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Senate foreign relations committee. senator corker. the secretary of state john kerry, the chairman of the joint chiefs, theyre appearing before your committee tomorrow. what do they need to say in order to justify, to convince hesitant colleagues that this is the right thing to launch military strikes against targets and syria. >> theyre going to have a lot of questions, lets face it. there are numbers of briefings that are happening in the morning at the white house. we have military leaders c...

United states, they will go in with the f-16s, and target sites in syria? >> in both military and diplomatic and political support there are dozens of nations who have committed to bacchus up, thats what im at liberty to say. >> i know dozens -- they may be supporting us, ill be anxious to see which ones get involved militarily if the president gives that execute order in the weeks to come. we have to leave it there. >> the important thing is, we need military and moral leadership here, and that...

Looks like the day after and the week after. how does the administration want to upgrade the military. those are the big question points. what is administration is doing is flooding the zone. you want to talk to the president, youll get him. you want a classified briefing, youll get it. heres one of the problems for the president. as he makes the case. send a message to iran. ill close on this personal footnote. heres a president, who when hes on the phone or in a meeting with most of these lawm...

American destiny at this time. and i think when you take a look at the arab world, theres something disgraceful going on there. we have the united arab emirates and saudi arabia committed to this. they want to see the end of bashar. they have pledged money, they have pledged support and they want to see the destruction of the mafia that rules syria. other countries, when you think about it, is completely reprehensible. the egyptians, who have had their own revolution for liberty, are now siding ...

Presidential history? >> it is but that doesnt even mean the next presidents not going to have a grenada or panama or libya or some sort of intervention where they bypass congress. >> the question is does this undermine the next president. lets say the president were to lose this move to the house of representatives. would executive authority be undermined down the road? >> i dont think so. cameras great britain, if that didnt blow up in president obamas face, things might be different. this isn...

What i do see is that the experience of a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan with precious little to show for it, has essentially bled the will of the american people to get involved in these kinds of things. before we went into iraq, i thought it was a terrible idea. not because getting rid of saddam was a bad idea, he was a horrible dictator, a horrible tyrant. i didnt think the american people had the will, the desire, the vocation to occupy another country year after year, $2.5 billion a ...

Have had chemical weapons used before, during this war. >> multiple times. >> yes. and so senator mccain and senator graham have been absolutely correct, that there has been no strategy, no confrontation. total impunity as the assad regime has ratcheted up every step of its offensive since it started two and a half years ago. you know, from on the ground to then from the air, and rockets, and then weapons of mass destruction. i mean, weapons of mass destruction. that is something that is prohibi...

Totally sympathize with the american public that says, we dont want to go there. >> you were obviously in the first bush administration when it launched the first gulf war, there were warnings then that would spiral into a regional conflict. there are warnings from people -- are those concerns real, that this thing could spiral out of control? this intervention could spiral out of control? >> things have spiralled out of control. there are 100,000 people dead in syria, it is spilling over and de...

The options as a just in case option if necessary. its the destroyers that you have to keep your eye on. all of them are armed with 40 tomahawk cruise missiles. those can fly 900 miles, they can be reprogrammed to strike targets at mid flight. that range allows those ships to stay well out of the range of any syrian retaliation. >> want to bring in our panel, chris, thanks for the reporting. also joining us is vice president of defense and foreign policy studies at the cato institute. former com...

About this, does it harkin back to iraq? do you see this through the lens of iraq and afghanistan? >> not exactly. what i do see is that the experience of a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan with precious little to show for it, is essentially bled the will of the american people to get involved in these kinds of things. before we went into iraq, i thought it was a terrible idea. not because getting rid of saddam was a bad idea, he was a horrible dictator, a horrible tie ran the. i didnt thin...