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President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office with Speaker of the House Boehner, Saturday, August 31, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden listens at right. (credit: White House photo/Pete Souza)
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This photo provided by The Kennedy Center shows Michael M. Kaiser, left, and John Roberts, right, being married by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, center, at the Kennedy Center on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/The Kennedy Center, Margot Schulman)
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** FILE ** In this Friday, July 13, 2012, file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a joint news conference with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, unseen, at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's state news agency said Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, the country's top prosecutor has referred ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to trial on charges of inciting the killing of opponents protesting outside his palace while he was in office. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
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Afghan policeman stand guard near burning NATO supply trucks following an attack by militants on a U.S. base in the Torkham area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Jalalabad province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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California Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, Modesto Republican, spoke out against the bill that allows midwives and other non-physicians to perform first-trimester abortions. The bill passed and goes to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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David Frost won worldwide fame for his interviews with former President Richard Nixon. His family said he died of a heart attack Saturday aboard the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship, where he was due to give a speech. (Associated Press Photographs)
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, calls radio and TV ads urging businesses in Missouri to leave for Texas misleading. (Associated Press)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to business and Republican leaders in Chesterfield, Mo., in late August, warning them that unless there is an override of Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of an income-tax cut, he won't be the only governor trying to lure business away from Missouri. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Associated Press)
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Condoleezza Rice served as secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Turnabout: As members of the Senate, Joseph R. Biden (above), Chuck Hagel (below left) and John F. Kerry in particular defended Syrian President Bashar Assad against the demonization from the Bush administration. Now on President Obama's national security team, they have taken a starkly different view. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this July 31, 2013, file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel pauses during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington. Hagel is suggesting Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, that the Pentagon is moving naval forces closer to Syria in case President Barack Obama decides to order military strikes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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** FILE ** In this Aug. 30, 2013, file photo Secretary of State John Kerry makes a statement about Syria at the State Department in Washington. Kerry said in a series of interviews on news shows Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, that the United States now has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria through samples of hair and blood provided to Washington by first responders in Damascus. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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"We should be choosing peace — not a new conflict," says former Rep. Ron Paul on his "Stay Out of Syria" petition. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** President Obama delivers remarks about the ongoing situation in Syria in the Rose Garden of the White House on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, in Washington. Mr. Obama said that he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack but that he will seek congressional authorization for the use of force. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
