will. i think she will. the country will be still a generous country. up close with 43. president george w. bush tonight at 9:00 p.m. shannon: antiwar protesters gathered in england yesterday to express opposition to drone flights in afghanistan. until last week, british drones were are controlled out of an air force base in nevada. the activists argued the drone war fare makes it to easy to activate in a distance. thdistance. syria is denying u.s. accusations that it has used chemical weapons in attacks on rebels. washington is still trying to pin down definitive proof but you there is a lack of agreement over whether to use america ms military to intervene. senator ben cardin joins us
instead used disinfected water. president obama said that chemical weapons would force a redline forcing action. the white house is concerned about the use of chemical weapons on rebels and civilians but equally concerned that the weapons may fall into the hands of extremist groups fighting alockside rebels. president obama said friday the united states was deliberating and using all due caution about whether or not the united states would intervene in syria lowering tax increases that the u.s. would intervene any time soon. american officials fear that as bad as assad may be now when it comes after he leaves it may be even worse and may be more chaotic and more violent. as the debate rages on about the use of chemical weapons in syria so too does the fighting. the u.n. estimating more than 70,000 people killed in the violence there and that number is only likely to increase. shannon?
that we have not seen in a long, long time. the senator also supports human tearian safe air aias in neighboring countries to protect refugees. meanwhile the administration seaing although there is evidence syrian government forces have used chemical weapons there is still too much unanswered questions. officials want to do more investigation into the situation and avoid a repeat of the 2003 invasion into iraq. supporters of the administration say any move needs to be carefully calculate. we have had a little problem with going to the u.n. with the idea of weapons of mass destruction before so we certainly want to finish the investigation. no one from the administration has discussed a possible timeline for any akron shortageaction. shannon, back to you. shannon: thank you. the chairman of the house homeland security committee tells fox news sunday that he believes the boston marathon bombing suspects had some training in carrying out the attack.
red lines about chemical weapons thereby giving a green light to bashar assad to do anything short of that. shannon: arizona senator john mccain weighing in on the situation in syria and how the u.s. should respond now. some republicans claim that president obama boxed himself in by drawing that red line. i m shannon bream. a brand new hour of america s news headquarters live from washington begins right now with team coverage of the situation in syria. conor pow you wel pow powell ot bureau. now, that there is evidence that the aassad regime has used chemical weapons there is mounting pressure to intervene. today said he was ordered to use chemical weapons in the tunnels and caves used by rebel ares but refused the order and
i assume he has access to at least as good of intelligence briefings as we do. so this is not news. the difficulty is, you have covered this, once the president said this is a red line, what do you do about that? the thing you don tbe want to do in this area of the world is show any kind of weakness. once you said this is a red line, he is going to have to handle it somehow. because iran is watching this very, very closely. that is the most important issue here, how iran perceive what is we do, when we lay down a red line, then the opposing party crosses the red line. shannon: in addition to what the president said, then secretary of state hillary clinton in december said suffice it to say, we are planning to take action if the eventuality were to occur. meaning the use of the chemical weapons. what are the options on the snail talk about helping to create a no fly zone in aiding rebels there? how do we make decisions what about to arm, and how to vet them? what is your take on what