president obama in st. petersburg. this is the first face-to-face contact since president obama called off their one on one meeting last month. they only exchanged words but putin called secretary of john kerry a liar and continued to denounce military action in syria without u.n. support. but syria has already come up in the president's meeting with japan's prime minister. >> i also look forward to having an extensive conversation about the situation in syria and i think the chemical use of weapons in syria is not only a tragedy but a national situation that needs to be addressed. >> there's going to be another classified briefing on syria and it looks like monday will be the first full vote in senate because the authorization for military action just squeaked by in a close committee vote yesterday. and it may be an even

tougher sell in the house where there was a lot of concern yesterday afternoon. >> i'm the people i represent said not just no but something like, heck no, don't get involved in this and the same thing i hear over and overhear. >> i've had a chance to hear about 1500 comments from social media posts to e-mails, calls, faxes, et cetera. >> almost unanimously people don't want us to strike syria. they are fatigued. this is increasingly a confusing situation. >> i am open to the idea of military strikes but i want to review the evidence. >> i want to bring in washington post columnist e.j. dionne and the atlantic's phillip bump. when he's calling john kerry a liar outright, how damaging can this be as the president goes to russia to try to build this

international coalition? >> i think the president's primary problem at this point is not russia. he's not going to sell putin oh this. there's no chance of that happening. >> what about other leaders from the g-20? >> quite possibly but they are not voting on capitol hill. >> i think you saw this close vote yesterday, 10-7 in the senate foreign relations committee. the yeses including republicans from arizona, and the nos included marco rubio, chris murphy, tom udall. ted markey annoys literally everyone by voting present. >> he's got a lot of trouble with democrats because democrats are always split on war. they were split on iraq. they were split to some degree

on kosovo and bosnia. including the anti-warish republicans who are opposing obama now fell in line behind president bush after iraq. there was also a lot of pressure after 9/11. now, i still think this is going to pass. i think it's going to pass in the house because as speaker boehner, the eliter cantor showed, if the president has his legs cut out from him on this vote, it's a huge problem for american foreign policy. i think that same argument will apply with a lot of democrats. you have people like jerry conly, a democrat from virginia, a democrat from maryland who are trying to craft a narrow enough resolution that it will get enough democratic votes to pass. and so i would be surprised if the president loses this vote. >> it's a balancing act, though, a narrow enough resolution to

get it to pass but not so narrow that it doesn't do anything and in the end the people who were against it say, see, it didn't accomplish anything. >> yes. there are two legacies of the iraq war debate. the first is whether or not we can trust evidence that's been presented. >> the slippery slope. are we headed for a war? >> that's right. the president has tried to make that case repeatedly. it's tough to say that people know where this stops, particularly john mccain advocated for and got introduced an aspect to that that made it wider than what the administration wanted. >> we've seen it in the polls and in the town halls and members of congress representing this, e.j., the american people don't support this. i want to play a clip from tony lincoln who was on "morning joe" this morning. >> this is a limited, targeted, but effective use of force to

deter assad from using his chemical weapons. what this is not, this is not open-ended, this is not boots on the ground, this is not iraq, it's not afghanistan, it's not even libya. >> some of the president supporters have suggested to him and they don't necessarily support him on this, e.j., but they've said, look, my constituents are against this. the president needs to explain to the american people why this isn't iraq. he needs to explain to the american people, where's our national security interest. what does the president do? >> i think at some point he is going to have to give a major speech. he's made a lot of statements but if americans are eld holding up a big sign that says no more iraq, the president has to explain not only why this isn't like iraq but why it won't lead to something like iraq because i think what people are worried about is not necessarily the

strikes against key military facilities but what would happen after and i think he's got to be clear on what happens after. >> gentlemen, stand by. i want to bring in congressman javier. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> when we look at the numbers, there are four times as many opponents in the house as supporters and even more undecideds, 103, roughly, which is where you have been, in the undecided column. have you made up your mind on how to vote in syria? >> i've actually been more clear that that. i've said if it's very targeted, if it's limited and the evidence can point that on assad, i support a limited targeted strike. >> is it a single military strike? is it 30 days? 60 days? >> once you start getting beyond 60 days, i have real problems. i understand more than one strike may be necessary because we have different targets that have to be hit. what i want to see is the

deterrence of the use in the future of any type of weapon of mass destruction. i don't want to be facing in the future some vote because we didn't act now and worse use was made by some other country, north korea, iran, you name it. and i believe we must act. it would be morally irresponsible, i believe, for us not to do something as a world and i think as the leader in the world we are the first to have to lead on that. >> so it sounds like you're leaning towards being a yes. >> i've told the white house that i am prepared to be a yes if they keep it lichmited but ts is the difficulty they face. some in congress say you should tip the balance in syria in their civil war with whatever you do because this is our opportunity. the moment you start going there, you lose me. the american public have a right to be fed up with iraq. americans don't want see the

indiscriminate use of biological or chemical weapons but they also don't want to see iraq. that's the problem when the country gets us into a war that we shouldn't have gotten into. >> we heard from senator ed markey. dana milbank in his column argues that the administration should just publicly show the evidence and i'm going to coquo from that article. kerry said that the amount of declassified is unprecedented and that what's out there now is sufficient. he may think so. but it's not sufficient until the american public believes it. do you believe it's a slippery slope? people either question the evidence because of what happened with wmds or just think no matter what, once we start we're not going to get out until there are boots on the ground? >> i think the american public has a right to be skeptical. i believe the american public has been taught to be skeptical because we had these adventures into iraq. >> so will putting the evidence

out there help the american people and members of congress on board? >> well, they should put out the evidence they can, certainly to put out evidence that shows some of the methods that we used to collect the evidence would not be wise. that's what members of congress are for. we get elected to lead. we have to make decisions that sometimes the public doesn't agree with us but, hey, that's our responsibility. that's why we get elected. if 750,000 people of my area went to washington and voted, we'd have a full democracy. that doesn't happen. i have to make the best decision i can based on the evidence. that's number one. if the evidence doesn't show that it happened and who did it, how can we attack? but if you've got those two answer, compelling evidence to that, then the second question is, if you're trying to get involved in a civil war in syria, no. but if you're trying to show that we mean it when we say it,

the use of chemicals of mass destruction is a no-no, you've got to do something. >> you've heard what the president and john kerry had to say. the president said very forcefully, i was a "no" on iraq. i have a record for not wanting us to get us into war. i guess the question is that people don't believe him or what do you think is going to happen here? is this going to pass? is some form of a resolution for military action in syria going to pass? >> you see democracy in action. the public has learned not to want to go to war because too many of our men and women have been there too often, too many deployments. absolutely, the american people once again are way ahead of the politicians. they are saying, show me. it's up to us, the members of government, to show them whatever we decide to do, it's the right thing. i believe the president is doing the right thing to try to show us. i also voted against iraq. i was one of 135 that voted against iraq. >> will he get the votes on

this, congressman? >> i believe if they are able to show the evidence enough to the members of congress and the public and will the president make it clear that he's going to limit this to be strategic and focused on the issue of the use of weapons of mass destruction, then i believe he'll get the vote. if he starts to go -- tip into this adventure into syria to try to tip the balance on the ground, i think he loses a vote. >> congressman xavier bacerra, thank you for being on the program. >> thank you. it was interesting, in politico president obama's political spreads thin. there are so many battles still ahead. >> i think the president has a better idea of what the count

is. it's better for them to reserve if they support this action for them to say that they are against it because the public opinion is -- although it's not quite as skewed as some people have presented it, it's 60 to 40. the people who actually support it are holding back a little. what the president is trying to do over the course of this week is getting the people to be more public and shore up support in his base. >> e.j., you can't look at this vote in a vacuum. let me read to you how they laided it out in "politico." deciding the fate of a military's power, the budget, health care implementation, the federal reserve chairmanship and all of us hit by a debt default. i mean, are we in for a bumpy ride here? >> we're in for a crazy three months. i think if you're going to vote for this you're more likely going to be quiet than against

it because that's the most popular with most party base. you saw a fewer partisanship, people bringing up benghazi. but you're seeing republicans, including speaker boehner being very serious about this. you just wonder, is there an effect of this debate on the rest of the discussions? that's wildly optimistic. it's probably wrong but i'd really like to see that happen because war concentrates people in a way that nothing else does and rightly so. >> e.j. dionne, thank you for being on the program. and phillip bump, thank you. secretary john kerry will be a guest with chris hayes in "all in". the tsa is expanding its prescreening program known as precheck. it allows to keep your chewshoe

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walmart workers and supporters across the country are asking for better wages and benefits. they want walmart to raise its pay to at least $25,000 a year on the heels of protests from fast food workers for higher wages. kerry sanders is at a walmart in sanford, florida. what are we expecting there, kerry? >> reporter: well, union organizers say they will protest what they say are low wages and they say they have set a

deadline for labor day for walmart to rehire employees or give employees who were disciplined back what they had lost after that protest that was on black friday. now, according to walmart, nobody was fired from their jobs because they failed to show up during that previous protest. they say that's against their own policies. so there's a little bit of a dispute there but butt tomorrow line as you know, this is a growing momentum not just for walmart but in other low-paying jobs where they say why can't we get paid more where the economy supports a better living wage. >> walmart says this is not about most of the workers. most of the workers are happy. walmart says, they will continue to serve our customers in over 4600 locations and handful of

union orchestrated media stunts, made up of primarily union members and activists don't represent the views of the vast majority. do we know who the protesters will be. >> reporter: i don't know if they are former employees of walmart who were fired, whether they worked for walmart and quit their jobs or whether they are unions members trying to drum up some sort of support for unionization in walmart. so we may get a little bit understanding when we actually meet some of the people who come out here at this location later this afternoon at 4:00. clearly of the 15 cities there will be these protests at these 15 locations across the country. >> kerry sanders in florida, thank you. it started out bad and only got worse. a man at a bakery made an ethnic

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over again repeal a law or rooting for reform to fail. >> i want to bring informer edwards' campaign spokesman, chris and joe watkins. hey, guys. >> good morning, chris. >> chris, what do you think bill clinton's role is going to be in 2014? how important? how large a role? >> i think pretty significant. in terms of the health care plan, i think his speech yesterday -- he's just a really good speaker. let's just be honest. easy affective at being able to explain complex issues in a way that people understand it. i think he did that with the health care speech. in terms of the 2014 midterm elections, he's one of those rare political figures that can go to any state, moderate, liberal, any district and have an ability to have an impact. >> i think it would be fair that

some republicans say he stay on the side lines. one person said this to politico. he's a large draw. he still has a very active group of friends that has deep pockets. his ability to come in and raise money for the candidates, raise money for the party cannot be underestimated. i mean, you've got to admit, the guy can put, as they say, fannies in their seats. the republicans, do they have an equivalent? >> certainly bill clinton is larger than life figure. he remains a real rock star for democrats in terms of his ability to draw people and raise money. he's immensely popular still. as president of the united states, he showed the capacity to be able to work with republicans to get things done by working with republicans to get welfare reform done and likewise to give us a budget surplus. with regards to health care, he has a more difficult challenge. the idea is good. the whole sense of providing health care for everybody and making it affordable for everybody is a wonderful notion.

the problem becomes what happens to the small employer who is going to be hurt by this and how is that going to impact the good men and women who are working who may be bumped down to part-time jobs because of this health care act? that's the big challenge. >> yeah. i think he's going to make a very impassioned argument against that. but let's talk about the politics of this, chris. not only does he go out and try to sell something that he believes in, frankly, which is health care, but also he is renewing old acquaintances, making new friends that just might help hillary should she decide to run in 2016. >> well, you know, let me put it this way. it's not going to hurt. obviously there's not a benefit to this. to be honest, i don't think in this case that's his primary motivation. i mean, obviously he's going to support hillary if she decides to run and that goes without saying. i think when it comes to --

>> we're talking about laying groundwork here. we're talking about quietly working those relationships. not so quietly working relationships that helped get tim elected twice. >> let me put this this way. when you're talking two years out and a field that has not come to bear in terms of who may be running, hillary is going to be, if she decides to run, is going to be a reformed little opponent. i think the groundwork is being built without them necessarily building it. but, yeah, there's going to be an added benefit them going around the country and making these political contacts. there's no question about that. >> he better, if he's smart, he greases the way for hillary. i know he cares about the people who helped make him governor and made him president. >> can't you also make the argument that if health care does well, if he sells health care and if health care does succeed the way he believes and

the way the president believes, it will take an al ba tros after the democratic party, whoever the candidate is, and could even be a legacy issue for the democrats. >> of course, if he's able to sell this to the country with 42% of americans being against it and a much smaller number being for it and a lot of folks still undecided, he would have done a huge favor for the president and for the administration. but, again, he's got to sell americans on average working americans on what is going to happen with them with this bill. again, given the employer mandate, employers who are going to start to scale back the hours of some of their workers from 30 hours to 29 1/2 hours just to not have to pay for their health care costs, it's going to be a bad thing overall for employment. >> what's funny about joe and republicans, they always fix in the fact that they don't talk about what they can do to fix

it. which is a key part of what clinton was saying. when you're talking about a piece that is going to be implemented, it's going to have bumps in the road but when we're talking about this years down the road -- >> chris, you're a smart guy. >> we're going to let that be the last word. chris kofinas, joe watkins, we could let this go on forever. i'm sure we will again. thanks, guys. >> thanks. checking the news feed, gay married couples are available for va benefits. they are joining other federal agencies after the court decided in june that legally gay married couples can get the same benefits. an officer says that george zimmerman was going 60 in a 45 mile per hour zone. he had no registration but did apologize before the officer gave him a ticket for 256 bucks.

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conference. at the same time, lawmakers here are asking why a strike on syria would be in america's national security interests. >> i am not conferenced th convinced that this is an american interest. what is the direct threat to the united states? i have yet to figure that out. >> i haven't really felt that america's security is being threatened at all. not even indirectly. >> what can i tell my constituents about why these strikes are in our national security interests, why these strikes matter to these folks that are struggling every day? >> p.j. crowley and bobby, gentlemen, good to see you both. good morning. what is the strongest argument that this is in our national security interests? >> there are a number of arguments to be made. we have protection to care for

and greater enemies in the region like iran who need a message to be sent but a larger argument is that we are part of the international community. this is a threat to the world. you don't want dictators and tyrants around the world to think that they can use chemical weapons willy-nilly. >> there have also been questions, as we've been talking to members of congress and members of the public as well, p.j., that terrorists are going to be inspired and both sides are using that argument that if the u.s. doesn't strike syria, it emboldens them because the u.s. is weak or looks weak and if it does strike syria, it just angers them and become as recruiting tool. is one argument stronger than the other? >> well, i agree with everything that bobby just said. but i would turn that around a little, chris. what happens when you have

open-ended conflict like this and you have weakening governments as a result, it creates space for these extremists to operate, to maneuver and not only to -- and for a group like al nusra, narrows that may be. any time you give an extremist group land to occupy, then they not only have the opportunity to influence what happens on the ground in one country but then expand their operations over time into others. so i think it's idea that whenever you have this kind of grinding conflict, it goes on for a long time, you have not only the terrorism threat, the extremism threat and also the risk that because of the refugee that flows out of syria, you have the real prospect of destabilizing countries like turkey, jordan, lebanon. >> and could the chemical

weapons get in the hands of hezbollah or iran? >> to some degree, that train has already left the station. the terrorist groups are already at large in syria, they hold pieces of territory. if that is our major concern, if that is our one concern, actually the argument should be made that we should be supporting bashar al assad as he stomps them out. that is per post rouse. there's no ambiguity of the red line with iran. if we want to take that seriously, then something has to be done in syria. >> p.j., let's go back to st. petersburg and what is going on in those rooms. we've heard from a lot of people in congress, where is the international community? where is the international outrage and where are our

partners in taking military action? what's the president going to accomplish? what does he say with the leaders of the g-20? >> well, this g-20 is going to be a lot different than we said a week ago. we thought there would be military action and from that the president would be trying to manage the ripple effects of that. now you actually have an active campaign. i would say maybe you've got four camps, we've got to do something to redeem the international red line as the president said yesterday, you've got a camp that wants to see assad step aside but is unclear whether military action is the right course. you've got a camp that is not really invested in syria but is concerned about the ripple effect including the ripple effects on the local economy and then you have strategic and philosophical reasons they do

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>> but there's word that the fda may be banning commercial like the ones you just saw. we're joined by chief of medicine at newark beth israel medical center. good to see you. >> good to see you, chris. >> this is what it looks like. we wrestled this away from one of our msnbc producers. what's in this thing? >> well, it's much safer than a regular paper cigarette. it's got a battery in it. it's got a puff mechanism in it and it has a flavored glycol mix. >> research shows apparently that these are better than cigarettes. they don't harm the heart and they are not good for your lungs. nicotine is an addictive substance. >> that's right. that's a concern for everybody that uses it. of course, 45 million of us

americans do smoke and we really want to get people off of cigarettes because of the carcinogenic benefits. there have been very few studies on the use of these cigarettes but the international journal of lung physiology suggests that five minutes use marks impede dents of the tubes in the lungs, bronchials, they tighten up with just five minutes. if you're doing ten of these a day, you can imagine what effect that has. >> opponents are saying this is cool looking, it looks high-tech, looks like a laser pointer or a pen from one of those spy movies and that they will be appealing to young people because cigarettes are

social and these don't have that and could bring more people to nicotine. >> correct. and the reason and the problem we have with this is young people can buy this off the web. you don't have to be a certain a age. and it can be flavored. kids are going to use this because it looks cool and doesn't create smoke and you can smoke these in areas where you normally cannot use cigarettes. >> dr. bob, do you think these e-cigarettes should be regulated by the fda? >> well, the fda regulates the use of drugs. this is a drug dispenser. so the food and drug administration is concerned. somebody can overdose on nick co-tan. the lung happens to be, as well as the mouth and tongue, a great absorber of drugs. nicotine is going to be absorbed. we've got to see what this does to young people and old people.

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to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. to russia with a handshake and a smile. president obama on the ground at the g-20 greeted by its host, vladimir putin. good morning. i'm thomas roberts. will attacking syria be the taboo topic for these two presidents? during the summit, he's expected to engage with other world leaders seeking support for u.s.-led strikes in syria with the exception of one because plans for formal talks with putin were scrapped weeks ago and new comments from putin are not going to be helping things out. putin saying of john kerry and his insistence that bashar al assad is lying, he says, he is lying and he knows that he is

lying and this is sad. the president did address syria's war and potential intervention. >> the use of chemical weapons in syria is not only a tragedy but also a violation of international law that must be addressed. >> back in washington, more classified briefings are still expected in washington. facing criticism from skeptical members from congress. >> i will not, shall not support international support. it would be attacking a nation that did not attack us. >> there are no good guys to get behind here and i can only envision an escalation of this current conflict. >> so a breakdown from "the washington post" shows that the house is overwhelmingly undecided ath undecided and then over in the senate the lawmakers have ground to cover and lawmakers left to convince. >> they