Good morning its thursday, september 19th. On set katty kay. Mike barn cal, Nicole Wallace and visiting professor from nyu, harold ford jr. And in washington columnist, associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius. David, you have a piece in the post this morning talking about president obamas syria strategy off the assad interview. Youre giving him more credit than most people have been in the last month mainly reaching for a good outcome however he got there. Ive been puzzled frankly at the very Harsh Criticism of president obama for doing this deal with russia to control syrias chemical weapons. And the reason ive been surprised this is the kind of framework that tu has been looking for for two years. People have said this is a problem from hell. The best outcome people from both parties thought would be some kind of negotiated settlement that would first bring the chemical weapons under control and then move towards real political dialogue about transition and those are
to iran really thinks there s an opportunity now with this new president of iran to actually get some kind of negotiation going on the nuclear program? what s been interesting to me is how skeptical they want to remain. in all the symbolic gestures hassan rouhani has done including wishing jewish people around the world a happy new year during rosh hana. they don t believe he calls the shots. you know, they are hopeful that maybe this will continue and see what happens but they don t seem to be they seem to be lot more skeptical about what s
0 the capitol instead. there s new information about alexis arsenal. he scratched the phrases better off this way and my elf weapon. officials are not sure what elf refers to. he bought the shot brown on saturday. alexis tried to buy a handgun but handgun sales have special federal guidelines that prevent sales to people that live out of state. the gunman s mother spoke for the first time yesterday saying her son s motives will never be fully known. don t know why he did what he did and i m unable to ask him why. aaron is now in a place where he can no longer do harm to anyone. for that i m glad. to the victims and their families i m so sorry this has happened. two shooting victims still in the hospital but good news they have been upgraded to good condition. one has been released. stock of where we are and where we have to arrive at, i don t know that you can take guns out of the hands of people that shouldn t have them. 5 million people have these security clearances. the proli