you need to be acting in self-defense or in the defense of a partner country. here what we believe is, we have a legitimate basis, including with other countries supporting what we need to do, to enforce a profound international norm that s been around for nearly 100 years. are you terrified in the white house that this is going to go wrong? no. chris, simply put, two things, one we re seeing growing support in congress for this, we had yesterday the speaker, boehner, the leader, the republican leader, eric cantor, nancy pelosi on the other side come out in support of this. today we had the senate foreign relations committee, led by chairman menendez, a democrat, and bob corker, the republican, pass out a resolution supporting the use of force. we re seeing momentum develop behind us in the congress, and in terms of what we need to do, no, we believe strongly, that the action we propose to take will say to assad, stop using this stuff, and it will make it much more difficult for hi
demanding that we come together and bring the u.n., bring nato, bring the arab league and we sit down on one side of the table and demand mr. assad sits down at the other side and bring a close to this through diplomacy. i think we can get a resolution and an end to this conflict not with military. our foreign policy for the last 30 years has led us down to this path where we re at today. and i think to continue on the same old, same old is like ground hog days. we need to change course. this is an opportunity in america for america to show leadership to bring people to the table and show that we can resolve this and we can get this done and we can win this without guns and bombs. and that s a new direction for our foreign policy especially in the middle east. is that your position toward iran in regard to nuclear weapons that we shouldn t use violence, we shouldn t do a preemptive strike, we shouldn t support the hard line thoughts of netanyahu? is that your thought? do not use mili
cheney coming out opposed to the resolution. the tea party wing of the party is really moving against the syria resolution. rand paul, i think his influence is permeating the entire department. this is a real problem for speaker john boehner and president obama. they have boehner and pelosi, they don t have the conservative base. kosovo resolution, of 217 republican members of congress, 187 vote against it, in the senate, you have twice as many republicans voting against it as for it. we ve seen this before. what how many votes are they going to how many yay votes can they get out of this republican caucus. not too many. boehner has made a conscious vote. boehner and cantor will not be whipping the syria vote in the house. it s going to be a free for all. it s going to be a circus on the republican side. the hawks are going to try to for an aye vote, it doesn t mean
vice president dick cheney was the architect of leading us into the war in iraq. where does his daughter stand on syria? she says she d vote against the resolution to authorize force in syria. she says they should have supported the rebels when the war began. liz cheney also said not to believe the media when they say there s a split on the issue. there is. we ll get to that in a moment. we ll be right back.
today his spokesman is out with a nasty attack on his female opponent, which is probably not going to help. we are one step closer to obtaining the stamp of approval as the senate foreign relations today voted to approve u.s. military action against the syrian government of bashar al assad. the tally, 10 to 7 in favor of military action. the ayes were compromised of 7 democrats and 3 republicans. the nays, tom udall and chrisser if murphy and five republicans, jim riche who was on this program last night. the white house quickly reacted with a statement reading in part, we commend the senate for moving swiftly and working across party lines on behalf of our national security. the military action authorized the resolution, would uphold america s national security interest by degrading assad s chemical weapons capability and deterring the future use of