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Henry who has been at the white house all morning, has also come out from a background briefing, with brand new details on the situation with syria. stick around. >>? a world with many dangers, this menace must be confronted. after careful deliberation, i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets. [ male announcer ] it's the adt end of summer sale. labor day is here, and getting back to a predictable routine can leave your home vulnerable when you're not there. help protect it with adt security starting at just $49 installed, a savings of $25...

Andrea will be bringing us more coverage at 5:00 p.m. right here on msnbc. now we want the latest from the white house where kristin welker is standing by. >> reporter: thank you. >> as we're learning more about how the president made this decision, one of the thing i find interesting is there was consensus among national security team that they did not want to engage congress. where did that shift take place? >> reporter: well, you're right. all signs coming out of the white house in this administration, they were gearing up for a strike against assad. they had been for the past several day...

The question you asked, how did we get here? it is because the president changed his mind. the president had second thoughts about this and chuck todd is reporting this as well. after a background briefing at the white house and basically, took a walk with his chief of staff, dennis mcdonagh around 5:00 last night and began talking about going to congress. what was very persuasive for him was the eight-hour debate in parliament the day before. the fact that david cameron had taken to it parliament hxt permitted a full debate and was rejected by his own party. and the coalition of opposition le...

Dramatic alteration to the way the law was supposed to work and implemented. can he do it via a tweet from africa and once again, we are left asking where is our president on it? you know, we haven't heard from him on, he didn't come out with respect to syria and now we are arming the rebels and so many times recently, he had major announcements and we don't get to see or hear from him. >> it is working for him. his numbers may not be that great, but the leading from behind approach and the deputy undersecretary of health care or whatever put it out in a below post or somebody do a background ...

Overseas. the administration very careful in how they're responding to this. i should point out that josh earnest, principle deputy spokesman will be gagling, giving a background briefing with reporters a short time from now aboard air force one as the president heads out to north carolina. but earlier a senior administration official not confirming, not denying the existence of this order but pointing out in a statement that "information of the sort described in "the guardian" article has been a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the united states." making the ca...