today's guests include dennis mcdonagh, who makes an appearance on every show today. all,tic senator tom the mccall, chairman of house homeland security committee, and the members of the committee peter king and loretta sanchez. week" with ennis mcdonagh and ted cruz. gregory hicks, former deputy chief of mission in libya. "fox news sunday," guests include red and dennis mcdonagh. -- rand paul and dennis mcdonagh. "face the nation" from cbs. bob schieffer welcomes mr. mcdonagh and congressman mike ustins, just in a mosh -- j amash, and elijah cummings. rebroadcasts of the shows begin at noon eastern with "meet the press." 1:00, "this week." sunday," "state of the union," and "face the nation." listen on 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c. area. syria --19 on xm sirius radio. download our up for your smartphone -- app for your smartphone, or listen online at www.c-span.org. >> wilson was so intellectual. he is the only president with a phd. as a result of that, most of the books written about him have been academic in nature. they have missed the very human side of this man

. >> bob: let me ask you, you've heard dennis mcdonagh say, nobody rebuts the evidence. would you agree with that? >> nobody rebuts the information we've been presented at of briefings. but it's not as strong as the statements the approximate the and his mx*d agz have been making. i urged the administration in the most recent briefings, for example, to be more forward with the public about what the situation actually is. i think that there are some thing that is are being embellished in the public statements. i would ask the administration to be more forward with the public about this. we all need to have the information. i would also add that the briefings haven't given me comfort. the briefings have made me more skeptical about the situation. >> bob: let me ask both of you this. this is the bottom line. what do you think the fallout would be? what would the impact be? the president has drawn a red line, and then the united states is not able to deliver. what does that do to the credibility of the united states? >> i think it hurts to some degree. at the same time, the

very interestingly, too, dennis mcdonagh, chief of staff of the white house, tells chris wallace on fox news sunday, you don't know what's going on. you don't know how much we really know and we're about to get these guys. it's a year. how about you tell us? how about you let us know how close you are, what you have. because bob, you're ready to go kill someone in syria on one hand without all the information, but we're a year into this and allegedly a year into an investigation you have a lot going on behind the scenes and nothing's happening in benghazi. >> you benghazi conspiracy theorists first of all we don't know what's going on. you can't call it an injustice when you don't know what they're doing. >> i know we don't have the answers we should have, that it's taken way too long and they've been disrespectful to the dead. >> wait a minute. most conspiracy theorists said these people had to take polygraph tests, they didn't have to. now they'll be september to capitol hill where they'll be under oath. if they lie about not taking a polygraph they're subject to be indicted. the fact

. >> at 6:00 he goes for a walk in the south grounds with dennis mcdonagh, his chief of staff and callsurity council staff and they argue for two hours. >> yeah. yeah. no, it's quite remarkable. you know what -- and it is a mess and in the middle east it's being -- first of all, in the middle east in the nondemocratic states they think it's a ruse. get your congress to approve. you appointed them, right? so there's that level of confusion, but there's also this fear of dithering. there's this fear of hesitancy and of course there's a fear about what it means for the more important red line, the iran red line. can i just come back one quick second? >> sure. >> i think there's a misunderstanding about apac and this misunderstanding. apac would have been happy to stay out of this. you have a supreme irony which is that the white house has basically asked apac and these other organizations to come out and lobby for them. >> they're on opposite sides of everything. >> if you go to george bush today and tell him that lindsey graham, john mccain and apac are doing the president's bidding to bo

speeches, he makes a decision to change direction on syria in a walk around the grounds with dennis mcdonaghief of staff, makes a question to answer about the fed when asked by charlie rose that he shouldn't have, because it set off a gender battle and political war over a position not politicized. >> less disciplined message and messenger in this white house through the president. as a candidate he manages to stick to his lines very well and has a force and a purpose to what he's saying. in the white house you're looking at a very messy situation. often the white house say it's because of events. some of these events are of their own creation. you have the president campaigning yesterday at the same time they delay key provisions for small businesses on health care. that's not about events. that's things in this white house's control. there's a discipline and a force that when you lose a david plouffe, who is a very disciplined character, then things don't sound and look the same. in this case you've got a candidate, in this case the president, who feels like changing his policy and message

earlier in that day, the chief of staff, dennis mcdonagh, will visit with house democrats trying to convince them. the democrats have been as challenging as any group to get on board with this because so many of them oppose the idea of intervention. as you have noted multiple times, it's an uphill battle this white house faces but one they're aggressively pursuing as they fan out the forces across television and to the capitol. >> this tuesday evening address that we've been talking about, what more will president obama say that he has not said yet publicly? >> reporter: it's a good question and they're not exactly revealing their hand on what exactly we expect to hear from the president. i think a lot of people believe that it would add value if the president revealed some of that which he has been showing or the administration has been showing in these classify briefings up on capitol hill. but based on the conversations i've been having, it appears pretty unlikely the president is going to detail anything new specifically. it's likely, i think, that the remarks he makes to a national audi

house is going to be kicking off a major public relations public sending their chief of staff dennis mcdonagh to every sunday show to make the case against the assad regime. something we've heard a lot of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say is the majority of their constituent phone calls and e-mails are strongly opposed to entering another conflict in the middle east. so the white house is doing to change their minds today and hope they can convince those members of the public to sway their members of congress. because right now "the washington post" had the running tally of yeas and nays for syria action in their stay out of syria column which includes members that publicly vote no or leaning no when it comes to authorizing force against assad. already up to 223 members of that's half a dozen more than 217 votes needed to block passage. president obama has scheduled a national address for tuesday evening that will let him try to personally convince the american people that attacking assad is a good idea. but before that, tomorrow he's going to sit down with anchors from nbc, abc, cbs,