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Now. >> you have expressed some doubts about military action in syria and i'm wondering if you can be for specific about your concerns over the consequences and what they may be and whether mr. putin shares any of the burden for the responsibilities of mr. assad's actions. >> i'm going to try to remember all this. first of all, the reset in the russian relationship was not done on a whim. there were specific u.s. interests that i believed we could pursue with russia where interests overhappened that would help us both on our long-term national security and our economy. and we succeed.

John mccain go that route? >> reporter: they knew he was concerned in one direction here that the president is being squeezed as you say. on one hand he has antiwar democrats from the left saying, why are we intervening at all? then you have folks like john mccain, saying intervene but don't make this a symbolic strike a shot across the bow as the president said last week. decimate assad's military. the president's team fanning out on hill. you saw secretary of state kerry and defense secretary hagel. they're back on the hill on closed hearing. yesterday was open hearings. what they're trying ...

Act of aggression. how much of what congress says matters in what we do. >> i think we have the facts. i'm sure in the closed sessions the members of congress will see the weight of evidence that we have, that this happened and the syrian government did it. it's a policy question. it's not an intelligence question. >> this is a question that goes to chemical weapons. it was asked moat ago and runs about a minute. listen carefully. >> the opposition doesn't have the capability to deliver weapons on this scale. these weapons are in assad's possession. we have intercepts indicating people in the ...

Chairman on his way into the briefing. here is what he had to say. >> the resolution with senator corker and i with input from members on both sides of the aisle have achieved, strikes the balance. it gives the president the wherewithal to have the limited military action that he's asked for in order to punish assad for the use of chemical weapons and the killing of innocent civilians. at the same time it is tightly tailored by having a time frame in it and by certainly prohibiting american boots, troops on the ground. >> reporter: while that resolution language is being introduced on the sena...