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back at their hotels after spending another day interviewing survivors and collecting samples. they ll be coming home on saturday raising speculation that a strike might be on hold until after they re safely out of damascus. when it comes to who s with us, our major ally with us in this, british prime minister david cameron, who s facing his own resistance, but others say they won t join in the strike without u.n. support. as we suspect, that won t happen since russia holds veto power on the u.n. security council. russia is a big assad supporter. assad s other ally is iran which is vowing to strike israel. as a precaution, they re calling to issue gas masks. turkey is constructing bunkers and they re sending experts to the syrian border. because there are so many parts, we re looking at this in three sections. first, we re looking a the the pentagon, what s going on behind closed doors at the white house and finally the role of congress in all of this. they re being brief ....
persuade a majority of the american people that it s the right thing to do. and then each member of congress is going to have to decide if i think it s the right thing to do for the america s national security, and the world s national security, then how do i vote? ultimately, you listen to your constituents, but you have also got to make some decisions about what you believe is right for america. laura: now, when the president tried to explain why he went to congress he instead made a stark confession. did i not put this before congress just as a political ploy or symbolism. i put it before congress because i could not, honestly claim that the threat posed by assad s use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians women and children posed an imminent direct threat to the united states. laura: bingo. that is one of the main reasons why the american people left, right, and center are so vehemently against blowing one dime in syria or jeopardizing the lives of ou ....
to the russians. we no angela merkel has some concerns about that, because the trade flows between germany and russia both ways are huge, but so far, wolf. that test hasn t been put to the countries. they re still talking with one voight. maybe it s only that that s brought putin back from the brink. even so, i would put it this way. 200 points on the dow, it s scotch miss. it could disappear tomorrow if things turn nasty again. certainly could. this is a real volatile situation. richard quest, thanks very much. remember, you can always follow us on twitter. tweet me @warm frontblitzer. tweet the show @sitroom. let any step in with van jones and s.e. cupp. president obama s work is paying off he says have laid mer putin has hit the pause button. which means as much as when russia hit the reset button. the debate starts right now. tonight on crossfire , until pressure from president obama, is vladimir putin backing down? there have been some reports that presiden ....
indecisive. feckless. feckless. on the left, sally kohn, on the right, newt gingrich. in the crossfire, senator ben cardin, a democrat and lindsey graham, a south carolina republican. is the president being undermined by republicans or by his own decisions? tonight on crossfire. welcome to crossfire, i m sally kohn on the left. i m newt gingrich on the right. in the crossfire tonight, two key u.s. senators in the ukraine debate. more breaking news out of russia today. vladimir putin spent his day staging large scale war games near the ukrainian border and had the russian navy sink a ship to block in the ukrainians. how did president obama spend his day? imposing symbolic sanctions that will prevent russian thugs and oligarchs from vacationing at disney world. he could get rid of the symbolic liberalism and boost defense spending. that might start to convince put than the u.s. is serious. look, newt, the president has been taking serious steps all day, but n ....
factor here is the restoration of calm and direct dialogue. what we need now is on all sides in this matter, cool heads and really a calm approach to this. yes? thank you, martin. there are some reports that the leader of the radical opposition on the ukraine called for leader of chechen terrorists to support ukrainian opposition against russia. does the secretary general have anything to say on this development? look, there are all kinds of reports, some more credible than others. floating about in cyberspace. and i think that we continue to monitor these developments closely. we re aware of various reports but we re not going to comment on every individual one that pops up like that. yes? one follow-up. this is official. the governor of belgrade region in russia reported that there ar are thousands of ukraine fleeing into this region of russia. does the secretary general plan to discuss this issue with vladimir putinputin, maybe some support for the refugees from the u ....