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An invasion at this point. is it all but inevitable? >> i'm not sure that it is inevitable. it certainly seems like momentum is tipping over the edge when anybody trying to pull it back will be extremely frustrated in doing so. it seems fairly certainty point that the message putin has gotten is, he uses hard power to achieve political and strategic objectives. no one has an answer to how he does that yet. we saw in it 2008. we saw in it 2014 and we're seeing it now. and i think this is the space in which he operates. it gives him more power than he would otherwise have, given russia's economi...

To the public tonight, is an uphill battle as you point out. it's going to be found very different than it would have after the developments of yesterday, the fast paced developments where a seemingly off hand comment by the secretary of state becomes an offer from the russians, gets signed on to allegedly by the syrians and is suddenly white house policy. so what we're going to see in this speech tonight is trying to get the public on board with yes, we need military on the taken, we need to stand behind -- we need to have the prospect of force but let's give peace a chance and it's all becau...

>> right. >> so boehner may say ifs and buts are candy and nuts but where do they find themselves if we go over the cliff knowing that the president argued in the election over this central issue? >> reporter: two things. first of all, you know, i think regardless of what the polls say, this is a question of who looks the worst, not who looks the best. i think both sides in the end if we go over the cliff, if there is this economic catastrophe and i agree with bill, if we go over the cliff, they can come back and pass something retroactively. nothing is certainty point. i don't think anybody r...

We are told, jonathan, there was trouble shortly before the blast. >> yeah, john. about 4:20 eastern, this afternoon, there was, in the words of one local reporter. a real stench of gas in the several blocks surrounding what turned out to be the site of the bomb's blast in downtown springfield, massachusetts. utility workers were apparently on scene working on this. and according to that same reporter, the smell of gas had dissipated a great deal just before strangely the explosion actually happened. that was 5:30 eastern. some 90 minutes ago. as you said it leveled one building in the area, w...

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