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I gather that, you know, they are -- they understand that it has to be serious. he doesn't want to say it's for regime change. we're a strong country. even a modest intervention by us could help tip the balance on the ground. i think they are going to go after regime elements, command and control. i think it will be more than a slap on the wrist. that is why senator mccain and graham went to see the president today. i gather they feel somewhat better, not entirely better. but somewhat better than the administration is going to be serious about this intervention if they get the authority to int...

Intervening in a serious way, i've been very worried as so many people have, that the president would be symbolic and use a shot across the bow. in that case, some people think it would be worse than nothing. i don't quite agree with that. i gather that, you know, they are -- they understand that it has to be serious. he doesn't want to say it's for regime change. we're a strong country. even a modest intervention by us could help tip the balance on the ground. i think they are going to go after regime elements, command and control. i think it will be more than a slap on the wrist. that is why...

I don't quite agree with that. i gather that, you know, they are -- they understand that it has to be serious. he doesn't want to say it's for regime change. we're a strong country. even a modest intervention by us could help tip the balance on the ground. i think they are going to go after regime elements, command and control, some of the airfields. i think it will be more than a slap on the wrist. that is why senator mccain and graham went to see the president today. i gather they feel somewhat better, not entirely better. but somewhat better than the administration is going to be serious ab...

These are very precise weapons guided to their preplanned targets by satellite coordinates, 1,000-pound warheads on them, so very lethal. the target list, by all accounts, will include command and control centers, regime elements, weapons delivery systems areas, that sort of thing. anything they can get after that they can tie to potential chemical weapons attack or the regime itself and its efforts to engage in chemical weapons attacks. so that's what we're looking at. but still, at this hour it awaits officially a decision from the president. he has to sign an execute order, it has to come t...

Laying out the case why the american people should respond. let's bring in the panel. steve hayes, charles lane, and charles krauthammer. we will have more on the president's remarks a little later this segment. steve, start with you. what do you make of it today? >> secretary kerry gave a very impassioned case for intervention, strong case for intervention. we saw some of it there. i guess what struck me in listening to him, thinking about the administration's case more broadly is the tension between the case that they're making, urgency, strength of the case for intervention and what they al...