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Thanks to john kerry's boo-boo we're not going to vote. >> this is another side to this. that is if president obama is not given the congressional authority to bomb syria, it will be the first time in american history that a president has asked for war-making power and the congress has said no. i think the president knows that at least the house is about to say no, and he wants to avoid that. >>steve: it was probably a gaffe that he asked for congressional approval but here we are now. come back tomorrow. who knows what we'll be talking about. meanwhile, 11 minutes before the top of the hour. ...

Diplomacy instead of striking. >>steve: i think i know what the president is going to say. he's going to say something like he said last night in one of or two of the interviews where he cast this new development where the john kerry gaffe has suddenly allowed the president to turn lemons into lemonade. and the president is going to say this development is a combination of power, threat to use military power along with what i have spoken to vladimir putin about in the past. it's a win-win for vladimir putin because he looks like he is taking the initiative on this and it is a win for the presi...

Here's bing west on his assessment, former assistant secretary of defense to ronald reagan. >> the bad news it now looks like president obama conceded the power to president putin of russia. the first thing putin is going to ask for is our guarantee that we keep assad in power. and assad can't turn over these chemical weapons if he's not in power. already putin has checkmated president obama. >> ironically president obama's experience was as a community organizer in chicago. so we have a k.g.b. fellow dealing with a community organizer. unfortunately i have to kind of bet on the k.g.b. guy. >>...

Today in testimony change your mind? >> well, not really. i want to keep an open mind on this. i wanted to let the administration make the best case it can for it. i thought senator kerry gave an excellent speech today, but i still have difficulties with it for reasons i'm sure we'll talk about here in a minute. >> do you agree with secretary of state john kerry and the president and all we've heard from the white house that the president has the authority, legally, constitutionally to do this even without congressional approval? >> i do not agree with that, and not only that, i'm not alone up...

Mind? >> well, not really. i want to keep an open mind on this. i wanted to let the administration make the best case it can for it. i thought senator kerry gave an excellent speech today, but i still have difficulties with it for reasons i'm sure we'll talk about here in a minute. >> do you agree with secretary of state john kerry and the president and all we've heard from the white house that the president has the authority, legally, constitutionally to do this even without congressional approval? >> i do not agree with that, and not only that, i'm not alone up here, and it's bipartisan. the...