president of the united states already lost this controversy. political disaster. right. he looks weak and putin has taken the whole thing over. if assad isn t punished. if he is not punished and i don t believe is he going to be bombed now, switzerland thing they are going to find some kind of face saving measure. if is he not punished. don t you believe that emboldens putin in iran? of course. all right. so you believe that? of course it does. don t you see when this kind of arrogance that there is going to be more and bigger problems than maybe giving a few al qaeda guys some arms? don t you see that? i think you are minimizing the al qaeda and muslim brotherhood involvement. we do not know the exact number. we know between 15,000 rebels. i don t see it at the same level as iran and hezbollah and syria. and putin. i don t see it on the same level. the reason we are
this is pretty easy, and i see it works on hotels too. you bet. now if you like that, press the red button on top. how did he not see that coming? what s in your wallet? bill: in the impact segment tonight. imagine a world leader saying he or she admires adolf hitler. there would be worldwide outrage, right? yet the russian leader putin openly admires joseph stalin who committed murder on the level that hitler did. putin is outsmarting president obama. the chutzpah of admiring that invade georgia, detach two of its provinces and declare them independent. and who, for the last decade, has been supplying assad, whom we are essentially calling a war
president of the united states already lost this controversy. political disaster. right. he looks weak and putin has taken the whole thing over. if assad isn t punished. if he is not punished and i don t believe is he going to be bombed now, switzerland thing they are going to find some kind of face saving measure. if is he not punished. don t you believe that emboldens putin in iran? of course. all right. so you believe that? of course it does. don t you see when this kind of arrogance that there is going to be more and bigger problems than maybe giving a few al qaeda guys some arms? don t you see that? i think you are minimizing the al qaeda and muslim brotherhood involvement. we do not know the exact number. we know between 15,000 rebels. i don t see it at the same level as iran and hezbollah and syria. and putin. i don t see it on the same level. the reason we are
them, but this is an enormous task. you have to find them, you have to secure them, then you have to destroy them. we re talking years, years not weeks or months and it s in the middle of a civil war. so it s a better alternative, but there are huge challenges. the devil will be in the details on in the one. martha: but putin has also agreed, he said assad isn t the one who used them, service the rebels who used them. so it was the rebels who used hem. how realistic is it and how much credibility to you give putin and his government for really taking the actions necessary to bring these weapons under control? you know, i give russia no credit at all. i mean, i don t have this proposal s an interesting one. if it works, it would be a better outcome. there are real questions about whether it will work. i ll give them credit for that. but, you know, this op-ed today and the other stuff, you know, i think there s a lot of gamesmanship going on here on the part of russia. so it ca
today s comments by benjamin netanyahu is the first we ve heard from any israel leader in the past seven days. just as things were starting to calm down, netanyahu seemed to have taken a hard line saying not only should assad s chemical weapons be taken but those who use chemical weapons should be punished. the current u.s. position seems to be removing chemical weapons is the punishment and netanyahu seems to be calling for more. in israel there are two camps, one believes an american air strike would ignite a war that could hurt israel, another wants u.s. to hit assad to send a message to iran. netanyahu falls in that second camp. trace: he has long term issues as well. assad isn t punished now, the the ayatollahs in tehran will pursue nuclear weapons. the flip side is if the u.s.