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That's why you see things like we want a higher minimum wage. that's not a great response but it is a response to a real economic problem. they're feeling the pinch. the middle class is getting hurt by this. and we don't have as many jobs as we had before the recession. we might look at november and say this is great. we're nowhere close to where we need to be. even at this pace, we're more than a year from being at 6%. that's if all the discouraged workers don't come back will. >> the american people don't seem to have the most confidence in the country. look at this recent cnn poll. how thin...

To happen if america supports them. the problem he says is that while he favors a tactical military strike, it isn't going to provide the training, the arms that they need to fight al qaeda. so weirdly enough, there's almost no one who supports the president purely on the grounds which he is asking congress to support him on. and assad is trying to play at the nagging concerns that americans have about what we're being told and what we're not being told by the president. >> and you've got this modern opposition in the middle that has nothing, you know. and they're really squeezed between assad...

>> -- september 11th. >> obviously. >> i was surprised, frankly, it appeared that he was surprised by the question, denis mcdonough. and i can't imagine, richard fowler, why he would be surprised by the question. and there's a feeling that, you know, pursuing this is annoying, that it shouldn't be brought up and we should all be quiet and let the administration take cabe of it. if we all wake up tomorrow morning and they found these guys and brought them in everybody will be happy that they were pursuing it. the feeling i think that up sets people is they don't think that's the case, they thin...

That, but i want to actually stick to the main question here which is, why would denis mcdonough be pieced that by question? it's a very legitimate question, richard. >> i think what the chief of staff was trying to say is clearly that this president has shown before that he will track down every lead until he gets his man. we saw that when he went after osama bin laden, when he went after a lot of top al qaeda officials, drone attacks or cia covert operations. this president has been a president that follows down every lead. i have 100% trust in this president and our fbi to get to the bottom...

Dump chemical weapons would be a, quote, important step, doug. this does provide, potentially, an out for a very, you know, intransent in congress and people on the issue and gives you time. have to verify that this is actually done. it provides a lot of convenience in many ways. >> it does. now, the real issue is, of course, verification on something like this. but it is a way out. dan is absolutely right. there appears to be two tracks doi going in washington which leads you who is making the decisions and b who is in control. bottom line, no reason the military option has to be taken off th...