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>> the president said on saturday he would go to congress to decide whether to execute a punitive strike against syria. he immediately stepped into uncharted territory. space where liberal and conservative lawmakers will line up on the same side in the normally divided house of representatives. it's already apparent a congressional vote on whether to strike syria will scramble traditional alliances in the house. one of the first hints of this came last week when 186 lawmakers including 50 democrats signed letters calling for the president to seek authorization for any military action. what we'...

At that time to take that action seriously. we failed eed on that effort. it's not that it wasn't noted and it wasn't that there weren't voices urging action at that time. >> empb in the absence of that action, my point being, as a historical matter, in the absence of that action, it was not the case that failure to act in a punitive way after that opened the flood gates on the use of chemical weapons. >> very little attention was brought to it at the time. that's not the case here. the whole world is watching now. including bad actors in the region. and including north korea and iran. >> so t...

President to have the authority he's seeking and codify what the president, himself, said is limited in terms of this action. it isn't designed to be an all-comprehensive approach to syria or the syrian crisis. it's designed to address this tragic event with this remedy on a limited basis. >> congressman gerry connolly, democrat from virginia. >> thank you, chris, for having me. >> joining me, director of the middle east studies program at george mason university. he's a scholar who specializes in syria. he opposes u.s. military intervention there. and professor, my first question to you is, t...

Argument. the debate right now centers around the idea that taking action is less risky than not taking action. this way of framing the debate is actually extremely problematic and off.ways, firsts eliminates the possibility that there is another action. it absolves the u.s. from taking another action or another choice because the debate is being framed as action versus inaction. no, there is another course of action, and that is as we have been listening to many people saying, i've been saying several times on various media, that there is a solution to the conflict as much as we think it is d...

House. one of the first hints of this came last week when 186 lawmakers including 50 democrats signed letters calling for the president to seek authorization for any military action. what we're seeing this week is a sharper bifurcation within both political parties. house speaker john boehner said today he would back the president on a congressional vote to authorize a strike against syria. so did congressman elliot engel, top democrat on the house foreign affairs committee who said if we didn't respond in kind, it would send a message to every despot, every thug you could commit war crimes an...