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The opening -- i was thinking about the library. the fact is the economy itself, the fact that we are talking much more now about syria and we are tacking about guns and we are talking about some of the other issues. we haven't talked about the fact that the gdp has also been hit and the fact that we still are looking for economic growth that is not there yet. for this president he is in a position right now, where the american public wants to see more than anything a discussion about the thing that they thought this the election was about in 2012 and that they thought the election was about i...

>> chris: also syria's political factors here. if you believe the polls the american people do not want to get involved in another land war or any kind of military involvement in another middle east country. on the other hand as i was discussing with brit if you say there is a red line. >> right, this is a red line. >> chris: and somebody crosses it, is there a price to not doing anything? >> brit is right. the question of where is the cost. politically in a different position certainly than where democrats were before iraq. he has the public behind him and not just the concern about syria but...

And that is if the united states decides to arm syrian rebels with lethal weaponry, not just defensive weaponry, that those weapons and those rebels be very carefully vetted. we had a very bad experience with libya where shoulder fired appearing quickly and showed up in our backyard and we don't want that to happen again in syria. >> chris: let's talk about the military component and what syria has. intelligence estimates are that 1,000-tons are chemical weapons including serin nerve agent, mustard gas and vx are in the assad arsenal. and serin is nasty stuff. 500 times more toxic tha cyani. >...

The tsarnaev brothers were linked to foreign elements? >> not that i know. >> chris: what you tell us about the chechen link to radical islam? >> they have many branches throughout the entire world. we see international jihadists feeing in syria. we have seen how international jihaddist elements have moved from peninsula into syria. and they come from different nationalities. we had terrorist attacks across our borders in the south where participants haven't been palestinians or egyptians. saudis and yemenis, people coming from jihaddist organizations and they can move. >> chris: any suspicion...

Syria used chemical weapons an easier matter than acertaining whether iran has nuclear weapons which is behind door. and this this kind of air tight case and proof much harder to assess. if he fails to act now what do you think is the message to the mullahs in iran? >> this is not a president who wants to start another war. that is the way he sees it. i think is is totally irresponsible. no one wants to start wars. the public be is at 39% or 60%. what is happening in syria is a very serious matter. the spill over effect. 75,000 people killed which incidentally at one point in time liberals and...