richard, are you with me? yes, brooke. for the eighth time, russia has vetoed a u.n. security council resolution regarding the horrors going on over in sear yeah. the russian veto was expected but considering the nature of the chemical weapons attack in syria last week, some thought there might be some relenting. this resolution would have called on moscow and president assad of syria to cooperate with an investigation and to turn over helicopter pilots for interviews, flight logs, find out what was going on in the skies over that town hit by the gas attack, brooke. okay. richard roth, thank you so much, on the notion that assad would have cooperated, thank you. bob baer, let s pick up on this fisa warrant that was obtained. your thoughts on this conversation. well, brooke, what happened, as they were listening to the telephone conversations of
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he doesn t control, western, central iraq. militias are arming. becoming a transnational problem. when you talk about helping iraq, i m not sure which part of iraq the u.s. is supposed to be helping right now. a bit like grabbing a piece of water. it will continue to slip through your fingers because it is falling apart. in your reporting, richard, you have been talking about the fact that in many areas the the weapons are not under control. u.s. humvees being seized. the spillover from sear yeah. what do air strikes in this context if ordered by the u.s., what would they achieve? i have no idea. i don t know who they would be striking. i don t know exactly where they would be striking. u.s. has been out of the loop here for a while. doesn t have intelligence packets. all of these different fighters would have to get back
rebels, and this is one of the things that the u.s. will be discussing. i think there s a lot of fence-mending on this trip to be done, wolf. the president in his second visit to saudi arabia. you re correct. the saudis are very upset, not only about the interim nuclear deal with iran. they re upset about the u.s. posture in sear yeah. they hated the fact that the administration seemed to abandon president mubarak in egypt during the arab spring, thought that was a major disaster. there is so much going on negatively in this u.s./saudi relationship right now. reporter: that s right and i understand that the saudis in recent months over the this deal that the u.s. and russia brokered over the chemical weapons in iran, when they saw that the syrians were not giving up their chemical weapons, that they re going to be stepping up their support to the opposition and basically the message to the administration has been, look, we re not working with you on this. we re going alone, we re
house. that what happens in syria matters. and that our country ought to not just care about what happens in syria but we ought to act. because he made the case that we can act in ways that are not to futile, that can make a difference there. this is interesting. before the speech and after the speech book ended polling done by cnn, the president s speech shifted americans views to be favorable of american involvement in sear yeah. syria. it wasn t a huge shift. it was a shift among people who watched the speech. the polling broadly shows americans do not want our military involved over there at all. the fight in washington and the fight at the u.n. now is about the maybe of international military intervention. or international diplomatic intervention to at least seize and secure all of syria s chemical weapons. not all of the action that might make a difference in syria has to happen through governments and militaries. to the extent that president obama s attention and all debate