first test vote in a senate panel. ten senators support a strike on syria, seven oppose it. in the house the president s team reporter: on friday after the summit, the if congress
working with assad and the regime. the secretary was a prominent member of the foreign relations committee. he was somebody who met with him to pursue that route. there are some who think the attempts at relationship building may have done more harm than good. listen. as leader after leader from the united states tromp through his office siping cocktails with assad and his wife, i think he got a mistaken impression about what we would tolerate in the world. and in 2013, the perception of assad has changed. kerry now calling him a thug and a murderer. shep? thanks. we will monitor the developments out of syria and russia where president obama is at this hour. updates throughout the evening. en crypt your e-mails en crypt your e-mails and the banking all you want. that s the word from the guardian newspaper in britain and the new york times. they are both newspapers and
even canada and the u.k. and that s been another cause for concern. the countries are saying syria is a magnet for anyone with the slightest jihad did i tendencies. i have to stress that you have a country of 22 to 24 million people in sir yeah there s a silent majority that just wants their country back. they just want stability and they know this has gone on for far too long. you showed that incredible graph of the syrian refugees spiraling and 2 million people have spread out. life has become miserable for them. that s not necessarily the reason to launch a strike on syria, but when you look at the dynamics of how syria fits into the broader region and what are the consequences as this goes on and on in syria, there starts to be a kind of emerging consensus, both in the middle east and among syrians i speak to and among some here in the u.s. that a u.s. strike on syria is not going to be pretty but there are very few other ways you can
the rebels in syria. this apparently would not involve any u.s. boots on the grounden side syria. on the ground inside syria. the training would likely take place nearby in a country like jordan for instance or one of our allies. remember as the white house pushes for a potential military strike on syria, some lawmakers including john mccain say the u.s. needs to do more to both train the rebel fighters and arm them. it is the top story at the bottom of the hour. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. jennifer? shepherd, before the first tomahawk has been fired there appears to be mission creet. u.s. military trainers started setting up a program to train the syrian opposition in jordan in march. one of the major obstacles in launching this type of operation according to u.s.ish ifs is they are having serious problems with trustworthy groups, the main reason the cia has not provided weapons to the syrian opposition until
we got a look today at some graphic video that said to show some of the syrian rebels who could end up benefiting from our u.s. war strike on syria. the new york times is reporting that this video shows opposition fighters executing government soldiers. soldiers who were lying helplessly on the ground. the new york times reports it edited the video so you will not see the gunfire itself, but you will hear it and you will see what preceded it. according to the reporting of the new york times a former rebel smuggled this out of syria because he was disgusted by what you are going to see now. [gunfire]. that is not the only video raising questions about some