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One way or the other, either to use force with or without congressional approval. i just can't see him getting a favorable vote with less momentum than he had 48 hours ago. >> mark halperin, thank you. jeff goldberg, as always. coming up, a tribute to those whose lives were lost on september 11th. the attacks 12 years ago. we'll talk to joe daniels, the president and ceo of the national september 11th memorial and museum.

President have to get up and talk about difficult foreign affairs news in a way that was asking the american people to join in on hard decisions. that's really never happened. so this was his chance to play that presidential commander in chief role and bring america in about why this is so important to the united states' national security interests. you know, i've heard it interpreted here, that they're going to have 70,000 troops to secure this. i've heard all kinds of craziness here for people who don't want to do this or at least want to make it a political issue. politics used to stop at t...

U.n. inspectors in to try to find those sites and how good is the intelligence? do we know what they've got and where it is? >> the intelligence is pretty good leading up to this conflict. remember, if we'd have gotten on top of this two years ago, as many of us were saying, hey, small and effective in the beginning instead of big and ugly later. well, guess what? we've had a lot of missed opportunities along the way. the details, the battle truth has changed over the last two years. so our options keep getting less and less. of course, with this, what looks to the international community is c...

Provocation from assad himself. it's hard for me to see how the back and forth with russia at the u.n. gets him more leverage with congress. he needs a lot more leverage if he's going to get a positive vote, even in the senate, let alone in the house. i think it's very difficult. given what the president has said, despite the moral urgency, despite what he said about his ability and constitutional prerogative to strike without, it's very hard for me to see how he does it. i just think intuitively i don't think he would. on the other hand, if it plays out in a way where he can avoid a vote and ...

I think i won't be the first to be critical of the way things have been sequenced over the last ten days or so. i think he's left himself now with that speech that on on the one hand, on the other hand, in a very rough place, both in terms of domestic politics and in terms of rallying any sort of coalition at the u.n. or anywhere else to make this come out in a way that achieves his objectives. >> jeff, how is he being viewed in tehran, in jerusalem, in damascus, in moscow? >> each of those capitals has its own issues. look, you know, there is more coherence to these two parts than some people...