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To head the fed and of course the syria debate. i m not one that likes to pick winners and losers but democrats are certainly more unified coming out of the shutdown than they ve been in a while and that s always a good thing for the president, right? it is. the white house in this year and other years hasn t gotten a lot of gifts. generally world events tend to be against them and they re coping with them. and this was a gift handed to them with a bow by john boehner a few weeks ago. they see they succeeded in shutting down the government or threatening not to raise the debt ceiling less attractive in the future. and i think the president has reasserted himself in an ironic way because he stayed out of most of these negotiations as sort of the cooler head, which is always the position he like os to be in. michael, are those new ....
I think we in the media tend to get fixated on the processed stuff. what struck me about the whole syria debate was how twitter basically engulfed, there was such rapid reaction and analy s analysis. twitter engulfing a debate? that doesn t happen. but i think in that sense the public, i m assuming, largely tunes out the vast majority of this instant analysis and then will tune in and say what happened in the end. and i think in that sense obama may benefit from the fact that he s been patient on some of this stuff. but i think chuck also hit on a very valid point which is that this has also engulfed not just his domestic agenda in terms of the health care speeches that bill clinton gave and is going to give but also his foreign policy agenda. we were supposed to be pivoting away from the middle east at various points in time during his presidency to places like asia and latin america. and what happened prior to his speech today was the brazil president was denouncing the american ....
Somebody like senator paul can play right into that as well. so disruption is key. a great piece a couple weeks ago in the national journal, one of the things hit upon was even though the public service nonprofit sector, a lot of millennials want start-ups rather than big start-up organizations. this is not something we re just seeing in politics and government, it s across the nonpublic sector. it had an impact on the syria debate. you ve been in these cloak rooms, got a taste of it. but the political parties don t have if i would have told you ten years ago all of the congressional leaders are with the president on an action, everybody would have said, well, done deal, there s no debate. that is not the way congress works. congress is already a disruptive force. the leaders say one thing, and the members say, oh, yeah? well, i think there are disruptive forces within the congress, but i m not sure institutionally it is at that point yet. the debate around syria has been over, ....
Should respond to the syrian regime s suspects use of chemical weapons. she s visiting is the white house today on an unrelated matter and also weighing innen ot syria debate. let s bring in our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar. how significant is this show of support from hillary clinton? i think, wolf, it s significant in that it s telling. it s telling that president obama has a problem and it lies, obviously, not just with the republicans but within his own party. that s part of the reason why i think hillary clinton is going to be weighing in next hour. she s here to talk about a wildlife trafficking event so obviously this is very many unrelated but we understand she will be be briefly talking about syria as she will we expect briefly talk about it tomorrow when she gives a previously scheduled address in philadelphia. i do want to tell you, we ve gotten a little reaction in a senior administration official just on this latest that we re hearing about russia sayi ....
In iraq based on a false claim. reporter: a rare sunday briefing at the capitol. lawmakers, some still dressed for summer vacation, opened the syria debate. congress won t vote on the war resolution until next week. giving the u.s. time to build its argument against the syrian government. if the vote was taken today, several lawmakers tell abc news they believe it would fail. if congress acts like the british parliament then i think that we have abrogated our responsibility. the outcome depends on unusual alliances. reporter: some of the president s democratic allies are opposed to military action they don t dispute chemical weapons but are weary of war. is there another way to hold assad accountable? reporter: some of the president s republican rivals support military strikes. but hope he goes even further. the consequences of congress of the united states overriding a decision of the president of the united states of this magnitude are really very, very serious. reporte ....