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Tonight. in fact, he backed away in the next paragraph. we learned from iraq that doing so makes us responsible for a dictator and a targeted strike can make assad or any other dictator think twice about using chemical weapons. he said on one hand, we don't use pinpricks, we do really big things and in the next paragraph, he said, this will make him think twice before using chemical weapons again. there is a tension there, as he talks to congress. >> karl, thank you, as always. >> you bet. straight ahead, lawmakers at o odds, saying no to syria strikes, and congressman adam kissinger says ye...

Weapons and degrading assad's capabilities. others have asked whether it is worth acting if we don't take out assad? some members of congress have said there is no point in simply doing a pinprick strike in syria. let me make something clear. the united states military doesn't do pinpricks. even a limited strike will send a message to assad that no other nation can deliver. i don't think we should remove another dictator with force. we learned from iraq that doing so makes us responsible for all that comes next. but a targeted strike can make assad or any other dictator think twice before usin...

Giving the speech tonight i think was a mistake. >> hold on to that second thought. let stephanie cutter react to that. was the speech tonight a mistake? >> absolutely not. newt, there is no reason why he can't give two speeches. i think the country was calling for a speech like that. if he made a persuasive case, the clearest case why we must act. in terms of a pinprick versus a small attack to address newt's criticism, i think the president is right, the military doesn't do pinpricks, and the whole purpose of describing what this mission is is secure the american people no boots on the groun...

Rebel groups, and i don't know whose king. we don't know what we're getting on the other end. >> that is correct, but we do know this. civil war grew out of opposition to the government that was mostly secular and western in orientation. we know that assad is in a country with a broad middle class. the allies, the sunnis, the christian christians, is a less islamist society than in the region. but you touch on an interesting point. there was a tension in the president's speech. the united states doesn't do pinpricks, this is a point he made more robustly today when he met with republican senat...

Ourselves into a civil war in syria has a lot of consequences. and that again still has not been thoroughly discussed. >> was a living intervention the wrong thing to do? >> i believe we should have come to congress and had the discussion. i don't believe we should have been doing that. i've don't believe when there is not a clear, present danger to the united states of america we have got to have a long thorough discussion about whether or not we should do that. and i don't see a clear and present danger to the united states of america and syria. it is a civil war. i have a great hesitancy to...