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He s clearly going around, updating and making sure everybody s on board with what they hope will be at least the outlines of an agreement. jim sciutto, appreciate the update and the late night reporting. i want to bring in former defense secretary william cohen now. secretary cohen, thanks for being with us. you ve dealt with mr. lavrov in the past. you call him a very skilled, tough negotiator. these discussions now going into a third day tomorrow. can you give us any insight into how this happens? what s going on behind closed doors? how does this actually work? well, secretary kerry is not dealing with a very strong hand, frankly. and i think the russians are prepared to exploit that. he is secretary kerry is insisting we reserve the right to use military force against the syrian forces. and mr. lavrov is going to say that precondition has got to go. so it looks as if we are going to yield on that particular ....
Resolution that had an absolute force trigger. and even if the resolution doesn t have that trigger, the u.s. can still reserve its right to act to use military force if it says that it s necessary. and that s the direction we re being pushed by u.s. officials now. so are they talking again tomorrow? what s next for kerry in all this? reporter: it goes into tomorrow, another day. and then that s like i said that s a good sign. because they say they wouldn t be talking if they didn t have something to talk about and they weren t making progress here. from here kerry s going to go to jerusalem, meet with benjamin netanyahu to give him update on the talks. kerry of the world traveler will go on to paris. he ll meet with the french and british foreign ministers to give updates on the talks and build support. he s clearly going around, updating and making sure everybody s on board with what they hope will be at least the outlines of an agreement. jim sciutto, appreciate the update and ....
Updating and making sure everybody s on board with what they hope will be at least the outlines of an agreement. jim sciutto, appreciate the update and the late night reporting. i want to bring in former defense secretary william cohen now. secretary cohen, thanks for being with us. you ve dealt with mr. lavrov in the past. you call him a very skilled, tough negotiator. these discussions now going into a third day tomorrow. can you give us any insight into how this happens? what s going on behind closed doors? how does this actually work? well, secretary kerry is not dealing with a very strong hand, frankly. and i think the russians are prepared to exploit that. he is secretary kerry is insisting we reserve the right to use military force against the syrian forces. and mr. lavrov is going to say that precondition has got to go. so it looks as if we are going to yield on that particular point if there is a hope for getting a u.n. security council resolution. ....