Thoughts this morning, for our democrats, 2025853880. 3881. Epublicans, 202585 202585endents, 3882. Mails,n always send us e journal cspan. Org. What would you tell your present live or senator your representative or senator about what to do in syria . On obamas reflecting looking to congress. The stories in the papers today, here is the New York Times that is the New York Times. The Washington Post picks up this morning by adding this in their story how would you tell your legislator or your senator, europes tentative, to vote on syria . Here is your chance to tell us what you think. We divided the lines we will hear from secretary of state john kerry yesterday. Chicago, illinois. Go ahead. He left us. To shingletown, california. This is david. How are you . Caller fine. Host what would you tell your legislator . I would tellller them the exit strategy is not to going to syria. We cannot afford any wars. I noticed they were beating the war drums. They are only concerned about money. By killing more people, it makes no sense. Loading up the place, killing more innocent civilians blowing up the place, killing more innocent civilians is not the answer to chemicals. I dont believe the Syrian Government used the chemicals. Host even by the information put out by secretary kerry . Caller did not convince me. I dont believe them. They are beating the war drums for war. They are bought by the corporations. Host jackie from plymouth, michigan. Caller good morning. Nobody is talking about israel. Unitedaid that if the states doesnt get in there, israel is going to take charge. Host what would you tell your legislator in michigan . Caller better do something and do it fast. Host as far as taking action . Caller yes. Host what should the action look like . Whart are you going to do . Bomb the germ warfare areas and catastrophe . I dont know what they can do. Its a crisis. You Better Believe israel is going to come in there. Richard, weall is are asking you what you think should be done when it comes to syria, specifically what you would say to your legislator . Legislatorsled my office on friday and told a representative there that i was 2004, whenn up until i got tired of the militarism of the Bush Administration, and i became a registered democrat. Obama did not go to the congress noteek ap if obama did ress to seek approval, i would stay home and and notould stay home vote. Im happy he decided to go to congress. I will go along with whatever they decide to do, i guess. I do not like it and i do not approve it, and i do not think it is necessary. I do not hide this stuff about buyg by this stuff this stuff about gas. Only real weapon of mass distraction in japan. Host who is the legislator you called . Caller frankel. Host did you get any response the . Their i spoke to one of representatives and i felt they were sympathetic to my feelings. They have been getting other calls. I suspect so many other constituents have called their representatives that this had an influence on obamas decision. Weighsthe iron patriot in with this next call comes from charlie in coatesville, pennsylvania, republican line. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Caller im on. Can you hear me . Host please go ahead. Caller my name is charlie, i of philadelphia. I am a registered republican. My congressman is joe pitts. Resolution,r of the after careful thought. Nonetheless, i do follow the evidence on the use of serengetis. Of sarin gas. I think it is important for us to do a putative strike. Froms charlie coatesville, pennsylvania. He is calling on our republican line. If you want to give us a call, then umbers will be on your screen. The numbers will be on your screen the caller mentioned serengeti. That enter the discussions yesterday at secretary kerry was on the morning talk shows. They are looking to support from congress. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] this case is getting stronger. Today, i am at liberty to tell you that we now have samples responders int east damascus. Those samples of hair and blood havebeen tested and they reported positive for signatures of sarin. We are now getting a stronger case each day. I think that makes it even more compelling that the congress in the United States be counted with the president in this israel, jordan, lebanon, turkey, all of our friends and allies in the unitedwill know that states is acting in concert that sends a powerful message about our credibility, our intentions to uphold International Norms, and that will have an impact on other decisions down the road. I am very explicit about it. Ty of the United States is on the line here. I believe the congress will do the right thing. Host that a secretary kerry from yesterday. The Washington Post has a breakdown of some of the blocks they described when it comes to future votes on syria. Just to give you the highlights of their story your thoughts on what you tell your legislator about what to do on syria . This is the president looking to congress for action. Tim is up next, and he joins us from california on our independent line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Next ushijack. Com for the step of this israel war agenda. John kerry supported the war against iraq for israel pretty is now pushing in other war for israel against syria. How many more americans have to die for israel and the middle east . We are broke. It americans have to rise up against this war agenda. Brenda from florida, democrats line. Caller i would tell my ,presentative to vote no because two wars are already going on. I am tired of soldiers coming home all rogue up all broke up. Host define the tell him via call or email . Do you plan to tell him via call or email . Caller i have called him already. My representative is buchanan and my senator is nelson. Response . You get a caller not yet. Host jim says timothy up next from michigan on our republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am an old country boy from michigan. When we start shooting these missiles off, we always have collateral damage. We always kill some children or some women. We always miss targets. When this happens, up pops those pictures on al jazeera and every arab channel there is, saying with what america has done. K at what america has done. You cannot just shoot in their indiscriminately and miss your target. It just doesnt make any sense. Host d plan to weigh in on these thoughts with your legislator . Do you plan to weigh in on be stop with your legislator . Caller i am just one guy. When we summed when we send a gosile in, who we kill you should we kill . Host did you talk to the staff . Caller i have been calling for the past six months, talking about different things. I like to take a conservative stance. You need to think things through before you do these things. Host what response did you get from the office . They know my name so they passed it on to him. We got a lot of gridlock in our government right now. I love my country but i fear my government. Host lets hear from donald in golden valley, arizona on the democrats line. Have artie called my recent it is yesterday and left a message. Already called my representatives yesterday and left a message. I am sick of these wars. I think it is going to do more harm than good. That is just the way me and my wife feel. You tell him yet but did you tell him that . Caller i am telling him what i told you right now. We cannot afford it. Host one of the people weighing in on the talk shows was senator rand paul on meet the press. He talked about the u. S. Involvement in American Interest. [video clip] bombing begin a campaign, it accelerates the mystery accelerates the misery. If our weapons get involved and more people will die. I think the war will escalate out of control and then we have to ask ourselves who is on americas side over there you go if the rebels when will they be American Allies . Their . If the rebels when will they be American Allies . I think the line in the sand should be when American Interest its reckoned. I see a sod, who has protected christians for a number of assad, who has protected christians for a number of decades, i see al see itn one side, and i to be murky. I do not see a clear American Interest. I dont see either party is victorious. Host off of twitter catherine from new york is joining us on our independent line. Hello. Caller i am so against this war. Blaming israel. He should look to turkey. Never mind israel. They have more interest. Do you plan to talk your legislator about this . What are you going to say . Stop and go to watch youtube. Anybody sod the what word are they getting into . What kind of world are they kidding into . Are they getting into . There is going to be nothing in the end. Host an analysis from the New York Times several legislators meeting for briefings this week, congress returning next week, september 9, to take of the issues and other things as well. Stay close to our website for the latest information. Not only for statements that were made, the videos were showing you today, and other issues as well. Cspan. Org is were you can find that this morning. The information was initially put out by secretary state carey, including the fourpage assessment of what they found, also maps were included. You can find that all on the website. We go to carl in virginia, republican line. Agree with the president on this. I would like to tell my democrat , if you vote to allow if itesident to do this, goes bad to not do what you did against george bush. Do not tell people that the president lied to me. Everybody lied to me. Be au are going to hypocrite about it later if things turn bad, do not do it. Said, i think Saddam Hussein used gas on his people over there. We went in and took him out. Will do the same with syria. The Washington Post story kathleen is up next on the democrats line. Love president obama and i hate the way the republicans have been doing him. This is one time i cannot stand with my president. It is time to quit going into other peoples countries, trying to clean them up. These people will be fighting, they have been fighting thousands of years. They say we do not have any money here to take care of this country, it cannot even feed senior citizens. War . Wewe starting a are going to spend billions of dollars and still when we leave this man is going to go right back to doing the atrocities to his people. President obama, please stay out of this. Host the Chicago Tribune says that is reflected in some of the blocks played out in the Washington Post story this morning. ,ou can contribute from twitter facebook, and regis on email. And reach us on e mail. Bill king decided to reach out to us and said just one of the ways you can participate. How should your member or senator vote on syria . We go to texas on the independent line. I dont think we have would aska yet so i my representative, kenny machen, to investigate more. Some investigation from russian sources that said we do not have enough information. Host what more information is needed, then . Caller what the United States is saying is not validated by the u. N. I would like the u. N. Inspectors to put their reports out. The u. S. Is trying to circumvent the u. N. I would wait for the u. N. To come out and say what happened and who did it. Terry joins us from ohio on the republican line. It is idiocy going into syria and bombing syria because the United States have not been attacked. I called my congressman did tell him i was against it. The president is talking about a limited strike. That is kind of like tapping the hornets nest. The syrians are liable to do a somewhere andck then we are in a fullscale war. The best Case Scenario would be if a sod if a sod was knocked out. If the best case and area if out. Gets knocked one of the folks weighing in yesterday was her preservative sander levin. Many members making their thoughts known he is a Ranking Member of the ways and means and talked about his vote, which would be a yes vote. [video clip] let me just read from the unclassified, the u. S. Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian Government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the damascus suburbs on august when he won. The briefing here spells that out. It comes from multiple sources. Essentially the Syrian Government engaged and crossed a red line. It is a red line that began to be drawn 100 years ago. It is not only a red line the president has drawn, but more and less our society has drawn. Be a focused response. If we do not respond there will be an incentive for him to do it again. Do you believe enough of your colleagues agree with you . Pass. Hink it will want to see those interviews you can go to our website. We have made them available to. Ou when it comes to the briefing they received, you can see examples of their reaction on c span. Org. Arizona, democrats line. What would you tell your senator . Caller that the red line the chemicalse of weapons, that was a redline drawn a long time ago. The mistake in the previous policies of the united stats has bests been to do whats for Big Companies. I think i am interpreting what they are doing, our policies should be guided by principle. Outside the country, one of my best friends was born the thing that the United States has stood for to them in the past is sensible that is sensible. Principle. Ast is obama because he is a constitutional attorney. He really understands separation of powers between the court, and thee administration. He understands what he can do and what he cant do. Policy, starting with the corruption of violence at the eruption of violence last within egypt starting the eruption of violence last year in egypt, is determining what form of government they should have. We should not interfere with that even if we disagree with it. We stand for some principles and one of them is not using chemical weapons on civilians. Apparently they have a huge. Tockpile of chemical weapons i have heard it said that it is the largest in the world. It probably is. We have the best intelligence, probably, in the world, even whath it is been guided by the Big Companies want. Host have you made plans to reach out to your legislator . Caller i plan to one some of the stuff becomes public. Probablyrt of this is topsecret. I have some faith that if we have the best intelligence in the world, we have the best computer capability in the world , i am confident that we probably have the right information and the right information says it was used to by the government in syria. Front page of the Los Angeles Times has this piece austin, massachusetts, this is antonio on the independent line. Of boston, massachusetts, this is antonio on the independent line. Caller i am against the war in every way. I did not believe one word john kerry said the other day. I have been in this country for 47 years and i never believe what john kerry said. Even if george bush is the loser, stay away from syria. We havee of the problem in this beautiful Country First and then we go someplace else. God bless america, have a good day. Senatornator mccain and graham to visit the white house today. They put out a joint statement on the 31st, saying madisonville, kentucky, republican line. Morning, thanks for taking my call. For anybody listening on radio and tv, i have some things to say. Ahead do what they got to do. They are making chemical weapons. To takedo have anybody over, they should have a draft. There in order to take them out. I agree 100 with these people. We should be scared. They burn our flags over there. If we just go to war and take them out, we aint got to worry about it no more. They cant make no more chemical pons area did i agree with chemical weapons. I agree with barack obama. We should be scared about it. Host another legislator weighing in, senator scott from republican on the Armed Services committee. He talks about a no vote. [video clip] i am a no based on the information i have right now, not with respect to the evidence that the assad regime committed the atrocity. I know, because of the clarity where all this goes, the definition that we have accomplished a mission, that is still unclear to me. I fully acknowledge that the president is faced with a series of imperfect alternatives. I know he is wrestling with this. I know the 435 members of the house, the senators, he was right to bring this decision to congress. I am convinced that this was the only right constitutional correct path he could have or should have taken. I respect his decision, it did not show weakness in my view. Host from wisconsin, this is not on our democrats line. The thing that bothers me is we do not have a dog in the fight. Each Cruise Missile we lob in their costs 1. 4 million. He have 68,000 bridges that are structurally deficient. Lobbing 100 Cruise Missiles is not going to change anything. Why dont we fix 100 prisoners 100 ridges . 100 bridges . Florida, this is john on our independent line. Caller i would tell my representative that we have the uninformed and informed. The informed get their information from alternative uninformed get their information from tvs. If you go to alternative media you will find the exact reason we are going into syria. Most of the soldiers on those ships are the ones that are to follow orders to they are out there to be exterminated. Russia and china are going to attack us, we are going to have martial law, there will be no constitution anymore. This is the big one. Anybody who wants to learn anymore can go to alternative media sources, like steve quayle. You trust them over other sources of media . Caller they have insiders call m and give tverified verified insiders call to whistleblow. They have whistleblowers, everything they say they can document. You can google it. The whistleblowers to call the big new stations, they do not say anything because they are controlled by th