kelly in geneva trying to prevent that. letting diplomacy work. this is what it's expected to look like. secretary of state kerry and a team of weapons experts from the united states and foreign minister lavrov from russia and his team of experts, the u.s. wants to see, number one, how syri serious russia is about getting rid of these chemical weapons and how it can be done. they need to look at details. identifying them, verifying them, securing those weapons and eventually destroying them so today's focus is getting down to the details so secretary of state kerry can see if, in fact, this is a plan that's going to work and possibly avoid that military strike that has caused so much dissension both here and abroad. mara. >> thanks, tracie. more now on the op-ed by russia's president putin published in this morning's "new