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As far as the president is concerned? >> i think some may feel, and the president may be one who feels that he's losing his international power or acclaim if he doesn't follow -- he said there was a red line with chemical weapons and he feels incumbent to act. but the thing is just to act to save face is not a strategic objective. he's already pre-announced that if he does attack, he's going to do it in a very limited fashion and he's not going to be for regime change. to me this sort of sounds like we're not going to win. he's for stalemate. and when i've had private conversations with the ad...

And it concludes with this quote, high confidence that u.s. has "high confidence that the regime of bashar al assad was behind the attack." the president did offer some details of what a u.s. response would and would not entail. >> we're not considering any open-ended commitment. we're not considering any boots on the ground approach. what we will do is consider options that meet the narrow concern around chemical weapons, understanding that there's not going to be a solely military solution to the underlying conflict and tragedy that's taking place in syria. >> laid out the case for a militar...

Supporting, will be a friend of the united states. i'm not certain that either side or any of the multiple sides of this war will ultimately be a friend to the united states. >> you know, you have disagreements among some of your republican colleagues, republican senator bob corker for example, a key member of the foreign relations committee. he said after being briefed by the administration, he says he now supports what he calls surgical proportional military strikes. so why is he wrong and you're right? >> well, i would ask the question, what is the strategic objective? is it simply to say s...

Here, he was doing what was basically a scene that reminds the world of the lies and the fabrications that colin powell tried to market days before iraq's invasion back in 2003. so a very, very strong statement, a rejection ridiculing, as you correctly point out, arwa, what the secretary of state said today. you also have stunning reporting of a different attack in syria, not the juone august 21st but a different one. i want to warn our viewers the video we're about to see is very graphic, extremely disturbing. what do we know, arwa? what happened here? >> reporter: yeah, it really is terrible...

Depend on enforcers. >> reporter: a role maher's relished for many years. that's one legendary account that there's a time his sister was set to marry someone not exactly up to the family's standards. >> he's said to have shot his brother-in-law in the stomach in the early days before the brother-in-law was his brother-in-law, but was trying to marry his sister and the father did not approve of the marriage and thought he was low and maher was already the enforcer before the father died. >> reporter: the brother-in-law was killed in a rebel bomb attack on the syrian cabinet a year ago. maher w...