briefing to members of congress is getting started. officially congress isn t back in washington until september 9th, but the senate foreign relations committee will hold a hearing on tuesday and we ve already heard a lot of reaction to the president s announcement from washington and around the world. we start our coverage in damascus, syria, with bill neely, i itm, in damascus. what has been the response to president obama not striking before getting u.s. congressional approval? reporter: the first reaction from here came, i d say, about two minutes after he finished speaking at the white house, when syria s army began shelling rebel held districts in damascus after day of calm. after that came the mocking-in newspaper headlines one saying the american retreat starts here. the ministers and diplomats weighed in, the ambassador to