Kerry and Hagel testify before house foreign affairs committee

    1 / 10

    Kerry and Hagel testify before house foreign affairs committe

    Medea Benjamin (C) of CodePink protests as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel testify during a hearing on "Syria: Weighing the Obama Administration's Response" before the House Foreign Affairs Committee September 4, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

    House members took turns questioning John Kerry and Chuck Hagel about the cost of an attack,

    the role of international partners in implementing a strike and whether

    there was proof that Assad was truly behind the chemical attack on

    Syrian citizens.