and opposition was not unified under a common set of uniting principles, the international community wasn t unified for a successful political transition in syria might look like and they said there is not a u.n. security council consensus on syria and now there is. are these good arguments inert case? no. they are bureaucratic arguments. is the international committee unified in syria? are we seeing eye to eye with a letter written s russia? with the bashar al-assad government, the iranians? is the opposition unified? they are killing each other. it is stunning to me. this administration has no respect for the truth and it is an administration, every administration s responsibility at the end of the day to be honest with the american people but in the interest of fairness let me point out, the obama administration has had one
this morning on world news now plan of attack. abc news has learned what a military strike on syria might entail and it could be larger than anyone expected. also this morning, would teens do better in school if they started later in the day. our nation s education secretary seems to think so. why arne duncan says sleeping in could equal success. plus, the newest toy for a royal boy. we will show you prince george s american-made stroller and check out all the tricks it can do. how new technology can get a tv anchor some unwanted attention. tell you what happened to hoda kotb when she flashed her new watch phone on live tv. it s friday, september 6th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. we begin this half-hour with president obama pressing his
them are opposed. so much focus on russia. is there any sense of what they might do if the u.s. goes ahead with a str reporter: right, the one thing they said they won t do is actually go to war over syria. that s something that the foreign minister said was not on the table. what they might do and something president putin earlier this week suggested they might actually increase their military support for the syrian government. the russians have withheld providing a very highly advanced air defense system to the syrian government. putin in an interview this week said that might change if the u.s. goes ahead with plans. is the white house as confident as ever th ar be e g reporter: yeah, you kn white house aide yesterday d they think they are very confident in the trend lines on that. numbers are still quite tight. it would be very difficult for for, it will be clear that the white house will get bipartisan support for it, but also on the other side they re probably going t
he has a lot of work to do. one thing under consideration a nationally televised address to the nation about syria. jonathan karl, abc news. joining us from the turkish-syrian border, abc s molly hunter. good morning, molly. let s start where you are. it s starting to sound a lot like the u.s. could take military action with or without congressional approval and it may not be as limited as we have all been hearing. now, you re in turkey a big u.s. ally in the region. how are they reacting? reporter: diana, turkey would welcome a larger streak. now turkish prime minister has not committed to supporting any kind of strike. but the turkish public is against turkey being directly involved. they would like the u.s. to go in and really end this thing. really deal a fatal blow to president assad. now the refugee situation here is overwhelming. it s devastating. 500,000 syrians now live in
expected to last at least two days will potentially include an aerial bombardment of missiles and long-range bombs fired from b-2 and b-52 bombers flying from the united states. that in addition to a relentless assault of tomahawk cruise missiles fired from the four navy destroyers in the eastern mediterranean. those ships are loaded with nearly 200 missiles. plans call for firing the vast majority of them. as one senior national security official told abc news, this military strike could do more damage to assad s forces in 48 hours than the syrian rebels have done in two years of civil war. that s more than president obama seemed to be suggesting just days ago. what we are envisioning is something limited. we sent a shot across the bow saying, stop doing this. reporter: the president canceled plans to travel to california next week. instead he will stay in washington to try to work on convincing congress to pass the resolution authorizing the use of force against syria.