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Britain, just voted down military action. i'm curious what you think if congress were to come back now and take a similar vote, do you think the same thing would happen? >> reporter: yes. absolutely, i do. and it's not just my analysis, it's also top lawmakers who i've talked to and that's one of the reasons why congress isn't coming back. they are on recess. will be for a little short of two weeks. and, you know, you've heard some lawmakers saying we should come back, we should take an authorization vote. but you know what, what happened in the house of commons tonight is almost exactly what ...

And take a similar vote, do you think the same thing would happen? >> reporter: yes. absolutely, i do. and it's not just my analysis, it's also top lawmakers who i've talked to and that's one of the reasons why congress isn't coming back. they are on recess. will be for a little short of two weeks. and, you know, you've heard some lawmakers saying we should come back, we should take an authorization vote. but you know what, what happened in the house of commons tonight is almost exactly what would likely happen in congress, too, it would embarrass the president if congress voted to authorize m...

To have that kind of result. for the most part, even though they are not happy, necessarily with the way the president is or isn't making the case they support the idea perhaps using surgical military strikes. they wouldn't want to put the u.s. in a position to have an authorization vote. i got a e-mail from bob kosher who had a classified briefing earlier today he was kir come spect before feels he would support surgical military strikes against syria. >> thanks for reporting. joining me senior fellow at the hoover institution and fran townsend and christopher dickie editor for "news week" an...

Think the same thing would happen? >> reporter: yes. absolutely, i do. and it's not just my analysis, it's also top lawmakers who i've talked to and that's one of the reasons why congress isn't coming back. they are on recess. will be for a little short of two weeks. and, you know, you've heard some lawmakers saying we should come back, we should take an authorization vote. but do you know what, what happened in the house of commons tonight is almost exactly what would likely happen in congress, too, it would embarrass the president if congress voted to authorize military force and it was defe...

Out what i thought was old news, which was on march 1st, the united states senate voted unanimously to urge the united nations to create and enforce a no-fly zone in libya, and it was then treated as news. and i think it kind of was, even to the washington press corp that ignored what happened on the senate floor that day. that's one of the reasons we heard very little objection from the senate and most of the objection we're hearing is coming from people in the house. >> we also heard the president assert after consulting bipartisan leadership of congress, i authorized military action. you co...