is such a horrible situation we have to do something. i think what we're hearing from a lot of congressional aids is the white house has made that case fairly clearly. people believe that assad was behind the chemical attack and that syria is a humanitarian disaster. they have not explained how exactly our intervention is supposed to make that any better. i think the time line is important for establishing the president's position. the fact that the syrian situation is such a humanitarian crisis is a necessary condition for arguing that we should invade but it's not a sufficient condition. there's another case the white house hasn't made. >> nothing that we're talking about aims to actually deal with the humanitarian crisis. we're trying to spank them for using chemical weapons which is why the washington post whip couldn't, let's dig into where congress is. in the senate 23 nos, 55 undecided, 22 yess. maybe they'll get through congress, but the house, 178 nos so far, 103 up decided, only 19