good night.

Have warned against inaction, indifference, and especially against silence when it mattered most. our choices then and in history had great consequences. and our choice today has great consequences. it matters that nearly 100 years ago in direct response to the utter horror and inhumanity of world war i that the civilized world agreed that chemical weapons should never be used again. that was the worlds resolve then. and that began nearly a century of effort to create a clear red line for the in...

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