0 opponents within the u.s.a. will step up their attacks on him. and so ironically, a vicious attack in syria now has extreme global implications. russia, iran, al qaeda, and every other subversive group gain power. america, britain, france, nato and those who are supposed to be the keepers of civilization lose power. this happened once before, in the 1930s, and now it's happening again. syria is much more than poison gas and bashar assad. it is about the struggle for decency and justice in this world. and that's the memo. tonight, we will devote the entire program to syria. first up brit hume. later on williams, goldberg and rove. the factor will be right back. check it out. i can't believe your mom has a mom cave! today i have new campbell's chuy spicy chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. i'm very souperstitious. haha, that's a good one! haha! [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. 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>> i wouldn't dispute that, no. >> so is he a sound drill. i is manipulating whole thing so america looks bad and he looks good. is he a baby killer, putin, he gives assad and iran all that cover to do whatever they want. supplies them with weapons we can't trust putin but, as you said, what putin is trying to do is tie it up. you know, he will do the little two step for weeks and weeks and weeks. obama knows he is not going to win in congress now. shockingly. so-bama will probably allow him to do it it? >> not allow it is he jumping at the opportunity. >> you saw the interview with chris wallace. he didn't jump. >> oh, yes he did. >> you think he jumped? io he did, take a look at it, he wasn't jumping. >> bill, trust me. president obama is thrilled tonight. john kerry said this. obama was even claiming in one the interviews he did tonight that this proposal from putin was a continuation of the discussions that he, obama had had with putin during that summit. obama is going to portray this as a victory for him and in some respects he can make it look like that. >> bill: that's right. that's what he will probably do so you say it will weaken the united states. and i don't disagree with you. but to all outward appearances the president can portray this as a victory. meanwhile members of congress who don't want to cast a tough vote are likely to be off the hook. at least for the time being and maybe forever. >> all the weasels win with all due respect. >> that's one way of putting it, yeah. >> bill: just go down the list of weasels starting with putin they all win, all right, hume and i are cynical about this ladies and gentlemen because we have been around and we know what the is taken a beating even in he declares victory, everybody know hes taking a beating over it no doubt about it, is there? no, i don't think there is, i think he painted himself into this corner, he did what he thought he had to do and then at the last minute, of course, when he was prepared to actually do something he decided to back away interest that and try throw the ball to congress' court and claim that congress' credibility was on the line, not his and so on. it looked like he was going to it lose in congress separate situation now looks like a political light line. now, i'm try to phrase this question so i don't get 7,000 emails. trying to phrase this so i don't get 7,000 emails in the next hour. all of this might turn out to be a good thing in the u.s.a. in the sense that we know president obama has been diminished in the eyes of the world and in inside the united states. there is no doubt about that. but if we don't have to go, and bomb anybody, all right, and we do get the gas away from assad, that's a good thing. maybe putin, the one time in his life that he has ever done something decent in it if you don't think i'm overstating putin is he an admireer of joseph stalin. might be a good thing that putin has jumped in. last word? >> problem is tremendous technical policies to the united nations or some other international body getting control of and verifying the control of those nuclear -- of those chemical and biological weapons. >> bill: assad won't use them again. >> for the time being obviously he won't. and in that sense that -- in the end he may still end up with with them unpunished that is undesirable outcome and the world with a will have seen the president backing down. so, you know, that's a loss the of credibility and that hurts the country and i think arguably the world. >> bill: all right, brit. right now the president's speech tomorrow night is being rewritten to put this -- >> -- i would think so. >> bill: this element in there it will be interesting to see how that pans out. directly ahead are republicans sensing blood in the water over the syria controversy? we will discuss it. then bernie goldberg on the tv news anchors interviewing president obama today. were they tough enough? we are coming right back. this was the hardest decision i've ever had to make.