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That this isn in his creation, the line is his, and also the line drawn by the international community, but he adds onto that also by the congress. so now he wants to imply it isn't him who has made this ultimatum essentially, it is the congress, and it has to live up to its obligations. this is a way of a president who narcissistically always speaks about me and my. in fact, we could say he spoke about the my in military and astonishing formulation who when it suits him decides it is not me or my, but this is a responsibility that belongs to congress. i don't think it is going to work, everyb...

Is not on the line, the international community credibility is on the the line. he dodged a question about what he would do if congress doesn't give him the green light. what were you takeaways? >> well, i think it was clear that the president was trying to depersonalize the syria issue aa little bit. that red line explanation is one senior advisers made over the weekend right after, you know, when they held a background briefing about the president's decision on saturday, when he made that announcement he was going to congress. they were asked about this issue of the so-called red line. it's ...

President obama's failure to remove bashir assad from power. nick was embedded with the rebel forces august 2012. >> that is correct. it's incredibly complex. at this moment in time, even after all this, there is simply nobody ready to replace bashir assad. a regime change is incredibly elastic here. talking about a rebel movement when what is there a year ago were possibly palatable to the west and had ideals which may have been compatible with what we as a country or ideology might like them to be. since then, they've gone increasingly radical. they are islamist and the people who originally...

Chemical weapons, why is that the definition of intervention? >> in august 2012, the president said if they use chemical weapons that's going to be a game changer. >> obviously, it's awful that happened. >> right. i would think the use of air power, when the regime gets its fighter jets to level and destroy the city of aleppo and the city of hamas, that would have been the time to do something. the problem with the obama strategy or lack thereof, he comes to this late. it's a little too late. >> much more to come. we'll be right back. don't go anywhere. ♪

And none are this harrowing and horrifying to read. i mean, the graphic detail about the numbers, the specificity, the signals intelligence, the intercepts about people making claims, this is very strong stuff, wolf. and i think it makes a comp compelling case that we've got to do something. as secretary kerry said the risks of inaction probably are very, very great here. >> here's what the president said back in august 2012, a year ago, about that red line. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime, but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole...