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Pretty strong and even the president cannot defy it. and ultimately chose not to. but it did represent something very big, which was the press had been fairly supine for years and years and years. and 1960s, vietnam and the credibility gap and the perception that the government was lying to the people, the press got a lot friskier and a lot more aggressive. and really nixon ran into a new phenomenon, a hyperaggressive press corps. it was the washington post, woodward and bernstein, press was slow to catch up. but when they caught up, they caught up with a vengeance and there was a lynch mob ou...

Having this conversation. that's pathetic, i hate to say it. for the first time we're sitting with the president trying to build this respect. it's months and months and months overdue, not just about this crisis. they should have been going this from the moment the republicans got the gavel back. they're here now, let's hope they can make progress. >> there's a gaping credibility gap between the president and the republicans. tell us about that. >> the polling has a huge impact. if you look right there there's a 22-point spread for who's to blame. 66% of the american people blame republicans ...

There is a credibility gap. and -- but at the same time i think this is the time to rally around as a country, forget the politics, forget what happened. i think the president, in my judgment, i disagree with senator santorum, has shown leadership and prepared to use military force. a surgical strike at a time when the american people are war weary. he says it's not national security interest. i believe him. it's for human rights, establishing international norms, war crimes are reason to take such action -- >> let me jump in governor because i watched the speech last night, and i couldn't rea...

Intervention by the powerful foreign patrons who will be siding with the fundamentalalists, this time, the attacks cannot be ignored. here is the problem, bill richardson, who do we believe? you have president obama, you have assad saying it was not me, you have them saying no, definitely was not assad, it may have been the rebels, is there incontrovertible evidence that says it was definitely assad that ordered this chemical attack? >> yes, i believe there is incontrovertible evidence. our intelligence agencies, which i trust, assad and his people have used these weapons. look, assad recently...

Shifted. >> it has. it brought russia slash syria to this position now. we're waiting to see whether it's serious and what they will say when it comes to the united natio nations. will russia agree to have the threat of force in that. >> putin says no? >> right, where does that leave us? i think that there is no question about that. the president needs to make absolutely clear which obviously he will in his speech that that is what he's going to go after continually if this diploma see doesn't work. he was obviously a politician but says knowing how this works, he was convinced in the g 20 mee...