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For most -- >> let me just stop. that's what you say when you think people are stupid and the public -- the public is not stupid. we get complicated. we get nuanced and people voted two times for a president who is nuanced. but he has been down right contradictory. >> michael, we know there has been a messaging people and the american people are not stupid which is why we're seeing numbers in the polls today. this is going to be a challenge for the president tonight. what can he say to change public perception? >> talk very directly about his real reasons for wanting to possibly have the strik...

Considering it is because of a threat of an american strike. >> it is only because of the threat of force that we are discussing today and that threat is more compelling if congress stands with the commander in chief. >> the president believes we need to keep this threat, this reality absolutely on the table. >> with the white house still pursuing authorization for the use of force to keep the pressure on, congress is scrambling to draft an alternative after the senate delayed tomorrow's key vote on the use of force. we start at the center of the action, the white house with nbc's peter alexan...

Limited in time and scope. i think that the stat tour, when a president said and the way we went about this will have some impact. i hope it's demin mus but it's not going to be the most artful way to have gone about it for leadership of the world. >> admiral, do the military folks you're in contact with think this strike as currently planned is a good idea? >> i haven't spoken to anyone about how it is planned in terms of what the targets are. but you know, it's going to be pretty obvious what the targets are. it's going to be some type of military target. we're going to probably strike at ni...

Vote, probably next week. it sounds like they are trying to come up with a resolution since the negotiations have been going on between the united states and russia and syria. so that it would create some sort of a system to endorse that for the senate. from what i understand in the house, it seems unlikely they would actually bring up some ig to vote on at this point. >> john, the majority of americans are zbens a strike and feel the situation has been mishandle d which is why yesterday with the developments congress and american people are relieved that maybe there is a possibility for a dip...

Over and over again this is not a real thing. this is very -- we're skeptical of this, no meat to this, what the russians are saying, playing a game here. then towards the end of the day, that language began to shift towards, well, the president did talk about this last year at the g-20 with mr. putin. so i think -- you have to look at putin's sort of ability to game out american politics and give him credit for that at least. >> okay, so putin at the moment when we're about to say, congress is saying, we don't want to strike, then he's game teenag ing it out and saying -- that's interesting. ...