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>> peter alexander from 1600 pennsylvania for us on a sunday afternoon. pete, thanks so much. while the president works to convince the american public, action in syria is necessary, secretary of state john kerry is overseas trying to build international support. he talked about the danger of allowing syria's chemical weapons use to go unchecked. >> the message to hezbollah, iran, assad, will be that nobody cares that you broke this 100-year-old -- nearly 100-year-old standard, and you're using weapons that have been banned by 189 nations. >> andrea mitchell is in paris traveling with the secr...

Of eavesdropping and satellite images, why don't they just put some out there. >> the brain trust is going to be back in just a few minutes. we'll find out what they think the president needs to say in his address tuesday night to the nation. and also probably what the president will be saying tuesday night. we'll ask you guys to play soothsayer, if you will. congress, if you haven't heard, congress returns tomorrow with syria at the top of their agenda. i'll talk to one senator who thinks we need to strike syria now. we'll talk about the evidence that he's seen and why so many of his collea...

Much broken over there having nothing to do with us and yet it seems to be up to the united states and nobody else to try to fix this problem that just may be insoluble. >> one of the things you write about, david, is also that what appears to be some of what a lack of focus on a coherent long-term strategy for the middle east as well. >> the basic message for years interest this administration is, i'm going to get you out of the middle east. we are going to pivot to asia. the middle east doesn't matter to us. now all of a sudden after six years the president is like hang on, hang on. it is pi...

At over the last 48 hours and as a country collectively we think with our heads maybe, not so much our hearts now? >> well i think it is beth. the message and the messenger. i think david was being rather generous. i would say the president bungled this. david gregory said there is a lot of dig zagging with this administration. i think we see smart power get dumber by the day on this and president obama announcing what those targets will be. craig, i'm sure have you seen the reports to that al-assad is moving weapons to civilian areas so if we do strike the images on the television screen migh...

Going to be enough to sway a reluctant congress to sway a war-weary public? >> i don't think so. earlier here on your network, on msnbc with david gregory, he spoke to tom udall from new mexico who voted firmly no on this resolution. leslie sanchez, a liberal democrat from california, she's going to vote no on military intervention in syria. in mr. mcdoneough's, statement, clearly the president of the united states saying he would draw a red line. that was ignored. do we have any assurances that this spampging via military is going to work? >> as this goes on, as the crisis drags out, david, i...