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If the u.s. does act militarily against the syrian regime, what does it electric like and how are you so confident that there will not be a response that causes the slippery slope argument that more military intervention will be needed. this is the end of military intervention for the united states and syria and not just the beginning? >> chuck, first of all, this is the objective. it's to deter the use of chemical weapons and the capabilities to use them. it's not an objective to inflict regime change. the first time people called this, the military does not use pinterest. he was not faced wi...

Avoiding a run off. they love to hate their own fight. we will fill the well-worn shoes. almost 50 years after his assassination, we will look at president kennedy's foreign policy including things that stand out about syria. liberal interventionism. good morning from washington. it's monday, september 9th, 2013. let's get right to the first read of the morning. president obama confronts what may well be the most important 48 hours of his second term. a full-fledged political crisis on his hands and they know it. facing enormous skepticism on capitol hill, the administration is pulling out all...

Reporting within a matter of days. the fact is it coincides with the timeline in terms of the votes moving forward. we don't feel like there is a need to extend for a matter of months to tell us what everybody in the world knows. chemical weapons were used in syria. >> if you anyhow it couldn't pass congress, it is better for the foreign policy to withdraw the request? >> no. this is an issue where the president feels strongly that members of congress should take a vote. the fact of the matter is when we take the decisions, we are stronger at home and abroad when they cake them together. that'...

Decisions. the difference today as we see it. >> maybe that's partly the difference between politics. there was less transparency. if you look at syria versus the bay of pigs which was kennedy's disaster, there was not a public debate about the bay of pigs like there is about syria. this president is operating in a very different environment. >> it's interesting when you think about that with the last liberal hawk. it's whether they took three years to convince his party to intervene. that situation and we are seeing that.

Today, killing six people in the city of daraa. syrian state tv tells a different story. it reports that armed thugs attacked police. the newscast showed weapons and ammunition allegedly stored at the mosque. black smoke poured from reactor number three at the fukushima nuclear plant today. now, authorities, they're not sure why that happened. they evacuated workers, but they say radiation levels have not spiked. despite constant setbacks, crews say they are making some progress. >> translator: it settled down quite a lot compared to the beginning and we can even begin to see a bright hope t...