0 the worst. benjamin netanyahu said if his country is targeted we will respond and respond with force. joining me now from the white house with more on this developing story. ed henry is with us, ed, what's going on in washington. >> major decisions being weighed at the white house tonight. series of meetings throughout the day. syrian officials vowed that they would fight any u.s. attack at all costs. vice president joe biden joined the course of top officials here in the administration saying today, that president assad and syria was responsible for these chemical attacks and vice president biden suggested there may be unilateral action that could be imminent without congressional or.n. approval. that's interesting, back in the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate biden said of then president bush, if he attacked iran without approval he should be impeached. the boston globe, we checked this, gave all of the candites in 2008 questionnaires for written questions. we checked them and one focused on whether a president could bomb iran without authorization from congress. then senator obama answered that question by saying, the president does not have power under the constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. i pressed jay carney on that point today in the daily briefing and also, meanwhile, republicans like john mccain tonight are saying, if there is going to be military action, it cannot be a symbolic action, backing up the president's rhetoric about a red line, it's got to be serious action that decimates assad's military. take a listen. >> do you believe that exists right now? >> i believe it is a threat to the united states. i believe that absolutely allowing the use of chemical weapons on a significant scale to take place, without a the british prime minister david cam ron, other key european allies, they believe inside the white house, they're building a coalition for military action, we expect that action within the next few days. >> thank you very much. joining me now on the phone with more on this developing story. ron johnson, senator, in light of ed henry's report and the comments that were made in the past by both joe biden and the president. one has to ask based on their own definition and interpretation of the constitution, do they need to go to congress? let me first say, i don't envy anybody. the task at hand to deal with these incredibly difficult and complex issues. i truly believe that president obama should not only come to congress -- i know it was hope, hope isn't the strategy. he's been hoping the assad regime falls without doing anything. that assembly and coalition of the willing, not takes the leadership position in this issue. this, i view any cruise missiles without regime change, this is a therapeutic bombing, he gets to check the column that says, i bombed them because i said i would. >> right, so he doesn't look like an idiot. >> putting israel at risk. 30 months ago, there was opposition that was more secular, more proamerican. they no longer exist. >> it's too late now. >> the likely regime replacing it would be radical islamists connected to al qaeda. >> he's made a mess of it, the same way he did with egypt. we lose a leader, mubarak who was proamerican, who uses his military to kill tests, who was friendly to israel. three strikes and you're out. liberals want to take him out. then we have the muslim brotherhood come in. total conflict there. same thing in libya, thank you george bush, he had just turned the loan -- what's his name, libyan -- gadhafi, he just turned gadhafi into america's best friend by invading iraq. gadhafi goes running to england and says, is he going to invade me next, he opens up, says i'm giving up my nukes, my weapons of mass destruction, and that's when obama wants to take him out? democrats do not care about american national security. they're always making this country more dangerous. we are still living with the consequences of the carter administration and what happened in iran. >> we have to take a break, stay there. >> not only that, we're talking about -- >> when we come back, will obama ultimately, if he strikes be helping al qaeda come into power in syria. what is the impact and what is the impact on israel as it relates to the threats by syria and by iran, we'll have more with ann coulter coming up next. also, secretary of state john kerry's remarks yesterday on the crisis in de mass cass, sounded eerily similar to the testimony he gave to congress back in 1971. we're going to play a comparison you won't see anywhere else but right here on hannity. can you pick the video of the day. remember the rodeo clown? the guy who wore the obama mask, he lost his job because of the controversy. he's decided now to break his silence. if you want to see it, go to hannitylive.foxnews.com or on twitter @seanhannity. >> i didn't think anything more of it than what we've done 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago, when we've done it with bush and clinton and ronald reagan.