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Them at his fingertips, including the two u.s. naval destroyers, within range, talking about the different options. what this is potentially, if president trump does move forward, is essentially coming to fruition of the redline that president obama drew in 2013. if this happens, that essentially is what it is. now, a lot of focus on president trump and candidate trump, as he tweeted in august, 2013, september, 2013, that president obama should not attack syria and if he did he should get congress' approval first. that will come up definitely, and not only these days, the but the days ahead, i...

Do you agree? >> no. i mean so obama was very close to striking in august 2013, and we were at the 11th hour. french jets were readied in terms of targets. so it wasn't as if obama was waiting for congress. it's only when he apparently had second thoughts at the very last moment that he said, okay, let's table this and have a conversation about it. but i think that for obama, it was about skirting responsibility, and he already had made his decision, and he knew the votes weren't there in congress. >> right, but the votes not being there -- and, jennifer, i'd like you to talk about it as well....

Process in our government was very much colored by the fact that the previous year in 2012, president obama had described the widespread use of chemical weapons as something that would be a red line in terms of the syrian conflict. that would be a red line for the united states. now, it's one thing to say that, right, to lay that out as a hypothetical, it's another thing to still have to decide exactly what you're going to do when that moment arrives in the future. and in august 2013, when that moment arrived, when that terrible massive chemical weapons attack happened, president obama prepare...

Women and children. >> members of the u.n. security council and meeting to debate. the u.s. delegation is pushing hard for a vote tonight on that resolution. russia is expected to block it as it has seven times before, which would clear the way for the u.s. to act alone or with a small group of allies. plans to attack the syrian regime are more complicated than in august 2013 when president obama elected not to act after bashar al-assad crossed the president's redline. there are no russian military -- there is now a russian military presence. russia has dozens of fighter jets, helicopter gunsh...

Street journal." the fcc is now looking into two particular data breaches and whether or not they should have been reported to investors sooner. one was the 2014 cyber attack, approximately a half billion e-mail accounts were compromised. and the other was the attack in august 2013 which involved data of more than a billion different users. louis, back to you. >> louisa bojesen live from london. thank you so much. and former gorge h.w. bush and barbara bush remain in a houston hospital this morning. we'll have an update on their conditions. and much more on the severe weather coast to coas...