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Their chemical weapons arsenal. general, are you familiar with it. >> i'm not familiar with the french assessment. i'm familiar with our own. >> we have a copy of it here and it's been published. and we have talked a lot about sarin gas and other nerve agents. and what we hear from their report and i'd ask you if it's close to what your assess. is, the syrians have more than 1,000 tons of chemical agents and precurse ker chemicals. several hundred tons of sarin representing the bulk of their arsenal. it's also been speculated that they have the missile capability of delivering these chemical w...

The syrians have in terms of their chemical weapons arsenal. general dempsey, are you familiar with? >> i'm not familiar with the french assessment. i'm familiar with our own. >> well, let me ask, we have a copy of it here and it's been published and we have talked a lot about sarin gas and other nerve agents. and what we hear from this report, andi ask you if it's close to what your assessment is, the syrians have more than 1,000 tons of chemical agents and precursor chemicals, sever hundred tons of sarin, representing the bulk of their arsenal. it's also been speculated that they have the mi...

Is that objective? and up to what limit do we get to before putting troops on the ground? >> it's difficult, you're right, it's a difficult line to draw and as much as we like to think that cruise missile strikes are very precise, nothing in war fare is all that precise and we have to expect that we will hit the military targets. there may be civilian casualties as well. and you can never rule out the potential loss of american life even if we don't fly over syrian air space. these kind of exercise are dangerous for all involved. i think that we can draw the line in the right place. we can mak...

Of singing in the shower. welcome back to "weekends with alex witt" i'm mara schiavocampo. after a week-long recess congress resumes monday and one of the issues they'll likely be discussing is israel's airstrike on targets in syria and the potential impact on washington. joining me now for more on this from dallas, texas, republican congressman michael burgess. congressman, thanks so much for being here this morning. >> good morning. happy to be with you. good morning to you. >> so let's start with the news that israel has launched airstrikes in syria. what are you hearing about this, inclu...

Missile capability plus the fact they're already well ahead with their nuclear weapons program, this is really alarming. it also, to my mind has echoes what the iranians are up to. they're engaged in a similar track. they're developing nuclear capabilities that they're developing missile capabilities and if you can marry the two together then you've got a really significant threat. martha: you know, i mean are we looking at basically a changing dynamic? you talk about a game-changer. we talked about game-changers in syria. how close are they to actually accomplishing this? i read this morning ...