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Accountability. they must uphold the crack down on the use of chemical weapons at the international norm that existed for about a century. andr andrea? is. >> thanks to peter alexander. as we have seen over the last couple of days, momentum growing for congressional action. this was a black and whited decision by the president. are there concerns about the uncertain nature? >> there has been a lot of questioning about how the administration will go about this. the republican on foreign relations...

About the military action and there needs to be a stronger case made in support of the president. how to make that connection between the evidence that lawmakers are seeing and the concerns they have and making that more poll tabl to the public more broadly. not only on the syria issue, but trying to make the links to other nations that might do things we would not want them to do if there is not a response. iran and north korea and that kind of thick. members are getting the opportunity to be b...

Seems to me so long as assad does not resume the use of chemical weapons, we shouldnt be having continued military strikes, right. in other words, if our objective is to prevent the repeated use of chemical weapons, after weve sent a message, if assad gets the message and doesnt use chemical weapons again, there should be no ongoing authority to continue to use military force by the united states because our objective, that limited objective, will have been accomplished. >> what do you think of ...

>> it is. im not sure that i have a great deal of confidence in his judgments, but i think it is true that there will be consequences to any military action that we probably are not going to be able to predict. i can give you one prediction. they will be hugely unpopular among the arab public as a whole. it will be seen as another example of u.s. military action into an arab country no matter how heinous the government is at which these strikes are directed. should there be collateral damage, it...

satellite images and trying to show iran clean up something at the military base believed to have been a test site for explosives used to detonate a nuclear weapon. it is not exactly sure at this point what theyre trying to clear up. this is on the heals of iran allowing u.n. inspectors to visit the base after repeatedly denying access to the same inspectors in the past. the director general of the agency tells matthew chance that he believes iran is hiding something. >> iran is not te...

Bailouts and financial regulatory reform. he seems to do better on those longer decisions. i think even his critics or supporters would say, he struggled a little bit with crisis response. so this is a pivotal moment. how does he turn this? there is a little confusion here, hes acted a little slowly. how does he turn that into a positive and start to strengthen his crisis response decision making? >> lets talk, doris, about the end game. theres been a lot of criticism that theres no end game in ...

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You know the region better than anyone else as to whether or not this kind of air strikes standoff air strikes would work to deter assad or could it even encourage more action? >> andrea, i think that is exactly the question. as you heard earlier from kelly odonnell, that is the question that some is members of congress are very rightly acting. i call it the then what question. the strikes will be proportionate and limited and will not involve boots on the ground. the question for me is will the...

Congress i as speaker of this house of representatives will defend the constitutional authority of the legislature. >> despite my great admiration and respect for our president, a lawful remiss for this libyan operation does not exist. >> they killed a resolution to authorize what is happening in libya but they say, we will fund it, anyway, and the presidents also getting slammed for not getting involved with the debt talks and new stepping in. is either too little, too late? >> where we work to...

Trump. thats the last thing the country needs is a show boat. >> bill: also tonight, part three of the donald trump interview and glenn beck reacts to a possible trump candidacy. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, im bill oreilly. thanks for watching us tonight war and money that is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. is now becoming clear that the libyan rebels do not have another fire power or organization to overthrow the ...