every military plan, every battle plan should have a clearly defined mission and execution and a strategy. and the problem is the president has not come forward in a leadership role. he has tried to pivot on just about everything. >> okay. let's take a look at the secretary of state. here is what he said. here is his case for military action against syria. generally. it's an interview with my colleague chris hayes, which is going to have the full program coming up after this program at 8:00. let's listen to what he says. he gets into this issue of our role helping the rebels, getting into the war. not just punishing assad for chemical. here he is. >> if we don't do this, assad will have the message that he can use these weapons with impunity. we will have turned our back on the next batch of children, on the next batch of parents. we will have turned our back on the international norm. we will have lost credibility in the world. and i guarantee you if we turn our backs today, the picture we all saw in the paper today and