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But not with 200 tomahawks. >> when you hear the president talk about a limited strike. that sounds shorter than 60 days. how realistic do you think it is? and what is realistic that can be accomplished in that limited period of time? >> it was utter nonsense in my view. we always say, don't talk about intentions. talk about capabilities. this was a fight to the death inside syria. the christians, the kurds will get slaughtered. there is zero possibility of giving up on this struggle. their lives are at stake. to change assad's thinking, you have to arm the people on the ground who are opposin...

Horrendous, we have to realize that tens of thousands, perhaps as many as 100,000 civilian have died. many very deliberately by assad, indiscriminately shelling or bombing in rebel held areas. and he goes after bread lines where people are trying to eat. everything after the clinics and the hospital where they go for medical care. everything after school. there was a horrible incident just last week of dropping incendiary bomb on a school. so that's the problem. and of course, when president obama talks about the need to stop the use of chemical weapons, he's right. that's a terrible weapon. t...

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...

Jordan, a country half the sigh of syria, has already taken in ref jaes. that would be like the u.s. taking in 23 million people in the last two years. with an impending threat of escalation, these number are sure to rise. joining me now, executive director for human rights watch. kenneth roth. thank you for joining me. we focused on the use of the chemical weapons, and obviously, it is horrific as we were discussing. the other issue are though who are still trapped within different areas within syria where we can't get aid to them. let's talk about that. >> what many people don't appreciate, ...

What we try to do, the arab league is not going to come around and support us. the only country that is prepared to do so militarily france. no amount of arm twisting at the g-20 will give angela merkel, the chancellor of germany, to support war ships. what could happen in the worst-case scenario, the president, even if he eeks out a victory here, if he is ham strung in his ability to do this, then in the end, what level of attack can he accomplish the goals that he needs to do, and secondly, what, if he decides that he is going to go ahead no matter what the vote in congress is, fine. what if...