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Military action. >> followed by -- >> i decided to respond to a targeted military strike. >> a winding, some say, confusing response. obama zigzagged. his serious struggle. the morning after and a message challenged. ahead, what's changed and what hasn't? you're live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning. thank you so much for being with me. i'm carol costello. right now all across the nation we pause to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in the worst terror attack in our nation's history. >> joseph amatuccio. >> paul w. ambrose. >> christopher charles amaroso. >> in new york city, the na...

That's it for us on "new day." our hearts and our minds go out to all of you dealing with the events of 9/11. time for "cnn newsroom" with carol costello begins right now. >> good morning and thank you so much. "newsroom" starts now. happening now, a push for peace. >> i have therefore asked the leaders of congress to postpone a vote. >> president obama 15 minutes in america's place in the world. >> sometimes resolutions and statements of condemnation are simply not enough. >> in the search for clarity moments of contradiction. >> i have resisted calls for military action. >> followed by -- ...

Would be a speech arguing for a military strike, but being pulled between a war-weary american public and his credibility and the u.s.'s credibility and instead became a speech to buy time. from the east room tuesday night president obama told americans why his administration is certain syrian president bashar al assad's regime is responsible for a sarin gas attack the u.s. government says killed more than 1,400 civilians. >> in the days leading up to august 21st, we know assad's chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin gas. they distributed gas masks...

And also, obama confusing winding response to syria. stephen colbert also had something to say about this, and why a focus on chemical weapons may not be enough. >> tonight we're stepping away from the conflict syria, because apparently, so is the united states. a lot of details still to be worked out, and we'll get into those tomorrow, but the upshot is that america will not attack syria for gassing its citizens if they give up their chemical weapons. it's like, if you decapitated a co-worker, so they're taking away your ax. but, you get to keep your job, and your hatchet. >> there you have i...