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Bashar assad about the chemical weapons attack, as you say, assad said he did not have anything to do with it. on new day this morning, the deputy national security advisor for president obama ben rhoades was asked to respond to what assad said and here's that clip. >> i think bashar al assad has no credibility. you're talking about a dictator who has already killed tens of thousands of people and used chemical weapons. people see in the videos the horrific consequences of what he's done. and frankly, it's not surprising someone who would use those weapons would then lie about it. >> now, afte...

International community and assad and try to get them to turn over the chemical weapons. whether or not that specific language would go have to be voted on is a big question, but the idea of delay could be absolutely political cover for everybody and maybe most importantly, the president because we could, if it works, argue, you know what? we saber rattled. we scared them and we didn't have to use the actual use the might of the military. we just had to threaten it. >> dana, thanks so much. just fast-moving as we said. who knows where it's going to go from here. as you pointed out earlier, the...

Cover, if you will, an out for some members of congress to say look, maybe assad will cooperate? we don't have to do this? >> i think it could definitely be the latter, suzanne, political cover. not just for members of congress but maybe be most importantly the president of the united states. as brianna was just noting, it is still a big if russia from the perspective of the u.s. can be trusted on this and more importantly if syria would give over the chemical weapons to the international community. but the big picture, this is something that we have seen behind the scenes what we're seeing al...

And certainly would like to see something other than a military intervention. so they look at that perhaps something that makes sense to them and say why don't we just go this route. i think the comment as i've read, what i read, it was sort of him saying if assad were to give up his weapons, if you talk to observers what's going on in syria, they don't think assad would ever give up his chemical weapons. that may reflect what we would hear from the white house as we await reaction. it's unknown where the white house is going from here. it wasn't clear president obama was going to make any new...

Military action to deter future use. there's no denying what happened on august 21st. around 2:30 in the morning, while most of damascus was still asleep, assad's forces loaded warheads, filled with deadly chemicals onto rockets and launched them into suburbs controlled or contested by opposition forces. they unleashed hellish chaos and terror on a massive scale. innocent civilians were jolted awake, choking on poison. some never woke up at all. in the end, more than 1400 were dead, more than 400 of them children. in recent days, we've been shocked videos from gutta and