Us. If you want to give us a call you can join us on social media as well. Facebookrespondents on. If you want to send us an email you can do so at journal c span. Org. Its the section of the capitol journal in the wall street journal, the headline the questions for the speech are picked up in the editorial pages of the Washington Times. They say for our first 45 minutes, as president obama is set to ress the nation tonight you can see the address and 9 00 on cspan. We want to ask you for the first 45 minutes what you want to hear from the president and what information you are looking for from him regarding syria. The lines, again starting off the conversation that he new york on the independent line. Becky on new year betty from new york on the independent line. Caller if people remembered there was an open mic when putin addressed the United States. The president said we will take care of it after the election. They have known about syria for a long time. They know it was the protes
Soldier and infant are not used. President obama says the United States is still poised to strike if syria does not turnover its stockpile. More from the president. And ill also get charlie wrappi rangels reaction to the deal. [ bell tolling ] and remembering a bombing that changed everything. Were live in birmingham today, how they are commemorating the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and himself a look at americas new hidden faces of hate. Plus my conversation with bill cosby, his take on how we should be teaching civil rights and why hes been lecturing black people for the past few year. We start in colorado where are more rain and flash flooding is expected at this hour. Thats threatening to complicate search and rescue he effoeffort more. Biblical flooding has devastated an area roughly the size of connecticut. According to officials, four people are dead, two people who are missing are now presumed dead, 482 people are still unaccounted for, and roughly 2,000 people have been
Gwen, what a wild 24 hours it has been from where the administration was yesterday to where it is right now. Ifill the administration has a very clear goal tonight. The president has to answer what it is he wants the American People to support, why he needs to sipt it and how he does it. Its unclear how. Woodruff and this fine like hes walking for making the case for military action at the same time hes saying we need to leave the window open for a diplomatic solution if that is doable. Ifill he has a lot of audiences out there, the American People who are very skeptical about it as well as the International Community to want to take those weapons and isolate them. Its really very tough. Were waiting to see whether its possible for him to do all those things, judy. Woodruff thats right. I believe this is the first time in several years the president has made a speech from the white house, and here he is now. My fellow americans, tonight i want to talk to you about syria. Why it matters
It was extremely broad in its escape and there was no language in it about, first, trying to pursue a diplomatic solution. Senator susan collins, republican of maine, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Woodruff next, to the nuts and bolts of how to make a diplomatic deal work and put syrias chemical weapons under international control. For that we turn to jeffrey brown. Brown its a stockpile thats believed to be the largest in the world, a prewar map compiled by the Monterey Institute shows where syrias chemical weapons and production facilities were thought to be, spread through the western half of the country. Definitive information on the Current Situation is much harder to come by. To walk us through we turn to charles duelfer, a top u. N. Weapons inspector in iraq during the 1990s, after the u. S. Invasion in 2003, he led the c. I. A. s Iraq Survey Group which continued to look for weapons of mass destruction. Hes author of hide and seek the search for truth in hes author of hid
U. S. Officials set to work to secure a deal that would allow the International Community to take control of syrias chemical weapons. At the same time, the Obama Administration has been lobbying members of congress, urging them to authorize the use of force. Gwen, what a wild 24 hours it has been from where the administration was yesterday to where it is right now. Ifill the administration has a very clear goal tonight. The president has to answer what it is he wants the American People to support, why he needs to sipt it and how he does it. Its unclear how. Woodruff and this fine like hes walking for making the case for military action at the same time hes saying we need to leave the window open for a diplomatic solution if that is doable. Ifill he has a lot of audiences out there, the American People who are very skeptical about it as well as the International Community to want to take those weapons and isolate them. Its really very tough. Were waiting to see whether its possible for