jeremy paul on behalf of the mcdonough family. if i can go to the overhead, i'd like to show you some slides -- excuse me, not the overhead, the computer. thank you. this is part of a cluster of fairly uniform facades of arts and crafts home on a lovely block of 17th avenue. there is a shared driveway between these. there is no uniformity that can be described at the rear. it's kind of difficult to make out, but i think this is an important angle to see these houses. and the lower right-hand corner of the screen, you see the two garages at the rear. that is the subject property in the center where the pink dot is. with the roof line extending beyond it on both adjacent properties. like so. the existing section is a sense of what this, what the mcdonough family is currently living with. the front living room is about 12 feet wide. there's little space for more than a sofa in the middle of the room. there is not much family living space. the upstairs, the mcdonoughs share a bathroom with their kids. the overriding desire of this fam

denis mcdonough just said that here.don't want our own troops being targeted by these awful weapons. >> but david, but these weapons are there. this is a completely different case. the weapons were used. we have film, we have all kinds of intelligence that suggests who used them. it's a much different case. >> would syria attack the united states with weapons? >> there's no doubt they're fighting side by side with hezbollah. they could certainly use them against israel. they could be proliferated from there. and it gives a signal to everyone else -- every bad actor on the planet, the united states, the world community is in a fetal position, and you can do what you want. that would be a terrible signal. >> i think peggy noonan actually captured a good part of this in her column this week. this country has been engaged in the middle east seriously since october of 1979. we are tired of being a region where everybody wants to kill each other. it's very un-american. and as this whole -- because we're a country that wants a

mcdonough, welcome. >> chris, thank you for having me. it's good to be here. >> you have been trying to lead the office in trying to use military force, and we've been doing a vote count. in the house they now have 226 members against or leaning no, 182 undecided and only 25 -- 25 -- in favor. question. as we sit here today, do you have the votes in the senate and separately in the house to pass this resolution? >> look, we've been working this now for several days while members are in their states and in their districts, so i think it's too early to come to any conclusion. but let me be very clear that what is happening in my conversations with members of congress. not a person -- i've talked to dozens -- not a person is rebutting or refuting the intelligence. that is to say, we know what happened on august 21st. assad used chemical weapons against his people. so the question now is for congress to resolve this week is, are there consequences for a dictator who would have used those weapons to gas to death hundreds of children? the answe

mcdonough said members of congress should watch these before making a decision. let's hear from a congressman. >> nobody rebuts the evidence presented at the briefings. the evidence is not as strong as the public statements that the president and his administration have been making. i have urged the administration in the most recent briefing, for example, to be more forward with the public about what the situation actually is. >> you are hearing from representative justin amage a republican. he's not convinced even after seeing the videos. everyone is counting the votes in advance of congress coming back into town tomorrow. the washington post counts the numbers in the senate has 27 voting against, 50 in the updecided, and 23 supporting military action. in the house the washington post counting 226 against, 182 undecided and just 25 saying they support it. the numbers in the house not looking good at all for the white house right now. the senate - still light of day there. >> the situation in syria, the numbers, and we are joined from washington by paul. >> for m

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this is a political operative, dennis mcdonough. i walked with dennis mcdonough, i thought about it and now i bring it to congress. >> quickly, did he look strong? i'm not sure as a correspondent you really want to answer that question. >> look, consider, i understand why he's doing what he's doing and the end of the day he made this choice because this could go on for a lot longer than the limited -- >> he needs congressional support. i don't think the way he's handled it in the last few days has been very effective. >> thank you very much, everyone. i appreciate your perspectives. i'm don lemon. stay with cnn for the latest developments on the crisis in syr syria. tomorrow secretary of state john kerry on cnn's "state of the union." gloria borger will be hosting for candy crowley. i'm don lemon. good night. >>> we are on target. make sure everybody is ready to move into the target locations. >> we're ready to go. >> on location. we're ready to go. >> alpha 5, all set to go. >> boston police.

we'll bring you our interview with white house chief of staff denis mcdonough in a minute. first the shocking videos obtained by cnn documenting the chemical attacks in syria. these are graphic and gruesome and children apparently dying from a sarin gas attack. these videos have been shown to members of the senate intelligence committee to bolster the administration's case to intervene in syria. joining me now dana bash and jim sciutto. welcome to cnn. i haven't had a chance to tell you that. it's good to have you. dana, the videos. clearly meant to drive the vote. is it? >> at this point it's hard to see how it will. i'll just tell you what their plans are. as you said they played it in the senate intelligence committee. the chairwoman of that committee, dianne feinstein asked it to be distributed widely. it will be played tomorrow night at a big classified briefing in the house. and it's on the website. the problem is that of course this hits home the moral objective which is to make sure this doesn't happen again. but that's not the issue for so many of these members of

. >> denis mcdonough made a furious round of interviews on the sunday shows. images confirmed by the u.s. intelligence community are further evidence of syria's use of chemical weapons. mcdonough made the case that members of congress should watch the videos and back the president's request for military force. >> i hope that everyone before they cast their votes will look at those pictures. no one is doubting the intelligence. that means that everyone believes that bashar al-assad used chemical weapons to the tune of 1500 on august 21st. >> mcdonough stuck to a script that president obama has been reciting. make sure that bashar al-assad does not use chemical weapons again and send a strong message to adversaries. >> if congress wants to make sure that the iranians and hezbollah understand that you cannot have greater operating space, then have a vote of yes for the operation. >> i think the military attack is a mistake. >> why? >> for two reasons. one, because i think the administration is proceeding with the wrong objective. and, two, because they have no vi

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. >> good evening, dell, the president's chief of stat dennis mcdonough was the tip of the sphere ofn all out media effort that we will see in the days to come. a series of meetings, briefs, and speeches all aimed at turning the tide in congress, and winning public opinion for support for a military attack on syria. now, we need to warn you, some of the images you are about to see are very traffic. >> these traffic videos were exhibit a as white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough made a furious round of appearances on the sunday morning shows. the white house says the videos release bid senator committee collected from syrian opposition supporters and confirmed bety u. intelligence community are further evidence of syria's use of chemical weapons. mcdonough made the case that members of congress should watch he and back the president's push for military force. >> i hope that every member of congress before he or she decides how they will cast their vote will look at those pictures. nobody is rebutting the intelligence. nobody doubts the intelligence, that means that everybody beli

we heard denis mcdonough say this is the mission. we are going to degrade assad's ability to use chemical weapons and deter him from doing so. that's our mission. is that good enough? >> that's not good enough for me. every mission should be clearly defined and then you need execution of what that strategy is going to be and then you need to know what that exit strategy is going to be. and i don't see that. as the chairman said repeatedly, this president is saying do more with less even to the point that the day before he starts saying let's go to syria, he cuts their pay and they're going to get less than they were expecting. i think part of the crisis is what is being done to the funding of our military. >> again, i do want to talk about funding of the military. i want to ask you because i know that you intend to vote no at this point on a resolution. can you look your commander in chief, the leader of the western world, who has come to congress and said we need to do this, we have an obligation to do this and tell him no? >> i'm a

in tonight's education alert, baltimore county delegate pat mcdonough held a press event today urging state lawmakers to delay the implementation of common core and to create an impact study commission to review the curriculum. he says it is a complex and confusing program, adding that dedicated teachers are not being instructed properly on how to implement the program or its purpose. >> the biggest problem is the teachers are our foundation of our education system. when the teachers tell you, we are not getting proper guidelines, the guidelines are not being explained, and we can't get our questions answered, if they need to go into the classroom and teach this to children, that is chaos in the classroom. they are the red flag that there is a problem. >> mcdonough scheduled today's conference earlier this week when he learned about the arrest of a parent who spoke at a meeting to explain the new curriculum in baltimore county. robert small was charged with assaulting an officer who was working at the meeting, but the charges were later dropped. ottmar city's school system has agreed

right to the president's chief of staff, denis mcdonough. so many questions about the president and what he would do. if he can't succeed in the getting the votes in the next couple of weeks. as john pointed out, the president did not directly answer the question on friday. but he said his call to congress was not a political ploy or symbolism. and he went on to say this. >> i put it before congress because i could not honestly claim that the threat posed by assad's use of chemical weapons posed an imminent, direct threat to the united states. >> with those words, hasn't the president effectively ruled out taking any action if the congress votes no? >> george, i think it's important for us to -- before we jump to conclusions, i admire john karl's reporting, but look, i've been talking to dozens of members of congress over the last week. not a single one has rebut order refused the intelligence. which is to say everybody agrees that on august 21st, assad used chemical weapons against his own people. so the question for congress this week is a

even dennis mcdonough, the white house chief of staff, said this is not about politics. >> dennis mcdonough could tell us the sun is rising. we're almost at the year anniversary of benghazi on wednesday. >> to the day. >> to the day. on tuesday the president -- we drew the red line in the sand. a year ago they used chemical weapons. this is all about saving the president's face, and this argument suddenly after the disastrous policies, look, this president lied to the american people about benghazi as he did on the red line. he said, i didn't draw a red line. >> let's listen to the president of the united states talking about that red line. >> i'm just saying the american people don't believe anything they're being told. >> it's ready now. let's listen to the president. okay, basically the president said he didn't draw the red line, that the international community drew the red line, and he went on to say that if people don't step up to retaliate against syria for this chemical weapons attack, it would be basically wrong for all of us to let them get away with it. z >> the big question abou

/today, he sent white house chief of staff denis mcdonough to all the morning talk shows. mcdonough made the point -- again and again -- that any attack against assad's regime would be very contained. >> this is not iraq. >> this is not iraq. >> not a situation like iraq. >> this is not iraq or afghanistan or libya. this is not an extended air campaign. this is something targeted, limited and effective so as to under score that he should not think that he can get away with this again. >> the obama administration today pressed its efforts to win international support as well. in paris , secretary of state john kerry tried to drum up support for military action during a meeting with arab leaders. afterwards, he said saudi arabia supports the us plan. but the foreign minister of qatar stopped short of supporting any military action. >> translator: as for syria and what qatar is willing to provide, qatar is currently studying with its friends and the united nations what it could provide in order to protect the syrian people. >> secretary of state kerry said at least 10 countri

instead of sought device from dennis mcdonough. you think is going on behind closed doors among the foreign policy team. has there been pushback or division about how things have been handled up to this point? >> i think you've seen that exposed publicly. you see chuck hagel and the military not being as enthusiastic publicly as others have been. and i think in going forward with this, i think in terms of the president's decision to go to congress about this, he did announce this right after we were told a long walk around the white house grounds with dennis mcdonough, chief of staff. they have a deep trust way back to the president's senate days when he elevated dennis mcdonough to the chief of staff job, this was a lot of sense that this was an ins lar, tight community. he had been with the president during his election and his campaigns and so that gives a question of what kind of political calculus they came up with here. we were told it was something that shocked the president the rest of his team. john kerry sold it strongly

it was mcdonough who's largely been the push this weekend, appearing on all five sunday major shows.urse, if the effort in syria is successful, the president will get credit for that. if it's not, mcdonough will join the long line of white house chief of staffs will join the list. >> you meet with foreign policy team, the economic policy team. then you meet with the white house staff. then you'd have a larger meeting to talk about what you were going to try to get accomplished that particular day. in an average day, you would deal with things like bosnia, northern ireland, the budget, taxation, the environment, then you'd have lunch. >> all 20 living white house chiefs of staff tell all in the two-part discovery event that culminates tonight. we're now joined by one of them, jack watson, former white house chief of staff to president carter and chris wipple, executive producer of "the president's gate keeper." jack, you have been in this position before with president carter. what is it about this relationship between the president and the chief of staff that there seems to be an inc

white house chief of staff denis mcdonough appeared on five sunday talk shows. on cnn's state of the union, he talked to our candy crowley about our intelligence linking the assad regime to chemical weapons. >> joining me now, denis mcdonough, chief of staff at the white house. thanks for being here. i want to ask you something right now. if the u.s. should launch a strike, is there any country anywhere that would provide military equipment or military personnel to help us? >> well, it's important to see this statement that was released by the g20 on friday where we had several countries joining us in calling for the syrian regime to be held accountable -- >> but not supporting a u.s. strike? let's make that clear. >> to be held accountable for an instance that nobody now is debating, which is interesting. nobody now debates the intelligence, which makes clear, and we have high confidence about this, that on august -- in august, the assad regime used chemical weapons against its own people. a former iranian president has indicated that he believes that. the enti

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martha: i got the feeling denis mcdonough was not expecting that question. have a answer for pretty much everything yesterday but i was shocked honestly that he was not ready for that question. >> we, i think he is not ready for it because nobody else is really asking it and so i think the administration think this is sort of behind them and, that was really sort of a non-answer that he gave. he didn't address the issue that chris raised, which is why can, you know the associated press find this person, you know, reporters are able to find the person but the u.s. isn't? and he hasn't addressed that. and i don't really know how there could be a good answer for that. if they know who it is and people are to find him, he should be arrested. >> yeah, i mean we all remember the moment, tony, when the president stood up and said, you know, whoever carried out this attack will pay for it and we will track them down. he assured the families of those four people, whoever was responsible would be brought to justice. and now we're coming up against the anniversary. so

the 91-year-old is a home town hero by his mcdonough owe charlie. >> i can't believe it.ca. >> our home town hero has given his life to service with pride. >> he we first told you about him when his homeowner's association told him he would have to take down the flag he flu at home or face a 200 a day fine. >> i got furious when i heard about him not being able to fly the flag. >> the action by the hoa outraged neighbors stepped up to support him. they voted to determine whether the rules should be changed. yao well amming majority voted to allow the flag to fly. >> we are in america. the flag belongs to us we are going to fly. >> his deep patriotism one of the many attributes that makes him a home town hero. >> i have been a fan for 68 years. he has always been my hero. >> he will carry the flag in the 9-11 ceremony held today in the town of mcdonough. >> good for him. the time is 25 minutes after the hour. a major referendum. silencing lawmakers who are looking to implement strict gun restrictions. we will tell you about that. the department of energy just lost 42 milli

joining me now, the president's chief of staff, denis mcdonough.me back. >> thanks for having me, david. >> you have made the statements that these pictures, among other evidence, makes the case to congress and the american people, and yet congress doesn't appear to be with you when it comes to military strikes. why not? >> look, i hope that every member of congress, before he or she decides how they'll cast their vote, will look at those pictures. let me tell you what i've been up to for the last couple weeks, david, talking to members of congress, dozens of them, including at least two who will be on your panel. nobody is rebutting the intelligence. nobody doubts the intelligence. that means that everybody believes that bashar al assad used chemical weapons against his own people to the tune that you just said, of killing nearly 1,500 on august 21st. so the question for congress this week is what are the consequences for his having done so? how congress chooses to answer that question will be listened to very clearly in damascus, but not just in

the white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough took to the sunday shows making the case. >> this isstan. this is not libya or an extended air campaign. this is something targeted, limited and effective so as to underscore he should not think he can get away with this again. >> secretary of state john kerry met with arab league ministers in paris today. he says saudi arabia approved international milit

we know about that walk with dennis mcdonough. it surprised me in your reporting john kerry and chuck hagel were not consulted that friday when the president decided to go for congressional authorization the day sergey lavrov offered they would cede their chemical weapons supply to the community. kerry seemed on the outside of the president and white house and rad manages decided to wrap their arms and embrace that suggestion. a lot there seems to be i won't say a disconnect but certainly the nexus of decision making in all of this seems to be coming back to the commander in chief without the assistance or guidance of his cabinet members. is that accurate? >> i do think this is an administration where you see the white house increasingly being the assertive player and determining foreign policy, in fact cabinet secretaries there to implement, explain and made it happen. that's not to say the white house isn't paying attention to john kerry or chuck hagel, they are, certainly. the president did come back with that walk with dennis

what did seem a letter said face or mcdonough mr president that gave the. u.n. committee about using chemical weapons. i believe there is plenty of evidence. there are testimonies by. witnesses who saw what. militants in the insurgency actually do in syria they're also videos that insurgents posted on the internet themselves apparently boasting with hotel of the are doing is also they're also professional assessments. including one by miss carla del ponte he. is a member of an international commission who said that she has evidence of one. of the insurgents using certain. chemical agents in syria do there's also a testimony by mother agnes the cushion mother superior of the monastery in syria who also testified about the atrocities are committed by insurgents in pronounced the alleged chemical attack to be a frame up operation and there were many signs of many other. instances of evidence telling us or suggesting at least that the whole. affair with chemical weapons was a staged frame up operation. that was. well. you. know you want to put your clothes there. so

a 45-minute walk, in fact, with his chief of staff, dennis mcdonough.parking a heated debate. he then started to spread the word, calling vice president biden, secretary of state john kerry, and defense secretary chuck hagel. saturday morning, mr. obama convened a principals meeting with top national security and intelligence officials to finalize the decision. >> the question is what do we, what do we collectively, what we in the world will do about it? >> reporter: just hours before the obama's abrupt move, secretary of state kerry made an impassioned plea for action. >> we saw rows of children lying side by side sprawled on the hospital floor all of them dead from assad's gas. >> reporter: but aides say what kerry and the rest of the president's team did not know is mr. obama had been privately kicking around the idea of seeking approval from congress for days, as kerry was turning up the heat, the president seemed to be turning it down. >> i am very clear that the world generally is war-weary. certainly the united states has gone through over a deca

. >> we'll hear the argument for action from white house chief of staff denis mcdonough and we'll hear from rand paul who may filibuster on military force. and where we stand a year after the attack in benghazi that left four dead including the u.s. ambassador. plus, our power player of the week. designing and testing ships of the future in a scale model ocean -- all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again from fox news in washington. president obama will try to pull off the almost politically impossible this week. turn around strong opposition in congress to the use of force in syria. with the rest of the world opting out of military action the president will address the nation tuesday night and try to accomplish what he's failed to do so far -- convince lawmakers u.s. national security is at stake and the assad regime's use of chemical weapons. we are joined by the president's chief of staff. welcome. >> chris, thanks for having me. it's really good to be here. >> you have been leading the white house effort to get support for authorization of the use of military force and the wa

. >> denis mcdonough doing what he did yesterday. >> president obama's chief of staff, dennis mcdonoughl five sunday news shows. >> obama's presidency hangs in the balance. his second term. >> the president doing all these interviews today. >> this afternoon, president obama will appear in six television interviews. >> then the speech to the nation tomorrow. >> big speeches rarely move public opinion on something as pro found as this. >> the united states congress and the president on not addressing the issues that the american people care most about. >> only thing that helps white house case is explaining how strikes would improve situation. >> the problem is, the military measures they're considering are unlikely to achieve a political purpose. >> i believe what the white house is saying. the question is, how do we address that issue? >> indeed. and let's get right to our panel to do so. joining us now is msnbc contributor, goldy taylor, and "washington post" political columnist, dana millbank. if i might start with you, goldy, the administration, as we know, is putting on an enormous

. >> dennis mcdonough makes the case for why members of congress should authorise the president's request to carry out strikes on syria. >> how congress chooses to answer the question will be listened to in damascus and in tehran and among the lebanese hezbollah. >> it's an issue of regional security and stability. a top u.s. ally, israel - according to a former white house survivor. >> the israelis sent a signal that they feel we have to act. if not it will encourage the use of these weapons. internet video was released by the senate intelligence committee to support the argument the syrian president should be held act ail. in a soon to -- accountable. in a soon-to-be-released interview president bashar al-assad reportedly denies that he knew about the attack, suggesting if the obama administration had evidence he used chemical weapons, it should be released. >> a prominent liberal activist group in the meantime released a television ad urging congress to vote against the president's request to authorise military action. after 10 years of war in afghanistan and iraq americans fear being

sunday morning chat shows white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough making the case for why members of congress should authorise the u.s. president's request to carry out strikes on syria. >> how congress chooses to answer the question will be listened to clearly in damascus and tehran and among lebanese hezbollah. >> it's an issue of regional stability from israel, toll ally. >> the israelis sent a signal that they feel we have to act. if we don't it will encourage the use of these weapons. >> internet videos of the aftermath of the alleged chemical weapons afac in damascus were -- attack in damascus were released by the senate intelligence committee to support the argument that the syrian president should be held accountable. in a soon-to-be-released interview with cbs, syrian president bashar al-assad dethighs he knew about the attack, suggesting that if the barack obama administration had evidence he used chemical weapons against syrians, it should be released. >> what should america expect... >> a prominent liberal activist group in the meantime time released a television ad ur

white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonough, good minnesota guy, middle of the country, level-headedude. he appeared on all the sunday talk shows this weekend to keep pushing this claim. he said multiple times the white house has -- they're pretty certain that assad used chemical weapons. however, at one point, mcdonough contradicted the administration. >> now, do we have a picture or do we have irrefutable -- beyond a reasonable doubt evidence? this is not a court of law. and intelligence does not work that way. so what we do know, and what we know the common sense test says is, he is responsible for this. he should be held to account. >> so we're now to the level of it's not a court of law. we're not really sure. common sense points us in this direction. you know, folks, i'm right here. i want to be a member of the 100% society. i want absolutes. i want -- i hate to say it -- slam dunk. they can't give that to us, because they don't know. and any bit of doubt is unacceptable to the american people at this point. and let me be clear. i personally think assad used chemical weapons, b

can you say that it begins today with denis mcdonough making rounds on sunday morning shows a couple of hours from now the vice president joe biden will invite over to his residence several senators, republican senators, that this white house believes are crucial for them to get a win on the senate side. then again tomorrow, as you've noted, not just the president doing those interviews in advance of his speech to take place tuesday night. his national security adviser, susan rice, will be giving remarks as well. so this has been a very deliberate concentrated effort over the course of the next days. building it that crescendo tuesday night where the president will speak. obviously this remains an up hill battle. this is frustration among washington, certainly among administration officials, through some that believe they are playing politices with the decision they believe is one of national security. taking for example, senator ted cruz of texas today who said that he believes the military attack would be a mistake. ways looking up remarks that he made in june of this year, where h

i went to school in mcdonough. i moved to new york to become an actor. that's what i moved to do. i was acting for a while. went to the actor drama school where i met my wife. but after a while, the acting thing wasn't doing it for me creatively, financially. >> it's a tough life isn't it. >> a tough life. the chase is what was really dragging me down, never knowing what is coming next. i started writing. i started writing plays, first, to have a creative outlet and gives you a much more sense of control. >> absolutely. >> that was in 2008 and it slowly took off, plays got a little bit of heat and we did a couple of regional productions and then i got the job on writing for television, homicide hunter which lead to brain games and then in the middle of that some friends came to me with the idea for this book personal statement. it all just kind of -- >> gelled together. >> i would imagine those years of acting positioned you -- i can't say the word, positioned you to get into the writing jobs that you have? i imagine you networked, had connections to some extend you went back to s

mcdonough didn't have an answer to that question. does anyone seriously think the president after, you know, declaring the red line and after so much that he has said, about the evils of bashar assad would simply hold back and say, well congress didn't approve it, therefore i'm not going to do it? >> i think that is the likely outcome if congress does not approve that. that is what prime minister david cameron did on the house of commons on the night of august 29th voted down the authorization of use of force by 285-272 margin. he immediately stated that he was not going to take military action. i would be astonished if the president did so after an adverse vote but, i've been astonished by his decisions throughout. jon: but as commander-in-chief does he diminish his authority by going to congress for this kind of i think thing? >> presidents, including president obama and presidents of both parties have asserted they have rights to deploy military assets in similar situations and president obama doesn't want to relinquish that theor

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the quarterback sneak by mcdonough. cal trailing by three.s that last big play that usually wins it. gof f 31 of 58 ball, 485 yards. that's impressive. hard fought victory by cal as they pick up their first win of the year beating portland state, final of 37-30. still with the pac-12, new oregon head coach running the second ranked duck high powered machine. at my alma mater, virginia! the quarter draw the first drive of the game, marcus maroo iota. the ducks win big 59-10 over the cavaliers. >>> and at tennessee, rough one for western kentucky. late first call ball batted in the air and the ball comes down in the interception in the late of the 1st quarter but it goes on and on four straight possessions, four turnovers, brandon dough ty another turnover three turnovers on three plays and then it happens again. that's how it went. there's a fifth interception. five times in six plays. they wreak havoc and win 52-20. >> feel bad for them. >> all right. picked off in the end zone. seven turnovers for the day and the vols win the game a final of

chris wallace brought it up on "fox news sunday" with white house chief of staff denis mcdonough. >> look, we've been very clear that we will hold those people who carried out this dastardly heinous attack against our people -- >> it's been a year. >> it has been a year. you mow what the united states does, chris, we track every lead until we find and can accomplish what we say we will do. >> why can't we find -- >> this president has demonstrated that. and we will do that. >> well, you can catch the rest of chris wallace' interview on "fox news sunday" that's at 6:00 p.m. eastern time tonight. >>> switching gears, widespread damage left behind from a massive wildfire that burned the size of chicago near yosemite national park. now scientists are racing to protect the park. domenic is live from the l.a. bureau >> hey there, heather. it's what they call a burned area emergency response crew. 50 in total gathering in the yosemite national forest. it's the twice the aftermath to deal with california third largest wildfire in history. the third mud slide to come -- sorry, sorry, rather,