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Obama said Friday that he has not yet made a decision about an intervention in Syria, and he is not expected to do so today. Officials except the President would provide an update about his decision making process and the next steps the country may take after Kerry announced that the U.S. is almost positive Syrian President Bashar Asad used chemical weapons against his own people.

Obama’s remarks will come shortly before his national security team provides an unclassified briefing for Republican senators, Politico reported. Democratic senators are to be briefed later in the afternoon by an administration team that includes Secretary of State John Kerry, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

The Associated Press reported that Obama will follow Constitutional law and seek congressional authorization for action against Syria, but it is hard to tell if Congress will actually declare war or if Obama will follow a Presidential trend started by Truman in 1950 and bypass Congress and declare war himself.

A team of United Nations inspectors arrived in the Netherlands this morning after conducting a days-long investigation as to whether chemical weapons were used in Syria. The UN said it did not have a timeline for when they would confirm or deny that the Syrian government launched a chemical attack based on evidence.

Experts say that if Obama does take military action, it will most likely be in a series of air strikes and missiles, a strategy some say will do more harm than good.

"The Syrian army is fully ready, its finger on the trigger to face any challenge or scenario that they want to carry out," Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said.

And a security official, asking not to be named, told Yahoo that Syria was now "expecting an attack at any moment."

Watch the President's speech live here