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If the answer is chemical weapons, then, thats what he should talk about. and why -- it is so important. >> that have been leading with the argument for ten days. public opinion has gone in the opposite direction i mean -- >> not iraq. not afghanistan. we got to get the devil in the details on this. the president has to do a beg sell j -- do a big sell job. can he recover tammy baldwin. you can take a no vote. wont haunt you. dont have a good track record in the middle east any way. >> he has go...

Tonight on the eve of the anniversary of 9/11, the president will once again have to address war, war but also peace. the prospect of a peaceful resolution. a diplomatic resolution to something that not long ago seemed certain to entail cruise missiles fired from u.s. navy warships. here in new york city, ed schultz and reverend al sharpton, chris hayes, eugene robinson from "the washington post." want to start, chris with you. do you feel like you know where this is going tonight is? it clear t...

Meetings with the vice president over the weekend where he was making the case directly to you. in his case -- what did he say about how this use of chemical weapons changes our posture on this especially in terms of the possibility of those weapons spreading outside of syria and, and was that not in some way compelling to you? >> well, first of all. there is a history. there is a history of use of chemical weapons in the world over nearly a century. and there has been a sad history of inaction ...

Philosophical, god driven, most often driven like we are by sense of our interests. russian interests in the middle east. what are they in terms of syria? >>en this case, presumably the russians have no interest in an unstable syria with access to chemical weapon that may be going to terrorists. thats something that the russians have felt strongly about all the way back to 1991, when the cold war ended. so, what seems to be happening, what we hope will happen and we dont know tonight whether thi...

Anyway. there were 78 days of bombing. house in the end did finance the bill. did finance that venture. but if you go back to the war of powers act, which clinton and every other president thought was unconstitutional in any case, pre-barack obama. it says that even if one house finances a war. >> not the end. >> not assent. >> thank you, chris. we are minutes away from president obamas address. about the situation in syria. one more break. and then it is show time. stay with us. >> we will not ...

We are setting a precedent right now. the precedent that we set in my mind has to be a global response to a global atrocity. >> does anyone mention in these closed meetings if the saddam case comes up that the united states knew about that before the fact that we have intelligence information recentrecent ly released. we knew he was going to do it before he did it. we not only turned a bland eind. we didnt know anything before and after. >> classified briefings and nonclassified briefings have f...

Convention. i have said from the start being a super power means more than super military might. it means super diplomacy and super restraint. >> a red state senator. >> var muery much. >> very interesting in that. the president need al lilies. after tonight he will need surrogates. who is out there making the case that the president has this right? ive dont see too many people other than john kerry, call in the artillery with hillary clinton. i need help you. need to make this statement. there ...

He didnt. now the north koreans do. >> but the question im asking is, if all of these analysts right now are suggesting, fareed, hes bluffing, hes got his own initiative, hes not going to do nag crazy, suicidal, should we believe that? >> what we have to do is some mixture of deterrence. i agree that there has to be a better way to understand them. tess regimes are inherently unpredictable because they rest on very narrow bases of power. one guy. the saddam case is a perfect one. it wasnt just u...

United states assembled, with a coalition, 500,000 troops. >> over six months. >> yes. and did the job of getting rid of him. they would thought appease what happened. and he went back. the real bluff was saddam hussein thinking the world was bluffing in 2003. he didnt think the united states was going to invade. and he was busy telling people he didnt have any nuclear -- that he had nuclear weapons when he didnt. now the north koreans do. >> but the question im asking is, if all of these analys...

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