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>> you know, first off you've got to think of smug like peter king. republican out of new york. former homeland security chairman. leez been critical of the president. also thinking about a white house bid in 2016. maybe he's not the perfect candidate, but if you look at other republican leaders, if you look at buck mckean. the armed services committee chairman. ed royce, another committee chairman in the house, somewhat lukewarm about what the president did today. not endorsed any resolution and you have otheristic iffal fights. if president obama can fought get this through congress it's goi...

Kerry, and you had a lot of concern around the world that it was going to be any moment, and then all of a sudden, president obama shifted. i think part of that was pressure in congress. pressure from both the right and the left. there were a couple letters about 200 lawmakers basically telling president obama, you can't do this. you have to come to congress. so the president is taking a gamble, though, because he thinks he can get this through the house and senate, and you know, harris, not much passes congress. this would be the exception to the rule. >> you know, what is it to say about the...

War but am proud of him for following the constitution and saying the president doesn't have unilateral authority. congress has the authority and he's going to seek it. >> i read you told this president how you feel about syria. do you think any of these conversations, or point to something, that would have gotten him to the point where he would say, i'm going to go to congress first. >> me and 80% of the public telling all representatives they want congress to vote on this. this is the way it was intended to be. james madison wrote in the federalist papers, the executive of the branch is most...

Going. again, ed henry told us at the top of the hour that the working bed deadline we're working with in terms of congress reconvening is september 9th. they could come back early. we haven't seen that since 2005. but it could happen, and we'll talk more about this as the hour goes on, but the president now reaching out in this letter form with his draft legislation of what it would look like. probably enumerating, were e don't know because we don't have the whole text yet, emumerating what exactly he would like to see in terms of the military strike on syria with regard to the chemical weapo...

Attack between's now and september 9th? so i don't think politically that he would be able to do that, if one of the houses or both houses of congress reject the measure. >> you know, let's talk about the timing quickly before we have to move on here to the next topic. the timing of this. general scales earlier on the program mentioned september 11th is also during that week, that they are voting on this. >> yes, yes. and i think it's interesting that the president today was making the case, both emotionally that there were children killed in this alleged chemical attack, but as well i think h...