good morning, erin. good morning , carol. the brunt of this will fall on chuck hagel. he will make the case that we should use a military strike against syria. martin dempsey will be the one to answer questions from members about what that military strike will look like. it s his job to say essentially that whatever the president orders, the military will be able to carry out. and the last is secretary of state john kerry and he s going to warn that the failure to act could mean that weapons in syria could get into the hands of others and that there s an urgency to do that right now. i want to point out something that the president said today which was in that meeting you just showed before the break, he said we have a high confidence there were chemical weapons used in syria. the problem with that, is that the lot of the members in the hearing want to hear that the intelligence was sound and chemical weapons were indeed used in syria. that s the first problem. they also want to know
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enter now. welcome back. i m carol costello. happening route now, president obama has just met with key lawmakers at the white house. he s trying to convince them to support military strikes on syria and the assad regimes. house leaders john boehner, nancy pelosi were in that closed door meeting along with the chairs of the house and senate committees. just a short time ago the white house released some video of that very meeting. i want to play that for you now. i want to thank the leaders of both parties for being here today, to discuss what is a very serious issues facing the united states. and the fact that i ve had a chance to speak to many of you and congress as a whole is taking this issue with soberness and seriousness that it deserves
i guess they are hopeful, carol, yes. the number one policy goal for russia for more than two years now has been to block any sort of suggestion there should be international military intervention, because russia believes it will only make the situation in the country worse. so when the british parliament recently voted against a military strike, russia saw that significantly as validation for its longstanding consistent opinion. now that president obama is going to congress, russia says opportunity to try and talk around as many members of congress as possible into thinking there might be something to that russian view, which is any military strike could have devastating consequences in syria and across the region, as well, carol. david gergen, brianna keilar, nick paton walsh, phil black, thanks to all of you. so appreciated. thank you. still to come in the newsroom, syrian regime supporters have already launched one weapon in a cyber attack on the united states. now there
is greatly appreciated. and i think indicates the decision for us to present this issue to congress. as i ve said last week, secretary kerry made clear in his presentation last week we have high confidence that syria used in an indiscriminate fashion chemical weapons that killed thousands of people, including over 400 children, and in direct violation of international norm against using chemical weapons. that poses a serious national security threat to the united states and to the region. and as a consequence, assad and syria need to be held accountable. i made the decision that america should take action, but i also believe that we will be much more effective, we will be stronger if we take action together as one nation. and so this gives us an
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