so, the deliberations that are taking place now and the options that are being considered by the president and his national security team are not around the question of whether or not chemical weapons were used in syria on a significant scale causing mass death and injury to innocent civilians, to women and children. it s not around the question of whether or not the syrian regime is responsible. it s around the question what is the appropriate response to this clear violation of international norms. is your expectation that the report will provide some type of evidence that clearly shows beyond talking all these pieces that we know and inferring this must be the assad regime, it must be tangible evidence? there will be more information we can give to you from the intelligence community, but this is not just an
definitively that the regime used those chemical weapons. you heard it from carney several times. they have no doubt. wolf, i want do you button this up for us here. there s a protocol that s involved when there s a potential military strike when we engage in this type of action here. i imagine the president has a very short window here. he s going to be giving a speech for the 50th anniversary on washington, but he s also leaving town early next week. do we expect within that window perhaps of five days that we might see the president come out and make a statement and that military action might actually move forward? i suspect that we will see exactly that. tomorrow he s giving the major speech on the 50th anniversary. that will preoccupy him even though he s having all these national security meetings in the white house situation room.