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We have never known when it will come. if it does come. but the white house is trying to be consistent with what the president has said up until now and on august 30 first, when he comes out and says he will seek authorization from congress, he said, after careful deliberation, i have decided that the united states must make military strikes on syrian regime targets. is that careful deliberation off now? no, i don't think so. the president's is going to say that he still believes that the u.s. should strike militarily. there is a solution workable and can be reached beforehand perhaps that wil...

He could have gone into the oval office, phoned up members of congress and say this is very important, please support my policy. i think we with have said good. instead, and he biden go off and play golf. what kind of a message does that send? it's so important, but hey, we're going to play golf. >> gretchen: the optics were terrible. >> terrible. >> gretchen: let's look at the time line of some of missteps. august 21, ambassador absent from the syria meeting. august 30, certificatey says the u.s. will not let assad get away with chemical weapons. september 4, the president says i didn't set a...

I think they probably will, but so far. >> they haven't lined up. >> they're holding back, eric, there could be good reason. the reuters poll that was taken august 30 to september 3, the question is should the u.s. intervene in syria, and 56% of people said no. >> not surprising. also a little on the breaking news, not sure if we have time to get to it, the saudis and other arab and oil producing nations say they'll finance the attack. i mention yesterday, why wouldn't they. they came forth today, told kerry they would do that. this is ridiculous. what does that make us, they will pay us to at...

Scale and the audacity of the attacks in damascus, at a time when the u.n. was also this. >> heather: so public, too, with the images we saw. catherine, thank you with that new information. >> gregg: now, how we have come to this point august 21, an alleged chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians in damascus. days later, president obama convened the national security team. there was no decision on a military response. august 25th, the obama administration says it believes the assad regime used chemical weapon crossing the red line that provokes a response. august 26, secretary of state j...

Penalty on the table as a possible sentence. san diego mayor bob filner is stepping down effective august 30. while announcing his resignation, he said he never harassed anyone and has faced a lynch mob. a giant panda gave birth today at the smithsonian national zoo in washington. the baby is about the size of a stick of butter. the panda birth is always exciting as giant pandas are endangered. and take a look at what happened aboard a fishing boat. they were trying to reel in a blue marlin and it jumped on the boat and its snout barely missed one of the men. back to anderson and our "36...