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Their gas masks. on the day of the attack, august 21st, satellites detected rocket attacks in the neighborhood. they calculated through intelligence means that those rockets were fired from regime-held areas. hundreds of people begin showing up at the hospitals, dying and injured. thousands of social media videos and other social media elements begin to record this event. after the attack, intercepts, again, u.s. intelligence intercepts of senior regime officials in syria discussing the fact that a chemical attack has taken place and a continued bombardment of those neighborhoods to try and wi...

That august 21st attack. including at least 426 children. but then the report later goes on to say this -- in the three days prior to the attack, we collected streams of human signals and geospecial intelligence that we associated with a chemical weapons attack. it's pretty startling and pretty amazing. if you understand presumably what they're saying, if the u.s. knew three days in advance this was about to take place, why didn't the u.s. try to stop it, warn the rebels, warn the people there get out of the way, provide gas masks or whatever? >> reporter: you know, what's a really good questi...

>> the secretary of state, john kerry, making the case for a u.s. military strike in syria. >> just ahead, there are new indication there is may be growing nervousness right now inside syria about a possible u.s. attack. just ahead, i'll speak with a prominent journalist about what he's hearing from his sources in syria. this is "the situation room" special report "crisis in syria."

Frum, contributing editor for news wooek and daily beast and fran townsend, former homeland security advisor to current bush currently serving on cia, and department of homeland security external advisory boards. there was something very disturbing in this intelligence report, the declassified version that came up today. and it says this about that august 21st chemical attack that killed more than 1,400 people. in the three days prior to the attack, we collected streams of human signals and geospatial intelligence that reveal regime activities that we assess were associated with preparations f...

Powers act, it says explicitly that the only exception to congress giving you authority is in imminent attack. and the president seemed to understand this as a senator. so did joe biden as a senator as well. they both were very explicit that you have to be under imminent attack or, actually, in biden's case he said it's an impeachable offense. so he believed very strongly about this as a senator. i believe very strongly that the constitution was intended to separate the powers. you know, madison said that the executive is the power most likely to go to war so that we vested the power to declar...