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So, depending on how long this goes. second thing on this point i want to make is that i have actually spoken to lindsey graham a couple of times over the past couple of days. what he says is just as jake was suggesting, it's not that they expect president obama to just go have a massive military strike. what they are doing effectively is using this authorization vote as leverage to get the president to do what they've been pounding him to do, which is to articulate a strategy. specifically to train and arm the rebels that they can find who they trust inside syria. on the question that you ask...

Here. when this whole -- when this press conference started, i was getting ready to say i thought it was potentially a seminole moment on a process and on a substantive reason. first process, because john mccain has proven in the past couple of months that if he wants to help the president, he can get it done for him. twist arms. he knows how to legislate. he's a veteran here. he knows how to kind of work deals. if he wants to work a deal for the president he can probably make it happen. he sounded like he was almost there at the beginning. at the end someone asked the direct question, are you...

Defeated the united states of america. but i will say that if congress overrules a decision of the president of the united states on an issue of national securitied, that could set a catastrophic precedent in the future. it would be very dangerous precedent to be setting. >> fredericka, i thought what john mccain said was important and telling for a couple of reasons. number one, he has been somebody who wanted aggressive action by the united states with regard to syria and even he is skeptical about this authorization vote because he doesn't think maybe it goes far enough. that is what the ad...

But -- this president has brought us together. will is bipartisan opposition to us taking military action in syria. we really have not had the information that we needed. the president boxed himself in by saying this red line cannot be crossed. now what? we are going to do these limited strikes and the day after those limited, people will be in this bloody -- bloodbath in syria. the president must seek congressional authorization. he is not going to. he must have a -- international coalition. he will not get that. much maligned george w. bush presidency, what did he do? before we went to iraq ...

Authorization vote. they would embarrass the president. i got an e-mail from senator bob corker who had a classified briefing earlier today. he said he now, seeing what he saw with regard to intelligence, feels that he would support surgical military strikes against syria. >> thanks for reporting. joining me now is fouad ajami, fran townsend, christopher dicky, and john king. fouad, the president said the national security is at stake, when you have a country with a stockpile of chemical weapons like this. but if this strike isn't