situation on this monday afternoon. a holiday week as folks trying to enjoy themselves. a very good ending at least from what we know at this moment. there in florida. of course, if anything else happens, we ll get back to live pictures for you. the man whose weapons were used to kill 14 people at a holiday party made the second appearance in court a short time ago. our justice correspondent pete williams is here with the latest. president obama s forceful defense of his strategy to defeat isis in an interview with npr. when you talk about something like carpet bombing, what do you mean? if the suggestion is that we kill tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent syrians and iraqis, that is not who we are and that would be a strategy that would have an enormous backlash against the united states. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count.
nato fellow nato country turkey is all calculated by vladimir putin. we need to change that calculus or we re going to get ourselves in some trouble. assad has massacred, slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent syrians. is the end game here for russian president vladimir putin really to have assad safely ensconced in power? the end game for putin in syria is to maintain influence there. and i have to say he s doing pretty well. so he needs to keep that warm water port in tartus that was a navy base established in the 70s. he needs to continue his arm sales both in syria and iran. and now he s done something pretty clever, jake. he s coordinated tehran, damascus and syria and baghdad in iraq in intelligence sharing operation. and many believe now there s even a possibility of russian troops in south iraq to deal with the syrian issue, invited
between the united states and russia. many of our allies partners played an essential role in the removal effort. i want to thank all of those partners for their diligent efforts. the world will really never forget the loss of more than 1,000 innocent syrians who were senselessly killed with chemical weapons on the early morning of august 21st, 2013. it s very important, however, even as we mark this moment of removing 100% of the declared weapons that we understand that our work is not finished to insure the complete elimination of syria s cw program. there are still some serious issues that remain to be addressed and we are not going to stop until those have been addressed. we remain deeply concerned about the reports of systemic use of
wealth and income inequality, global warming. we have a huge menu of issues that we are not addressing. i think what the people of vermont, the people all over this country are worried about, is if we get into the third war in the middle east in 11 years, those issues will be even put further behind in terms of our capability of addressing them. senator, what s your reaction, though, to syrian president s bashar al assad s comments with cbs news denying using chemical weapons, warning about the possibility of retaliation if there is any type of u.s.-led military strike on syria. did he help president obama make his case for striking syria at all or do you think he is just tapping into the fears of a war-fatigued american public and is just trying to intimidate people with lies about how syrians, innocent syrians have died? assad is a ruthless dictator. he is a billionaire in an
issue. anti-war protests are breaking out on saturday in washington, d.c. about 200 anti-war and pro war protesters are outside protesting. one young protestor saying the u.s. needs to help innocent syrians. we have to tell assad that chemical weapons is absolutely ridiculously used against civilian population. we have to go and intervene and stop the warplanes from dropping bombs on the neighborhoods. in new york city about 200 noisy anti-war protesters gathered in time square chanting no war on syria in los angeles at pershing square many of the protesters were supporters of al-assad. 234 boston over 100 syrian-americans and activists gathered in boston commons. i want to see the real document. i want to see the evidence. you can t just come out and