MSNBC ANCHOR: Now, are you concerned, in terms of the red line, the president was clear about that a year ago. Are you concerned if there is not action once that line has been crossed, that it will send a message to the world about United States's influence and their strength in the face of countries openly defying them? REP. CHARLES RANGEL (D-

NICK GILLESPIE, REASON: Let's be blunt, I'm friendly with Bill Kristol. He's no Winston Churchill, he has zero wins in his column. When I think of the foreign policy mastery which comes out of The Weekly Standard, which was an instrumental mouthpiece for the Bush administration and before that they were calling for intervention throughout th

ROBERT GIBBS: It's really incumbent on the president to go speak directly to the American people about what’s at stake for this country and how we face down dictators that use chemical weapons against their own people. It’s an important message to be heard not just in Damascus, but in Iran and by Hezbollah ### GIBBS: I think he will get

Former CIA director Michael Hayden says Iran could engineer some kind of response to U.S. action in Syria.