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Called upon the united states to drop any potential threat to attack syria, so the conditions are going to increase, i think the momentum, if there was any momentum, for the president to take military action as little as possible, as second tear kerry said, i think that's a false threat at this particular point, unless the president has the vote to back it up. >> so would it have been smarter, for lack of a term, for the president to perhaps go ahead and let congress vote and however it votes, he would then make the decision to strike syria militarily and keep that threat alive, would that hav...

All right. we have to get serious here. did president obama seal the deal with the american public? or will he still struggle with support for a strike on syria? we're going to break down this primetime speech, next. [announcer] there's no hiding the goodness of the latest from

Would be a speech arguing for a military strike, but being pulled between a war-weary american public and his credibility and the u.s.'s credibility and instead became a speech to buy time. from the east room tuesday night president obama told americans why his administration is certain syrian president bashar al assad's regime is responsible for a sarin gas attack the u.s. government says killed more than 1,400 civilians. >> in the days leading up to august 21st, we know assad's chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin gas. they distributed gas masks...

Live in washington with more on the president's speech. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, carol. you heard president obama make a case both for military action, but also against military action pursuing this diplomatic route. to that point, right now when you talk to white house official, really the focus, although they do continue some consultations of congress, the focus has really turned to this meeting that we're expecting secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov to have in geneva, switzerland tomorrow. kerry is leaving today for that. it's also...

This pennsylvania field where that plane went down, and the passengers and crew tried to wrestle control of the aircraft away from the hijackers. ah. a reading of the names in shanksville, pennsylvania. and we cannot forget. it's been one year since the deadly terror attack in benghazi, libya, on the night of september 11, 2012, armed men stormed the american consulate. mortar and rocket fire destroyed much of the complex. u.s. ambassador christopher stevens and three other americans were killed, and just last month, criminal charge against the suspects were filed. today a new explosion ripp...