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0 thank you very much. thank you for the members of the audience. appreciate all the great questions. let's turn it over to anderson cooper right now. his show starts right now. see you tomorrow morning. good evening, everyone. we begin with breaking news. abc news is reporting that president obama's national security team is preparing for a military attack in syria much bigger than most anticipated. the most surprising part of the report, that a strike could include an aerial bombardment fired from b-2 and b-52 poppers flying from the united states. chris, this reporting that a u.s. strike ...

0 that's all for us tonight. one programming note, jake tapper will be back here 11:00 p.m. eastern an hour from now with special live report, "crisis in syria, the debate begins." anderson cooper "360" starts right now. good evening everyone. welcome to a special edition of "ac 360." i'm anderson cooper, for this hour, we'll dig deeper into the issues before congress. the question lawmakers and the american people are asking right now, should the united states launch a military strike against syria for the chemical weapons attack that killed 1400 people, hundreds that were children? we'll t...

President. it's his call. it's his call. >> christopher, you're skeptical of this whole idea that the credibility is on the line, and this is something the president has to do to maintain credibility. >> i'm skeptical of the idea that this kind of attack is going to restore or protect his credibility. in fact, it can destroy it. if they carry out the kind of thing they are talking about, this limited, tailored attack, and assad stays in power and the war goes on, how does that ensure that he keeps his credibility? i don't see it. faoud is talking about turkey. why are the turks telling us we h...

He'll do his best to make sure that the international community will see the damage that we're causing. to it will become a humanitarian issue and the issue of the chemical strikes will essentially disappear. >> christopher, you see a concern about a widening of this? >> i think what almost always has happened in the past, whether we were going after norwiega or saddam or gadhafi in the '80s, you start out with these isolated actions, these limited actions. then there's a response. you say there's a terrorist response, then there's another one. and it keeps ratcheting up on both sides until yo...

He's probably not going to have international cooperation or congressional authorization. so this president is much going it alone, but it's his red line, he's going to enforce it. >> joining us now, fouad ajami, senior fellow at hoover institution, fran townsend who sits on the homeland security and cia ex-teshal advisory boards. christopher dicky, and gloria borger. fran, while the intelligence assessment doesn't provide anything like a smoking gun, we heard from kerry, they're staying hour high confidence assessment is the strongest position that the u.s. intelligence community can take sho...