anyone could claim this attack is contrived or fabricated needs to check their own moral compass. what is before us today is real and it is compelling. president obama believes there must be accountability for those who would use the world s most heinous weapons against the world s most vulnerable people. so what s the reaction from syria? cnn s fred pleitgen has rare, inside access to damascus and cnn is the only western television network in damascus right now. hi, fred. tell us, quhas the reaction from the ground there? reporter: hi, jessica. you know, the syrian government hi, fred. tell us, quhas the reaction from the ground there? reporter: hi, jessica. you know, the syrian government hasn t put out statements after kerry s speech but they re reacting and you can certainly see they re at least hearing the message. when s going on is the foreign minister of the country called for a press conference for tomorrow 1:00 p.m. local time and you can see the government
that s not a full reading of the report. that case is being closed and i ve been exonerated. number two is my regret is i wasn t a better friend to ensign to keep him from making the mistake in the first place. given that you knew what you knew, discuss at any point counsel him to resign and to make the problem go away first of all by resigning? my conversations with john covered that and lots of other areas, in which i gave him advice to do the right thing and the honest thing and the open thing. and i ll close with this senator and move on. did the honest thing and the open thing include stepping up and resigning? he did. but only when the ethics committee closed in on him. i m not going to hash back quhas old what is old news on john ensign. i gave him advice early on that he didn t take. i gave him advice in the middle