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Especially hell-fire missiles and drones so they can conduct their own surveillance and re n reconnaissance in this area of iraq and also intelligence-sharing. the u.s. will share, as it has for the last many months, satellite intelligence, intercept information, that sort of thing, with the iraqi government. but no troops and very limited help at this point, suzanne. >> nick, i want to bring you into the conversation here. we know that american forces very successful in going up against al qaed...

Siding with the fundamentalists. reports that militants are preparing another attack, this time against israel, cannot be ignored. now, youve seen the classified intelligence. does he have any case to make there? >> no. look, only in russia and putins parallel alternate universe could you believe that. lets add the facts up for a moment. the facts are these. that there is no question that the delivery system of the chemical weapons were through missiles. if the rebels had missiles theyd be strik...

Syria in the eastern mediterranean. lets go to the pentagon. barbara starr is getting more information. what are you learning? >> reporter: another u.s. navy warship in place tonight off the coast of syria. the "u.s.s. san antonio" has come through the suez canal, 300 marines on board, part of the so-called prudent planning in advance of any u.s. military action. they will stay put for the next several days right there. but it is the intelligence everyone is focusing on tonight. an extraordinary...

Their gas masks. on the day of the attack, august 21st, satellites detected rocket attacks in the neighborhood. they calculated through intelligence means that those rockets were fired from regime-held areas. hundreds of people begin showing up at the hospitals, dying and injured. thousands of social media videos and other social media elements begin to record this event. after the attack, intercepts, again, u.s. intelligence intercepts of senior regime officials in syria discussing the fact tha...

About them this week? >> i wasnt fully briefed. ive been briefed on a number of programs. weve been looking at syria, north korea, satellite intelligence and a lot of different intelligence programs. i knew generally about the programs. and there was a discussion about it. the information was available to all senators. i was with a senator on thursday who basically -- hes a guy whos been skeptical about this. he said, we were skeptical about this. people did have an opportunity to debate this. i...

Speed. and the amount of data that has to be analyzed, the forensic data, the phone calls, other information is just -- its just a mess. and even with all the investigators at their disposal, its very difficult, compounded by the fact we dont have a specific group saying we get it, we want you to know we did it. heres proof that we did it which would obviously accelerate the conclusion of the investigation. so this is extremely difficult material to go through. >> and not just a lot of domestic ...

Heat would build up inside that pipe or pressure cooker finally would just -- that blast is actually an explosion. its the steel breaking of the metal. >> and these are also, i mean that information you just said, thats widely available on the internet. youre not saying anything thats not out there. >> but pressure cookers -- ive talked to a bomb expert and fbi expert. the reason you would use a pressure cooker and why its rarely used in the united states, its usually in jungles, buried in dirt....

Times reporting that syrias stock of chemical weapons is loaded and ready for use if president bashar al-assad gives the order to use them on his own people as that war rages. leland vittert watches it live from our middle east bureau. what is the latest now? >> reporter: though the intelligence came out a couple of weeks ago that the syrians had begun mixing the chemical weapons, that was based on satellite intelligence and signals intelligence, meaning communications intercept. thats when the ...

You new what military they had and tactics they had. in this case its small groups, tribal family members. the key in finding out what is going on with them is intelligence, and its not satellite intelligence, its human intelligence. you want to have your spy in the room with those guys. what this has done is its made it very difficult for us to have the spy in the room. rick: i want to ask you kt about the chill this sort of puts over the agency and operatives that are doing very dangerous work...

jong-il pnd and another toddler goes missing. what are they doing to find her? lets go out front. were waying for the house to waiting for the house to vote on the payroll tax cut bill. the vote too should take place later tonight. youre going to see the house republican leadership come out in a few moments. we anticipate to make a statement. john payner speaker will be there and we will also hear from eric cantor, jeb hensarling. as we count down to that, lets tell where you we stan...