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the ties are critical. they are what gives iran, for lack of a better word, a seat at the table when the peace process comes up. not literally but everyone has to take iran into account. they have a roll to play. they can make a problem for anybody in there. syria and hezbollah are ultimately very closely tied and i think the iranians fear if they lose assad not only are they losing their one remaining national ally in the region, but they are also losing that conduit to hezbollah and if you have a hostile regime in syria, that ultimately might make it impossible and the iranians might lose their entire position. you were pointing out how difficult it would be to take control of all of assad s chemical weapons but is it beneficial in and of itself to have syria sign onto the

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was giving up chemical weapons initially believed the force was real and gave up those weapons at that time. senator roy blunt is here, as well. before i ask you what you would have done, you opposed a military resolution and opposed military force in syria. that s what the president was after. do you think congress will keep the threat of military action alive as this process goes on? you know, i think it depends a lot on what kind of military action the president is talking about. in fact, until we know precisely what it s not. but we also know precisely what he said he was going to do and this is not the president coming to us and saying i d like to do something in syria. this is the president coming to us and saying, here are the two things i d like to do. i d like to do something that is incredibly small but consequence, whatever that means and assad will still be there when it s over. that s a different verification. as late as march this year i was for establishing a s

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devices to kill syrians of which there is over 100,000. whatever happened to the president s red line where he said, if they use these chemical weapons, whether we will respond and okay, but as you know i think the president would say to you, okay, the reality is that red line was to prevent him from using weapons and we have the prospect here even if we don t completely trust the russians of getting to a point where he no longer has weapons. why shouldn t that be seen as victory? it s not a matter of trust. it s a matter of whether it will be enforced or not when the mr. lavrov said there is nothing in this agreement about the use of force. i.e., they will not agree to the use of force no matter what bashar al assad does. two points that i want to try to pin you down on. sure. which is, if the russians stand in the way, if they re gaming the president and the us right now and this is they re in charge. they re in charge so if they stand in the way of any potential

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are no churchills on the other side. where are we this morning with a potential deal at hand, and a real statement of nonintervention on the part of this president and the american public. well, let me take it from several perspective, david, one, i think the deal that s been proposed would be if it can be implemented would be a great deal. affirmed the ban on chemical weapons. we will have avoided a military strike. we also may have laid the foundation for a cease-fire, maybe through further negotiations with the russians. if this can be implemented i think it s an unambiguous win for the united states and the regionment at the same tyke, what was i talking about there, the american people. we know in the last few days people were overwhelmingly opposed to the use of force. i say a couple of things. one is this has not been a left/right issue. this has been an elite base focus. i don t think the bases i think the base has concluded

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