Holland of reuters. thank you, mr. president, thank you, sir. have you made up your mind whether to take action against syria whether or not you have a congressional resolution approved? is a strike needed in order to your credit bit and will you enlist the support of the prime minister for support in syria. i didn t set a red line. the world set a red line. the world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the word s population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use, even when countries are engaged in war. congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty.
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Time to voice your displeasure to try as a negotiating tactic as they re working on the language to try to see if it can be beefed up to your satisfaction, we know senator graham, senator mccain, want something that will allow the shift of power if you will, in the ongoing civil war there in syria. they want to weaken bashar assad s forces and try to help the vetted opposition do a little bit better in this civil war and so he is trying to put a little more muscle into the resolution. that is my sense of things at this point, martha. martha: it is really fascinating to look at these two former presidential opponents. president obama and senator john mccain, who find themselves trying to be on the same side of this issue. the president is bending over backwards to make it clear he wants an extremely limited engagement here and senator john mccain s whose support he needs seems to want something with a lot more teeth in it and it will be interesting to see how this ends up.
We also have, mike, the classified briefings that happened this morning and we heard senator or secretary john kerry to pay attention during the classified briefing. at this point, we don t know yet what they have learned in there. well, it is interesting because some members came out of that open briefing, or open hearing, rather, saying they didn t really learn a whole lot. they re hoping going into the classified setting where they can get into a lot more details for these lawmakers in a private classified setting that perhaps that they will be able to win over some skeptical lawmakers. there s a big challenge for the administration in those favoring the use of force. the latest polling suggests that the american public is overwhelmingly against the use of force. so while the national security types are back here working on this resolution, the rest of the rank-and-file are home and perhaps getting an earful from their con sit cents saying no constituents, saying no to syria. th