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That was disproved. assad's main supporter, iran, could very well defy the world and develop a nuclear weapon and em boldened by the lack of action against syria. for those thinking clearly and that's most of the factor audience, it is important to understand that if america decides not to hold assad accountable for using poison gas against civilians, that prohibition goes away forever. it seems the world is fine with allowing the use of banned weapons and once again that is acceptable if it becomes acceptable, all restraints disappear. you know it amazes me that russia and china continue to a...

And carefully considered all of the implications, both -- >> i don't want to put words in your mouth but it sounds to me like you're leaning against. >> i think at this point, i'm not persuaded that military action is -- will advance the national security interests of the united states. >> what would it take? would a resolution that, for example, puts a ban on ground troops and has a very limited scope in terms of time, would that do it? >> i think there is no question that boots on the ground is not something that even the president is asking for. that is absolutely the case. i would not supp...

Not help -- it's one of those situations that our enemy's enemy could be our worst enemy. >> it's true. it's a very complicated situation over there. i was on a conference call this morning with secretary kerry and susan rice and defense secretary hagel. this is clearly not about a regime change. this is only about sending this message. >> then what's the point? what's the point? >> that's what a lot of members of congress are asking. what's going be the cost to american taxpayers? how long are we going to be in there? what would signify we have a mission accomplished? is there another way to ...

Nobody knows how he's going to react. nobody knows what we're going to do if he reacts negatively. let's say he launches another -- >> let me ask you this. do we have a kissinger-esque set of potential consequences followed by our potential reactions? >> no. and the bottom line here is what they're saying publicly and privately is after the two-day bombing campaign, we're going to go back to the political tract, working with the assad and the russians. nobody believes that is tenable. >> the rhetorical case is we're going to hold him accountable. that's the construction they keep using. we hav...

Red line become fuzzy in a lot of international lawyering and the united nations. america's credibility is on the line. the president said exactly the right thing about the use of chemical weapons being a red line and if we don't take action to hold assad accountable for that, shame on us but not only shame on us, we're going to pay a heavy price for it in syria, in the middle east and more broadly in the world because of the loss of credibility for america. jenna: senator lieberman, we got caught a little short because of president's news conference. a lot to talk about. >> i understand. jenn...