encircle everyone. every citizen inspired by that history who dips their toes in the water of active democracy for the first time and musters up the determination to try and fail and try again and sometimes fail again and still try the again, knowing their efforts are not always rewarded right away, because they believe in that upward trajectory of the american story, the story that nobody told better than john f. kennedy. that very kennedy esque idea tht america is not the product of one person, but the difference of all of us, and we all ought to try.
we re talking about syria. we re expecting to hear from the white house any minute. you re taking a look at the press briefing room, reporters likely to push for answers on what is the administration s plan here to respond to the chemical weapons attack which president obama blames squarely on the syrian government? jill dougherty is standing by at the white house and, jill, i want to ask you a couple questions here. first of all, we heard from the president. he says no doubt the assad regime used chemical weapons on its own people here. he will be briefing members of congress later in the evening. what do we expect to hear from the president today? well, we may not hear anything specifically publicly. this, they have presented at least they have this intelligence estimate, this i should say intelligence report that musters whatever evidence they have that the regime as they would argue did use chemical weapons. they re presenting that to the members of congress.