chemical weapons one week ago demanded a military response? >> yes, i do. i called for that in the after math and one week after the latest chemical attack, i wrote a letter along with a colleague saying this administration needed to do far more and formulate a policy and consider any sort of strikes that would take away the ability of this regime to deliver those sort of chemical attacks. keep in mind even though this is -- this latest attack by assad is one that got a lot of media attention. this is the eighth chemical attack this year. >> right. >> under taken by the assad regime. >> military officials and pentagon officials say this blow cripple the ability of syria to