. >> earlier i spoke with david gergen. he believes the president has a lot of work selling the idea of an attack of syria on a war-weary american public. >> the way this is shaping up right now, i will tell you, the president doesn't have the congress nor public opinion, and there are going to be a growing number of people to put pressure on him. i've got to sell the country to sell the congress. they are going to push him to make the case. i think we are going to see more of the president on primetime before this fight is over because he does need to move the needle and public opinion in order to have a better shot. i think he'll get it, but he's got a lot of work to do. >> do you think -- you said get the shot, do you think he will get approval? >> i think it's likely he'll get approval. members of his party have to realize defeating him on this could cripple him as commander in chief. there will be a lot of democrats like nancy pelosi that will want to vote for him. then there are republicans who believe in the substanc

former presidential adviser david gergen and our chief political correspondent anchor of the cnn's state-of-the-union candy crowley. candy, pretty historic day for u.s.-iranian relations. how do you think today's news will be received in washington and beyond? >> reporter: certainly i can tell you that in washington you will hear grave doubts about whether this is a man trying to fool president obama. you are already hearing because as you know we're in the midst of a big budget showdown here with the government may be shutting down on tuesday. so from republicans we're hearing a lot of well, gee, he'll negotiate with the president of iran but he won't negotiate with republicans. so that was sort of the immediate reaction. there's a great deal of caution. certainly you don't want to tamp on the hope but there are a lot of folks saying, let's see what happens next. >> david, you worked in the white house for what, four presidents. and there were obviously not good relations with at least three of those presidents, next

he's got to deal with it on tuesday night. >> dana bash, david gergen, ari fleisher, thank you. the united states refugee agency said just this week the number of syrians who have fled the country has risen to more than two million, up from about 230,000 just a year ago. the u.n. agency says it has less than half the money it needs to meet the refugees' needs, basic needs, food, medical care. but at one site in lebanon, doctors are risking their own lives to care for wounded opposition forces. dr. sanjay gupta went there and here is what he found. >> reporter: hard to believe, but these are the lucky ones. most refugees end up scattered in camps like this, with little medical care available. so four months ago, members of the free syrian army took over this mosque in the lebanese border town and turned it into a very basic hospital. >> the types of injuries, gunshot wounds, amputations, spinal cord injuries. you see all of those here? >> yeah. >> reporter: we are just walking distance to syria. look over there, just to those mountain passes. dr. noor is syrian, as are all the me

. >> joining me now live, dana bash, cnn senior political analyst david gergen and ari fleischer. dana, where do things stand right now on capitol hill? earlier in the week, we got the impression with john boehner and eric cantor, two important republican officials, coming out in favor of the strikes. there was an idea that maybe momentum was shifting for the president. but i feel like we're ending the week on a different note. >> stalled, very different note. i will just answer that question by telling you what one senior congressional source who has access to their internal whip count, if you will, the count of where the heads are right now. the answer was, it's up in the air, it could go either way. that's not where the president wants this to be right now, a week after they flooded the zone, in the words of the white house. unbelievable amount of people here coming and briefing in a classified way, in a public way. phone calls being made. it has been unbelievable. even after that, and especially members of the president's own party, there are still so many undecided members. b

it seemed disinjgenous to use david gergen's words. if you're taking the high moral ground about the use of these awful chemical weapons, why not just buy into it and accept it and the new talking point seems to be from john kerry, and nancy pelosi, and the president himself that this is the world's red line. yes, tb is, but it was also his. >> david gergen, yesterday when john kerry was testifying, there was an interesting exchange with barbara boxer. she wanted to know if there was dissension in the u.s. intelligence community about this allegation that the syrian regime used chemical weapons recalling that in the lead up to the iraq war ten years ago, there were elements that at the bureau of intelligence. that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. but in the end, of course, they concluded and colin powell went to the u.n. and testified there was weapons of mass destruction. that assessment proved to be wrong. when kerry was asked by barbara boxer yesterday, was there any significant decent this time around? he said not th

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dana bash, candy crowley, david gergen, guys, thanks very much. for more on this story go to cnn.com. >>> up next, the breaking news we're following. a crucial vote in the united nations security council approving a resolution just minutes ago requiring syria to destroy all of its chemical weapons. more details. we're going live to the u.n. stand by. >>> plus who's policing the houston police? she was raped in her own home. she claims the responding officer stayed for only about ten minutes and collected absolutely no evidence. the police chief fired him, but he got his job back. our special report. that's coming up as well. >>> breaking news. only moments ago the united nations security council voted unanimously 15-0 to approve the resolution requiring syria to relinquish control of its chemical weapons stockpile. nick payton walsh is joining us from the u.n. right now. 15 votes in favor, unanimous vote on this resolution. how did it go down? what happens now? >> reporter: now we are hearing from u.s. secretary of state john kerry in the unanimou

he's got to deal with it on tuesday night. >> dana bash, david gergen, ari fleisher, thank you. the united states refugee agency said just this week the number of syrians who have fled the country has risen to more than two million, up from about 230,000 just a year ago. the u.n. agency says it has less than half the money it needs to meet the refugees' needs, basic needs, food, medical care. but at one site in lebanon, doctors are risking their own lives to care for wounded opposition forces. dr. sanjay gupta went there and here is what he found. >> reporter: hard to believe, but these are the lucky ones. most refugees end up scattered in camps like this, with little medical care available. so four months ago, members of the free syrian army took over this mosque in the lebanese border town and turned it into a very basic hospital. >> the types of injuries, gunshot wounds, amputations, spinal cord injuries. you see all of those here? >> yeah. >> reporter: we are just walking distance to syria. look over there, just to those mountain passes. dr. noor is syrian, as are all the me

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david gergen, cnn's senior political analyst joins me now from cambridge, massachusetts. good morning, david. >> good morning, carol. >> okay, so you've worked with both democratic and republican presidents, so let me run this by you, a senior house democrat had this to say to politico, "the syria situation could be the biggest miscalculation of his presidency. not only is his credibility on the line, but the country's credibility on the line, so he's rolling the dice by taking this to congress." do you agree? >> yeah, i certainly agree he's rolling the dice, and i do think an enormous amount is at stake for the country and for his presidency. typically, carol, a president in a second term spends a lot of time in the first year on domestic policy, but as power runs out or wanes, then he spends a lot of time on foreign policy. this president's had an unusually choppy first year for a second termer, so he's not getting as much done as he hoped to get done. he was planning to put more time into foreign policy. if he gets stripped of his authority, if congress rejects what he'

. >>> i'll bring in david gergen. you advised four different presidents. you heard what dana bash said about the president there and whether or not it makes him look weak. talk to us about that and what is going on behind the scenes right now? >> well, he does have an uphill fight in the congress. i think he'll eventually win it. it's important to remember that since world war i, presidents have gone to capitol hill on 18 occasions to ask for congressional backing for the use of force and they've won every single time. 18-18. just the john mccain argument you had on the air, as much as i des grows with what the president would like to do, woe like a more expansive attack in the air fields and the like. john mccain also said we can't come to the day where congress strips the president of his commander in chief authority. i think a lot of members will come around to that. second thing is this. the way this is shaping up right now, i will tell you, the president doesn't have the congress nor public opinion, and there are going to be a growing number of people

more on the situation, senior political analyst, david gergen, and former george w. bush white house press secretary, john, let's start with you, you have been following this debate for a couple of years. what do you make of this debate? are the members taking this russian initiative, or are the russians jumping on this, are they taking it seriously or does it seem they're just anxious not to vote and putting their faith in putin and assad? >> it is a bit of all of the above. are they taking it seriously? they are skeptical, but the syrian foreign minister came out and said we're open to this idea. but the spokesperson said you have to test it, you can't push for a vote on military operation or launching military strikes if there is a narrow possibility that diplomacy well work. but they are skeptical. the point about do they not want to take this vote? absolutely, a great number of people in both parties, but especially, a lot of democrats who would feel pressure to be loyal to the president in the end if this -- if they had to take the vote. to be loyal. they don't

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joining us now from cambridge, massachusetts, cnn senior political analyst david gergen who hosted thegates and leon panetta. they both said the president shouldn't have gone to congress for authorization to begin with. pretty candid, pretty blunt for two members of his former administration. set the scene. how did this go down? >> both men refrained from speaking in the sensitive moments when the president was making decisions, but once his course was set, they felt they could come to southern methodist university last night and open up. and boy, did they open up. it became apparent that even in their loyalty, and they remain loyal to the president, they have sharply different views ahow this should have happened. neither would have drawn a red line for starters. neither would have gone to congress once a red line was drawn. they both felt he should have done it, acted unilaterally or whatever he is. both would have armed the rebels much more aggressively. they differ among each other about the use of force. leon panetta thought that the president should use force, having promised to

david gergen and candy crowley are still with us. chief congressional correspondent, dana bash, joins us from capitol hill. we had thought the house might accept the senate funding bill, averting a shutdown of the government and move their fight with the president over to raising the debt ceiling in a few weeks. but that's not necessarily the case right now. what's the latest? >> just as -- as happens so many times in the past weeks and months and, frankly, even years, house republican leaders tried to kind of manage their rest of caucus and were unsuccessful at doing it. their home a couple of days ago was to say, you know, don't fight on this one, guys, let's fight on the next one, which is just around the corner, the debt ceiling. they said no. in part, i'm told, because they were being egged on by senator ted cruz, saying you've got to fight on this government spending bill. what's going on now is john boehner is effectively trying to negotiate within his own caucus, trying to figure out what the sweet spot is for them to be able

harvard university's david gergen. susan page, who is the washington bureau chief for "usa today." and "washington post" columnist michael gerson. let me just talk just a little bit first about what you just saw. i mean, i find this hard to kind of get my head around, my arms around this idea that you can calibrate aid so precisely that you can, you know, hurt assad but not destroy the institutions around him. david? >> well, all of us like to believe in fairy tales. i would like to think you can do it and of course we have the best intelligence agency working out there. i think they're doing a superb job. but i think the larger point here is, bob, that we have some sort of moral obligation to the rebels. it was our policy, after all, to remove assad, and we told the rebels we would arm them. we've been very slow at that. and now they feel betrayed by this agreement. >> i think it's worth pointing out that inaction has consequences in a situation like this, too. i was in jordan just recently and talked to refugees. they described a situation where for a year, if you wanted to fight

michael gerson of the "washington post," and harvard university's david gergen. it's all ahead because this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning again. well, the big news this weekend, the united states and the russians have agreed on a deal to get chemical weapons out of syrian hands. inspector this agreement, the syrians have one week to detail their entire chemical weapons stockpile, weapons inspectors will go to syria in november with the goal of destroying all the weapons by the middle of next year. the agreement will be backed up by a u.n. resolution that will leave the option of using force against syria if they fail to comply. our cbs news state department correspondent margaret brennan is traveling with secretary of state kerry. she joins us now from tel aviv. margaret, he is there there to tell the israelis what this agreement means and so on. how is this going? >> reporter: well, bob, secretary kerry is trying to reassure israeli prime ministe

david gergen, a cnn commentator. the president said he did not set a red line. the world's credibility is on the line. do you buy that? >> not really. i give the president credit for taking the high ground and trying to shame the rest of the world into taking action. he did that effectively. when it comes to the argument about the red line, there's a difference. international treaties say you cannot use chemical weapons. if you violate the treaties, they are silent about mig tear action. in effect, what the world says is if you violate a national treaty, you go to the u.n. and decide on military action. what the president did and why the red line business got him in trouble is in the context of saying whether he was going to use military action to intervene in syria, he said if they cross this line, i will -- i will recalibrate my position. he sent a clear message, if they cross this line, he would use military action. it's different from the treaties. >> right. >> it's put his credibility on the line and as commander in chief, it's put the united states on the

i also want to bring in pretty sal senior analyst david gergen. >> christiane, we know the white house was meeting tee ining tod. the iranians pulled that it does have time. did that make sense to you? >> you're right, the white house said and indicated if somewhere on the sidelines there was going to be a handshake or hello or as i put it, ice breaker, yes, they were up for it and willing to do it. i asked the iranians was it going to happen. but i think and certainly the americans believed that it was because of complications that he would face in iran if he did it. and look, there are a lot of complications. but i do think that the serious nature of what he's saying in terms of being given the authority to negotiate by the supreme leader and that a consensus has been arrived at in iran to negotiate on the nuclear issue and as he said other regional issues -- i also asked him about direct bilateral issues with the united states in the fact that he says he has that authority is the key issue. and president obama today named secretary of state kerry and iranians have already named thei

> joining me with their perspective on syria, former under secretary of state steven burns and david gergents. david, you've seen what happened this week which was kind of stunning, the white house seemed to be moving in the direction of the use of force. stopped. president decides to go to congress. secretary of state this morning tells us that if congress votes no, they might go anyway. so why did this occur? you've been in those rooms. you know what the discussions are. >> i think that when david cameron lost in the british parliament, that forced his hand. he had no choice but to seek additional approval from somewhere, otherwise he was totally isolated. he didn't have the u.n., he didn't have a willing coalition. and he didn't have support at home either from the congress or public opinion polls. he needed to have something that was with him. and by the way, i think he's likely to win. there will be a lot of kerfuffle between here and there, but if you look back through history, starting with the first world war, presidents have sought congressional backing on 18 different occasions an

. >> we'll talk now with newt gingrich and also dana bash and senior political analyst david gergen.er gingrich, tea party supporters and tea partiers that support cruz are using this so-called filibuster and speech he made as a fund-raising tool. an e-mail went out from tea party patriots read in part your gift right now will make a tangible difference in this fight immediately. now is the time, friend. there's not a moment to lose. is that really true? will giving money actually make a tangible difference right now and for cruz as peter king said, do you believe this is about building a mailing list, fund-raising? >> it's interesting. when you had anti-war democrats deeply opposed voting, speaking, raising money, i don't remember very many people challenging their motives. ted cruz ran on the grounds he would fight in washington. he didn't promise he would win. he promised he would fight. he's proving to be a clever guy. every political person in the country today was talking about him. i did five different interviews across the country. every single interview brought up what is te

i bring in david gergen and michael duran. we know the president obama was willing to meet with president rouhani today. president rouhani said there wasn't time to set up the meetinging. did that make sense to you? >> there was a lot of hype that there would be a formal meeting. the white house said and indicate the if somewhere on the sidelines there was going to be a handshake or hello or as i put it an ice breaker they were up for it and willing to do it. i'd asked the iranian delegation since sunday was it going to happen. they said well we haven't take an decision on that yet. so clearly they didn't take a decision on it, and it didn't happen. but i think and certainly the americans believed that it was because of complications that he would face in iran if he did it. and look, there are a lot of complications. but i do think that the serious nature of what he's saying in terms of being given the authority to negotiate by the supreme leader and that a consensus has been arrived at in iran to negotiate on the nuclear issu

. >> christiane amanpour joins me now along with david gergen and mike durand. we know the white house was willing to meet with rouhani today. the iranians pulled back. president rouhani said there wasn't time to set up the meeting. did that make sense to you? >> i think there was a lot of hype that it would be a formal meeting. it was never going to be that. you're right. the white house indicated if somewhere on the sidelines there was going to be a handshake or a hello or, as i put it, an ice-breaker, yes they were up for it, willing to do it. i asked the iranian delegation since sunday was it going to happen. they said, well, we haven't taken a decision on that yet. so clearly they didn't take a decision on it and it didn't happen. i think, you know, certainly the americans believed that it was because of complications that he would face in iran if he did this. there are a lot of complications. i think the serious nature of what he's saying in terms of being given the authority to negotiate by the supreme leader and that a consensus has been arrived at in ir

former speaker gingrich and david gergen. >> with the dead line loonl imi are we wasting precious time? >> no. we're in the middle of a legislative process in which one member of the congress is expressing deep feelings obamacare is a disaster and seeking to set up the stage for negotiations. unfortunately you have with harry reid in the senate and the president, this attitude of do it our way or nothing. you have no sense at all of the seriousness about negotiating even though today the president did indicate no side should expect to get 100%, which i thought might be the beginning of an opening towards a serious discussion. >> david, what's your take? >> i don't think they are wasting time, anderson. they are playing with fire. newt is right, this could be the beginning of a serious negotiations. i do believe republicans are calling attention to issues that are serious. the way they're going about it and what they're promising is they will shut down the government if they don't get their way on obamacare, i think, is irresponsible and be extremely irresponsible if we go into default

. >> david gergen, there are only three republicans in the senate foreign relations committee that voted yes on the juarez luciwa . that can't be that encouraging? >> you have to give the president a victory out of the senate foreign relations committee. it could have been defeated in committee. instead it came out with 1 a-7. start with that proposition. but what is interesting if you project on the house and senate votes what happened in senate foreign relations, if you have republicans voting the same way proportionately and the democrats voting the same way the president would get a slim majority in each chamber, but interestingly he would fall short in the senate of 60. so we all assume his worst chances are in the house but based on today's vote he has a climb to make in the senate to get to 60. >> you agree this is war? >> oh, i absolutely agree it is war. i -- the speaker said, let's talk about the tomahawk missiles. we should be very clear about what's going to happen. we keep talking about there won't be boots on the ground, but this will not just be missiles launched from ship

bush, michael gerson a cnn's senior political analyst, david gergen. the teleprompter there. congratulations. >> thank you. >> so the president is going to address the nation tonight at 9:00. what's he going to say? because i feel like what he was going to say maybe two days ago is very different from what he might say tonight. >> or two hours ago. a little context about what's been happening. then i think you have to make a moral case to the american people about why it's important to them. i think he will obviously -- >> why strikes are important? or why dealing with russia is important? >> why chemical weapons in syria, why little kids being gassed in their sleep with chemical weapons is important, why that endangers u.s. troops and why the credible threat of military force actually helps him reach a diplomatic solution to this problem. >> michael, in the "washington post" you wrote quote, the obama administration has generally waged a war of words and then used those words casually and clumsily. how can he make his words count tonight? >> well, it'

. >> thanks very much, david gergen. appreciate it. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'll be be back 5:00 p.m. eastern "the situation room." newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. >>> wolf, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. we begin today with breaking news. good news for a change. after 36 hours on edge, a teenager and her family are right now reuniting after she was kidnapped from her own home. in what started as this home break-in. lease have now just confirmed they have found 14-year-old ayvani perez. we have learned she's doing just fine. she's being checked out. police have the community to thank as well as folks helping out with social media. >> local, state, and federal agents came together, worked together, and were able to bring this young lady home. i also would be remiss if i did not say my thanks to the community. they immediately jumped on social media outlets and spread the word. the word spread very quickly. media responded. thank you for putting out the word in response to the kidnapping as well. >> police and fbi speaking there at the news co