like senator graham made a very passionate case when he came out to the driveway here that this is not really about syria. it s about iran and others in the region who are watching the u.s. s words. and maybe the president made a mistake when he drew a red line. maybe he didn t. that s for others to debate. but it s certainly by putting that red line comment out there he put american credibility on the line. and now if the u.s. does absolutely nothing, you know the folks in iran are watching the words. and more than the words now, the action, to see if something happens. and if it doesn t, they are going to plow ahead with efforts for nuclear weapons and others into the region are going to get a similar message. hi, ed. it s dana. so you couldn t have made this up if you had tried. i have two questions. one was a report earlier today that the white house may be completely misreading the congress. i thought that mccain and graham there were quite persuasive actually there at the white
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yeah. about syria. that s true. not short of material. okay. over the weekend i went to a wedding in buffalo, new york. while i was there it happened to be the national buffalo wing festival. so i thought when in rome. i love buffalo wings, so i dropped by. and they have the annual wing eating contest. yeah. there s me with some wingheads. they give cheeseheads a run for their money. and there s the winners. a female one, 28 of las vegas took the crown with 178 wings. and then there was a second and third place woman winner. and i would put kimberly up against any of those girls. our resident wing eater. yeah. here, i got you a beer opener wing. that s so nice. thank you. i love it. i think kimberly would give the runner it was a he, right? it was a woman. what s going on with wings and women? i don t have time. i ll forego my one more thing. we ll do it again tomorrow. bob, take a shot at bob, he s
about the behind-the-scenes tension in that regard? it s really interesting, dana. the leaks came from the highest level. they were statements on the record from the white house, from the secretary of state, from the senior defense officials saying this would not involve ground troops, it would not involve entering air space. they were going to be standoff operations involving mostly tomahawks and then mostly u.s. navy. if you look at any military observer, anybody who s watched the last 12 years of war in this country knows what it means when certain forces move into position. having navy destroyers off the coast of syria meant they were going to rely mostly on tomahawks. so these leaks were not per se from individuals, it was based on just reading the forced buildup, reading the military plans were quite obvious from what forces were being built up and then you marry that with the statements being made from the white house. so, yes, there was a degree of frustration that there is n
looking for support. ed henry has been monitoring all of it from the white house. and he joins us now. ed. eric, good to see you. this is basically a race against the clock for the president. he has put this in congress court, but the president himself is heading to sweden, as you know, on air force one tomorrow night. then onto russia for the g-20 summit. this is a critical 24 to 36 hours where he is desperately trying to change some minds in a very skeptical congress. it was interesting because you can see from this photo he s meeting in the oval office today for about an hour with two very prominent republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham who have been critics of his foreign policy, particularly the syria policy. lindsay graham came out to the driveway afterwards and called the president s policy a debacle. not recently but for two years he said that as the slaughter s been going on, the president hasn t stepped it up. and there was a very loud message from both mccain