he won't get united nations approval which is the obama administration's second choice because russia and china will veto so now we're down to an appeal to morality. 100,000 people have been killed in syria. also's say 2,000 were killed by chemical weapons. what is it that makes it 50 times more immoral to use chemical weapons that's finally got the obama administration to move? >> let me look -- time line, pulled up. may 19, 2011, president obama said the syrian government started shooting its own demonstration and have inspectors have access to the city and u.n. inspectors then july, may 19th, he said, we stepped up our sanctions on syrian regime. that's 2011. july 2011, we keep the pressure up to see if we can bring real change in syria. that didn't happen. january 24, 2012, state of the union speech he says i have no doubt they will discover the force of change can't be reversed and human dignity can't be defied. february 26th he said once again that the noose is tightening around assad.