saturday of last week. and now what they re talking about is the difference between a red line 13 months ago and a red line that was defined yesterday. how do you do that? yeah. i think that s one of many things that are causing so many of the folks in the republicans in the house these troubles. look, if you look at the way the landscape is in the house republican conference, you got people who i say, rand paul, non-interventionists, and hawks likely to vote in favor of this. but you ve got the vast majority of people, republicans in the house who are open to doing something, who certainly identify witthe need to help alleviate the slaughter, 100,000 dead in syria these days but are very worried about following this president because of the way he specifically, because of the way he is conducted himself on these issues in the course of his presidency, and, the fact that he can t and his senior national security advisors can t provide a real understanding of
i would certainly hope so. again he is very secretive what he is doing. i don t know what leaders i m hoping for instance david cameron would say at least he is personally supporting the president whether or not the british government is. i don t know who he is working with. he should be, as president of the united states as leader of the free world, most dominant economic military power in the world we should be able to get a number of countries to stand with us. i hope the president does that. whatever criticism of the president the fact he is my president, he is your president and i want him to succeed at that summit or that conference and one way to do it in the eyes of the world would come out with a number of leaders standing with him at least endorsing his policies even if they re not taking military action. bill: peter king, republican from new york. thank you. martha: bill o reilly has a message for conservatives who oppose action in syria. if the usa fails to act against
martha: all right, so less than 24 hours after a senate panel passed a resolution backing the president s call for military action in syria, a sort of unlikely alliance is already forming to challenge that resolution in the senate today. you ve got liberal democrats and tea party republicans and libertarians opposing american intervention in syria s civil war. but then you have the administration really pressing on, holding yet another round of closed door briefings today for lawmakers to show them some of the classified information that they think will sway them. you ve got secretary of state john kerry suggesting that the president will address the american people on this which there s been a lot of pressure to do, and he believes that will happen over the next several days, and that is how we start a brand new hour of america s newsroom on a busy day. i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer, good morning. the senate coming back early from the its summer break to
clear. they have not waiverred on this they believe the assad regime is behind the attack. they believe they have proof to show that that killed more than 1400 two weeks ago. martha: we continue to get such stunning and disturbing images in all of this. so how did we get to this point? let s go back and take a look at this timeline. in april of 2011 the u.s. slapped sanctions on syria s tell agency in washington s first response to the crackdown that assad s government was putting forward to the antigovernment protesters during the arab spring. we saw so many countries cracking down on the protesters. it was particularly strong in syria. in july last year, syria said it could use chemical weapons in response to quote any external aggression that came against their government. they promised it would not be used on the so-called opposition forces. a month later, let s move forward, president obama warned assad. he said the use of chemical weapons, if we saw a bunch of
the rebels, syrian rebels and they think putin is flat-out wrong. it will get awkward. june, president already arrived in russia. will meet him on the sidelines. putin back in june with the g8 summit in europe. bottom line is, putin spent more time looking at his shoes than at president obama it seemed from some of the photos and body language. they re fighting not just about syria, about the edward snowden controversy. all this is playing out as the president is on the world stage. you have republicans like former defense secretary donald rumsfeld charging with the president yesterday at the news conference saying it was not his red line, it was not his credibility on the line that he now looks weak. take a listen. this president has tried to find a way to blame everybody or anybody for everything. and leadership requires that you stand up, take a position, provide clarity and take responsibility. and i can t imagine him saying that he didn t draw the red