PRESIDENT OBAMA: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria, why it matters and where we go from here. Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the oppressive regime of Bashar al-Assad has turned into a brutal civil war. Over 100,000 people have been killed. Millions have fled the country.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: If [Pelosi] imagines that this is a victory, she is delusional. The policy now is in total disarray. What happened yesterday was clear: the Russians were throwing Obama a lifeline because Kerry had made a gaffe. They gave an opening for Russia to look like the peacemaker, but as we talked about last night, their single objectiv

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: That's what makes this one of the most odd presidential speeches ever delivered. Here is a president who urgently addresses the nation, on all channels, to call for a pause, assuming that the nation does not want to do [anything] in the first place. This is almost unbelievable. And the fact that he puts so much weight on the Ru

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): Twelve years after we were attacked by al-Qaida, 12 years after 3,000 Americans were killed by al-Qaida, President Obama now asks us to be allies with al-Qaida. Americans by a large majority want nothing to do with the Syrian civil war. We fail to see a national security interest in a war between a leader who gasses his ow

HOWARD DEAN: "I thought it was fine. I actually thought -- first of all, it was what the American people wanted to hear, which is really important. Second of all, I thought he did a great job, because the first two-thirds lays out, as you all said, clearly what the case was. And then he says, but, we don't have to do these things right now. I thoug

REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D-MD): I thought he did a very good job and I still haven't decided. I got to tell you, it was not a wasted speech. As a matter of fact, I told the president he needed to make this speech. I thought he made a great moral argument. I -- you know, this whole idea that our troops could be gassed, that is very significant. I mean,

BRIT HUME: "It will be interesting to see what he says tonight. I mean, Steve's point is well made. He's having a presidential speech to the nation to call for diplomatic pause on a vote that he originally asked for the networks time that he wanted to have happen and that he wanted to win? This is -- you know, it's hard not to laugh at this, but th

House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi says that a Russian proposal to take control of Syrian chemical weapons is a victory for President Barack Obama in his efforts to find a political solution to the crisis. (Sept. 10)

PAUL: Here's the problem -- here's the problem for the American people. I don't think anybody doubts that Assad is probably a war criminal. He's done these horrific things to civilians. But on the other side we've sees priests beheaded by the Islamic rebels on the other side. We've also seen an Islamic rebel eating the heart of a soldier. So it

NEWT GINGRICH: "This speech was a mistake. If you're going to ask the Congress to wait, you don't burn up an evening speech. You have a press conference in the afternoon and you say, I have decided to follow up on this and if I need to, I will report to the country if in fact the initiative fails. It's very hard to do two speeches in two or three w

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good God, Hugh, it's Mr. Magoo's foreign policy. This guy is stumbling through history. He couldn't be doing it at a worse time. In the last hour, the Washington Post posted, their editorial board said that Obama enters the speech night in a deep political hole of his own digging, his foreign policy, he's been stumbling, imp

EUGENE ROBINSON: "I think we saw today how the Russians are going to play this, right? They were obstructionists in terms of what the French and the British were trying to do in the U.N. and they're not going to be easy on this. I don't think -- I mean, I think, anybody who thinks it is going to be smooth sailing, dealing with the Russians, and, an

Weighing in with their take on this story is Jo Ling Kent, Eric Metaxas, Andy Levy, and Bill Schulz.

MORGAN: So my argument is, where there are more guns, there's actually more likelihood of a gun being used, and call me old fashion in that theory, but, there is this heartbreaking case. A couple of days ago, an 18-year-old, who for a prank, in a family home with a family friend who've been staying there, hid in the closet and jumped out to surpris

BILL PRESS (10 September 2013): First of all, I think Lawrence O'Donnell proved to be a real a-hole with that question. Why even book Anthony Weiner. You know everybody knows he's a joke. Everybody knows he's not there's n

"I'm very skeptical [about the efficacy of the resolution]," McCain said, "because Bashar Assad has refused to acknowledge that he even has chemical weapons." "The best test right away would be the Syrian acceptance of international monitors to go to these chemical weapons sites and get them under control immediately...while the details of whate

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell spars with New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner.

Daily Show: John McCain gives the folks at Fox & Friends a language lesson and Nancy Pelosi teaches her grandson about the war in Syria.

RUSH: Ay yi yi yi yi! You won't believe what the spokeskid, Jay Carney just said, at the White House. Hi, folks, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network. The only place you need to be. Don't ever doubt me. I will never lie to you for any reason. So Jay Carney, White House spokeskid, just told a reporter, "You know exactly what Secretary

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): “First, I’d like to welcome the President to the Capitol today. Members on both sides of the aisle are eager to hear from him, and to share their own thoughts. We look forward to a spirited and constructive exchange. “It’s often said that of all the questions we face as lawmakers, none is more serious or inde

Chris Matthews reflects on the road which the American people finds themselves on with the situation on Syria.

Charles Krauthammer, Brit Hume, Tucker Carlson, and Mara Liasson discuss the new plan coming from Sec. Kerry's off-the-cuff remarks that Syria should give up its chemical weapons.

Rachel Maddow reviews the series of developments in the last 24 hours in the showdown over U.S. military action against Syria, with the sudden presentation of an opportunity to eliminate the threat posed by Syrian chemical weapons without having to strike militarily.

Bill O'Reilly explains what the consequences of letting Syria get away with using chemical weapons will be.