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Because of its design and capability. but putting man's systems into syria, i believe, would allow us better to address the target set that the president appears to want to get after, the destruction of which would deter further use and degrade further use. >> dana, you're hearing a lot of skepticism on this panel here with you as to the president's actions right now. and you've been on the phone hearing a little bit of skepticism in congress already. so how much work does the white house have to do and how do you suspect they will go about doing it in congress? >> a lot of work. and in part, ...

Comments from the secretary of state today and later from the president today, if the u.s. were to do nothing military what kind of message would that send? >> he has to do something because he basically publicly said sometime ago before the first chemical attacks this year said this would be a red line. and presidents should never bluff publicly in foreign affairs. it's a very dangerous thing. he's drawn a red line also in iran. he said, i think, correctly that it's unacceptable for iran to have nuclear weapons. so he's got to act in syria. i hope, frankly, he acts in a much more vigorous and...

Again, i think it's largely a message to be heard in tehran. it's largely a message for assad not to use chemical weapons again. but i don't think it fundamentally changes the dynamics. even if it's more extensive. i think they will do more than attack chemical weapons related site because that's not a good target set. we'll probably do a few other things here, command and control sites, maybe military sites. but i don't think it's going to fundamentally tip the balance. the other thing to watch whether the president starts supplying serious weaponry to the opposition. he's talked about it. he...

Iranians have always believed that the united states at the end of the day would not attack them and would try to contain the use of a nuclear weapon. however, i think they also believe that the israelis are likely to attack them. >> if israel does strike, what's the fallout as far as we're concerned? many we just heard bill talking about afghanistan and possible vulnerability here in the united states or at least u.s. targets, but what would be the vulnerability if israel strikes iran? >> well, first of all, for israel to strike it's a challenging operation from an air campaign perspective. y...

february 8th. rick santorum shakes up the republican race. he's coming off a three state sweep in minnesota, colorado and missouri. is an or rum hopes to cash in on his big wins. today he's in texas because an adviser says that is where the money is. so santorum said money isn't everything, but it's part of the game. >> we're doing very well raising money. i think last night we raised about a quarter of a million dollars online. and we feel like going forward we'll have the money we need to make the case we want to make. >> sap tore rum's rivals are nursing their wounds looking ahead...