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President wooten took a message to america. Do you believe in it . The phone lines also send us a tweet or you can post your comments on facebook. You can email us at journal c span. Org. This comes as the president , on september 10 in his address, americanout exceptionalism. President putin responded with times,ce in the new york taking issue with the word exceptionalism. Oh lets begin with what the president had to say. [video clip] america is not the worlds policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. When, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run am a i believe we should act. That is what makes america different. Thats what makes us exceptional. With humility but with resolve, lets never lose sight of that essential truth. Host Vladimir Putin responded in the New York Times. He said we are getting your thoughts on american exceptional
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