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Favors a very strong russian hand involved in ukrainian politics and the problem is that the country is divided. there is an overwhelming majority of people who are supporting the orientation of ukraine towards europe. one of the things that has really angered and began vallized the opposition, has been the use of force by the government. this started as a political opposition movement and dissent, but as the government began to crack down on these protesters early on, that galvanized the opposition more and that is what has been one of the main rallying points amongst all of the opposition th...

Position to say the united states didn't do much to effect me. i'm in charge and then what do we do? >> what about that? you see the president struggling and two different paths here. >> he highlighted the great danger which is when you have a limited strike of this nature you almost yield the initiative to the other side because if they survive that strike, and if assad is able to continue to do what he's doing, maybe he doesn't use chemical weapons again you haven't really won because you have inched your way into the civil war. you've taken him aside and you're not winning, and the united s...

Back from syria, that's not the truth. people need to understand that. >> do you agree there has to be in the world a red line, though, with the use of chemical weapons? some people say look, 100,000 people have died, children have been tortured to death, horrible things have occurred here. i mean, is the use of chemical weapons a red line which the nations of the world cannot tolerate? >> it's a terrible thing. assad is incredibly brutal, but, you know, he has -- about 100,000 people have died. about 1,400 have died because of chemical weapons. in a strange way, the chemical weapon convention...

>> the fact they said the world set the line in chemical weapons use, how do you respond? >> the treaty doesn't require military action. if you go back to the 1980s, saddam was regularly using poison gas against his own people and in the iran, iraq war. you go back a few years earlier, poison gas in yemen. nobody said was that a moral case for us. start with the fact 100,000 people have been killed in syria. a lot of children have been killed in syria. this is pretty horrifying stuff, but is it stuff which justifies the united states engaging in, frankly, a limited confused strike against a di...

Vote to do this, assad will interpret to you that he is free to go and do this any day he wants to. >> reporter: many remain skeptical a limited u.s. intervention won't bring the u.s. in a civil war or leave it allied with eloquent thes of the opposition. >> do you trust these people? >> that's not my business to trust anybody -- >> it has to be the business because you're making decisions to go into war and put american lives at risk. so it's a simple concept. you either trust or do not trust. >> jim joins me live. the balancing act between too much action, too little, you get a sense of that...