to let diplomacy work. he believes they re on to something, and close. some skeptical lawmakers say they plan to go ahead and slap on the sanctions. we ll get context and perspective, fair and balanced. this is shepard smith reporting. glad to have you.
that the prospect of an israeli strike goes up dramatically. i think they want to see diplomacy work, as well. they are questions whether we re giving up leverage right now. if it freezes them at 20,000 centrifuges, that leaves iran in a situation where they would have the potential to break out. i think our challenge right now is, let s see if the diplomacy actually can roll back the program. if we maintain our leveraging, if the sanctions stay intact, i think there is a possibility. the reason they re at the table is because of the sanctions. indeed. a very important discussion, ambassador dennis ross and freshly tanned jimmy williams. thanks to both of you. we ll be back in a moment. but first, laughter is the best medicine? some self deprecating humor from the president this afternoon, explaining his unique connection to dreamworks studios. there is a natural connection between me and dreamworks. i don t know if you know this,
as they watch john kerry speak with the foreign minister of russia and put now at the center of any solution diplomatic anyway for this crisis in syria. interesting way to ask the question, how do they feel? i they they feel like they ve been through the wringer in some form or another. at this point they are just hoping they get judged by the outcome that in the long term they acknowledge that this has bean messy process that hasn t made the president look very good, hasn t been very reassuring to public. sort of acknowledge all those things but they are clinging to this belief that it will look like strength in the long term if all of this works out. and, you know, we ll see. isn t the scary thing in all of this even if the diplomacy work and we disarm the rebels we re still rewarding bad behavior, we re teaching the world act out and then we ll
kelly in geneva trying to prevent that. letting diplomacy work. this is what it s expected to look like. secretary of state kerry and a team of weapons experts from the united states and foreign minister lavrov from russia and his team of experts, the u.s. wants to see, number one, how syri serious russia is about getting rid of these chemical weapons and how it can be done. they need to look at details. identifying them, verifying them, securing those weapons and eventually destroying them so today s focus is getting down to the details so secretary of state kerry can see if, in fact, this is a plan that s going to work and possibly avoid that military strike that has caused so much dissension both here and abroad. mara. thanks, tracie. more now on the op-ed by russia s president putin published in this morning s new
solution to this. the question is the u.s. needs to take back the threat of force, president obama thinks, and i think you agree that it is the threat of force that got us into this possibility, into this area where possibly a diplomatic solution is possible. secretary kerry can t take that off the table. i truly believe that it was the threat of force that brought this diplomatic possibility. been there, done that. i have to tell you, this is the way that diplomacy work, you use the threat of the use of force to get some action and diplomacy to figure out the threat of use of force and i think it is a real issue that putin has put up something that makes it very difficult in terms of getting there, if he insists that the united states remove the force because that is i believe and the president said it, also and