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1,000 points. you can say it doesn't matter. you cast the vote that did what seemed to be the right thing for the country. you're saying that people who cast that vote paid the price of their jobs. that's pretty sad. it is a group that says we want this to pass but not with my vote. and you said i hope this passes but i can't vote for it. they're at their own political safety. as you look at the plates in american politics, these districts have become so polarized. they're either safely republican or safely democrat. senate not so much. you get a bigger vote in the senate. >> i have to say. i ...

You going to have israel's back? it's not just obama's credibility, it's the united states' credibility? >> absolutely. >> i accept the point, but it may be about all those red lines. but it's also about the president's red line. he is the one that has to make the decision. part of the complication in this debate, is if the president loses the vote, he still says he has the authority to act and there are people at the white house who say his credibility is now at stake. the credibility of the united states is at stake. so he probably would act. there are many people in the house of representat...

Ask secretary kerry about that. he kind of fumbled the answer at the beginning but at the end he tried to make it abundantly clear that is not the goal of the administration. so we'll see this inside the senate foreign relations committee tomorrow. they're going to debate it. and then there could be a vote in this committee with a goal sending it to the full senate earlier next week. >> so it looks like the senate, democratically led, is likely to vote in favor of the president. what about the house? obviously you now have speaker boehner and eric cantor saying that they would support it, they...

Why are we going to do this? is it going to make a difference or will it be a waste? are we going to make a hero out of assad? they want proof they are doing this for a tactical strategic reason and here is the one challenge for the president. right before the iraq vote back in 2002, the safe vote was yes. we can go back and look at that, the mistakes and that but the safe political vote was yes to be with president bush. many republicans now believe the safe political vote for them in the current dynamic is no. they're not going to lose an election by voting no. if the president doesn't make ...

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