consistent then and now that the president needed to come for authorization first, people like tim kane and others who said this is really congress's constitutional responsibility. the president in this case chose not to bother asking congress whereas president obama came first. and then you saw the syrian regime cave in the face of obama's threats and turn over what we thought at the time was its chemical weapons arsenal clearly incomplete. >> i think that is fairly well established. at this point as someone who followed this conflict closely in the region and to the point about the incompleteness of that handover, there has been some speculation by folks that know russia well that putin would be angry at assad, frustrated because this sort of brazenness with which he has used these weapons essentially shows up russia which played this public and celebrated role in stewarding the deal that was supposed to remove these kinds