high. he would use them again. not one member in my district in south carolina or the e-mails of people that contacted my office say, go to syria and fight this regime. this debate, i might add to you, is also about congress s red line. you agreed to the chemical weapons convention. bill: new york congressman peter king, listening to all this, republican member of the house homeland security committee and good morning to you. good morning, bill. bill: americans at home watching this. they want to know what congress will do? is the u.s. going to, i know they don t like to use the word war but is that where we re headed? bill, i intend to vote for the resolution but right now i m not at all certain that this 218 votes for this resolution and the president, i think weakens his case every day as far as trying to lineup support, yesterday saying that it is not his red line. it is congress s red line. the international community s red line. he has to show leadership and
waving your arms saying, you know, mr. president, we re on your side. we are supporting you in this. but we need you to lead the way yeah. a sophomore congressman can t, a sophomore congressman can t sell this to the american people. the president of the united states needs to do it. and i m going to continue to go out and talk about the need to do this because i think it s right. but the president s got to do the same thing. martha: you are former air force special operations, and i m curious what you think about the pictures that are emerging today of rebels in syria holding guns over shirtless men who are crouching in front of them. it s a horrific picture on the new york times , and there s no doubt it s going to get a lot of attention from the american people, and they re going to say these are the guys you want to back? sure. and i still serve in the air national guard as a major. i ll tell you what, yeah, there s no doubt that the rebels probably 15-20% of them was the
that has been asked on capitol hill and all over washington over the past few days. bill: i ll bet it has. looking forward to whatever comes of this today, bret, thanks, bret baier from washington. martha: interesting that former defense secretary robert gates is coming out in support of president obama and his call for action in syria. remember, gates served as the secretary of defense in both the obama white house and also in the george w. bush white house. in his statement on this, he said, quote: whatever one s views on current u.s. policy towards syria, failure by congress to approve the request with would, in my view, have profoundly negative and dangerous consequences for the united states not just in the middle east, but around the world. both now and in the future. bill: so we re also keeping an eye on paris, france, and the french parliament. france is the only country saying they might be a part of military action in syria. the prime minister says his country will not launch
on saturday that he passed it on to congress. he seems to flinch when he is under pressure. he backs away and, you know, somebody should remind the president that he is president of the united states, not the president of the world. this international community he talks about, somehow always trying to deflect responsibility f this goes well and vote passes and we re successful in syria he will be claiming the credit saying it was his on operation all along. whether it is harry truman, george bush, ronald reagan or john kennedy you have to assume responsibility early on and drive leadership forward. he is not doing that he is running away from a policy he is advocating at the same time. you can t have that type of schizophrenickic leadership. bill: we re watching in the split screen. i know you can t see it. st. petersburg with members of the g20 now gathering. would you expect him to walk out of that summit with four or five, half a dozen leaders from around the world saying we support
opposition is indeed not members of al qaeda. so a lot of tension in that room today as we continue to watch these world leaders step on to the stage. bill: putin was asked about that body language just yesterday and he described it as a way he is fighting for he believes in and i m fighting for what i believe and you can look at a picture any way you want and draw your own conclusion, but don t assume what subpoena hag or what we re talking about based on a picture. very interesting picture. with regard to the vote, two democrats voted no and a third democrat voted present. you wonder when it movers to the full senate whether or not it could seen pass at this point. the house is a whole different moment. martha: as you pointed out putin s comments yesterday i wasn t elected to be pleasant. president obama wasn t elected to be pleasant with each other. we re elected to enforce policy and run our countries. that s what they re doing. bill: the meeting continues in russia. a top advisor