dianne feinstein and others believe that putin wants to reach a deal to end this crisis, he doesn t want syria to have chemical weapons and he wants to show president obama he has the ability to end this peacefully if mr. obama can t and another motivation. to be center stage to be somebody that you reckon with, somebody you to have come to and seek his ace approval and the world has to come and kiss his ring i think is part of it. reporter: what is frustrating for american leaders putten s ties to syria would avoid any effort to punish assad. putin may be the only world leader to get assad to give up those chemical weapons. our thanks to brian. also in washington, the senate for now is setting aside the resolution for authorizing military force against syria. it will not vote on it or try to amend the language as the administration works on a diplomatic solution on russia. the obama administration and iran are apparently