Its all happening now. Jon but force, secretary of state john kerry expected to speak about 90 minutes from now as we await the release of declassified intelligence assessment of the chemical attack in syria that killed hundreds of people, many of them children. Good morning im jon scott. Good to be here with you, jon. Big news day. Im Alisyn Camerota in for jenna lee. President hopes this will make the case of a military strike against the assad regime despite british it law makers voting against a strike and the u. N. Security council ending in a dead lock. Jon Top Administration officials briefed members of congress about evidence that links the Syrian Government to that attack, something House Minority leader nancy pelosi says can knot be ignored. She says quote, assad gassing his own people is issue of our National Security, and global security. We must be clear that the United States rejects the use of chemical weapons by assad or any other regime but some lawmakers warn taking action in syria could have dire consequences. The American People are not excited a about a new war. Were horrified by it. People gassing their own citizens. We would like to know who did it, which side did it but were not excited to get involved in a new war right now. So i will do everything i can to stop the president. We should not engage in a war and certainly shouldnt engage in it in an unconstitutional fashion. Meanwhile, u. N. Inspectors headed out for a final day of investigations around damascus today. They visited a Military Hospital before heading home to visit with general secretary ban kimoon. James rosen is live at the state department for us. First chief White House Correspondent ed henry. Ed, tell us how the white house is reacting to the u. K. s Parliament Voting this plan down. Reporter well, alisyn, their response basically is the president will make his own decision with or without the british, other allies. It appears the french might be on board with this. So they will obviously try to hang it on that. This is clearly a big blow for the president with the british Parliament Voting down any military action on their part and you can feel the intensity, the pressure building on the president as he appears to be alone on the world stage right now. He is at this moment convened a National SecurityCouncil Meeting here at the white house. We saw secretary of state john kerry arrive a few moments ago. Obviously ahead of his 12 30 statement to the world about what is the next step here for the administration but i can tell you white house spokesman josh earnest yesterday, even before the vote in the british parliamnet yesterday, he said basically the president as commanderinchief will make his own decision regardless what our allies do. Take a listen. The president of the United States is elected with the duty to protect the National Security interests of the United States of america and the decision he makes, about the decisions, that he makes about our Foreign Policy is with our National Security interests, front and center. Reporter breaking right now. We just got a statement at the last moment or two from the carter senator in atlanta. Former democratic president jimmy carter putting out a statement, in part, a punitive military response without a u. N. Security council mandate or broad support from nato and the arab legal would be illegal under International Law and unlikely to alter the course of the war. It give you a flavor of the intensity the president s feeling not just from republican critics on the hill who want to hear more information about what the mission might be but also some of his fellow democrats. Alisyn . Absolutely. We know last night they had this i guess, 90minute teleconference between white house officials and top lawmakers. So what was the response to congress after that . Reporter inside the white house they feel like theyre trying to go the extra mile to at least consult with Congress Even though theyre not promising a full debate in the house and senate and a vote to get congressional authorization, something barack obama as candidate for this office in 2008 said he would get, congressional authorization before using u. S. Military force but they say, look, at the very least theyre consulting with congress. They did this Conference Call because members are scattered around the world on their august recess but republicans like james inhofe got off this call last night and basically said this morning they didnt hear enough. Take a listen. It was an hour 1 2 of john kerry trying to sell us on the president s program of military intervention in syria. And, he, theres a new term youre going to hear over and over again as we did last night, called, a broad range of options. Secretary kerry said that were going to offer the president a broad range of options, but you know, we talked for an hour 1 2 and they didnt mention one of the options. Reporter so bottom line is you can hear thats the Top Republican on the Senate Armed Services committee, normally someone in favor of u. S. Military force but he has got real questions and so far jim inhofe says until he hears more from the president he will oppose any u. S. Mission in syria. The bottom line where we are next couple hours well hear from secretary of state john kerry as i mentioned. At the same time were expected in the next couple hours to get intelligence report, released to the public inside the white house to give the public an idea why they believe assad was behind that awful chemical attack on august 21st. Then the most important step of all will be hearing from the commanderinchief something we heard very little from in recent days. He at some. Will have to speak out, alisyn. Absolutely. Well debate the president s plan with our pundits during the course of the program. Thanks, ed henry. Jon for more on this lets bring in walid farris, fox news middle east terrorist analyst. The president doesnt seem to have any good options here. Is there a way to fire the shot across the bow as he described it, against the Syrian Government, make it a limited strike and still be successful . Look the Administration Case for a limited strike against the Syrian Regime chemical capacity is based on the fact we can not allow this to continually the longterm view of the administration and the president had made it clear, to force assad once he loses chemical weapons to go through negotiations. I dont think it will work only a strike against the chemical weapons because it would be replaced, those weapons, other weapons would be replaced by the russians. Critics of the administration are arguing if we pound the assad regime al qaeda will take over. Also not true. If we take out that weapons system there will be a balance of power between al qaeda, jihaddists and assad regime. Either way basically a strike against assad regime will not solve it but it may be necessary to limit his weapons system. Jon the president said more than a year ago assad has to go. Isnt that supposed to be the goal ultimately of any strike . He is saying morally and politically he has to go. He did not say we will have him leave his palace. Thats a big difference. The fact his administration did not act in 12 and 11 when we were in iraq and when al qaeda was not penetrating the opposition. We missed 2011. We had elections in 2012. Were two years 1 2 after. So definitely the price of having assad leave is going to be much higher than before. Jon the president is facing this one almost alone. I mean even our steadfast allies, the british, have said they are not going to get involved in any kind of military campaign against syria. What does that say . That is really a problem for the administration, not having at least the british, maybe the french will be with us. Again this is going to be a limited strike. It is not going to change definitely the balance of power inside syria. What is important now is to look at the big design. Not just about those chemical weapons. It is about the regime and who are our partners inside syria . Once this is clarified we can get to a third party inside syria, not al qaeda, not assad. We have not done our homework on this issue two years 1 2 into the conflict. Jon we havent done our homework why . Whats the holdup . The holdup was in 2011 as i said we did not seize the opportunity that the revolution was made by demonstrators, by civil society. They were not yet militarized. We could have worked with them, given them some visibility and pressure assad. Once the opposition was penetrated by al qaeda, every time a delegate will go to syria meet the opposition he will be surrounded by islamist militias. We sort of lost that window. Now they are our partners in the syria. Im thinking the kurds and secular military. We need to do a better job working with a third party in syria, not just looking at islamists or Bashar Alassad. Jon were going to hear as we said from secretary of state kerry within the next couple hours. We hope to get more information about this then. Walid, thank you. Thank thank you,. Jon, closing arguments underway in the trial of a teenager who prosecutors shot and killed a 13monthold boy, antonio santiago, and the mother was also shot but she survived. Suspects mother is accused of tampering with evidence and lying to police. John thain scary live out sight the court hours in marietta, georgia, what do we know. Reporter alisyn, prosecution began closing arguments and closing arguments began with the rye minder from the defense that Demarquis Elkins is not the only defendant in this trial. Those attorneys reminding jurors his mother is accused of lying to police and tampering with evidence. She is sitting side by side with him facing trial. Her lawyer insist there is is quote, zero proof, unquote, that the gun investigators found in a pond near the crime scene was the murder weapon. Sherry west identified then 17yearold Demarquis Elkins as the person who shot her baby in the head during an attempted Armed Robbery after she told him she had no money. The teen is also accused of the earlier nonfatal shooting of a local pastor, Wilfredo Flores. Yesterday the defense grilled the babys father over why he after his childs death tried to contact this minister who is also known as pastor freddie. Listen. Did you or did you not call Wilfredo Flores for the purpose of making sure he identified Marquis Elkins . No, sir. No, sir. Reporter lewis santiago said he was merely reaching out to the pastor and other clergy in the community seeking prayers after he had lost his child. Alisyn. What a tragic story. Jonathan serrie, thanks so much for the update. Jon . Jon were awasting that statement from secretary of state john kerry regarding syria. This as the president weighs a response to the assad regimes apparent use of chemical weapons against its own people. Well have that for you live when it comes. Also this man caught on tape attacking a colleague. You will never believe who they are and what they were doing at the time. Ho ho ho [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. Some are giant. Some not so giant. 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Top Administration Officials including defense secretary chuck hagel briefing some lawmakers last night to build Political Support for military strikes against syrian president Bashar Alassad and his government. But not everyone is sold. Some say the president must do a better job of justifying this strike. There are consequences to doing very limited or reason even more than a little bit limited when it comes to syria. There are also consequences for not doing anything in syria. And so i argue, lets have that debate. I think the facts will be on the president side but he needs buyin from congress. Alisyn back in 2007 then senator obama made the case that no president could initiate military strikes without congressional approval. Then he said quote, the president did not have the power under the constitutional to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not stop involving an actual or imminent threat to the nation. Lets debate that. Byron york, chief Political Correspondent for the washington exam upper and fox news contributor. Hi, byron. Good morning. Before we get to the president s aboutface, talk about what happened last night , Administration Officials had this teleconference for an hour 1 2 with about 25 Congress Members. Is that president obamas version of seeking congressional approval . Well, thats what you cale consulting with congress. It is not seeking authorization from congress. Weve had one republican senator, senior republican, james inhofe who was on the call say, that, you know, john kerry, secretary of state, discussed a broad range of options for the president to take but he never discussed what any of the options were. It sound to me from the accounts we had of lawmakers who were on the call it didnt answer any of their questions. There are really two big issues, the substance what should we do in syria, there is a question of seeking authorization from congress. You know, i think youre going to have almost unanimous reaction in congress saying that the president should seek authorization before acting. Alisyn even back in 2007, as we just read, that quote from barack obama himself, who said that a president must seek congressional authorization. So does the president at least owe the American Public a explanation for his 180degree turn . Well, absolutely. Perhaps not from his 180degree turn. He may want to be quiet about that but he certainly owes an explanation for what he is doing. The president right now is suffering from the fact that he hasnt laid any foundation for taking action in syria. He hasnt been talking about this for months about what a bad guy Bashar Alassad is and what terrible things hes done in syria and how it could require International Action and that the u. S. Would be prepared. Remember, president bush made the case for war in iraq over and over and over again and saw it and received congressional authorization to do it. This is much smaller than iraq. Nobodys talking about invading syria. Nevertheless, it is military action and the president hasnt made any case leading up to today for taking action. Alisyn see, byron, heres whats confusing. President obama seems ambivalent about this he said things on both sides whether or not we should attack or not . Why not seek congressional authorization . Wouldnt that give him some cover, if Congress Said were not authorizing, he could say to the American Public, well, i tried . He absolutely need some cover, especially what you saw last night in parliament, apparently during that telephone call, with lawmakers, with secretary kerry they learned parliament had rejected David Camerons call for taking action in syria. The u. N. Is not on board. You know, former president carter, we just reported, that former president carter said a unilateral u. S. Attack would be illegal. So i mean, the president needs some friend here, and one way to do that would be to bring a lot of members ever congress in, consult with them, then seek an actual authorization for some specific thing to be done in syria. Alisyn we will see what happens this weekend as things are heating up. Byron york, thanks for your analysis. Thank you, alisyn. Alisyn true. Jon detroit, once a shining example of Americas Industrial might, now is full of abandoned and rundown derelict buildings. Coming up details on a new multimilliondollar effort to fight the blight in the motor city. Plus a new report says the economy might be taking a toll on teens. Analysts are raising the possibility of a lost generation . Well tell you why. 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