Return to Transcripts main page   Obama Administration Works to
Convince Congress to Support Syria Strike  Aired September 2,
2013 - 21:00   ET   WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: This is Piers Morgan
Live. I'm Wolf Blitzer in for Piers. We want to welcome our
viewers in the United States and around the world. You're
looking live at Washington D.C., where the White House and the
Congress, they are now locked in a tug of war and the stakes
could not be higher.  The Obama administration working
feverishly to try to convince members of Congress to support
military strikes on Syria. The vote could come as early as next
week, but the outcome right now is far from certain with so many
lawmakers. Even members of the president's own party deeply
skeptical.   REP. JANICE HAHN, (D) CALIFORNIA: I think we're
concerned that this is too open-ended of what the president is
asking Congress to authorize.  REP. JIM HIMES, (D) CONNECTICUT:
There was a lot of memories over another time when the president
came and said -- or at least the