202 5853880. Later, we will hear from republicans. President obama took his push for action in syria overseas yesterday on a threeday trip in and the Financial Times has the headline. Obama says the world has to act over syria. The g20 is on the president s agenda. That is where tension remains between him and the leader of russia. She then accused the president ofng on it evidence lying on evidence in syria. He said his credibility is not on the line. Guardian,the leaders trade threats before the summit. Tweeted a picture of the president touching down in that city ahead of the g20 meeting. There it is. The president is going to be meeting with the other g20 leaders later today. Joining us on the phone is david jackson, the White House Reporter with usa today. A series of g 20 things is on the agenda. There will be an arrival ceremony. A workinghere will be dinner. In between all of that, he will have a oneonone meeting with the japanese Prime Minister. Earlier this week, president ob
Humanity, why could we not bring the evidence to the court and find out who is responsible . To court and allow the world to participate in a trial, so to speak. You could have evidence presented, both sides could give their side and then a judgment could be made that would keep the u. S. Out of it, keep the u. S. Out of taking the lead. It would certainly give the president an opportunity to duck out of this red line. Do you think syria would be able to participate in that . Caller i think for the United States to respond just with weapons as the president seems determined to do, it is going to create blowback. It always happens and will probably create more terrorists than not. I think personally we are a nation of justice and a nation of laws. The moral leadership would be to go to an International Court where the whole world could view a fair trial that is carried on by people in the hague where people have no ties to syria. He could all stand back and brought toce whomever is resp
You wrote a letter on july 19, just a couple of months ago, to senator levin you laid out the different options for military force in syria in terms of control of chemical weapons and even in the context of a limited strike. You and im quoting from your letter here on the efficacy of a limited strike. Over time the impact would be the significant degradation of capabilities and an increase in regime desertions. Again a lot of us read this stuff. Im sure in the public sometime theres skepticism but your warnings, for a lot of us, have been taken to heart. What i think a lot of us struggle with is how can a policy rely on the assaad military to secure chemical stockpiles at the same time were bombing that army . And again you addressed this in the past and a lot of us are trying to figure out what changed here to give us that confidence level that we can count on on the assaad regime to continue to control these stockpiles. Well, without getting into the targeting as i tried to articulat
Team coverage ahead on mornings on 2. Its often been referred to as the work horse of bay area bridges. But this morning, the bay bridge is closed. You are taking a live look at the toll plaza. That old eastern span will never reopen. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im Claudine Wong in for tori campbell. Good morning. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets check the weather. The weather will affect this already complicated commute. Mark tamayo is in for steve. Reporter good morning. A lot of cloud cover out there. I just took a walk outside and saw some breaks in the overcast. Were starting off with partly to mostly cloudy skies. Some patchy dense fog. Santa clara reporting mostly sunny skies. You can see one of the breaks closer to sfo. There is a closer inspection of the break in the cloud cover. In the south bay, san jose reporting mostly cloudy skies. Were starting off with some overcast this morning and stepping outside the door right now. Temperatures really not a big change.
We will also be looking at reactions in the media with james creedon. The hour begins in the newsroom. Hello to you. The headlines in russia submits that this disarmament plan this is barack obama about to give diplomacy a chance, but there is suspicion on both sides. Members respond to moscows move. A year to the day after the attack in benghazi that killed the u. S. Ambassador. America, the victim of the 9 11 attacks in washington and new york, memorials at the white house. Russia has given the United States its plan for placing syrias chemical weapons under international control. Survey lab rob is set to meet u. S. Secretary of state john kerry on wednesday. A slew of diplomatic wrangling now in the cards of the Un Security Council. Damascus is playing for time, and western powers want to toughen the resolution. They are facing opposition from russia. Russia wants the threat of force taken out of the equation. A moscow maneuver that postpones the threat of the u. S. Military strike