faith and trust in the russians and syria is a big, big stretch. i think most americans including the president are not whenning to do that, and neither do they trust them and they want to verify. so, you know, we are it s up in the air. we don t know when congress is going to vote what they re going to vote on, we don t know what the russian plan is going to end up looking like, we don t know what the timeline is going to be. there s way more questions answer that there are answers. it becomes hard to explain, and that comes on top of two weeks of a lot of fumbling by the administration. i hope they take this time, carol, to develop a policy and a strategy in case this does not work. there s no fumbling here. what it is, the russians now have skin in the game. they re willing to go to u.n., get this resolution on the table. we have to verify it, of course, but you know what? the fact that the united states is even pushing this. i mean, if the united states didn t push it, ana, nob
the points by hillary clinton were 18 months from now and since then 5,000 people killed every month, many civilian, many blame the assad regime for those deaths. the french suggestion that international justice should, in fact, come towards the assad regime is the first time we ve seen that really as a table as part of a solution here being put down by a member of the security council, a permanent member and that may be about trying to focus people s minds and discussion about what happens eventually to bashar al assad. remember the u.s. congress in their resolution there one of the points they make out is the strategy of the u.s. military could be about trying to push a negotiated settle lmt in many ways trying to get assad to agree leave power. senior international correspondent nick paton walsh at the u.n. this morning thanks. the u.s. is hoping for a clearer plan but russia s president putin says the united states may be shooting it self in the foot but keeping the threat of m
chemical weapons if it does it at all. it s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed. in any agreement, it must verify that at sad regime keeps its commitments. but this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force, particularly because russia is one of assad s strongest allies. i have therefore asked the leaders of congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. i m sending secretary of state john kerry to meet his russian counterpart on thursday and i will continue my own discussions with president putin. two other actions the president noted, the united states and france will work on a resolution for the u.n. security council and they ll wait for u.n. inspectors to report findings from the site of the attack in syria. joining me now is william cohen, former u.s. defense secretary under president clinton.
names like that, though, let s be clear. the dictionary defines its is an offensive term towards native americans. what makes it offensive, it s racial. it s a slur, and it s dehumanizing, and trivializes all of the ale really significant issues that american indians face in this country. have you appealed directly to daniel snyder? and if you have, do you plan to increase the intensity? yes. well, i think that that s, sometimes, what s necessary. we just think that it s important to stand up for ourselves, and hopefully the others will and recognize how important this is to our country. we want to have a country that has unifying language, that has unifying symbols. sports is, can be such a unifying symbol, but in this particular context it represents the national capital, and i think it sends the wrong message to the rest of the world. especially now when the nfl is
charge, it s a personal issue, although they can do it, itic mas it a lot more difficult. is this unusual that police are taking this amount of time on this particular case? . i think so. obviously, it s george zimmerman. everyone knows who he is. most of the time the police will investigate a case like this. they ll take statements from the family members. they may look at video evidence. they ll listen carefully to the 911 call, because many times you ll hear them arguing in the background. i think they want to get it right, because if he is convicted of even a misdemeanor and it s domestic violence, he can t possess a firearm. that will open a new can of are woulds, huh? absolutely. thanks so much. appreciate it. still to come in the newsroom, few nfl players are as scrutinized as this one. it only took a single game r game for the detroit lions defensive tackle to be hit with his first fine of the season, and, oh, boy, it was a doozy. we ll talk about that, next. [ fema