Meet the week after next, and that is another diplomatic effort as well. so i think that s where we are, we have the russian excuse me, we have the beijing olympics starting this friday for a couple of weeks and then if nothing is resolved diplomatically by the end of the olympics, the end of the month, if put kin would do it, he would do it. the ground is still frozen. you see the diplomacy process is still in play here. it s a bit confusing. you have president zelensky saying the u.s. needs to tone down rhetoric and then the fact that he s training his people, right, training his people, asking for more weapons. still it feels like from zelensky s point of view he feels it s more imminent than we believe. well, yeah, i mean from his perspective, he certainly wants to hold on to his people. he doesn t want any panic to
At the back end. they re a little bit murky on beginnings, middles and ends at this point. i think that s fair to say. right. and i think it s in everybody s self-interest. it works for everyone, right? okay. so let s say john kerry comes back from geneva and there s some discussion still going on. obviously it s not going to there s not going to be a fight there. they re going to it s a diplomatic meeting. there ll be some discussion. then what? i was told by a senior democratic senator tonight after the president s speech that they probably have about at least a two-week window. maybe a little bit less but maybe a little bit more. about a two-week window to give the diplomatic process a little bit time to work in. that time they re going to continue to work on what we talked about with lindsey graham, the kind of modified operation to say the keep the teeth of military force in but still pressure the diplomacy process. a bipartisan measure being discussed now. both hous
Still pressure the diplomacy process. a bipartisan measure being discussed now. both houses the house and the senate. the bill players in the senate including lindsey graham and bob menendez the chairman of the foreign relations committee. all being done what it would do is, well, it s not written yet so it s very murky. theoretically. what it would do is it would first of all make clear that assad did use these chemical weapons. but more importantly, it would say that the u.n. assad would have to through a u.n. process give up those chemical weapons. if not the threat of military force is still there. that s effectively what it would do. but they re not voting on military force. the thing to keep in mind is that that is an initial idea. they haven t written it and they will not really write something until they see what happens at the u.n.