joining us now is tommy vietor, he served in the obama white house. he's a former spokesman for the national security council. also joining us, christopher hill, the former u.s. ambassador to south korea. he's now dean of the school of international studies at the university of denver. and retired u.s. navy admiral william fallon. he served as the head of the u.s. pacific command and u.s. central command. admiral fallon, what worries me the most is a miscalculation that could trigger all-out war. are you concerned about that, as well? >> wolf, i think it's prudent to be concerned and certainly pay close attention to this. but i believe this thing may be a little bit overhyped right now. >> tell us why, tell us why. >> well, the first thing is his ability to strike the u.s. i think is mostly talk. there's a possibility that some of his missiles might be able to range alaska or possibly a u.s. territory or bases closer in. but unlikely. they've never demonstrated an ability to get anything to fly as far as the u.s. it took them many years to get that on

the white house, as tommie vietor said play this role of integrator.t's not unusual for state and d & b to be in different tracks, i think it's good they are. >> while this whole thing has been going on, wave seen a lot of allegations before today. this is a big thing to have the intelligence community saying in this mele mouth way, yeah, sort of we're on board with this as well. when we were previously getting leaks less substantiated it didn't prove anything about chemical weapons but proved that people inside the administration were trying to force the president into going to war in syria. are there enclaves in this administration pushing for it? >> you hit something a taboo subject hard to discuss. you asked what are the motives certain players in this discussion have had? they want to see an intervention and thus they want to organize evidence to try to trigger the behavior from the u.s. government they want to see, an intervention with what they see as the fsa and they often present it as a more organized and sinthy sized and warm and friendly op