one eight-year-old boy was hospitalized but is expected to be okay. mechanical failure is being blamed. to an update to a story we ve been following. the daughter of congress woman bootler getting stronger. it is believed she is the first baby to survive a fatal disease. five months into the pregnancy the couple got the devastating diagnosis, told their baby s lungs and kidneys would not form properly. they got an experimental treatment and it worked. we get to play with her, hold her, she is doing everything a preemie her age should be doing. abigail s lungs are fine but she will need a kidney transplant and dialysis every day until then. brian: cbs was able to go over to syria and sit down with assad, and it
syria. this is a long battle against global radical islam and i continue to make sure america protects its national interest in that important fight. steve: all right. congressman mike pompeo, a republican from might home state of kansas, thank you very much. good to see you. thank you. brian: coming up straight ahead, ten minutes before the bottom of the hour, a veteran tries to help a boy being bullied and he becomes a victim himself. but that retired marine says he would do it all over again. he will join us next. steve: then this sunday s game between the manning brothers is the hottest ticket in the nfl. just how much are fans willing to pay for a ticket? you re not going to believe it. watch this. brian: archie gets in free, i think [ male announcer ] introducing new fast acting advil. with an ultra-thin coating and fast absorbing advil ion core™ technology, it stops pain before it gets worse. nothing works faster. new fast acting advil.
according to all these sources and including aed, he says including assad he says i wasn t in it. according to germans he wasn t directly in on it. gretchen: when you re a dictator, you re in on everything. steve: that s the great thing about being a dictator. gretchen: it is very easy to say he didn t know about it but somebody probably lost their head as a result of some of this information getting out. brian: in syria it is known the military oftentimes has more power than assad. he s an opting monthly gist by opthamologist by trade. steve: if we have our strikes go through and he has to get out of the dictator business, he ll have something to fall back in, you know, the eye business. brian: that s true. lens crafters is always looking for somebody to run a good franchise. -l gretchen: are they popular in syria? brian: if you can get someone to give contact
say we will do. meantime, a busy day for the president. he ll sit down for interest views with the tv networks, including fox. last night he dropped in on a dinner for republican senators and tomorrow he ll reportedly meet with democratic senators on capitol hill and that s just hours before his televised appeal to the american people for action in syria. gretchen, brian, steve, back to you. gretchen: thank you. brian: chris wallace, i cannot wait for that interview tonight. steve: it will be terrific. in the meantime, you don t have to wait til tonight to hear from donald trump. he joins us on this monday morning. good morning to you. good morning. steve: okay. so here we ve got this president who is famous for being on message and being able to sell things to people who might not necessarily want to buy it. he s got trouble with his own party. democrats don t want to go along with striking syria. number one, simple reason, it s a bad idea. we have a lot of problems in
we have an independent obligation as members of congress to try and behave in a way that s consistent with american national interests every day, every single day. so the task that we have as members of congress is to communicate that we think this president s current plans are not the right one, that he needs to conduct an operation that recognizes what the real american threat is, and i and a handful of my colleagues are work every day to convince the commander in chief to behave in that way. brian: your reaction, john kerry says you have til friday, al assad, to hand back your chemical weapons. how do you feel about this deadline? too little, too late. much of what this administration has done. you can t consider syria outside of the context of what s going on in the broader middle east, continued threats. forget that there is still fighting going on in yemen and radicals running around in pakistan and america is engaged there trying to keep pressure on al-qaeda.