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Security interest in syria. >> so the humanitarian interest of people getting gassed, that doesn't matter. >> no, no. >> people are getting killed all the time. the method is what is particularly appalling here. right? >> yeah, well, no. no. look, i spend my entire career trying to develop intelligence save lives. hopefully when i draw my last breath i can go away thinking i did make a difference in that. there are still men and women in the united states and around the world and the west that want to make that difference. but we also do not ever want to see what has taken place in afghanistan...

Syria, the republicans are free to do whatever they whatnot too do and that the message john boehner gave today. he meets with the president, comes out and said i'm going to support this, everybody should, and then at the same time his office is sending out a statement that said, we're not going to do anything to gather that support. so i think the message to -- >> do you believe that? do you think that those who vote against his wishes are punished or he really means senate. >> i think he is essentially giving them a free vote or a vote of conscience on this, and i think the message is, they ...

You know, if we have the largest military in the world, which we do, greater than the sum total of every other nation, the rest of the world looks to us -- >> jim, jim. >> 20 seconds for mr. rangel. >> one thing you're missing, jim, that we're not only the nation that have got men and women in the armed forces. true, our elite population does not enlist to join as a volunteer army. but we're not the only country that got young people. and i don't see any reason that i can explain to my constituents that their boys and their husbands and their brothers and their sisters should be going off to f...

Sometimes summed it up in a tweet on saturday. now members of congress will have to consult maps and figure out where syria is. and politico also reported that half of americans can't find syria on a map that may be so, and they said the same thing about vietnam in the '60s. but these days, thanks to the internet, it's not hard to find out. take a look at the wikipedia page since the beginning of the month. it has spiked significantly. people are trying to learn. you could see the looming prospect of war concentrates the mind, to rip off a sam johnson quote. there is now a game to test your ...

I don't think that's going to happen. i think we're looking at probably a limited thing and wall street recovered pretty quick. we do have a lot of other things to worry about in september. the federal reserve board and the fiscal budget fight and the fact that september has been our worst month historically so we already have a lot on the table for the market in september, but i think this is going to be a shorten gamement in -- engage independent terms of wall street. i think we need to watch this for bigger spillover into other areas. >> i do worry whether this is the making of a fine mess,...