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The challenge for the united states is when tomorrow we still have to wake up and work with them on syria, north korea, on getting supplies to troops in afghanistan. there's a whole bunch of other issues we need to continue to get progress on, arms control reduction, aside from this. that is what makes this so complicated. we need a strong response and that includes sanctions and that includes diplomatic isolation, but there's a limit. >> and could we -- you mentioned syria and iran -- could we have a productive working relationship with russia, which is vital to those two questions if we're p...

Chief political analyst and john fabro, former barack obama speech writer and karen hughes former bush campaigner adviser former white house communications director as well. john, you just came from the white house. you were kind of looking over the speech. there are a lot of different audiences for the speech. there's progressives within the president's party, there are republicans who he has to try to work with particularly on immigration reform the there's a lot of different audiences for this. >> i think the president's main audience is the american people. this will be as state of the uni...

Everything they want. but also the president can say to the country he is not going to wait. he has a pen and a phone. he'll use those to move the ball forward to create opportunity. >> but presidents before -- ronald reagan, a number of them -- have dealt with congresses of the different party and have been able to get things through -- a lot of serious stuff through. why can't this president. >> we have made progress. we have a budget this year. the president has the legislative record that stands up to any affordable care act. wall street reform array of issues we've made progress on. last ...

That it doesn't necessarily address the underlying civil war, the underlying problems in the region. i know that's something you have written about and i want to wrote from something you wrote. from the rae reagan era on, u.s. forces covert operationives engage in hostile actions. not to mention iraq and afghanistan. consider them altogether what you have is a war for the grater middle east. professor, to this point, yes, we will take out the weapons, these chemical weapons. assad at this point is in place and doesn't seem that we have made progress on not only solving the underlying civil war...

the path. from ohio to new york this morning and airlines are playing catch up after 900 flights were canceled. another severe storm watch in effect today. let's get the very latest from meteorologist rob marciano live in olympic park in atlanta. rough night for us up here. >> reporter: it was. not just for new york city, it was a massive storm system, christine. yesterday morning at this time we said the atmosphere was primed to explode and mother nature certainly took the cue yesterday afternoon. take a look at the radar from yesterday, i mean this damaging line of storms stretch...