the country did issue this essential warning, if you will, for politicians to follow the timetable of the constitution for forming a new parliament. does he mean that that new parliament or that new government shouldn t include maliki? not clear, but he is telling politicians here to stick to the timetable, that s important. as for the chemical weapons, i visited that site with weapons inspectors 12 years ago. when i saw them, those weapons looked the chemical weapons looked pretty much aging and deteriorating, but they could still pose a danger, vx, sarin, mustard gas. remembering some of those people fighting with isis were members of the very same army that filled those stockpiles. kate in. sure sounds like trouble no more how antiquated they are. nic, thanks very much on the ground in baghdad for us to continue this story. though sending special forces to iraq, president obama insists he s still keeping his
which was a big shock. i like caleb. i thought caleb was great, but i don t think a lot of people expected him to win last night. oh, i did. did he really? two things. mika used the acronym ai which i didn t know. american idol. that went over my head. and john legend. he is a big msnbc fan. he s a great guy. i m not surprised he tweeted right back. we should have him on the show. he likes coming on. we ll bring in on and kate in. he s a great guy. i m go i think to call it ai so i m down with the kids on the street. i thought it was allen iverson. yeah. so what s going on in the news? vladimir putin has found a friend and it s a good friend to have, i guess, if you re vladimir putin. the russian president inked a $400 billion gas deal with the
there was an incredible performance by john legend last night. take a look. you fix your makeup just so guess you don t know that you re beautiful try on every dress that you own you were fine in my eyes a half hour ago so, mika, kate was blown away by john legend and everything. kate watches all the time. and big fan of john legend. so i tweeted out last night great performance by john legend. p.s., kate s a huge fan. he wrote back and said tell kate hi. she was jumping across the room. huge shock and it almost helped kate get past the fact that caleb was the winner last night.
the president heads to st. petersburg, russia, for the g-20 summit officially it s an economic summit, the topic will be jobs. however, unofficially, syria will dominate in those discussions on the margins as it s said as world leaders talk to each other basically in the corridors of the summit. the president s overseas visit coinciding with an interview vladimir putin gave the associated press where he said it s absurd to say that syrian president bashar al assad used chemical weapons against his own people and also saying that if that were proven to be true, russia would be open to u.n. action. i ll tell you u.s. officials traveling with the president look on those comments and feel they re disingenuous and they stand by the intelligence they say proves assad did use chemical weapons against syrian civilians. kate in. brianna, thank you for that. the senate committee taking up that revised use of force resolution, it is expected to approve it, the bill that
us the u.s. does not feel it may be under any pressure to sort of go ahead without a formal coalition and execute an action. in terms of russia, the u.s. has canceled a meeting with russia on syria and the time frame of all of these strikes have to be weighed against the president s supposed visit to russia coming next week. kate in. the time line is definitely interesting. that s for sure. thank you, chris. let s go from washington straight to the ground on syria where today weapons inspectors are expected to return to one of the sites of that suspected chemical weapons attack in damascus to look for evidence. cnn is the only western network now reporting from damascus and that is where fred pleitgen is standing by. anything we ve learned on what they ve learned so farp? reporter: they did say their first day yesterday of looking for things was quite productive. they say they managed to get a lot of samples. it s unclear what that is.