supportive. i look at the authorization and i wonder how many members of congress are read ing it carefully. there is a phrase the white house wants that jumped out at me talking about the idea of going after state and nonstate actors. you know what they are. it s iran and hezbollah. this could be granting the president more authority an he was talking about. not just going after syria, making it harder for him chemical strikes again. being authorized to go after hezbollah or iran. i m curious if the members of congress read this authorization carefully. chris, it s dan senor. look, a number of house republicans i have spoken to say we don t want to vote for this because we don t trust president obama s execution of it. we may agree we should take action against syria, but we
so much to talk about uh today with syria. you re in the middle of it. what are you talking about today? we have an interview with the deputy national security adviser from sweden from he s with the president. that will be cool. and the house debate at noon. you ve obviously been following on this beat for a long time. what s your feeling basically about where the house and senate end up now? i think they will narrow the resolution but pass it. yeah. i don t think if they were to defeat it the president can go without congress after making the case for the legitimacy. you re right. thank you so much. you bet. see you at 1:00. i can t wait. up next, chris matthews from hardball and chuck todd join the conversation. chuck is live from sweden. we re not sure why he s in sweateswea eden. he s like wall do. well, the president may be there.
is no way this is going to be effective militarily because the president has dithered for so long. so the bumbling of the sequencing which i agree there are many examples. look at the implications on david cameron and the uk parliamentary i debate. secretary kerry is calling peers saying, we are going in days, get your government on board. cameron goes to the parliamentary floor with a wobbly whip operation. had he known congress would be debating this, he could have used that time to get his house in order. the answer is no, isn t it? i don t think it would have changed much minds in london. my sense is whatever the evidence they were presented with, lawmakers had decided they didn t want to be involved in another middle east on oh radiation with the outcome uncertain and the track record of the west getting involved in the arab world isn t great.
another u.s. military attack against a muslim country. things have changed, haven t they? let s be clear, joe . i think the analogy and you see it in columns today, the analogy that syria is iraq. you know, other than being in the same region of the world, that is probably where the similarities end. we are not searching for weapons of mass destruction. we know weapons of mass destruction have been used. i think nancy pelosi put it well for the world which is we are not en forcing a red line drawn by a president. we are enforcing a norm that has been part of oh internationaint relation s for a hundred years. that is the prevention and prohibition on the use of chemical weapons . it is a horrible atrocity when they are used in war. it is mind boggling to say the
military. it would degrade syria s military. steve. there are things we could do that would have an effect on assad. beyond that we drew a red line. said this was a nonstarter. now we need to do something militarily to address this issue with assad. we are not going to get rid of assad, stop them if they disperse things to suburban area. we have to respond militarily. we don t have a choice. in term tes of damaging his ability to do this again is whether or not we get ourselves involved in a bigger way. the question raised by someone at senate committee will be more prominent in the house. you will have liberal progressive members wanting to allow, how to en sure boots on the ground and the imprint doesn t get bigger. i think this passes. this was an unusual way to talk about using military action. the president, i think. gets his way and america will hold this guy accountable and do