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All week jay carney said he didn't need congressional support but doing it at the 11th hour sends the wrong message. >> you can respond and i want you to respond congressman shift, i'll put up a poll, abc washington news poll on launching military strikes against the syrian government. a lot of americans are opposed 59%. look at this opposed 36% support. if you're going to do it, you have to convince a lot of americans this is the right thing to do, because there is an enormous amount of skepticism of iraq and afghanistan. >> that's right. they have a case they have to take to the american peo...

Long-term purpose. so i would support a strong attempt to degrade the weapons capacity of both chemical weapons and the delivery systems of syria. >> congressman shift, the leverala -- military targets in syria. would you vote for this resolution? >> well, i think the senate language is a step in the right direction. i'll have to look further and one issue i'm concerned about is they say no boots on the ground. i want to make sure the resolution made that abunt dentally clear unless we have to rescue someone. i think no one wants to see us turn this into a boots on the ground situation or furt...

Dangerous isolation swing in the party. i think it's very dangerous to the party and country. we can have honest differences whether we should go to war and engage in combat. those are legitimate. ran paul comes with withdrawal from the world perspective. i think republicans got rid of that with charles lindbergh in the 1930s. if the president wanted to get congress involved, he should have said so from the start because doing it at the last minute looked like panic. all week jay carney said he didn't need congressional support but doing it at the 11th hour sends the wrong message. >> you can ...

Comes to the use of chemical weapons and hold a dictator that gases his own people accountable. that case is yet to be made and the polls are reflective of that. to respond to peter, i think that in part the president was responding to what a lot of members of congress demands, that he come before the congress and consult with us and bring this to a vote. it's hard to hold the president to fault when so many members of congress weighed in and said this is exactly what we want you to do. it strengthens his hand ultimately if this is approved answer cushionty and i think he was also responding t...

>> congressman shift, do you want to respond to that? >> i think the president was right to come to congress as a member of the branch with the power to declare war i think was the right decision. more than that i think it was the right to terms of getting the country behind the action to under take it. it will be important that the american people are behind what the president does, that the congress is behind it and not seen as acting alone as he pointed out that, will strengthen his hand in staring down bashar al-assad. here you have a group of libertarian unwilling to support it. no easy t...