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For us in turkey. richard, you just heard the president's comments as well. how do you think that president obama's announcement and this decision to kick it to congress, how is this going to play with our allies? >> reporter: well, i think that i can tell you how it's going to play with a lot of syria tonight, one line in particular, this mission is not time sensitive. i think a lot of people who are in syria and are being shelled right now, who are in the school we profiled last night that was attacked by nepalm by the reseam, and people watched the images of children being buried every sing...

Israel is the underlying issue, and we want to draw a red line in a sense to stop assad now before he transfers chemical weapons to hezbollah and they can use that against israel. it's a fascinating debate. i think it's going to be a close vote. >> lynn, how is this going to play out politically for the president? >> it will be -- it depends on the details, and just judging from some of the reaction i am getting from the members of congress, the first threshold has passed and they wanted to be consult consulted, and they are c consult consulted, and a lot will be determined by the details they...

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President had been of the mind that a military strike was necessary and he was prepared to go it alone and prepared to unilaterally attack syria, and then these mounting calls for members of congress, but particularly we are told by senior administration officials what happened in britain, and the fact that the british parliament voted no, not to authorize a strike against syria, and that is something that really weighed heavily on president obama apparently, so last night we are told according to senior administration officials, the president took a walk with his chief of staff, and it was du...

Critical partner, and that the call on thursday that the administration had with the hill i was told was rather painful and this is a reflection of the reality that we have gone to the policy of doing just enough to enough is enough in ten days. >> david, you wrote about this friday. you wrote about the members of congress who remained unconvinced and you wrote in part those clear efforts to placate opponents of military action appear to be failing and warning of another iraq or are fueling this. how far do you think that this president is going to have to go to get members of congress onboard...