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Now. >> you have expressed some doubts about military action in syria and im wondering if you can be for specific about your concerns over the consequences and what they may be and whether mr. putin shares any of the burden for the responsibilities of mr. assads actions. >> im going to try to remember all this. first of all, the reset in the russian relationship was not done on a whim. there were specific u.s. interests that i believed we could pursue with russia where interests overhappened tha...

John mccain go that route? >> reporter: they knew he was concerned in one direction here that the president is being squeezed as you say. on one hand he has antiwar democrats from the left saying, why are we intervening at all? then you have folks like john mccain, saying intervene but dont make this a symbolic strike a shot across the bow as the president said last week. decimate assads military. the presidents team fanning out on hill. you saw secretary of state kerry and defense secretary hag...

Act of aggression. how much of what congress says matters in what we do. >> i think we have the facts. im sure in the closed sessions the members of congress will see the weight of evidence that we have, that this happened and the syrian government did it. its a policy question. its not an intelligence question. >> this is a question that goes to chemical weapons. it was asked moat ago and runs about a minute. listen carefully. >> the opposition doesnt have the capability to deliver weapons on t...

Chairman on his way into the briefing. here is what he had to say. >> the resolution with senator corker and i with input from members on both sides of the aisle have achieved, strikes the balance. it gives the president the wherewithal to have the limited military action that hes asked for in order to punish assad for the use of chemical weapons and the killing of innocent civilians. at the same time it is tightly tailored by having a time frame in it and by certainly prohibiting american boots...