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Middle east. it is diverse. it is stored in different ways. and access to syria is very, very limited as you know. they won't let u.n. inspectors in as well. we are not making any call. >> chris: your people seem more defensative about this, sir. >> our assessments are similar to those of the united states and britain and france. we are looking at the same intelligence material. we have a close intimate intelligence dialogue. we share our intelligence and i think you have seen the results of that. we are not making any calls for the united states here. >> chris: i understand that. i do want to...

Greatest terrorist attack since 9/11. >> i want to talk about syria. we will talk about this in the next smet length with the israeli ambassador. i want to ask you guys about it as well. after stating the use of chemical weapons was a red lien this week president obama seemed to back off that. take a look. >> this is not an on or off switch. this is an ongoing challenge that all of us have is to be concerned about. >> chris: senator manchin, as a member of the senate the armed services committee are you, first of all, persuaded that the assad regime did use chemical weapons and what do you mak...

Paying much more of a price for inaction than action. >> cross the line you got to do something. whatever it is may not directly affect the chemical weapons use but if it harms the regime's prospects in the war that would at least be a consequence and at least keep the red lien pledge from being hollow. a know fly zone would do that. expensive and dangerous. >> chris: and syrian antiaircraft. >> this isn't mix impossible. just a costly military enterprise that the president seems loath to underis take. >> chris: five presidents set aside political differences and gather for dedication of georg...

>> 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 missiles went disappearing 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 h. 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 tox...