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Syrian people, 2 million of whom are turned into refugees. the cost of a single tomahawk missile is estimated to cost over 600,000 to $1.4 million. reports have indicated a strike can use up to 200 of them. that's anywhere from 120 million to 280 million dollars. you could write a check tomorrow to get much needed supplies to the refugee camp. right now, you can give money at the url. we as a country could also do what sweden, now hosting president obama has announced they're doing to help, offer asylum to syrian refugees. sweden became the first european country to announce they will give per...

>> people have got to begin to ask, who is benefiting from barack obama's foreign policy. time and time again, sadly and disturbingly, it's america's enemies who are benefiting. >> joining me now is tony blaken, white house deputy national security adviser. the president's comments this morning about a red line caught some confusion when he referred to it being essentially international red line. the president talked about how use of chemical weapons on the scale that we're now seeing would change his calculus when he enunciated that. can you clarify those comments for people? >> sure, chris. ...

The president has the power to act without congress. recent president's have done it before. and the recent presidents they'll point to include obama's intervention in libya. even the broad theory of executive power that was at issue there, right? we have authority to act as commander in chief without congressional authorization, despite the fact that the constitution gives the power to declare war to congress, as long as we don't do something that amounts to war under the constitution, right? that's the limits on the president's current theory. here the resolution the administration put forwa...

The entire way of thinking about foreign policy, that led you to support it was wrong. and now you are completely on the other side. you're very, very, very skeptical of military intervention. >> i am. and i remember, i think back to that sort of time when i was weighing he's arguments about iraq. it seemed to me a lot of the skeptics of war seem like they're knee jerk, anti-war people. almost pacifists. looking back on it, it seems to me it was true. they were knee jerk anti-war people. and it's because you should be kind of knee jerk, skeptical about war. >> we cannot go through individual m...

Iraq. why should we listen to you, why is it that you have not forfeited whatever authority you had along with everyone else who got this huge thing wrong? >> if you don't think you should listen to me, you shouldn't have me in the program. >> i want you to explain why i should listen to you. i'm persuaded to listen to you on the substantive issue. >> or whether you should let me talk and turn down the volume when i do. we're all shaped by our formative experiences. especially foreign policy. matt's formative experience was the iraq war. i'm a little older than matt. i have different formative...