don. >> elyse, we shouldn't underestimate the irony that a president who's won the nobel peace prize and one that came into office because he was against the wars in iraq and afghanistan, it's interesting that he is pushing to take military action against the country. it's obviously horrific, but there is some irony in that. i'm sure the president obviously is aware of that and spoke about it as he was at the g-20 last week. >> reporter: it's weighing on him. and don't forget, he got that nobel peace prize not for anything that he did but for the hope of things that he could do. and so now when he weighs whether to act or not to act, you see the u.s. making this very strong moral case. when you see these videos, when you talk about these people dying, children -- secretary kerry's been very emotional about children lying there, dying in their beds, with their