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Use of chemical weapons. this is going to be a long-term proposition. it is not going be something that is solved easily overnight. >> chris: i understand you are not calling for any action. is your government troubled at all that red lines and enormous consequences have now you "long-term proposition"? >> we have a different red line entirely. if the syrian regime tries to transfer chemical weapons or what we call game changing weapons to the is systems in lebanon israel will react and we are serious about the red line and sticking about the red line and the people in syria though that. the c...

Fresh happening. the actual effects in jordan and in iraq where we spent a lot of press to achieve a reasonable outcome the president didn't secure any troop there's now and now spilling into iraq and throughout the middle east and then the enext in iran i think is serious. i think it emboldens mullahs. they said we only have a few months now deal with eran. i think israel probably feels they will have to deal with iran on their own and can't wait for the president. >> chris: charles? >> there is another aspect that involves iran and that is the fact that iran is a close ally of the assad regi...

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...

States of israel and they all brought the same messages. the messages that the united states stands four square behind israel's security. the united states supports escapeddial's right to defend itself. >>nd a top defense official in jerusalem just this week said tehran, the iranian leaders are watching what is going on in syria. >> i can't speak for any anonymous defense official. i know what iranians have seen in issuesial over the -- in israel over ishe last month every official from the secretary of defense and secretary of state and president of the united states president obama has come ...

Iran is watching. president obama said that he would not allow eran to develop a nuke capability which is an intelligence matter. i don't have to tell you is a much more difficult thing to assess than whether or not there has been a use of chemical weapons. if the president backs off as he appears to be from the red line and enormous consequences in syria what do you think of the lesson that is being seen by the mullahs in tehran? >> the chemical threat is serious. but you it is of a typically different magnitude of the iranian nuclear threat which threatens the existences of the state of isra...