O'BRIEN: New this morning, the head of NATO saying that if Syrian president, Bashar al Assad, were to use chemical weapons on his own people, it would provoke an immediate international response. President Obama also warning that there would be consequences. This is what the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, told me a little bit earlier on the show.</s>TONY BLAIR, FMR. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: If there was any sense at all that Assad was going to use chemical weapons or did use chemical weapons against his own people, I would expect a very tough response that would be military.</s>O'BRIEN: Barbara Starr is with us. Not usually at the Pentagon, but today, here in person. If it seems that there is evidence that chemicals are being moved along with the war heads, is this an indication of new phase in Syria in some way?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, it's interesting. The intelligence assessment back in Washington is just that that Assad is feeling the pressure. The fighting is intensifying around Damascus and that his own military commanders are giving him this option to try and achieve some rollback against rebel advances.</s>O'BRIEN: So, you know him and have studied him a lot. Would he do it? Would he put chemicals on --</s>STARR: Well, there's -- he would have to be convinced. The thinking is he's not yet convinced, that he knows he will face international outrage. And I think that's why you're seeing all these statements in the last 48 hours, don't do it, to push him to understand he cannot go down this route.</s>O'BRIEN: Barbara Starr for us. Thanks, Barbara. Appreciate it. Still ahead this morning on STARTING POINT, could fashion icon and kind of notorious boss, Anna Wintour, be taking a job with the Obama administration? And what gig would it be? We've got details coming up.
Chemical Weapons Fears In Syria