After the president of the United States has already committed to action, the consequences would be catastrophic in that the credibility of this country with friends and enemy and adversaries alike would be shredded, and it would be not only implications for this presidency but for future presidencies as well. The president really has no one to blame in many ways but himself about the lack of public understanding of whats at stake in syria. We talk about the past, present and future. Two years ago when an opportunity to get assad out when there were dozens of al qaeda only in syria. Now theres thousands. A year from now there will be tens of thousands. Two years ago there were not 600,000 refugees in jordan compromising the kingdom of jordan. Time is not on our side, so we urge the president to up his game. Well, president obama made it clear that the u. S. Should take military action against syria, Many Americans disagree. A recent nbc poll asked americans whether the United States sh
Everybody all set up . Obviously im grateful to have my fellow president s here as well as the Vice President. Before i begin, i want to say a few words about the situation in syria. As you have seen, today we released our unclassified assessment detailing with high confidence that the Syrian Regime carried out a chemical weapons attack that killed well over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. This follows horrific images that shocked us all. This kind of attack is a challenge to the world. We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale. This kind of attack threatens our National Security interests by violating wellestablished International Norms against the use of chemical weapons, by further threatening friends and allies of ours in the region, like israel and turkey and jordan, and it increases the risk that chemical weapons will be used in the future and fall into the hands of terrorists who might use them agai
Hello again, everyone. Welcome to the third hour of the newsroom. Im fredericka whitfield. Congress is taking a hard look at the chemical weapons allegations against syria. Some members just fin initialled a closed door briefing at the capitol. Congress isnt back to work until september 9th. When could we see a vote on this . We have more next from capitol hill. And not everyones supporting taking action. Protesters around the country are turning out in force to say, no to strikes. The u. S. Military has gone from standing ready to standing down as the president s decision to ask congress for approval to strike syria. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is with us now. Barbara, theres a different dynamic now to the syria crisis. Hows it playing out at the pentagon . Reporter well, fred, as i think you would expect, theyre looking at where all the ships are. They may switch a few ships out. They wont leave everybody sitting there but have the same number, the same fire power. Four to f
Nightly news. Reporting tonight, thomas roberts. Good evening. We begin with breaking news from brussels. In an unexpected twist, belgiums federal Prosecutor Says they have a confession from the man in the hat, ending a massive manhunt since the march terrorist attacks in brussels. Nbc news confirms the alleged suspect is 31yearold mohamed abrini. Captured just over 24 hours ago. Authorities say he now admits his involvement with the belgian airport bombings, but they also believe hes a key suspect for playing a role in the deadly paris attacks from november. Our bill neely has the latest from brussels. Reporter mystery solved. The man in the hat seen wielding explosives with two suicide bombers at Brussels Airport has confessed. Its this man, mohamed abrini. Arrested yesterday, talking today, say prosecutors. Hes admitted being the man seen fleeing the bombings, telling investigators, he threw his jacket in a garbage can and sold his hat, but they cant rule out the possibility that he
Up that were going to be talking about something that nobody else is talking about tonight. And self consciously so, it involves the Justice Department, potentially a huge deal, it looks like its about to happen but its not done yet. So were going to be sticking a flag in that story, fully cognizant theres a lot of other news going on, and nobody else is talking about this story, but i think its important enough we have to do it and do it tonight. We also just got news about the robert ert mueller special counsel inquiry on the trump russia investigation, pulling in someone knew to testify before the grand jury. We have that news this evening. We have interesting news about the president s eldest son being called to testify in the trump russia inquiry. Theres big breaking news from politico. Com within the last area about the course of the bob mueller inquiry and a dramatic move that mueller has just made that may be designed to do a end run around the possibility of President Trump pa