legislation we can. we ve got it there. . president helped negotiate these changes. sent it over to the senate and then the senate without jeopardizing the bill can make improvements to the bill. so, if this bill does pass narrowly, let s say on thursday, do you think you in the senate, you and your colleagues can make those kinds of changes that you want and get that passed the senate with a republican majority is a lot slimmer than the house, 52-48? each body can make its own changes. the body can make changes to the amendment after the house passes something. i want to make very clear i like paul ryan. i have tremendous respect for paul ryan. i respectfully disagree with two points that he made just there. one was that this is somehow 85% of everything that conservatives like. look, wolf, if you put on a list everything that conservatives want and everything that s in this bill, you don t get to anywhere close to 85% by my tally. secondly, the fact that he s
complete surrender of all chemical weapons. implicit within that, i think, that they do have chemical weapons. the foreign minister of syria, former syrian ambassador to the united states, well known to a lot of officials here in washington. my assumption is, nick, you have been in the region, you know a lot about what s going on. if let s say on thursday, when john kerry meets with the foreign minister of russia in geneva, switzerland, let s say the two of them basically reach a compromise, an agreement, i assume the russians will be able to bring the syrians along, i assume the u.s. will be able to bring britain and france and all the other allies along, and that would set the stage for a serious u.n. security council resolution that potentially could get unanimous support. reporter: that s a possibility, but if you look at what s happening today, those talks about attacks seem to have been scuppered in many ways, according to one diplomat i spoke to early on. the ground between