government and russian government have been talking about this possibility of intervening and getting assad to turn over his chemical weapons, but, frankly, it was going nowhere fast, and then yesterday secretary kerry, i m told, accidentally sort of in their words of one official burped it out, really wasn t supposed to say, it off the talking points and, yes, the state department even clarified he didn t really mean to make news but what happened that made this different is the russians responded quickly and said, yeah, we ll try to get assad to give up his chemical weapons, and now i m told that s why the administration decided to pounce and say, well, look, if the russians are willing to step up, maybe we ll have a deal here although they are realistic behind me tonight in that building that as we say we re not real sure if the russians can be trusted. that s how it came together. a burp led to a detailed plan for the syrian government to give up the weapons used to murder its pe