congressional members to approve his plan for a punitive strike against syria. but the senators want presidentt obama to knock down assad s airplanes and arm syrian rebels with more advanced weapons. the fact is that we have not given the arms and equipment to the resistance, which has been shameful, while huge amounts of arms have flown in from russia and iran and now thousands of hezbollah on the ground from lebanon. president obama is convinced syrian regime is responsible for carrying out a chemical attack on its own people, killing more than 1400 people. senator lindsey graham says arming the moderate syrian resistance forces will strengthen the president s plan. you re upgrading the military capability of the opposition. you re upgrading their political cohesion, and you re getting a regional force behind the opposition. these three things together
show some signñi of western weakness there as, you know, pre-iranian forcesñi are trying to gain steve: that particular picture is in añi restaurant heinzñr kerry, john kerry and mr. and mr. assad. brian: he says he is an agent for change. when nancy pelosi said no to president bush, when president bushbu(r don t go there in 2007,ñi we ve isolated syria, they do not deserve high level diplomatic relations she defied and said they are going to be an agent for peace. that was proifphetic. i don t thinkñi so. anna: that is why so many died. brian: ourñi coverage of the syria crisis continues. up next general jack keane on exactly how the president s delay will onlyñi
mocked our president when he refers to his historic american retreat with the president going to congress. now mr. assad warns of uncontrollable war if we dr something over there. also posturing is very expensive, the cost of the pentagon waiting is to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. money while, let s have açó little flashback here. want to take you back to 2009,q 2010, 2011. john kerry, who isçó currently the secretary ofñi mr. assad asñiçó hitler and saddamçó hussein. as it turnsçó out, just a couple of years ago they were dinner buddies. anna: wining and dining. we ve got a photo of the two of them together. this is from 2009. apparently a few months later kerry wanted to go back and it was nixed by the obama administration and france saying it would
had expected. that the focus of it will be not just on deterring the use of chemical weapons but degrading assad s military capacity level. and i think many of us certainly have an advocacy for that. they will concentrate on chemical weapons delivery systems, rockets and artillery will be harder to get to because you can move those around and obviously he s doing that. airfields, airplanes and logistical infrastructure that supports air power will be much easier to get to. then the other thing, it s going to be complemented by an upgrade in support for the moderate opposition forces, training, assistance, funding and some arms.ñi yet undefined what they mean by arms. but i think overall that sçó somewhat encouraging because that moves the momentum then towards the opposition forces. brian: you ve done a lot of work, as much as anyone i know about who are these so-called rebels. what are txer factions andñr what numbers they are. z mójjt
kelly wright is live with the latest from our nation s capital. president obama continues to push for getting support from members of congress to give authorization for u.s. military strike against syria. the president is relying on two leading republican senators: lindsey graham and john mccain to help him persuade other congressional members to approve his plan for a punitive strike. but the senators want president obama to knock down assad s airplanes and armed f and arm syrian rebels with more weapons. fox news is learning there is no true definition of what the president s definition of advanced weaponry is. bringing the military capability of the opposition. you re upgrading their political cohesion and giving regional force behind the opposition. these three things together would work. if the goal of this is to put it in my happen, i