hope you will be back with us in the future. next sunday when it is time for more buzz. we start with a fox news alert on the crisis in syria. our nation's top diplomats are saying that the united states has not ruled out going back to the united nations security council for another vote on syria. that though after united nations inspectors complete their report on last month's alleged chemical attack. that report could come later this week. secretary of state john kerry who was overseas trying to bolster international support for the military strikes against the assad regime. mr. kerry is saying this morning the option to wait for the u.n report before military action starts is still on the table. some world leaders demanded just that, but he says the president has not yet made a

decision. and good morning, every. welcome to "america's news headquarters" and the latest on syria. >> good to have you back with you this morning. there is a new television interview actually with syrian president al-assad. he denies he was behind the deadly attack and suggesting his allies will retaliate against anyone who tries to punish him. the threat is coming as the white house launches this high stakes lobbying blitz to try and win public support for what it is calling a limited attack against the regime. steve centanni is in washington with more on that. hi, steve. >> hi, jaime. the president is stepping up pressure as he works to win support from the congress and the american people for a limited strike on syria. it comes as video is provided by a u.s. government official, the same video available to members of congress showing that gas attack in syria last month. secretary of state john kerry is in paris for a meeting with the arab league.

>> those videos make it clear to people that these are real human beings, real children, parents being affected in ways that are unacceptable to anybody, anywhere by any standard. >> the president is making phone calls and hoping to convince members of congress and he plans to address the american people tuesday night. his chief of staff set the stage for a congressional debate this way. >> not a person -- i have talked to dozens, but not a person is refuting the intelligence that is to say we know what happened on august 21st. he used chemical weapons, assad used chemical weapons against his people. now the question is to say are there consequences for a dictator who would have used those weapons to gas to death hundreds of children? >> but the president faces strong opposition from the left and the right. republicans are questioning the wisdom of a strike for a

number of reasons. listen. >> it is a face saving measure for the president after he drew the red line. that's what i'm concerned about. once we're in, we're in. this is an act of war. little wars start big wars and we have to remember that. >> i wish the president had laid this out better. i wish he would back away from his own red line and i wish he was more of a commander-in-chief than a community organizer. >> the congressional debate begins as early as monday in the u.s. senate. jaime? >> steve centanni live in washington with more on the story. thanks so much, steve. jaime, president obama faces the critical test this week as he prepares to make his case for strikes in syria before congress and the american people. a coming speech in just 48 hours from now. they continue to focus on his policy. the president refused hillary clinton's advice last summer to arm the rebels. efforts at the united nation else has yielded zilch.

and then there was the face-to-face, toe to toe meeting at the g-20 where the president could not convince vladimir putin and other world leaders to support the strikes. how can he change the minds of congressional opponents? and they are all fellow americans. the former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and the former chief of staff to george mansion. the administration is lobbying hard. they are in over drive and trying to twist arms. will that change any minds? >> i don't. it is too little, too late. a president should be leading his country into war with a purpose and a conviction and a plan and a cost and the american people don't see any of that. we are going kicking and screaming by a president who wants to do this to save face for a threat he couldn't make good on. no international community support and the american people don't support it. when you have a senator like dianne feinstein who comes out of a meeting and says the american people don't know what we know.

and that's exactly right. we don't have trust in our leaders. we don't have trust in our intelligence and action evidence, compelling evidence that we haven't seen yet. i don't think the american people are prepared to give the president the backing through congress. >> that's what he has done wrong, so what has he done right? >> that's a tougher question to be answered to be frank. i think what he has done right is go to congress. i think that was the right thing to do. the problem i think we now are facing, the administration is now facing is that this is not just war weariness. this is something else. there was a hornet's nest that was stirred up among the american people both on the democrat side because i think the country just does not want to go to war again and unfortunately i think the administration has not made a very good case in terms of why we need to do this and why it is in our strategic interest and why it serves our national security. we can be horrified at these

terrible images, but if this is an international norm and standard it requires the international community to stand up and that's what most americans think. i will leave you on this last note, if what is happening in congress in terms of the number of calls -- i will give thank you one factoid -- but they have gotten 4,000 calls, 4,000 against and less than 50 for. that is indicative of what is going on across congress and that is indicative of what the american people feel like right now. this has not been something they are designed to support so the president has a real tough sell the next couple days. >> that will start tomorrow

>> the president couldn't convince one person. now we have john kerry begging and pleading please do this for america. it shouldn't be doing it for america. it should be are to the right reasons. it is to stop a dictator from committing genocide. we can't get anybody to support us. the american people are saying we are not doing it alone. been down that road and not going back. >> isn't that a pathetic commentary on the world? they went to the united nations and the security council for two and a half years. russia, the fifth partner has that veto and as the president said the president is sitting toe to toe 20 minutes and they they -- according to the new york times they took a vote among the world leaders and the president lost. >> well, i think this is a reflection of the real divisions that we find in the world right now. listen, let's be frank about it. a lot of this is a hangover from iraq, both for the american people and the

international community. there was huh loft anger and frustration that bore out of the fact that the intelligence was not reflective of the reality the bush administration was selling. so there is that part of it. that being said this is a very complicated issue with a lot of internal divisions and complications about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? can we identify the god guys in syria? the american people when they look at this and i think they are looking at this much more than the elites in washington give them country -- give them credit, there are a lot of questions and they haven't been answered. that's why you are seeing a lot of members of congress reflect the will of their constituents and say i am not sure we can support this right now. i think the president has a chance to change people's minds when he gives his speech , but it will be a very difficult sell. >> sorry to interrupt you. harry reid believes he has his hey are up tohe senate. 218 or so who are against or leaning against. brad, is there time do you think to turn that around or

can he or will he commit a military action against syria as he says as commander-in-chief and he has the power to do it without congressional approval. >> the president may squeak by in the senate. i don't think he will be close in the house. when you have the whips of both parties saying they will not whep their people it is a conscious vote. what does that tell you? if the president has a divided congress and acts alone he does it at his peril. he went for advice and consent and if he disregards them, i think he is going to be in a lot of trouble. let me say this, eric, putin could stop this in one minute. all he has to do is commit to the world that russia, assad's number one ally, will seize ,ing seize,ing -- seize, account and guard the chemical weapons in syria. if they take charge of the chemical weapons and guarantee the international community that it will never happen again putin could stop this. >> they could stop this in a new york minute to protect the economy and that one russian

naval base? >> this is all about games man ship between putin and the united states. where is the rest of the world? sitting on their hands. >> it will have to be the last word. thank you both and everyone will be watching in just 48 hours from now. thanks again. of course the president is not just going to congress, but also going to us individually. he has agreed to conduct six television interviews. they are lined up for tomorrow. one of those interest -- interviews will be with our own chris wallace. it will air monday at 6:00 p.m. eastern time here on the fox newschannel during our program "special report" with brett bier. >> what is the potential fallout of attacks on assad's military? could a strike do more harm than good? chuck nash will join us next live to tell us what he thinks. >> and there is a tragedy that occurred in colorado. she was a budding track star, gone too soon, and it was all

because police say of a prank. it has so tragically and sadly left her family and friends understandably devastated. >> i looked out and saw them coming out. there were three guys and a girl and they were all running out of the house and screaming, hurry, hurry, we have to go!

well, a high school track star has lost her life after a prank goes horribly wrong. it happened in colorado. police say the 18-year-old girl was hiding in a closet and she suddenly jumped out to scare her friend. police say her friend had a gun and thought she was an intruder and shot her to death. her parents are understandably heart broken. >> she was really good. she was very strong. >> she was always there for me and that's the hardest part. >> the friend is now in police custody on charges unrelating to the shooting. police call what happened unintended and extremely tragic and they are continuing their investigation.

president obama, as many of our guests have said, is fighting an uphill battle as he tries to ease the concerns over his plans for military intervention in syria. he says an attack against the assad regime would be limited, but americans are skeptical that the u.s. can carry out any sort of attack without becoming tangled in another costly and lengthy mideast war. chuck nash is a retired navy captain and fox news military analyst. captain nash, great to see you today. >> nice to be back with you, jaime. >> can you define what is a limited strike? >> that is hard. it is like limited combat is limited only if you are not in it. if you are in it, it is anything but limited. but i think what the president and some of the national security advisors are talking about is the use of standoff weapons and not direct contact with u.s. forces and people. so it is lobing missiles, lobing standoff weapons and

doing selective targeting. i would go with that as a, woulding definition. >> it is interesting that assad is being quoted as saying today that he has grave concerns about if there were a strike to -- that it would debilitate his ability to conduct operations militarily or otherwise. but can you guarantee with 100% certainty if you go in on a mission that you can get out without having to exert more force than you intended? >> no. in fact there is no where near 100%. i think that's well under 50% that you could guarantee that. the reason is you may have a plan, but that plan only lallses as long as -- only lasts as long as first contact and then the enemy gets to vote. to think we are just going to be a boxer in a ring and get to walk across, sucker punch the guy in the other corner and walk back and have the fight called, that's not what is going to happen. if you attack someone, you

have to expect that they will respond in some fashion, and then what do you do? that's called step two. and then that yields a step three and four. anybody who thinks we are going to do one and done is sadly mistaken. >> no one is more supportive of our troops and their capability, other than your colleagues and fellow military members, than me. i believe they can do whatever they set their mind to given a detailed beginning, middle and end to a mission. before we send anyone in there , i know no boots on the ground, but before we begin any sort of strike, if our resources and capability are so good and so over powering that it would be effective, then why isn't the threat of a strike enough to get assad to fold? >> because talk is cheap, especially in the middle east. if you are going to do something they want to see what you are going to do. if you throw some 1/2 hearted

effort that tells them what they need to know. they know you are not serious. we have gone out and listed a lot of things that we are not going to do. that's not how you start a military conflict. that's not how you conduct a military operation by saying, okay trust us. we are just going to come over and do something to make us feel good about, quote, doing something, but don't get all excited about it. i'm telling you they are going to get excited about it if you unleash weapons on the syrians, they will respond in some fashion. >> i mentioned in our 10:00 a.m. hour that i would ask this question and i really do want to hear what you have to say. we are giving so much information -- not us, but the administration, the obama administration of what you say they won't do and what we will do. is there any precedent for that in either iraq or afghanistan or any other events or conflicts we have been involved in where we have basically said we are going to do it, but we are not going to

do it right now. we are doing it after this date or that date. what is the impact of that and our ability to achieve the mission? >> we have done it to some degree in afghanistan by allowing the enemy to understand what our rules of engagement would be for night raids and for m boings and for things like -- for bombings and things like that. we told our enemy al-qaeda what woo would do and would not do. they were able to train their people how to respond to that and to resist the an teargas techniques we would use. there have been mistakes made all along. this is not the first time somebody got way out in front of reality with talk, but now it becomes a problem because with all of the unsettled countries in the middle east this is -- we have to go back to probably decades until you get this much upsettedness.

that's not a word, but until you get that much stir and froth in the middle east as there is right now. >> we understand what you mean. let me ask you, is it possible that the syria attack could end up being president obama's iraq or afghanistan because it ends up being a long, pro tracted war? >> it is possible and not only possible for u.s. involvement, but this is supposed to be a world issue, remember. the president said the world drew the red line so where is the world? we are once again when the bell rings it seems that we are the world's fireman and we are going running in there. if this starts it could open up a middle east war because in the real essence of this, you have a sunni-shiite fight going on as the underling thing that is doing all of this. then you throw in the jihadists and the muslim brotherhood and trying to recreate that government and all of a sudden you have all of the ingredients for a major

mess. it is not something that can be confined inside the borders of the state of syria. >> i appreciate your analysis and i encourage our viewers who are following this to look at a map and see where syria lies and all of the countries around it. it is a big job. that whole region could have more turmoil than it does now. you explained it so well. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> eric? >> when al-assad first assumed power in syria in 2000 in the wake of his long-time dictator father's death there were high hopes that the western educated london living doctor would take his country in a new direction. there was even the splashy "vogue" magazine spread that praised his glamorous wife. what happened? we go to washington for more. >> when al-assad, just 34 and educated partially in the west gave his inaugural address in

2000 he pledged to lead the country forward toward a future that would fulfill the hopes and ambitions of the syrian people. fast-forward 13 years and he now stands accused of killing those very people with chemical weapons. in the interim, was it assad or the west's perception of him that evolved? >> there were hopes that he would be a reformer. he played the united states by making them believe that he had intentions that he did not actually have. >> though president bush hoped he would live up to his billing as a reformer he eventually concluded that the younger assad would remain as his father had been, closely linked with iran and hezbollah and the u.s. would be unable to establish a sub substantive relationship with syria. then house speaker nancy pelosi decided to visit assad in 2007 and the bush white house publicly disapproved calling it a, quote, bad idea. then senator and now secretary of state john kerry met with assad many times and called him a very generous man.

>> four years ago there was a belief by many that there was still a diplomatic route here in working with assad and the regime. the secretary, of course, was a prominent member of the foreign relations committee. he was somebody who met with him to pursue that route. >> as recently as march of 2011 then seskt state hillary clinton said many believed assad was a reformer. a clinton aide said she is backing the president's efforts to get congressional authority for a strike on syria. in washington, shannon bream, fox news. >> and president obama will address the nation on syria on tuesday night. many lawmakers remain unconvinced that a u.s. strike is the answer. we will talk with one senator who opposes the military strike and ask him what does the president have to say tuesday night to change his mind? >> and get this, a s.w.a.t team actually killed a 107-year-old man. that's right. he was 107 years old.

it happened during a shootout. what sparked the gunbattle next.

now for the stores that are making news at this hour. there are conflicting reports at the moment on a nato airstrike in afghanistan. afghan officials claim the attack killed 15 people including nine civilians. nato says the attack killed 10 insurgents and it has no reports of any civilian casualties. and pakistan's president is stepping down at the end of his five-year term. he rose to power after the assasination of his wife in december of 2007. >> and police killed a 107-year-old man. that happened during a standoff in arkansas. they say they were responding to a domestic disturbance that turned into a shootout.

fantasy land. this is not some sort of conjecture. al-assad has used chemical weapons at least 11 times or so according to our best judgments. with clarity now in this evidence we have presented to the world on august 21st, he has one of the largest stocks of chemical weapons in the world, and at the moment he has no intention of really negotiating. so it is certain that if he is threatened he will use them again. >> well that's the warning that happened this morning from secretary of state john kerry. he was in paris as he continues to try to make the case for military strikes against the al-assad regime. he says if the world does not act now, when? as philosopher edmund burke says all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is good men do nothing.

does nothing aid the atrocities of al-assad or what should doing something actually be? joining us from new orleans, louisiana is the louisiana republican senator david vitter who opposes a military strike. senator, thank you for joining us and welcome to fox newschannel. >> thank you, eric, good to be with you. >> the president will speak in under 57 hours from now and doing interviews tomorrow. what do you want to hear from the president that could potentially change your mind? >> i don't expect to change my mind. i only made my decision after very, very careful thought after gathering all of the evidence i could including participating in a classified hearing with the defense secretary and the chairman of the joint chiefs. >> why didn't that change your mind? others say it changed their mind to support the strikes. >> i don't know of anyone whose mind was changed at the briefing at the hearing i was at. maybe i am wrong. i don't know of anyone whose mind was changed by that. i think what i have not heard what the american people have

not heard and what we are not going to hear is how this is a direct security threat on the united states and our allies? there is not. there is no direct threat. it is a horrible situation as almost every modern civil war is. it is a horrible, horrible humanitarian situation. that should spark concern around the world and hopefully the world community will organize and do something about it. but obviously that's not been the case and we in the united states again are essentially being asked to bear all of the load or 99%. >> the president has said and quote that this does pose an imminent direct threat to the united states. what happens if it encourages other dictators or other organizations to get chemical weapons and use them? >>e do something about that and use against us, use against our allies and use across any border would be much more serious situation.

but the slippery slope argument i think has its limits. if that happens and if it is a direct threat against us then we do something about it. >> without getting into specifics of your classified briefing, we know publicly so far that authorities believe that the segment 450 of the syrian army potentially did commit this act. they have evidence, they say, that the soldiers put on gas masks and the shells came from the area where the assad military was and not where the rebels were. the assad folks have this material and the eu today says that basically assad did it. but you do have a point that there is no, quote, direct proof. they have the intercepts, but for you that is not enough. >> eric, my issue is not the proof about what was done and who did it. i accept that conclusion. i don't think we are 100% guaranteed of that, but i think certainly the great wave of evidence points in that direction.

that's not my issue. my issue is what is the direct threat to the united states or its allies? how are our security interests directly impacted? >> and what have been the answers that you have gotten from that question? >> well, you know, the administration has laid out a case, but to me 95% of that case is about humanitarian concerns. i appreciate those. it is a horrible civil war. but that is very different from a direct national security threat on the united states. we do face direct and very onerous threats this the middle east. the top one by far is iran's development of nuclear weapons. one of my big concerns is if we get involved in syria after iraq, after afghanistan, the american people are not going to have the stomach to do what it possibly will take to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons. that is a major concern. it has been a major factor in my decision making. >> finally, senator, president

clinton who you remember well launched the airstrikes in bosnia and kosovo and that worked. how about the moral stance? the issue of chemical weapons being horrendous and these atrocities so unspeakable. there is the holocaust and the refrain never again and now it has happened again. what do we tell the syrians who are standing by with that and deal with it as a moral issue? >> first of all it is unmistake blee horrible. it has happened again. by the way it has happened again in syria. it has happened almost a dozen times in syria. it happened in iraq and we did not intervene at the time in iraq over chemical weapons. it happened against the kurds and it happened against iran. i don't think anybody is debating that it is not horrendous. the question is, is it a direct threat right now on the united states or our allies, and do we get involved in yet another middle eastern country particularly one we have much more serious threats in the

offing, particularly iran and the nuclear weapons. >> that is the challenge and the warning and the threats that this country faces. senator vitter, thank you for joining us on the fox newschannel this morning. >> thank you. well, the president makes his case to us in just over 48 hours. that's tuesday night. we know it will be september 11th. for more on syria and what a looming attack could mean to us and i believe tuesday is september 10th, but i might be wrong, but here is a look behind the news. >> wednesday marks 12 years since al-qaeda attacked the world trade center. the world trade center and the taliban and four american passenger planes. since then we fought two long wars, three if you count intervention in libya. the president is now contemplating a third in syria. it is the libyan intervention that should rivet our attention. we aided the rebels and brought down qaddafi in 2011. barely 11 months later on 9/11

rioting radical islamists murdered four americans including ambassador chris stevens at a come bound in benghazi. the obama team was under the impression that the rebels were freedom fighters. to this moment the american public hasn't learned the details of how this bloody chapter unfolded. the movements of the president and former secretary of state hillary clinton that night remain a mystery. dubious investigations of the beurocracy lead no where, and hillary's replacement, john kerry, has reinstated the four state department employees suspended for their ineptitude. no accountability, no blame. probing by book authors and a few journalists have established that the administration knew it was a terror attack from the start, but the president gave no order for a u.s. military

assets less than an hour away to aid the desperate men. in that hour of excruciating need mr. obama went awol. in the last year libya's militias have transformed the country into the world's leading basket case. oil production has plunged and the government hangs on by a hair as tribes and militias ravage the country in a rein of terror. weapons abound, many of them fall out from the u.s. inter veption. intervention. two facts stand. first, we have not arrested even one of the embassy attackers. second, the octopus reach of al-qaeda is broader than ever. the estimated three dozen or so americans on the ground that night who were flown out of tripoli have not spoken a word. there is a strong suspicion they have been silenced so far. if the obama team finds it

pallettable to absorb the murder of four americans what kind of standards will it apply to the lives of those who have fallen in other action in the middle east? even one that is camouflaged by the glib argument of a president who would clean up his sorry legacy at the expense of american security and prestige. secretary of state kerry, a man who made his career testifying to uncorroborated atrocities in vietnam called intervention in libya a good idea. he said it would improve our image in the arab world. right. now he is sounding the trumpets of war again. is he trying to make up for his youthful timidity? notice how upset kerry appeared last week at the congressional hearing when republican jeff duncun of south carolina asked if the president could be trusted after benghazi.

as for hillary, she continues her lucrative appearances on the lecture circuit, and if you can bet she will not mention benghazi, someone should ask what she heard when she got the symbolic 3:00 a.m. phone call. the question is should a nation trust mr. obama on another mission when he has refused to tell the world and the families of those who fell in the carnage how they died and why? on wednesday if you think about 9/11 and the brute philosophy that fathered it, take some time to remember that other 9/11 in benghazi one year ago. ask yourself why an administration so hell bent on committing our forces to another meaning less middle eastern mission add meantly refuse to tell us what happened that night in the fires of benghazi. what a military strike

could mean to israel. that from tel aviv next.

there are disturbing new threats from the allies of the assad regime in syria. the chief of staff says any military action will have consequences beyond the region and leave, quote, israel in flames. joining us to discuss the potential threat to his country, former israeli ambassador and fox news contributor. when the president speaks on tuesday night and we can confirm he will, what will israel want to hear and what about the rest of the world? >> well, jaime, israel will want to hear clear commitment to doing what is right and to punishing syria for the heinous crimes. in fact, i am not sure the

israelis want to hear another speech. i am not sure americans want to hear another speech. there have been too many speeches. there have been too many words. there has been far too little action. this is the middle east. this is not the midwest. talk is very cheap here. people really have the perception that the president has made too many speeches and done too little. we fear that if it is just another speech and it is not followed by effective action the most dangerous thing to israel and to america's allies will be a perception of the weak america. those words will be heard not only in the midwest and not only in the middle east, but they will be heard in iran and they will be heard all over the world and heard in russia. they will be interpreted, and they will have to be very strong and followed by effective action to have any meaning. otherwise, the weakness and the perception of weakness will probably be very, very dangerous. >> i want to ask you,

ambassador, about that. a limited strike, is israel in favor of that? you are the one i come to when i have a question about the region . is that enough? >> well, quite frankly, i heard that the military analyst of yours before and i think he is right. i don't know what a limited strike means. i am also very worried by the fact that the president is going around and telling everybody it is going to be small and it is going to be limited and it is going to be contained! the people listening to this are not just the senators or even the american people he is trying to convince. it is the syrians, the iranians and what are you telling them? are you telling them, you know, this won't hurt? don't worry. it will be over soon. that is not a message that resonates loudly in the middle east. after all of the talk and bra -- and the bravado, the world and america's allies want

effective action. i don't know what limited means, but it will have to be very effective so assad nef, ever -- never, ever again is able or contemplates using chemical weapons. this is what it is all about and the iranians who are listening and watching will have to understand that they too will pay a price if they continue their quest to become nuclear. that's what this is all about. >> excuse me for the delay, i'm sorry. i wanted to ask you too, ambassador, say it is effective and it accomplishes exactly what it is meant to and assad gets the message. would iran as well? what do you really believe? >> well, i must say that after the weeks of hesitation h and -- and the perceived weakness it has em boldened it has embol unfortunately, iran and you can hear it from its leaders. there is no doubt that action in syria should not be a punishment

to syria but a very clear message to iran and i hope it is because if it's not it really will result in the fact that iran will continue its race and get away with murder literally get away with murder literally attempt to stop it, i think we will witness an arms race which eventually will become a horrible arms race in the whole of the middle east and turn this neighborhood into a and turn this neighborhood into a much bloodier and much darker neighborhood than it already is. so this really is very crucial and we are waiting to see what the president does and how he does it. >> ambassador dan gillerman, we'll learn more tuesday night. thank you for joining us and we'll be right back, everyone. when you realize you need to switch to verizon,

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well, first a mother's convicted of killing her son for a $5,000 insurance policy. her name is deborah milkey. she's been on death row for more than 20 years but guess what, she's getting a new trial and she's been released even. joining me is criminal defense attorney weighing in now. bob, have you ever heard of anything like this? >> it's pretty unusual but what we have is a ninth circuit that basically is concerned about the credibility the detective that allegedly took a confession that

was not recorded, an issue of the written waiver of the miranda rights and as a result they believe that she deserves a new trial. bond was posted at $250,000 and she's out. >> there's a concern, too, that she might run. david, i want to ask you this. there are two men that she was said to have hired for the insurance policy that were out in the woods. they are both incarcerated. >> the prosecutor could say, you're on death row now, i'll give you life in exchange for your testimony. but that detective, he brought deborah into the room and got a confession, no video recording or an audio. the problem is they didn't know there were eight other cases thrown out of court because of lying under oath and violating the constitutional rights of defendants. now the jury will know about that. this case could blow up for the prosecutor and she could walk free when the trial begins in

september. september 30th, actually. >> if they do another trial, bob, and the result is the same and she's convicted again, would she go back to death row? >> well, obviously if it goes to trial again i assume there's going to be a penalty phase all over again and she would go to death row because there's going to be a new trial. you wonder if the evidence is weak are they going to try to approach this case from negotiation basis. remember, one of the co-defendants co-hab stated with her after she got away from the ex-husband, she was concerned about the safety of her child. some of the backdrop in this case is interesting as it relates to her and her ex-husband. if she goes to trial again, i assume there will be a penalty phase if she's convicted. >> david, what did you want to say? >> the problem is, now the jury will know that there was a corrupt detective in the case. it may come down to her being

convicted but not being given death. >> i'm glad you brought that up. they may have to give a special instruction on that. guys, thanks so much. interesting case. we really appreciate it. >> thanks, jamie. >> you bet, jamie. more on the other side of the break. stay with us. . she was a picky eater. we now i'm her dietitian... ...anlast year, she wasn'tating so well. so i recommended boost complete nutritional drink to help her get the nutrition she was missing. and now she drinks it every day. well, it tastes great! [ male announcer ] boost drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones, and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. and now boost comes in two delicious, new bars. look for them next to boost drinks. [ dietitian ] now, nothing keeps mom from doing what she loves... ...being my mom.

well, on syria, president obama will go to the american people and have a sit-down interview with chris wallace. that interview airs tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. during a special report with bret baer.

>> have a great sunday and america news headquarters is next. thanks for staying with us for the past three hours. >> take care, everybody. call on members of congress from both parties to come together and stand up for the kind of world we want to live in. the kind of world we want to leave our children and future generations. >> selling syria. president obama launching an all-out media tour. s sit-down interviews and address the nation on tuesday. as his administration releases disturbing video showing the horror of chemical weapons in that country. can the commander in chief convince a skeptical congress and a war-weary nation that america needs to get involved in another conflict. in this hour, chris smith, peter king, and with democratic supporting question democratic

john gearamendi. another congressional runaround for the white house. this time they are going after guns. i'll sit down with governor rick perry, an adamant second amendment defender. and christmas is already ruined. you can blame congress for that lump of coal. this is america's news headquarters live from the nation's capital and we begin with a political push from the white house for a political strike on syria as congress prepares to head back to capitol hill to debate a resolution that could authorize the president to launch u.s. missiles, maybe more. in response to the deadly chemical weapons attack in syria. live here in washington with the very latest, hello, steve. >> shannon, the pressure is on. the white house is pushing hard to get the support of congress and the american people for a limited strike on syria.

the president is making calls and twisting arms on capitol hill. he'll go on tv and on tuesday he plans to address the american people. secretary of state speaking in syria says that nerve gas is much more insidious than conventional artillery. >> gas is indiscriminate. it goes wherever the wind takes it and the depth that goes with it is a depth that many people decided was too horrendously described. >> obama wants a limited action designed to punish bashar al assad while hopefully tipping the balance to their rebels in that syrian civil war. >> the risks of inaction, chris, outweigh the risk of action. this is a person that has gone from using overwhelming force to napom on children with a scale and scope we have not seen in nearly three decades. >> plenty of criticism of the

president and it's coming from both sides of the aisle. >> look, i am a big supporter of president obama and support him on almost everything. and -- but sometimes friends can disagree. we're being told that there's two choices. do nothing or bomb syria. clearly there have to be some other choices in between. we ought to explore them. >> i wish the president had laid this out better and quit backing away from his own red line and i wish he was more of a commander in chief than a organizer. >> shannon? >> all right, steve, thank you very much for the update. well, a nonlethal alternative to striking syria. that is what our next guest will propose to congress this week. a tribunal bill, republican congressman from new jersey, chris smith is joining us. good to see you today. >> thank you very much. >> you are one of the best-known advocates when it comes to human rights issues around the world.

how does what we're seeing in syria measure up to -- >> there are atrocities everywhere. saran gas rises to the levels of crimes against humanity and it's indespicable. but launching off bombs, what does that do? it has been so unclear what does that really mean? how do you measure that the number of people who might die inadvertently, the so-called violent damage, the nonviolent initiative, a syrian war crimes tribunal ought to be immediately established. i'm going to introduce that tomorrow, on monday. we had three ad hoc tribunals that have done work, always a bit slow. the war crimes tribunal in yugoslavia, going through the process but this needs to be immediate and both sides and i

emphasize with exclamation points, both sides are committing otrociti committing atrocities it so the idea of saying that you will be accountable, i believe we can get russia and china to weigh in, they are un nan mouse unani. i believe if we targeted both sides and said enough and used the rule of law, we do have war crimes, genocide is being committed and in june we pointed out -- and this is largely coming from the rebel side, that christians are being targeted, not as collateral damage but deliberately being targeted for extermination. that rises to the level of genocide. the administration had a response at my hearing when they

can sense from the ncos that this is a genocide happening right in front of our eyes. this would be a nonlethal alternative. >> and this could be, as you point out, a way to get some kind of an agreement with the russians or others. >> i believe putin, shannon, would join in. who could be against a war crimes tribunal. i do believe it could be done, you know, in an international setting but perhaps with the lead with many of the people who -- the prosecutors, it could work as anned adjunct to thecc and it's an idea that has not been pushed. if people are wondering where the american public are so bewildered why president obama is moving so aggressive, in 2011, hillary clinton, a fact

checker, glenn kessler found that the administration thought that assad was a reformer. >> i remember reading that. >> remember reading that? it was outrageous. then she said it wasn't true and "the washington post" held her to account for that misleading statement. but that, to me, suggested that there has been miscalculations made repeatedly and then all of a sudden and, again, nobody -- nobody anywhere, on capitol hill or anywhere else in the world looks at those pictures of people being gassed, particularly the kids, and doesn't come away with absolute outrage. then go after assad. put him in -- charles taylor is now a 50-year prison sentence, the former president of libya for what he did against the people in sierra leone. watching him in court with his head hung low as his sentence was pronounced over him, we

needed to do that against all of those committing atrocities in syria. >> and like you said, it will be all sides, the rebels caught as well. i assume you're still a no vote. more on that coming up. congressman, thank you very much. >> thank you. congressman smith is one of many republicans and democrats that have come out against a strike in syria. the president now facing an uphill battle to get the votes he needs for official congressional authorization. here's the breakdown of what we know about where things stand according to "the hill" newspaper. 24 senator, 16 democrats and 8 republicans are leaning towards voting yes. 19 are leaning towards no. the rest are undecided as far as we know for now. and in the house, 31 are leaning towards a yes vote. how the remaining will vote is still unclear. rt all right. take all of syria but add this, the debt ceiling vote. immigration is on the docket,

obama care and backlogged with a laundry list of very tough issues. so we have brought in our own expert, fox news senior hill producer chad to give us insight. >> good to be here. >> let's start with the senate. there's already some action there. >> well, monday is going to be an interesting day because harry reid is going to try to go to the debate. but the real day to watch is going to be wednesday. remember, harry reid can't come in on monday and say let's start voting on syria. the minority, the rights of the minority -- i'm not just talking the minority party, in this case the republican party -- but the minority of people who don't -- aren't poor, tacking syria here, they have rights. harry reid is going to have to get 60 votes to try to just initiate the debate on syria and so wednesday's going to be the magic day. it's one thing to get to 60.

this is going to be, his words, a tough slog. >> in the house we heard it could be weeks. where do we stand in terms of getting action there? >> i doubt the house would even touch this until the senate has moved. a lot of times you'll have the senate move because that provides air cover. both senators or one senator from the state has voted yes and then all right i'll vote for this instead. eric cantor, the majority of the house expects a robust debate and authorization sometime in the next couple of weeks but the number of votes in the house, it's one thing getting to 51 and 60 in the house. they may not even have 100 yeses in the house right now. the example i would look at here, shannon, would be backed earlier this year on hurricane sandy and you had a situation where the leadership, john boehner supporting bringing a sandy resolution to aid the victims in the northeast and at the end of the day they passed it but with an awful lot of

democrats and only 49 republicans. that's -- that's stark. right now nancy pelosi has been working the phones. she's probably the best whipped in congress and vote getter since lbj and trying to vote yes and they are a long way away right now. >> very quickly before we're out of time, i want to talk about the longview. we have debt ceiling votes coming. all of this is one way or another going to lead us into a not so merry christmas for those who want to have some resolution. >> you better drink your egg nog now, shannon. >> i feel like drinking some egg nog right now. >> they may not have a continuing resolution, an interim spending bill that would run until december 15th. that's presuming that they can pass this in the next -- in a week. remember that old andy williams song, it's a wonderful year, it's often the worse time of the year. >> christmas in ruins. >> happy holidays, shannon. >> well, it will be very

challenging and we know you'll be there every step of the way. thank you for lending us your expertise. >> thank you very much. all right. tomorrow, fox news sunday chris wallace is going to put the tough questions to president obama. they are going to sit down one-on-one in an interview that will be all about the conflict in syria and where we go from here. that interview airs tomorrow at 6:00 eastern on special report. it's time to weigh in at home. what will the president have to say on tuesday to convince you that a u.s. military strike is necessary in syria or can he even convince you? that's our question today. tweet your answers to @anhqdc or @shannonbream. right now i'm not at all certain that this 218 votes for this resolution and the president i think weakens his

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two more gun control measures are now in effect. while washington was focusing on syria, this came by way of executive action by the president. military surplus weapons, more than 50 years old. the other is to design others from registering guns as a corporation rather than as an individual. these rules are going to do nothing to actually decrease gun violence and i think our next guest agrees. welcome back governor rick perry. good to see you, sir. >> it's good to be with you, shannon. thank you very much. >> the president has been rolling them out. not involving congress. what's your take.

>> this is a continuation of how the government operates and they disregarded the second amendment and go around congress to go do what they want to do and it goes right into the face of, you know, the second amendment of the united states. these will absolutely do nothing to stop any violent crimes. as a matter of fact, there was a harvard study out and you would think that the president would look at the study and go, ah-ha, and say that the gun control measures have nothing to do and no effect on the violent crimes. we have the ability to deal with these and we've talked about a lot of different ways to make sure that these criminals, they are not going to pay any attention to laws. they could care less what the president says. putting law enforcement in the position, putting private citizens in the position to defend themselves when the evil ones show up on their streets or even in their schools, that's how you stop these violent crimes, not by passing another executive order or another law

that does absolutely nothing when it comes to stopping that type of activity. >> why do you think the focus on these kinds of things, because my estimation is and i haven't heard any other evidence to the contrary and we've looked for it, is that these laws are not going to impact people committing crimes. there are not criminals on the street to set up a corporation to then fraudulently buy a firearm and than go use it to commit crimes. it doesn't pass the smell test. >> well, and i think that it clearly goes to trying to impinge constitutional rights, how the president functions and sees himself. he thinks that he can give a speech and knows how to deal with these issues, whether it's issues in the middle east or foreign policy or whether it's something as important as our second amendment rights in this country. he thinks he's right. the sad thing is that this president is wrong not only in

his foreign policy approach but how you deal with the constitutional rights of the people of this country. >> all right. i want to ask you about redistricting. there's been a big, long battle. you've been accused of the justice department and others who say they have a racist motive. it looks like the maps are going to be good through the 2014 or maybe the bigger fight is not even over. >> well, and this goes -- again, this president disregards what the judicial system says it disregards what our constitution says, it disregards what the people of texas says. he thinks he's right. he thinks he's right on a lot of issues which the fact of the matter is our constitution, our judicial system says, no, mr. president and eric holder, you are right on this and to be basically just a nuisance, if you will, to the people in the

state of texas putting together our redistricting plans that the courts have found to be appropriate. so i wish you would take a break on this and, you know, focus on things that are really important to the people of america, like getting this country back, working again and putting policies in place that will free up folks from overtaxation, over regulation, getting americans back working again would be a lot better place to put your focus, mr. president. >> i want to ask you about something in texas. you're marking ten years of very important tort reform which caps the damages that people can win in certain malpractice lawsuits. how is the work there in texas? is it something that you think other states should try there as well? >> well, you know me, i'm a big believer in the tenth amendment that the federal government is mucking up. leave it to the states and the states that are successful with it are going to be the states that are going forward economically. when you look at texas now, we've got over 30,000 when the

tort reform was passed in 2003. we've seen access to health care. and that's the big issue for me, is that there are 50 counties of the 254 counties that have emergency medical professionals in those counties because of tort reform that's been paid. so if you're a pregnant female, 19 counties more in the state of texas have ob/gyn services. that's the type of access to health care of which we told people would occur, we told them that we would see substantially less litigation and it's come true. texas is a real leader in tort reform. if other states want to be competitive, they need to pass that tort reform. if they don't and they let the trial lawyers continue to drive the train, so to speak n. those states, people will continue to move to texas in record numbers and our economy will continue to grow and other states will get

behind economically. >> we've promised our viewers and we'll ask you, a lot of folks will recognize the democratic lawmaker who tried to filibuster abortion reform laws in texas, among other things, have minimum medical standards for the clinics, those kinds of things as well. greg danson tweets in, does governor perry think wendy davis can win if she runs for governor here in texas? >> she's very capable and lost her father this week and certainly our prayers go out to her during that period of loss. texas is a very conservative state and senator davis is very much left of center on her politics. whatever those might be. she's very much out of the mainstream when it comes to texas political thoughts. so, you know, i think that would be -- regardless of who the candidate would be, when you have a position that is that far out of the mainstream with most texans can be a difficult task,

at best. >> the question i want to ask you, every time i speak with you, a lot of folks that knew you were coming in, is there a presidential run in your future or possibly would you go for the v.p. slot? >> well, there's 15, 16 more months of being the governor of a great, dynamic state. we're going to continue to travel the country and talk about red state versus blue state policies and how that's good for america, these states to compete against each other. there's a good bit of time in front of us to continue to really push americans to have this great, i think, constructive, thoughtful, intellectually engaged debate about which one of these policies and which of these policies work best for america and in about a year i'll make a decision on whether i'm going to go forward with another presidential bid or not. >> well, we look forward to having you unveil that on america's news headquarters. governor, good luck this

weekend. >> come on down and we look forward to seeing you. hopefully this fall when we have the united states grand prix here in austin. >> it's going to be an exciting event. in the meantime, i'll see you at the ole miss game in october. thank you, governor. there is another crisis facing countless, tens of thousands of syrians who have thread their home country. we're going to take a look at their devastating stories. these are real people coming up. plus, good news for one of the victims of the boston bombing attacks. we'll take a look at his heartwarming homecoming. you don't want to miss it.

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rebel forces, including some lir linked to al qaeda, have overtaken a small christian

community outside of damascus. here are our headlines for today. peter? >> they believe the people of afghanistan will start after foreign forces will leave next year. analysts tell the associated press that militants in pakistan are moving closer to the afghan border to aid the taliban, if needed. president obama has said that he will withdraw u.s. troops from afghanistan next year. detectives say decade's old dna evidence could be a key in solving a series of rapes and murders in california thought to be done by someone called the original night stalker. dna has linked the same person to four murders in santa barbara in 1979 and 1981. they also say traces of paint

found. john odom returned to california on friday afternoon to cheering crowds of friends and family. arteries in both of his legs were severed in the blast. and the miley cyrus twerking incident has caused her the cover of "vogue." they decided to cancel the plan for the former hannah montana fan to top the "vogue" cover. >> so i guess that means you're going to cancel your "vogue" subscription? >> yes. >> all right. confirming it here. syrian rebels are gaining near the capital. we're live with the latest fighting on the ground and what arab leaders are now saying. hello, connor. >> reporter: hello, shannon. the fighting there is raging on and the battle for a small

little christian village just outside damascus proves and illustrates how difficult the entire syrian situation is. according to press reports, syrian rebels have taken over the ancient christian city of mchl aaloula outside of damascus. they generally support bashar al assad and the syrian regime but in the past few days they have been under the control of al qaeda in the last few days. still, secretary of state john kerry spent today meeting with arab leaders discussing syria they do in fact support a u.s. strike and qatar's foreign minister on syria.

and arab officials and even officials across the entire middle east have refused to take a public statement or a public stance on this making the obama administration selling of a strike on syria all the more difficult. >> connor, thank you very much. congress returns to the hill tomorrow still divided over whether or not to approve obama's plan to attack syria. the president, of course, is set to address the nation on tuesday night. but is that speech a little too late? here now for a fair and balanced debate, congressman peter king and john garamendi. thank you for being here today. >> thank you. >> congressman king, i will start with you. you have been supportive of the president even going as far as saying he doesn't need congressional approval. do you think he's going to get

it and why should he? >> yeah, i support the proposal to attack syria. i've been very critical of the president's handling of it in that he set a red line, then said it wasn't his red line, he only called on congress at the very last minute giving the impression that he was looking -- that he was grasping at a straw and i do say that he has a right to attack. bill clinton bombed six countries when he was president without getting congress approval. i'm still going to vote yes but it seems like an uphill battle and i would say right now he's not going to get it. he will speak on tuesday night. obviously boehner and pelosi will be speaking to their members but i would say that the odds are against it even though i'll be voting yes. >> all right. congressman garamendi, you say

that you're still going through the evidence but that you are planning on voting no. are you convinced that the order came from assad himself? is that something you need to know before you vote? >> well, that is one of the issues and i'm not doubting that the assad administration either high up or even maybe assad himself ordered the attack. but the question really is, what next? we take action, what's that action going to be? and are we really unleashing the dogs of war and are they going to come back and bite us as they have in iraq? i think that there's real serious questions about the day after and in fact the news reports today that woe're talkig about a much broader and tack and longer than we were five days ago. so the question of the attack itself, whatever that might be, and then the day after, are we able to secure the chemical weapons? one should really carefully read general dempsey's letter to the senate of the foreign relations committee in july of this year

when he laid out a very, very difficult set of scenarios, one in which it would take perhaps 75,000 troops on the ground to secure the chemical weapons. that's boots on the ground in order to carry out perhaps one of the goals that's been discussed. so those are the questions that need to be answered right now everything i see it just doesn't added a up to being a successful attack, one that's going to achieve our goals. >> congressman king, how worried are you about the aftermath of our ally in that area, israel, which iran has threatened to attack should the u.s. strike syria? >> actually, israel has said that our attacking syria is not going to have an impact on them. they can take care of themselves. that's what the israelis said just the other day. so i take them at their word. and as to what john was saying, i understand his concerns. i wish the president would lay out more what he plans on doing.

first he talked about an attack and then an attack for only one or two or three days. if we're going to have an attack, it would be to degrade their system as much as possible and hopefully with diplomatic and other pressure bring it to the negotiating table and with the free syrian army and rebels and we can hopefully isolate the al qaeda supporters and rebels. all of this takes a lot of work. all of this takes a concerted effort and i would hope that the president would be preparing for this over the last year. >> congressman garamendi, what message do you think it would send if the president decided to act even if congress said no we're not going to authorize it? >> i think that would be very unwise, very, very unwise. it's going to set up a terrible situation between the president and congress. it could lead to a congressional crisis. i think it's absolutely clear that the president did not have an authority to launch an attack on syria because the war power

act is very clear. imminent threat. there is no imminent threat. the authorization to use force, that came about in iraq and afghanistan, speaks to terrorism, that's not the case. i would recommend the president not even consider going there. listen carefully to the representatives of the american people. 535 of us, all elected to represent all of the american public. if we vote no, which i think is what is going to happen, then the president has to find another path and america has to find another path to settle the syrian war as best we can and to recognize that the strength of this nation really lies in our economic power, not just in our ability to launch a few missiles here or there but rather in our economic power and we need to build that economic power. we need to build the job and the economy of this nation and focus, once again, on america. fail to do that, we will lose credibility because we have lost our economic strength. >> congressman garamendi and

congressman king, in addition to syria, there are so many issues that you have waiting for you when you return to washington. thank you for being with us today. we appreciate it. >> thank you. doctors said she wouldn't survive but baby abigail's parents, congressman jamie herera and her husband refused to give up. instead, they prayed for a miracle and they got one. hear their amazing story just ahead. and disturbing news for cell phone users. i'm guessing just about everybody out there, about just how much access the government really has over your smartphones. too big. too small. too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso's new creamy alfredo soup. inspired by perfection. i don't always have time to eat like i should.

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>> she's moving inside of me and they say, no, this is fatal. >> but a doctor was willing to try an experimental treatment. the doctor introduced a saline solution to try to create enough fluid for the lungs to develop and then they waited to see if it would work. abigail was born july 15th. >> she looked at us and she cried, which means her lungs were functioning. >> doctors in california treating abigail say she now has excellent lung function. she'll be on dialysis until she can get a kidney transplant next year. >> the kidney transplant success rate now is so good that we would predict a full adult life for her. >> the butlers want to offer hope to other families. >> our daughter had 100% fatal diagnosis and she'll be eight weeks on monday. and -- excuse me.

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here domestically some colorado voters are fuming over strict new gun laws, so much so that this week they're holding a recall vote for two state senators who fast-tracked those laws. it's being seen as a litmus test for how the public is going to respond to tighter gun control laws. to talk with us about it now, the author of "america gets your gun but obama wants yours." it was the best time to get things mooving on this front, bt colorado is not too happy. >> in colorado, these people really rose up in democratic districts. this is the first time in colorado history they are having a recall of statewide officials, one of them being the senator. it's like if americans rose up to recall harry reid, that's the equivalent of what's going on

there because they're so angry about the laws that went into effect july 1st. they're saying this is not colorado, this is not their culture. >> i know early voting is already under way about what kind of turnout they're having. a lot of people are like, recalls, folks don't usually turn out, it's not a hot issue, but this one might be. >> i just got a call from rand paul who is the chairman of the republican party. in colorado springs, it's a lean democrat district. the turnout for republicans is 4,160, democrats 3400. so already democrats are outperforming republicans in a democratic district. this is really important. michael bloomberg, he personally wrote a check for $350,000 for this race, and they're saying over 2.5 million has been spent on this race to try to overturn this election on tuesday. >> you've got a book out and it

goes beyond colorado, sbirthe ee country. just this week we talked earlier with governor perea about the white house passing issues. they're doing things without congress, and they're not really getting to the heart of who is abusing guns. it really ends up impacting people who are trying to do things the right way. >> that's why i wrote this book. i wrote this book because since newtown, and i found it to be sad and shameful, and bloomberg with bloomberg's money has really exploited children for this radical gun control agenda they've planned for years to come, and they've had some success. five states including colorado have passed these new laws. no one on any level, the senate or the states, have said these laws would prevent these mass shootings or these laws reduce crime. the fact of the matter is, gun ownership is at the highest

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a pennsylvania man may have made sure to pay his property taxes on time, but he wasn't happy about it. and he made sure that his local tax office knew all about that. that story is one of our most clicked. peter is with us. hello, peter. >> his name is robert fernandez, and he was so frustrated with z his $7,133 tax bill that he paid it in single dollar bills. he brought it in a duffel bag and counted out every dollar, but he also brought dunkin' donuts for everyone who might have been inconvenienced by the stunt. >> i think that's hilarious. he made it rain, so to speak, in the tax office. i like the response from one guy who said he would ask for a receipt from each $1 payment. >> the city should be happy, though, because he paid in full.

he could have, if he was really mad. and they got donuts. >> exactly, everybody got donuts in the meantime. this one will make you mad. a disabled vietnam vet was kicked off a plane half a flight attendant asked him to have his service dog sit on floothe floo. the vet refused to comply, preferring the dog sit am an empty seat next to him, so he confronted airline staff. airport police then charged the man with trespassing and he was rebooked on a flight for the following day. >> with or without the dog? >> i assume with the dog. >> it seems this thing sort of escalated out of control. we all want to honor our vets. >> also, if you've ever seen those service dogs and how well trained they are and how much they really help people. >> exactly. >> but the people who use the service dogs, they know where the dog needs to be, and they know how it needs to be sitting, and so i think -- if there was an empty seat --

>> our twitter fans are not happy about that. they're calling for a boycott. we'll see what happens. that's it for us here in washington. fox news sunday is up next. the obama administration is on offense trying to shore up support for a military strike. chris wallace sits down with chief of staff dennis mcdonough. i'm chris wallace. congress returns from recess and faces a tough vote on syria. >> there is enough evidence now that we must act. >> we cannot guarantee that even a surgical strike will prevent the united states from being embroild e embroiled in war. >> the security team said the u.s. must enforce the ban on chemical weapons. >> i didn't set the red line. the world set the red line. >> if we don't do this, senator, is it more than likely assad does it again? do you want to answer that