0 synchronizes your business expenses. just shoot your business card receipts and they're automatically matched up with the charges on your online statement. i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. new videos the white house thinks can turn the tide on syria. president obama, the week since he announced he would be seeking congressional approval for a u.s. military strike against syria has been a long one. the math is not on his side. we'll have more on those numbers in a moment. to understand just how important it is to the president to wrangle all of the support he can for military intervention, we first need to not how is he trying to win those votes. the obama administration's desire to retaliate against the house normally has 435 members, but now two vacancy, so that means the magic number is 217. at this hour, 226 members. nine more than you need for majority who say they are voting no or leaning that way. only 25 who say they are voting yes. there's a catch and it's a big one. there is really no incentive for members of congress to say right now they're for an attack. public opinion is against it. apparently the calls they're getting in their offices are extra against it. even to members of congress who are open to vote for it, they have every concern to express concern and sound like they're about to vote against it. that doesn't mean they will. there is still room, still time for the white house to win over the votes it needs, which is why the president, after speaking monday with all of the major news networks, will address the country on tuesday. why the briefings and pleadings and arm twistings will accelerate behind the scenes. that's look at the obstacle course of the house of representatives. to get to 217, obama needs some republican votes. they are the majority party. how does the whip count look right now? for military action, you can see, eight republicans in the entire house who say they are for it. 164 who have indicated they're against it or leaning against it. 62 undecided. that's a 20-1 margin. by a 20-1 margin, house republicans are more likely to say they are against -- leaning against an attack than to say they are for it. a bare minimum if every member in the congress votes for obama, he would still need 17 republicans. right now he's not even halfway there. in reality he needs a lot more than 17 republicans because there are going to be a whole bunch of democrats who also vote no on this. the numbers right there, for an attack, 17 right now saying capitol hill reporter and reporter casey hunt, todd washington correspondent for radio international, msnbc contributor dave weigel from slate.com and rebecca, deputy editor of politico.com. thank you for joining me. i want to go through the topics on the house and senate side. we have time for this. we'll start with democrats and make our way to the republicans. looking at democrats. we showed a little video. it moved dianne feinstein. do more people watching the video, does it loosen up? >> feinstein thinks so. i was outside of that intelligence committee meeting on thursday and she said is he want a dvd made for other members of congress. the intelligence committee is always allowed to see other members of congress are, at least initially. members of the house where this fight is moving, haven't had a chance to see those graphic images. this is the first half of the battle in the minds of many who have been listening to members of congress start to examine this question. how can we convince people this is something that is so horrific we absolutely cannot afford to not responsibility? the second he cquestion is polil question, where president obama is asking some to put their own job on the line for this vote. some have only been in congress -- maybe freshmen members, vulnerable, on the front line and they want reashurns from the president saying, we need to be convinced doing this is actually worth it. >> i wonder, dave, we put all the whip counts up there, one of the whip counts up there. i know you can take this with a huge grain of salt with these numbers. there's no such thing when they vote in congress as lean for or against. that said, it seems strange to me there aren't that many democrats. a small number of democrats out there right now who are willing to say they're for this thing. when you look at that, how many need to get into this or are in play? >> in the house it needs almost all of them. last time a democratic president said there's a humanitarian need to go and drop bombs in another country. 30 republicans said we need to intervene in kosovo and that was after a they needed to convince people. 30 republicans voted for that. they need every democrat in the house to get in line. senate is easier to massage, of course. i don't think the timing and the way the president used his pow ther week was helpful to them. the president has argued this would be a limited strike. it would have been incoherent to debate something they say is not going to be a wider war. because they didn't the only response and responsibility people have had, democrats and republicans, is to local papers, town halls. they've gotten on the record very early, earlier than if it was just a bunch of reporters irritating them in congress, like i like to do. they've gotten on the record to constituents and now they need to pull them out with new rationale. that's the point of the new video and speech. they need democrat in the house. >> what is the plan from the white house? congress is going to be back there, no longer just talking to local papers. what is a plan for how the white house is basically going to get democrats in line this week? >> the question from the white house perspective is whether this dynamic is already baked in the cake. dave nodded to timing. timing has been against the white house from the beginning. when you an attack in august, that famous bush administration line, you don't roll out new products in august. they rolled out a new product. they rolled out a new presidential approach over labor day weekend. they started the push while he's overseas. they've had time for this intense opposition to gain steam. that's the trend line they're working against and reversing a trend line is more difficult than starting one. >> todd, looking at it -- we know a lot of members were in their districts this week. there were senate and house hearings. john kerry made his case, john dempsey, hagel. what do you think happened with the hearings and the statement of the president, what affect do you think has happened on the democrats? 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