syrian rebels in syria by providing them with weapons and other assistance. i applaud the president. that was senator john mccain, as we head to the white house to talk to our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin. we ve seen this back and forth before as the situation has evolved in recent months. the white house has taken a much more cautious approach, certainly than senators mccain and graham are calling for. reporter: absolutely. as you well know, briana, yet this is the game changer. the president has said his red line will be crossed if they find evidence that chemical weapons have been used. and the white house is about to announce, i m on hold for a conference call in which they re going to do it, that they have evidence that chemical weapons were indeed used. and so that changes the calculus
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going to be enough to satisfy john mccain? it may be that senator mccain has one notion of what arming the rebels means and the white house might be doing it in a different way. keep in mind the president is going overseas to meet with european leaders at the g8 in just a few days where he has to come in and will face enormous pressure to talk about syria, have a public position on it and that might be also a motivating factor to come out with information before he goes to europe to meet with them. i think we re getting a preview certainly of what senator mccain thinks as he s on the senate floor there calling for even more just moments ago. jessica yellin at the white house, thank you for that. we have much more coming up this hour on the breaking news. the white house says that syria has used chemical weapons. senator saxby chambliss will
power like this kills innocent people on a regular basis. maybe a no-fly zone is the way to go. in the president decides that s the way to go, would go, i woul that. and you are critical of what has evolved from the defense secretary chuck hagel and how he was talking about some degree of certainty but the idea of the red line being crossed was not definitive. but today it is definitive. although there were terrible atrocities being committed in syria, the administration was i guess trying to consider its options and make sure that they did something in a very precarious situation, that they did the right thing and didn t complicate matters further. but do you think it should have been sorted out before now or do you think it s important to have had this time to figure that out? well, the president stated months ago that his red line was
people over the last couple of weeks and they consistently have been saying that they never used chemical weapons and if anyone used chemical weapons, it would have been the opposition who used chemical weapons. they had one incident in the town of aleppo where they say the opposition was using chemical weapons. they believe at this point in time that they have the momentum on the battlefield. i was on the front lines a couple of hours ago and you can see the syrian soldiers are more confident than ever before but one of the things that they are worried about is the u.s. getting more involved in the conflict via through a no-fly zone, especially at this sensitive point in time where they have been making these gains in the town and of course as senator mccain said earlier, many people believe that the syrian army issen oh the move towards aleppo. that would be a striking blow to the opposition but the syrian government is very concerned if america gets more involved in this conflict.
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