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Behind the scenes working the phones, and of course vice president biden who does have strong relationships with a number of members of congress, i anticipate that he will be quite active in the behind the scenes negotiations as well. and one more point i would like to make, craig, as we were awaiting president obama's remarks, you will recall that i said he was in the oval office on the phone, and we are now learning he was on the phone with the president of france alerting him about his decision to put this to a congressional vote. why france? because france was really the united states only...

In the same way that we have previous debated issues like iraq, it's going to -- it's going to create a dynamic where it will -- the perception that syria and iraq will be enhanced, and the administration spent all week long describing by syria and iraq are different, but now you are going to have the next two weeks arguing about why syria and iraq are the same. >> stick around, guys. i want to continue the tkeconve on the other side of the break. >> all members of congress of both parties, i ask you to take this vote for our national security. i am looking forward to the debate. in doing so i...

Looming budget deadlines as well, and oh, now, by the way, starting september 9th there is going to be quite the vigorous debate, and then a vote on military action. >> to me, there were two extraordinary aspects to the president's remarks there. one, and behind the scenes they have been dealing with this problem for all week which was what is the hurry? they could never come up with a rational publicly to satisfy whether it was ban ki-moon at the u.n. or whether it was a member of congress of why did the strikes have to happen now? what is with the rush to do this now? why can't it wait? what...

Politics and all the corridors of power, three years ago today president obama made an announcement about the end of the war in iraq, and now he is asking congress for the authority to wage a military strike in the middle east against syria. it's really striking where we are and where this president is, and who was opposed, he said, to dumb wars, who wanted to with draw from the conflicts of the bus bush era, and now is confrontsed that if we see chemical weapons being moved around, that would cross a red line. and now we get to the level of the monster us act forcing his hand. and then there ...

The request going up this afternoon is going to be narrow in scope, and president obama asking congress to authorize force to prevent and detour the use of chemical weapons in syria, the future use of chemical weapons in syria, and it's also -- i would imagine, it's going to be interesting, the political bedfellows made in the debate. >> absolutely, one person that will be more important or should be put in the spotlight because the influence is here, and that's the new united nations ambassador, samantha power, and she wrote a book, and she was an adviser for pwaurpl since she was a united st...