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Levels of congress, and the president should have said look, we may confront this. i want to talk to you about what our potential range of response is, maybe that was done. it's above my pay grade but i'm not aware that that happened. >> congressman tom cole appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >> let us know what you think. follow me on twitter@anderson cooper, i'll be tweeting ahead. much more on syria ahead, including where we are internationally. also the latest line coming from bashar al assad, what he's warning will happen. he has new interview out. and later the fift...

You also have to show them a way forward. and that so far has not been articulated to the congress or the american people. >> we don't want endless war. john knows better than anybody, war is a terrible thing. we want sustainable security. syria is a cancer that's growing in the region. for two years the president has allowed this to become a debacle. >> congress is scheduled to return one week from today, which is the earliest a vote would happen, the vote is expected to be close and no indication which way it may go. >> any time you're talking about use of military force i don't believe any ...

Congressman, why do you disagree so strongly with debbie wasserman-schultz and with the president? >> i have great respect for my colleague. and she's been doing this a lot longer than i have, but this is my first vote on authorizing our president to use military force. i took this seriously, i took a red eye from los angeles and went back to washington, d.c., yesterday so i could have the classified briefing. i was on a phone call this morning when senator kerry and secretary hagel, secretary kerry and others, and i just am not convinced at this time that we ought to rush in and use military ...

They want to see the end of bashar. they have pledged money, they have pledged support and they want to see the destruction of the mafia that rules syria. other countries, when you think about it, is completely reprehensible. the egyptians, who have had their own revolution for liberty, are now siding with bashar al assad against the rebellion in syria. and then above and beyond that, have you the iraqis, iraqis whose liberty is owed to an american war. they want to see an american intervention in syria, that would deliver some deliverance, some -- we're not going to go into a big war in syria...

I think one can make an argument that the real jihaddys, they have gained, partly because they are getting the weapons, and we have not been providing weapons to more moderates, i really think it is possible to distinguish to some degree. i was just saying at the break, that when we journalists go into syria, we find moderate rebels to take us in. and to keep -- some american journalists have gone in recently, including a long story in the new york times the other day, was taken by the rebels and tortured for six months. >> there have been mistakes. >> this is the big failure of the turkish di...