phrase vetted rebel groups. there are different groups, i don t think it is clear who the good guys or bad guys are. i don t think that is the way the i think that is the way the american people see it. all over, and around the state. what are the conversations with president putin? the president indicated these have been going on for a while. continuing the discussion at the g-20 summit. but you have to realize that president putin came up through the kgb and ran the kgb. i believe the reset with russia has failed. you look at their own record with chemical weapons. isn t russia s only base in the middle east in syria? they don t want us to hit that one, they want to make sure that that area is protected for them. well, they have been selling weapons to syria, russia has not
thing i think that is going on here, there is so many audiences a modern president has to speak to today. he has to make assad believe i m really coming. so you think about giving those weapons to the international inspectors. at the same time, have congress think it is not going to be that big a deal. that is why you see these two sort of the straddle in his speeches and what the administration is saying. i think he has got to try to do both. that is what he has been doing for two years now. well, he predicted assad is about to fall, assad is about to fall. that has been going on for two years. he hasn t fallen. and i am curious if the united states wants assad to fall, based on the fact we don t know what else is out there. and we have the mubarak example, and even the gadhafi example, and you can sometimes back them into a corner. i m curious. and we ve made no effort to get rid of assad. and that is because there has been growing al-qaeda and other terrorist groups moving in,
discussion on capitol hill, and endless diplomacy with putin and assad. meanwhile, we ll get distract the with continuous resolutions. i think this sends this one off into space. i think it does send it off into space and the question whether it orbits and comes back. i think you re right on the point about endless negotiations and discussions with putin. and we got a taste of that today. putin says yes, we propose the international community take control of these weapons. today, he says well, there has to be an agreement by the united states in advance to foreswear the use of military force. this is the kind of endless negotiations we re also leaving out one other member of the security council, which is china. and there is no guarantee we ll have china as an active, constructive participant in this process either. just crossing the wires is this, that there is a french draft of a u.n. security council resolution that would give syria 15 days to
if there is going to be no vote. and there is no date for vote. no timeline, does this sort of become an endless discussion? no, look, i think part of the problem here is what is russia what is putin doing? what putin wants putin wants assad to stay in power. that is in his interest. so sooner or later this is all not going to work anyway. he will try to do assad stays in power, we ll take the weapons but you leave assad alone. i don t see how the president can do that. our president can do that? yeah. the first this is where it gets at odds. the first thing he said two years ago was assad has to go. now, the deal would have to be, i would think, assad stays. we ll get him to give us give the weapons over internationally. put them under international control. you leave him be. now and so part of the other
next paragraph. we learned from iraq that doing so makes us responsible, a targeted strike can make assad or any other dictator think twice about using chemical weapons. he said on one hand, we don t use pinpricks, we do really big things, and on the other hand, he said this will make him think twice. there is a tension there, as he talks to congress. karl, thank you, as always. you bet. and coming up, saying no to syria strikes, and congressman adam kissinger says yes. did president obama just change their minds? plus, lieutenant colonel oliver north prepared to go on the record. we want to know what you think. just use hash tag greta. united states military doesn t do pinpricks. even a limited strike will send a message to assad that no other