Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130901:14:24:00
This will be and that a longer term engagement is going to require that from the beginning he had congressional approval. is this in part about the president rightly or wrongly believing strikes against assad will ultimately lead to a longer term engagement in syria? >> i think this is the assessment from the beginning. that's why he didn't want to engage for the last two years. o he knew that once you break it, you have to own it. it's highly sectarian but the civil war between iran and saudi arabia. we have partners and allies in the region, saudi arabia, qatar, turkey, israel. they have bee...