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I find most challenging every single day. >> that was president obama today in stockholm, sweden, insisting the international community cannot be silent after the syrian chemical attacks. back here at home, it is another busy day on the hill as the president's team is trying to sell congress on this authorization of force. secretary of state john kerry, defense chief chuck hagel and general martin dempsey were all briefing congress, both publicly and in closed-door hearings. meanwhile, the senate foreign relations committee now has its own new draft legislation for authorizing military force. ...

Going. again, ed henry told us at the top of the hour that the working bed deadline we're working with in terms of congress reconvening is september 9th. they could come back early. we haven't seen that since 2005. but it could happen, and we'll talk more about this as the hour goes on, but the president now reaching out in this letter form with his draft legislation of what it would look like. probably enumerating, were e don't know because we don't have the whole text yet, emumerating what exactly he would like to see in terms of the military strike on syria with regard to the chemical weapo...

You've had a chance to look now, bob, at what the president is asking for in a draft legislation i told viewers about ten minutes ago. what does it say? >> it gives the president flexibility of what kind of military operation he could seek. it does not say exactly how they would strike and trying to basically convince congress this is not going to be boots on the ground, open-ended. it asks are to the authority but also gives the president the ability to decide what the military conflict is. whether it's cruise missiles. it's not a long resolution. the issue is which senator will take it up? i...

>> good evening, senator. thank you for having me. >> scott: good evening. >> the way i see it senator rubio says hold on, we need to take a step back and we're working on this. but it's only 8 senators who are going to come forward with draft legislation. and we still have 90 senators who need to look at this and the american public who needs to weigh in. and on the whole pathway to citizenship, that's a misnomer. what we support is earned legal status. and i think that defining it that way is much better for the american people. we are talking about 11 people who did break the law. who do ne...

>> brett: head of the gulf oil compensation fund says he expects the region to recover within three years. kenneth feinberg says a 30% restoration is likely this year and full recovery in 2012 except for oysters. final settlement offers will be twice documented lawsuits for most claimants. oyster harvesters will get double that. environment protection agency is pushing for a first drinking water standard. many republicans want to hamstring epa's authority to regulate other pollution. jim engle explains. >> they are unveiling draft legislation to prevent the epa to use the clean air act to do b...