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20 ponce. how does the united states secure those chemical weapons to make sure they dont fall into the wrong hand and the next step up, this isnt a civil war. its a proxy war with iran and russia. its turning into a regional conflict. all of that has national consequences for the united states. >> i hear you saying that. ill tell you, when we look at these poll numbers, mr. chairman, the american people clearly dont hear that, believe that, or know that on some level. when you ask them the ques...

Its a tough, tough slot. >> how will he get the votes? >> look, hes going to have to get a passage in the senate. the house wont vote first. two things will happen. one it will put some pressure on the house to pass it. the president may pocket the senate victory and say i dont need the house vote i got the upper chamber. >> when you pointed out israel wants us to go and its about iran, this is really very important to understand. this is a proxy war. this isnt about syria. all international dip...

>> as david reef wrote, the u.s. is not the worlds parent. with the unwelcome but unnecessary responsibility of administering a spanking to a delinquent child, #amen. >> number five, refugees. >> there are 6 or 7 million people displaced from their homes right now with no clean water and children suffering diseases once thought eradicated. for more on how the people of syria living right now, check out syriadeepli.org, because were not focused on the people. our focus is -- >> number six, iran. ...

Or get bogged down into an action-reaction cycle and iran could conclude america i preoccupied well go ahead with our nuclear program. the big thing you can do is go after the money. do what reagan did during the cold war with. reagan drove down the price of oil. that bankrupted the soviet union and they didnt have money left for "star wars" or their weapons program. bill: why is lindsey graham talking about israel and iran going to war in six months. hes saying that syria isnt just about syria,...

What? that changes their decision-making. this is bigger than syria and its a proxy war and of course our friends the russians are in the middle of it as well. >> congressman mike rogers. thank you very much. >> thanks guys. >> coming up, looking back on the financial crisis. have we learned anything in the past five years or are we ripe for a relapse? >> at least larry summers will be running -- >> well talk to one of the experts. saw it coming before it happened. >> hold on. >> we need women r...

>> you havent mentioned what i think is arguably, at least in my view the biggest one which is iran. >> exactly. i was saving this for last. this is the vital point. this is a proxy war in which iran is fighting for dominance in the middle east. it sees through victory in syria a straight line that runs through shiite iraq, al awad and all the way to hezbollah dominating lebanon. so whether iran suffers a strategic setback or gets strategic advantage by winning in syria does not matter particula...

Win jihadists will prevail in a post jihad state? >> there is a danger but that is significantly increased the longer we stay out of this war. this began as peaceful demonstrations seeking to topple assad. al qaeda was not an element for more than a year. >> now they are. lets deal with facts as they exist. >> lets support the free syrian army the way it allows them to defeat assad and al qaeda. al qaeda consists largely of foreign fighters. these people have a habit of wearing out their welcome...

I dont think in others of us believe air strikes are going to solve the problem. remember, this tid not start as a civil war but as part of the arab spring. jobs, the economy, people wanting a better life. assad very wisely turned it into a civil war and turned it into a sectarian war and brought in all this proxy war so that he -- he knew he needed the support. one air strike i dont think solves what is now a much larger problem. >> is there anything you saw in your interview, in the interview ...

Matly could help al qaeda linked rebels in their battle against assad. either scenario is not good for us or them. >> thats exactly right. thats why i have opposed the intervention until this weekend when i switched sides and i got the picture. its very clear this is a proxy war with iran. that the iranians not only supporting assad but supporting some of the very elements you know, hezbollah and others anti-israel and supporting the islamic front stretching out now from areas of iraq, barn prov...

My view with their threats to wipe israel off the map, their ideology, theyre the modern day nazis. they want a modern day holocaust. if you agree with me they are the proxy here, wouldnt it make sense that we really want to have an impact rather than lob a few cruise missiles in to syria which i dont think would be very effective based on days, not weeks, no boots on the ground? why dont we do what we should do and thats take out irans nuclear sites? >> thats a provocative act against somebody ...