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Missile strikes against syria, wouldn't that senator barack obama want congressional authorization? >> well, welcome to checks and balances. of course, when you're on the legislative part, you want to make sure you have the role there, but i think the president is very clear. he's threading a needle here. he has to react. we can't have a week go by while we talk, and then more people get gassed. if we're sitting here a week from now -- >> 1 4u7bz,000 people have already been killed through conventional weapons. >> that is terrible, but we cannot have a new normal in the world where chemical we...

Let's get straight to brianna keilar here to break it down for us. first, let's talk about the developing situation in egypt. we know the president, we've seen the pictures, talking with his national security team, probably not surprisingly. what do you know about the acts the white house is taking, what they're considering and what they might do in response to the developing situation there? >> reporter: i think at this point, kate, it's actually a bit of a wait and see, as they try to kind of see how things are developing because they obviously are moving very quickly on the ground there in ...

It's going to put another drilling line down here and they're going to try to drill down here into the old well. now, the scientists i talked to said this is really like threading a needle from a mile away down here to interrupt this. if they do it, they have a ability to tap that well or put concrete in here and cut this oil off altogether. that would be a big step in the right direction. >> coming up next, storms across the south has taken lives and homes. and why was the future pope benedict reluctant to defrock a molester preach. he got several letters pleading. what was the delay? follo...

President's, for example, tax cut plan, needing another republican in a very typically safe republican state like alabama represented in the senate. that is an undercurrent of what he is saying because he is not avid kating overtly for roy moore, he is pounding the democrat on issues that might inspire conservative voters to be engaged, things like the second amendment, talking act veterans, talking about crime in the military, things that might pique the interest of voters who, remember, just a year ago, largely supported the president himself. so it's threading a needle in a complicated qu...