but if it's ta kind of limited sfwrik shar assad survives he's going to say i stood up to the unitedit is a very tricky thing. >> sure it is. >> but i kind you have emp thighes with the box he got himself in because i do believe the use of chemical weapons is different from a lot of other things. we're not talking about changing syria fundamentally. just talking about taking a stand against the use of chem wal weapons. >> dr. dyson, how troubled is the president on this? is this a gut wrenching moment for him. >> of course it is. talking about the metaphor of the surgery, the surgery was successful but the patient died. with the reality here, even if you have a surgical strike, you compromise the moral positioning of america vis-a-vis our understanding of democracy and how much we're going to intervene and when. that's a call that ultimately a president has to make. >> it's a civil war. i guess we've got to go to darfur, too. we've got a lot of work to do around the world if we're going to do this kind of stuff. >> if we're going to be a moral cop. >> that's right. thank you for bein

york times" reports american officials say there is no smoking gun that directly lin links iowa shar al-assad to the attacks. the president is expected on a conference call today to brief high ranking members of congress about his plans for syria. >> military hardware is on the move. britain is deploying a half dozen war planes to cyprus that is just off syria's coast and russia is moving two war ships into the mediterranean. add to that the british government made its case for launching a strike on syria. britain says it could attack without authorization from the united nations, justifying the use of force based on humanitarian grounds. >> when we look at the frankly relatively brief document, a page and a half from the british government, it is quite clear, isn't it? it doesn't need further authorization other than by parliament to go into the fighting. >> reporter: other than by parliament is a big caveat. a number of members of the opposition and also within david cameron's own conservative party have said they want to wait for more evidence and this is why while they're debating it toda

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meantime, syrian president bar shar al assad said this morning that syria would defend itself againsting from washington. good morning. >> good morning. i think one of the things you're seeing the white house is trying to build international support but now the focus is on trying to get domestic support on their side. they're briefing congress today showing them the evidence of the chemical weapons attack, trying to persuade members of congress that they don't need to be involved in the idea of authorizing this. that this all falls under the war powers act that the president has the ability to do this on his own but they want to have these meaningful confrontations but i can tell you, tamron, the politics of this is getting tricky here and across the pond. and they may not have the brits on their side as david cameron's got problems in his parliament over this issue. >> thank you very much. there's a tense move among ordinary people on the streets of the capital. i spoke with sam dagger in damascus. >> reporter: we have people out and about, you know, trying to prepare themselves for