it appears the president was making very few gains be it on the senate side or on the house side for the support for a strike, doug. >> reporter: yeah. and, you know, one of the real indications of that, bill, is this meeting at the white house yesterday of the congressional black caucus. this is, perhaps, the president's single most loyal constituency meeting with susan rice at the white house yesterday. there's no indication that they came away from that meeting changing their minds at all. they still, as a group, largely remain opposed to any u.s. military action in syria with. so the bottom line here, bill, is that president putin is sitting in the driver's seat right now, not president obama. bill: thank you, doug. talk to you a bit later. martha: meanwhile, we're hearing president obama will still push for the approval of military strikes during the prime time address tonight despite growing opposition from members in congress to this. but yesterday as word of the proposal that would allow syria's regime to turn over their chemical weapons started